I have had a few weird experiences in my family.
At age 3, almost 4, my son said he saw his three year old friend and neighbor in the clouds looking down at him and that he was all fixed up and that he was going home, not to his house, but to God. The little boy had died that day in his backyard swimming pool. I am convinced that he really thought he saw this.
There were lots of times when he seemed to know what someone was thinking, so much so that when he was reading words at two I wondered if there was something else going on, especially when he could identify words that were spelled out for him at 2 1/2. I didn't think it was possible for such a young child to do this so it really kind of creeped me out at first. My husband didn't tell me that his older son had taught himself to read very early. This is when I first started looking for answers online. Before this, I spent very little time online.
I don't know how many times my adult daughter has asked me how he knew something he couldn't possibly have known. When she asks him he just laughs and tells her "I already told you, I'm psychic."
My husband's sister is very intelligent and works as a supervisor. She says she is "sensitive" to things that others are not. She can't really explain it and she knows it sounds crazy so she doesn't tell very many people about it. She says she thinks my son might be this way too. The subject came up when my son refused to go up into the Saint Augustine Lighthouse, which is supposedly haunted, because he thought he saw something weird there.
My mother, who I think was probably gifted, told me that she had a really, really bad feeling about going in for a minor surgery six years ago. She didn't even tell my Dad. It was not the first time she had ever had surgery and she had never worried about having surgery this much before. I told her she should talk to her doctor if she was worried about it, but I was sure she would be fine. She wasn't. Doctors couldn't tell us for sure what happened. Maybe mini-strokes, maybe a lack of oxygen, they didn't know, but many years worth of memories were wiped out forever and her short term memory was gone forever. She would never again be able to learn another thing, when reading and learning had been her favorite things to do in life and she would also be unable to take care of herself for the rest of her life.
Abraham Lincoln had a premonition about his own death.
I listen to my gut feeling a little more than I used to and I would probably listen to my son if he had a really bad feeling about something.
