A previous post of mine touched on premonitions. It may have even led to some talk on the following topic. But I would like to revisit the topic here.
So it is tough for me to determine the difference between a true premonition and simply a wandering thought (regardless of how real the thought feels).
Here is an example: I have been considering buying a multi-tool from Home Depot. At one point, while lusting over buying the tool, I had a strong feeling that I was going to cut my finger with it while messing around with it in the H.D. parking lot. I forgot about the feeling until today when I purchased the tool and, sure enough, cut my finger with it. That, I think, may have been a premonition.
But the other night (maybe 4 or 5 days ago) I also dreampt that Willie Nelson died. I was so convinced that he had died, that I considered the possibility that I had actually heard a news story about it while I was falling asleep and had just turned it into a dream. Of course, he has not in fact died regardless of how strongly I felt that it was a premonition. If he dies in the next few days, I guess I would have to consider this a premonition too. But I suspect that it will not happen.
How do you all determine when something is a premonition and when it is just random nonsense?
The future is not written in stone but there are likely and unlikely possibilities based on the current surcumstances and the direction things are going and the way people will likely react to those circumstances and therefore set in place the next set of likely circumstances.
Playing with the tool in the parking lot had a high likelihood of you cutting yourself, had you paid attention to your premonition you would have not played with the tool and cut yourself. But then there is the paradox of if you had listened to your premonition and avoided cutting yourself then it wouldn’t have been a premonition because it didn’t come true even though you stopped it. And yes Willie could die this year. It’s possible but if he eats right and stays healthy he could live another ten years.
Premonition is not meant to be a display of psychic accuracy but a tool to help us make good decisions and avoid potential negative consequences.
AdamThoth-I agree that the future is not written in stone. But it does seem like certain thoughts that enter your head are very likely going to happen unless you do something major to avoid it. Then there are other thoughts (like the Willie Nelson example) which come to nothing. How do you personally determine when something fits into the first category versus the Willie Nelson example?