Gut Feelings That Actually Saved Someone's Life
Reddit user guywhousesreddit09: 'What was the “Gut Feeling” that you listened too that saved your life?'
We've all heard of intuition or premonitions or "seeing the future," and a lot of us have laughed at it at some point.
It's easy to disregard these images or feelings as a symptom of anxiety about something coming up.
But for some people, by listening to a gut feeling they had, they were able to save someone's life, possibly even their own.
Redditor guywhousesreddit09 asked:
"What was the 'gut feeling' that you listened to that saved your life?"
The Kiddie Pool
"My mom and grandpa were putting out a kiddie pool for my siblings and me in our backyard when we were little."
"My grandpa had set it up, and my mom kept insisting that for some reason, she felt like they should move it to a different spot."
"Thankfully they did, because while we were all playing in the pool, a huge branch from a tree in our yard snapped and came crashing down exactly where the pool had originally been."
- WaitWut7
A Questionable Passer-by
"When I was around 13, I was walking to the bus stop in the morning. A car was going through my neighborhood very slowly, which made alarm bells go off in my head."
"When it passed me, I glanced over my shoulder to keep an eye on it and saw it was doing an immediate U-turn."
"I noped right out and dove through the bushes, crossed a bunch of driveways, and found a neighbor who was washing his car."
"I looked back to where I had been standing. The strange car had stopped, a seriously scary-looking dude had gotten out, and was looking in the bushes."
"I don't know if I would've died exactly, but I would not have had a good time."
- Symnestra
'Final Destination,' Who?
"I was driving uphill behind a flatbed truck carrying I-beams and I envisioned them sliding off the truck and hitting my windshield."
"I changed lanes so I wasn’t behind the truck and two seconds later, the I-beams were sliding off onto the road where my car would’ve been, sparking and gouging the pavement. Terrifying."
"To this day, I won’t stay behind a truck with anything that’s 'strapped down.'"
- Infj-kc
Thank Goodness for That Lock
"In middle school, I was up late one night. My mom and my brother were asleep, and my dad had gone on business. I had let the dog out, and when I went to go get him, I got a bad feeling like someone was out there."
"There wasn't really a reason to feel this way, it was just dark, and I got spooked, so I put the chain lock up on the back door when we got back inside. Back then, we never locked our doors."
"A few minutes later, the dog is drinking by the back door, and he suddenly stops and starts growling (like a low grumble) at the door."
"I was sitting where I could see the dog but not the door. Then I hear the door pull open and the chain lock catch."
"The dog started barking like crazy and I ran upstairs to wake my brother up. He went out and looked around, but no one was there."
"I think the dog's barking scared them away, but I don't know who it was or what would have happened if I hadn't locked the door."
- monaforever
A Mom's Close Encounters
"My grandmother accidentally saved my mom's life by not allowing her to go to a sleepover when she was young. During the night, the father murdered his entire family and would likely have killed my mother had she been there."
"Another amazing coincidence that I'm alive, is when my mother was in high school, she and her best friend were arguing over who was going to take a ride on the back of their guy friends' new motorcycle."
"My mom lost the argument and her friend got on the back of the motorcycle and rode away. She never saw them again because her friend and the guy were both killed in an accident during that ride."
- ekyrt
Wait a Second
"It was very late driving and there were minimal cars on the road, I came up to a red light, and as it turned green, something inside me said, 'Don’t go yet,' and a van blew through their red light."
- imbribecca
"Similar situation, but there were four of us in the car. My friend was driving and our friend in the back yelled to stop the car immediately even though we had a green light we were coming up on. A semi blew through a red light. He later said he felt like it wasn’t even him saying it and he had no idea why he yelled it other than a bad feeling."
- harlow2088
Mother Knows Best
"Not my life but my son's. I was 33 weeks pregnant and I noticed my son wasn't moving as much as usual. I waited a day and nothing changed."
"Despite advice by doctors and family saying I should just stay home and he wasn't moving as much because he was just running out of room to move, I went into the ER and had my son that night due to fetal distress."
"He had his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck eight times and weighed just three pounds. He spent 30 days in the NICU and now is a happy two-year-old."
- Goatintree
An Insistent Friend
"A friend's feeling saved me from my gut."
"I had just finished hosting a meeting (I swear it was productive) and a friend said, 'You don't look so good.'"
"I had just come off a weekend boat diving in the Red Sea and figured I was just tired. My friend said, 'Nah man, I'm taking you to the doctor.'"
"The doctor at our clinic poked me a few times and said, 'Take him to the ER and tell them it's his appendix.'"
"I was in surgery less than 90 minutes later. My surgeon said I was two to three hours from it blowing up. I lived alone and no one would have missed me until the next day."
- ksuwildkat
A Night Walk
"About two years ago, my dad and I loved going on night walks, It was something we’ve always done more or less every night."
"One night, however, as we were about halfway through our daily route, we got to an alleyway. Now normally, I’ve never thought anything of it, but something this night just told me not to walk through, I had a really bad feeling and I urged my dad to just go back home."
"He kept brushing it off and saying I was just scared of the dark and nothing was going to happen. After a couple of minutes of arguing, we finally turned back and walked home."
"Turns out about 20 minutes after we left, there was a completely random attack in that exact alleyway that left a poor young girl stabbed, thankfully not to death, but with life-changing injuries. I still dread to think what would have happened if we didn’t walk back."
- No_Project6675
Definitely Not a Black Bear
"Up in Northern Pennsylvania, I had a gut feeling I needed to turn around and walk out of the woods I was hiking."
"That turned out to be a good idea because I saw the big cat that was tracking me on my way back out."
"I was hiking a stream up around Emlenton, PA, checking it out to see if it's wadeable for fishing. I didn't know y'all had any wild cats around there; I was just worried about black bears."
- abspencer22
Protecting Her Own
"Years ago, I went into my garden at night, after my husband had left for a road trip minutes before, and saw a pair of sneakers in the dark, in the gap between the fence and our house."
"I didn’t think, I just said very loudly, 'What are you doing there?' When he didn’t reply, I shouted, 'GET OUT OF MY GARDEN!'"
"He muttered, 'Yes, ma’am,' and scuttled off. Also not thinking, I picked up a BBQ knife that happened to be right there, went through the house to the front windows, and saw him crouched by my car in the driveway."
"I called the cops, they arrived, and we discovered that someone, probably the same dude, had just broken into our neighbor’s house and stolen a gun."
"The cops gave me a condescending talking-to about the ‘risks’ of confronting a criminal, but I am convinced to this day that my instincts saved me from a life-altering and horrible experience. We humans are animals and one animal knows when another will fight like h**l."
"We got an alarm system after that. And the guy came back several weeks later. I looked up to see him on our porch, about twenty feet from the sidewalk. Called the cops again. They sent a SWAT team this time. And a helicopter."
"They got the guy."
- Fair_Leadership76
Medicinal Negligence
"I was pregnant in the very early weeks (five or six weeks), and started getting these intense pains on the right side of my abdomen. Like so extremely painful that I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t make noise or move."
"I went to my doctor the next day, and he said I was being hysterical and it’s completely normal to be in pain when you’re pregnant. He refused to get me to an OB-GYN, and said I could go private if it was such a big deal."
"I went to a private scan, and my pregnancy was ectopic (stuck in my fallopian tube), and my tube had ruptured and I was bleeding internally. I was rushed to the hospital and had surgery to remove my tube that night."
"If I hadn’t booked that scan, I would have died in my sleep that night due to internal bleeding."
""I reported him for negligence."
- Murky_Conclusion4210
Potential Robbery
"A guy asked me for help with bus fare and offered to take me to an ATM. I got a bad feeling and dipped. Then I saw him on the news a week later for robbing somebody at gunpoint."
- BurghFinsFan
A Chillingly Close Call
"My wife was going to go on a road trip with friends down to a bigger city for a concert. She had done this several times before."
"Friends were close friends of ours but for some reason, I felt off about it that one day. I said to her, 'Babe, I don’t know why and you can ignore me if you’d like, but I don’t think you should go. I don’t know why, but I feel like something is going to happen.'"
"She knows I’d never tell her not to do anything she wanted. It was out of the blue and out of character for me. So she decided to stay home and watch movies with me."
"About two hours later after the rest of the crew left, we got a phone call that they had gotten into a severe accident. Two friends were in the hospital and someone from the other vehicle died on the scene. Had she gone along, she would have been sitting in the seat where they had been hit by the other driver and most likely killed."
"Someone, somewhere, somehow was warning me. And I’m glad we both listened to it."
- Sperryxd
Always Stop to Look at the Rainbow
"I was driving along a rough mountain road heading home from work. The mountain pass ends at a lake, and you drive around the lake to meet up with the main road."
"I got to the bottom of the mountain and started down the lake road, and saw this stunning bright rainbow over the lake."
"I had this weird gut feeling and urge to stop and look at it, with the way the sun was shining, it didn’t make sense that there would be a rainbow, but it was mesmerizing. So I stopped and stared at it in awe."
"A couple of seconds later, as soon as I looked back at the road, a massive boulder came barreling down off the cliff above about 20 meters in front of me, hit the road, and smoked all of the concrete barriers as it went into the lake. I 100% would have been killed if I hadn’t stopped."
- Epantz
These accounts gave us absolute chills as we read about other people's close calls.
We never know when our time will be up, so we absolutely have to be careful with the time that we have.
You ever have one of those moments where you think, "dang, I really might be psychic"? Well, you probably aren't, but sometimes your intuition lines up just right. According to these Redditors, sometimes predictions can come true in the most eery ways.
u/CureSoleilFan asked: What have you predicted, that came true? Did people believe you beforehand or afterwards?
Sincerely spooked.
My mom worked with a woman that looked a lot like her. Whenever I visited (as a kid) I would always have to do a double take because they had so many similarities.
I had this dream. For months straight. About this woman that looked like my mother and she was walking down the stairs. Right before her final step, she trips, and knocks all of her teeth out. I was so spooked and didn't say anything.
Fast forward a month and I come home from school for lunch and my mom is home. Weird. She is sitting at the kitchen table and she's really upset. I ask what was wrong and she tells me that her co-worker, who looked like her, had fallen down the stairs the night before and passed away.
Writing it out, it doesn't seem so weird. But as a kid I was sincerely spooked.
Oof.
GiphyWe were going out, I said I'm not leaving my car here, a tree will fall on it. Took my car.
Returned hours later to a tree had fallen on my best friend's car.
That's eery.
I once made a bet with someone that Amy Winehouse would be the next member of Club 27.
I would not have taken that bet, she was clearly never going to die of old age.
Woah.
I had a dream (more vivid, realistic, and emotional than my usual dreams) that my sister got into a nasty car accident on the highway. I woke up as soon as the impact of the crash happened.
I called my mom asking where she was because nobody was home. She said she was on her way to where my sister was because she had totaled her truck on the freeway. It was totally surreal.
So wholesome.
GiphyWhen I was 12 I had a dream where I learned from a firefighter that I would have exactly two children, and they would be boy/girl twins. I told many people about this because I was absolutely, 100% certain it would be true. When we were just dating I told my future wife about it to make sure she was okay with carrying and raising twins.
My boy/girl twins graduated high school this year and are getting started in college. Their grandfather was the fire chief of his town.
You did all you could.
Got an urge, out of the blue, to call an old friend I had not seen in at least a decade one night. Someone who had been nothing but kind to me. Even called my dad at 9PM to see if he could get in touch with any of her relatives (they are in his social circle) and get me her number. Was not able to get her number.
She shot herself that night.
Many regrets.
They tried to tell them!
Around 5 I had a dream that my mom was going to be arrested.
Woke up, ran I the living room to find them getting ready to leave. Told them not to go.
They did and got arrested in a drug bust.
No way!
GiphyOh crap my time to shine.
Picture it. February 1st, 2004. A bunch of us over a friend's house watching the Superbowl.
Half time rolls around and as we mill about getting snacks, the lukewarm halftime show is rolling on the TV. I was watching it thinking about how little I could care about what I was seeing. I turned to a friend of mine there and said, "Man the only thing that could save this halftime show is some boobies."
And seconds later, Janet Jackson's titty flies out.
Agape, we all stared at her boob and then at each other.
I have felt guilty all these years thinking it was my fault.
LMAO
I took as many math classes as I could in high school (American). My freshman year, I "doubled up" and took a more advanced class along with the normal class so I had one class with juniors and seniors.
In that class, the teacher joked that you should always listen because he might say a random word and then ask for it on the test the next day. "I might say... Blueberries. You never know." He never ended up asking for it.
Anyway, fast forward a year and I'm in the next math class with my normal classmates who had never heard him say that and he did it again. He essentially repeated the exact prompt, so right before he said "Blueberries," I was ready.
We both said it at the EXACT same time with the same pitch and cadence and everything. Everyone freaked out I explained how I knew but, even so, most people thought I was a genius. Nope. Just good at remembering insignificant details.
Always trust your gut.
When I was a teenager, I told my parents I had a bad feeling about a house we were going to rent. We did a walkthrough and the place just didn't seem right to me. I begged them to renew the lease in our apartment and not move. We moved anyway.
Well, it turns out the house was very, very old (and I feel very much that it was haunted), and the landlady was actually a manic crackhead. A few months after we moved in, a fire broke out in the wall next to the wood-burning stove in the house. Fire marshall concluded the fire was actually due to old, faulty wiring in the wall, and not the stove. Crazy landlady blamed us anyway and made our lives hell for the rest of the time we lived there.
Years later, my mom admitted they should have listened to me when I said we shouldn't move there.
This Interview Proves That Gwendoline Christie Totally Predicted The Ending Of 'Game Of Thrones' Years Ago
*Warning: Game of Thrones spoilers ahead!*
HBO
The final episode of Game of Thrones revealed many endings people were not expecting.
After years of wondering who would finally end up sitting on the Iron Throne, perhaps the biggest twist fans had to deal with was the news that Bran Stark, the three-eyed raven who previously turned down any Lord duties in favor of warging out in the garden by himself, would be the King of the newly formed SIX Kingdoms.
Bran's ascendance to the throne took everyone by surprise...well, ALMOST everyone.
It turns out Gwendoline Christie (who played Brienne of Tarth) has seen this ending coming for a very long time.
Extra released a video showing her laying out the idea of Bran as king in an interview years ago:
Christie couldn't help but brag a bit on Twitter.
🤷🏼♀️ https://t.co/Sbmeedgkhp— Gwendoline Christie (@Gwendoline Christie) 1558485694.0
Fans wondered whether the actress had some sort of prophetic power...
@lovegwendoline https://t.co/czsgrZ0FbE— VomitusMaximus (@VomitusMaximus) 1558486260.0
@extratv @lovegwendoline GOT writers at that very moment https://t.co/OSp9dUMOeE— Lex (@Lex) 1558534742.0
Many disappointed fans have been on the side of Nikolaj, who said Gwendoline's ending "made no sense."
@lovegwendoline Ahahahah when @nikolajcw just says "no, it doesn't make sense.” Also, I wish I could have been at… https://t.co/eWYT0WWvfH— Anjali Bhimani (@Anjali Bhimani) 1558486539.0
@extratv @lovegwendoline Nikolaj could not be more right— Marco Targaryen (@Marco Targaryen) 1558486662.0
@extratv @lovegwendoline 😂😂😂Nikolaj be speaking what fans have been saying since the finale ended. XD— RadiusZero (@RadiusZero) 1558487028.0
Of course, there must have been egg on his face when Christie was finally proven right.
@extratv @lovegwendoline Would have loved to have seen his face when he saw the ending lol— TheNerd_SOCIETY (@TheNerd_SOCIETY) 1558512921.0
@extratv @lovegwendoline https://t.co/sYyjvkw1QL— Krystle Piamonte (@Krystle Piamonte) 1558512216.0
Right now is a pretty good time to be Gwendoline Christie.
@lovegwendoline It doesn't make sense, what??? NOVICES!!! 😂 https://t.co/rp7AF9sltP— Martha Ramirez 🌙☀️⚔️🦁 (@Martha Ramirez 🌙☀️⚔️🦁) 1558486452.0
@extratv @lovegwendoline Gwendoline "How do you know we're currently in the present in the story?" Bran "I spend mo… https://t.co/gPYPBfxsYY— Zerofever🌡 (@Zerofever🌡) 1558487377.0
@extratv @lovegwendoline Some people just have brains as well as an abundance of talent!! Not to mention a beautifu… https://t.co/84SdW2R5jx— Jill P (@Jill P) 1558485911.0
There were some fans who thought the ending was exactly what it should have been!
@lovegwendoline It seems silly but I really like the idea that the 3 eyed raven becomes king. Imagine a king with n… https://t.co/B5vziXFoRF— Jesse Fleming (@Jesse Fleming) 1558486203.0
@extratv @lovegwendoline The whole story started with bran and ended with bran. Makes perfect sense— Mathew Fegan (@Mathew Fegan) 1558516604.0
Others couldn't help but poke a few holes in how things turned out...
@juscallmejjay @lovegwendoline True but then the first part of this wasn't necessary https://t.co/TiUrsYetKA— FreeFolk (@FreeFolk) 1558490740.0
@lovegwendoline 🤯 https://t.co/Jdxkw08dlL— K. Elizabeth (@K. Elizabeth) 1558505798.0
@extratv @lovegwendoline @HBurness... https://t.co/rOkMeovS4I— Christie Guimond (@Christie Guimond) 1558530247.0
A huge congratulations to Gwendoline Christie: if there was an Iron Throne in the real world, you'd be the three-eyed raven who gets to sit on it in the end.
@extratv @lovegwendoline U read the script. Be honest. No cheating !— Stefani Germanotta Targaryen🐾⬆️🐉 (@Stefani Germanotta Targaryen🐾⬆️🐉) 1558488867.0
@extratv @lovegwendoline Smart reasoning..— FreeFolk (@FreeFolk) 1558490580.0
If Christie appears in any other TV shows in the near future, fans better pay attention to her predictions.