CCates

About three years ago I was a sophmore in high school. I was in my keyboarding class talking to friends (as was everyone else) while the teacher was out of the room. Suddenly there was this really loud noise coming from somewhere in the room; it was loud enough that everyone quit talking and quickly tried to figure out was it was. The noise did NOT come from any particular place so you could not tell where it was coming from.

At that moment without any thought process or hesitation I said to a girl across the room "Move, because that ceiling shade is about to fall on you". Evryone laughed by my comment; about 5 seconds later the ceiling shade fell and everyone immediatly looked at me in awe.

*This was not any kind of Daja Vu. I had never expierenced this in any form or fashion and this was in NO way a lucky guess. It was almost like instinct.

What is your take on this?



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tecoyah

Shit Happens....sometimes it just does.

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Church

Heh, alright Spiderman.

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That_Other_Guy

Maybe you saw the ceiling about to fall out of the corner of your eye?

MSD

When I worked at my high school, we were walking through the hall, and for some reason, I just felt that I should stop walking. I did, and half a second later the ceiling tile in front of me fell, barely missing my head. Things you see out of the corner of your eyes are processed much differently than those in th ecenter of your field of vision. That's why you may see something that "isn't reallly there" out of the corner of your eye but not when you look at it. Sometimes, this effect lets you catch a glimpse of a paranormal phenomenon (or just something that your mind would normally shut out,) and sometimes it will let you see minute details thatyour subconscious passes on to let you warn people or keep yourself safe.

absen|t

maybe you had cut into wat was holding the lamp up so that it would fall on your teacher m8, ;p thats how u knew but u realised the teacher wasnt there anymore..

ManWithAPlan

my spider sense is tingling.

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Diamond

I've never had anything this destructive happen, but I have said things just prior to the actual event happening. I recall stopping to help a guy who went in the ditch on an icy road, seeing cars coming and saying how one of them would end up going in .... sure enough!! Wild to watch, nobody got hurt or anything. Guess I think of them as more of a coincidental kind of thing

ManWithAPlan

i can predict where cars go too... murphy's law: if there's an asshole in a minivan driving 20 mph infront of you, he is gonna be your neighbor or coworker and will guide you the whole trip

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CCates

The ceiling shade was made of Styrofoam, one of the ones that they have at office buildings.

Munku

Did you get a date out of your heroism?

absen|t

ye cause munku thats all that counts innit, you saved sum1's life * wink * i hope you at least got a number.. and i dont mean for the ambulance !!

anna1985

Sometimes I have feelings that somethings going to happen and it does too, and or you know its gonna happen b4 it does, I think it would really just go into what you believe, there is a part of me that beleives that things are already maped out for you and in the back of your mind you really know exactly whats going to happen. I think thats why we have some people that can tell the future(that is if you beleive in that) cuz those people can look into what other people cant see, some of us get burst i guess you can call it of what we normaly dont see ("in the back of your mind") I hope that made since.

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Zephyr66

i believe we all know every detail about whats going to happen in our life, its just tucked in the back of our brains and we rarely have access to it, sometimes parts of it just seem to seep into your mind through dreams or whatever else.
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edit - what the crap is a ceiling shade?

Johnny Rotten

The Matrix has you.

Seriously, though, our brains process more than what we perceive on a conscious, active level. What you see before you and hear immediately around you is what your brain lets you take in. Otherwise, you'd be bowled over by sensory overload. Still, this event is kinda funky.

Willravel

Before she warned you did she say, "Murder...murder..." (Minority Report refrence, for those out there scratching their heads)?
JK. Same thing has happened to meseveral times. I wish I had an explaination, but I'm gonna have to go with MrSelfDestruct.

braindamage351

There is a perfectly logical explanation for this. It's actually related to how subliminal messages work.

When you look at something, your brain knows what it is, and processes understands it with much greater detail than your conscious mind can. You only clearly identify it afterwards. It saw some sign that probably meant that the shade was going to fall, and you just articulated the feeling. The brain can actually see the individual movie frames fast enough to pick up subliminal messages. You don't know this with your conscious mind, but the information is in there, just not fully processed. Animals live in this state.

Squishor

Although I've experienced episodes of apparent precognition, the direction this thread is taking makes me think of something that happens more commonly - when I'm sleeping, some noise or even will happen and get incorporated into my dream. The thing is, in my dream, the plot is all set up to include the noise or whatever before it happens. Like if I suddenly hear an unusual bird, say a parrot, screech outside my window. In my dream, a person with a parrot on their shoulder will walk up and introduce themselves in the moments before the bird makes any noise. It always astonishes me that my brain can move with such stunning speed to make sense out of an outside event like this. Of course, I'm only even aware of it on the occasions when the noise wakes me up - think how frequently it must actually happen and I never even know about it. The brain is amazing.

dobster

I think that we too often attribute these things to "coincidence". I believe we have ignored all sorts of channels of perception that we had much better awareness of or access to as children. Social conditioning rids us of these, as our society doesn't generally accept these elements.

The most important thing, however, is to acknowledge the existence of both extra-sensory perception AND coincedence. I believe they are BOTH possible.

macmanmike6100

indeed, the brain is amazing. but the argument that your subconscious noticed before you did so consciously, whether it was through peripheral vision or increased attentiveness, is the one that i'm going to support as well.