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shiftyw -> "Hunch think"/intuition (4/2/2015 1:58:36 PM)

You know when you have that feeling something bad might happen?
Those gut instincts, hunch think, whatever you call it.

How often do you get these feelings?
Are you often right?
What do these feelings, for you, usually entail?
Most distinct time for you, and why?



sloguy02246 -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/2/2015 3:02:52 PM)

As for any feeling/premonition that something bad or good is going to happen, never.

I do, however, find myself almost always able to "read" a new person at our first meeting, no matter how brief, and be right about their basic character virtually all the time.

I guess I'm saying that future events don't seem to reveal themselves to me, but a person's true character almost always does.



shiftyw -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/2/2015 3:43:01 PM)

I think that qualifies.



DerangedUnit -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/2/2015 4:17:08 PM)

Yeah people wise and situation reading.... really darn good at, though I try to rely on intuition I also always try to discover the "why" of my intuition.... just randomly guessing what's going to happen... impossible.... though my sense does statistically lean backwards in that department.

All the times in my like a completely random fucked up thing has happened, I was really blissfully happy right before. For a while whenever I got too happy I would pause and look around cautiously [:)]

Oh most distinct time.... I just had a great meal/sex with the guy I was with at the time, we were both out after going to job interviews we both got. And we were going to go start moving in to place we just got accepted at, had a big party planned that night and everything seemed to lol fit into place that day..... then walking across the street I got hit by a speeding truck. The irony of life.



WinsomeDefiance -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/2/2015 5:13:33 PM)

good grief...I had a "City of Angels" flashback from your post, DerangedUnit



FelineRanger -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/2/2015 8:13:24 PM)

I'm not particularly good at reading people, so I just observe a lot more than talk. Beyond that, I am a cynical pessimist and merely expect people to the dumbest possible thing at the worst possible moment in any given situation. It just depresses the hell out of me to be right so damned often, though.



youthinkso121 -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/2/2015 8:39:11 PM)

I should learn to listen more.

In hind site the red flags were waving wildly.

I think most of us see the red flags but hope we're wrong.




MercTech -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/3/2015 1:52:06 PM)

About some things I do have some intuition for incipient problems. So many times back in my military days I would find out the next day that a bar had broken out into a fight not ten minutes after I had left.



Lucylastic -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/3/2015 2:07:04 PM)

my intuition has never let me down, altho , I dont name it such, its just my gut telling me "sumfin aint right".
I normally walk away now when it happens, but thats from experience and making mistakes. sometimes more than once.
I do trust it now more than ever.
Hunches, gut, intuition ... ill trust them over most things in my personal life.



GotSteel -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/3/2015 3:32:24 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: shiftyw
Most distinct time for you, and why?


Well it was about 2 in the morning and I was maybe 500 feet off the ground falling off this route: http://www.supertopo.com/rock-climbing/Yosemite-Valley-Leaning-Tower-West-Face

I'd been falling for what felt like a really long time and my headlamp couldn't find the wall or see much of the rope in the dark and I started getting a bad feeling.

It turned out ok my belayer had just fallen asleep.



Awareness -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/3/2015 5:26:25 PM)

I don't have the whole portents of doom thing going on. I don't get hunches like that. It's all very "I've got a bad feeling about this", which is something George Lucas has his characters say when he has no fucking idea what they should see. But I digress....

What I do experience is insight gleaned from putting two and two together very quickly. Information which, when assembled, generates a non-obvious conclusion. It's interesting because normally women have better social intuition than men.

It reminds me of a story I once saw regarding Juan Manuel Fangio, an Argentinian formula 1 driver. During the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, he inexplicably braked after exiting a tunnel - and as a result managed to avoid a track accident he couldn't actually see. Had he not braked, he would have ploughed straight into it. 8 out of the other 19 drivers weren't so fortunate.

It was only later he realised why. It was the spectators on the track which saved his life. Normally spectators watch the race leader, however as he headed towards them, the spectators were watching the accident. Instead of predominantly pale faces facing him, his brain picked up on the dark colour from the back of their heads looking at something more important than himself.

Portents of doom, I'd put down to anxiety. Or an overdose of Oprah.



Dvr22999874 -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/3/2015 6:18:38 PM)

I was once sent from Brisbane to Cairns, with a few other seamen, to join a ship and I had a BAAAAAAAD feeling about the flight. The feeling kept up the whole flight and I was hanging on to the seat-arms so hard I probably left fingermarks in them.
The flight went of as smooth as silk with no problems at all and we joined a bus to take us to the ship, Again, no problems and then I stepped off the bus onto a railway line the driver had parked beside, broke my bloody ankle and was flown home the next day !! I wish I'd had the bad feeling about the bus and taken a taxi !!



shiftyw -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/3/2015 8:46:25 PM)

Thanks for sharing.

I really don't tend to get gut instincts all that often, I generally can sense people, but I don't know that I "trust" my gut.



Dvr22999874 -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/3/2015 8:50:30 PM)

Usually, I think, if you can 'sense' people, you are (or may be) actually using 'Body Language' or 'Talk Language', even though you may not fully realise it; reading the tiny movements of the face and body, compared with what they say, or reading what they say, compared to what you feel they actually mean.



tiggerspoohbear -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/3/2015 11:21:54 PM)

I've dealt with thousands of customers in my day, customer service, cashier, floor, phone. I've developed an instinct for the ones who are going to cause trouble. It translates into a immediate gut feeling for people I newly meet.

It's the same for situational awareness. I can walk into a seedy dive bar and know I'm safe. A safe looking place, clean & good patronage will send me running for the hills. I somehow know whether something is off or not.

I rely heavily on gut instinct, the first feeling to knock is the one to pay attention to.



Dvr22999874 -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/3/2015 11:24:31 PM)

Yep, I agree and again, body-language or talk-language could be playing their part in those feelings



TheBanshee -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/4/2015 4:28:51 AM)

Like the story of the race car driver - I read a story how our brains pick up little details that we aren't consciously thinking about. I read an article about fear sometime back - and when we feel fear it usually is rational. A woman climbing the stairs in her apartment building with groceries and a neighbor offering his assistance - she doesn't know why at first but she feels fear, refuses his help adamantly. Later she realized she didn't hear him on the lower stairs and didn't hear him enter the building, and he was waiting for someone vulnerable.



NookieNotes -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/4/2015 5:16:25 AM)

The ONE and only time my departed dog ever bit anyone was a man who was raising my hackles. After, I discovered that he'd been drinking and was on probation for assault on a female.

I have never felt that kind of fear before, and my dog had never bit.



JstAnotherSub -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/4/2015 6:17:48 PM)

I learned to never ignore my gut. It took me til I was about 30 to get the message I think. Now, if the voices in my head said go, I go and never look back, because nothing good ever happened when I ignored them.



MalcolmNathaniel -> RE: "Hunch think"/intuition (4/5/2015 4:59:16 PM)

I very rarely get that feeling. In general I'm an easy-going guy and expect most other people to be as well.

I've only ever gotten a "bad vibe" about 4 times. Each time it was bang-on. I am not good at picking out good people, but when that gut feeling about a baddy hits it is always right.



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