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Sunday, February 07, 2010
I dó know! Sometimes.
Last time I told you about the things I 'know' and gave you a couple of mindblowing (ahum) illustrative stories.
This morning I suddenly thought of another weird example. Something that happened quite a few years ago.
My best friend at the time and her husband came over for dinner. We dined with each other regularly. Sometimes they cooked, sometimes we cooked and sometimes we went to a restaurant.
This time we would cook dinner.
So I was trying to think of a nice menu. Going through recipes and cookbooks I found a recipe that would be nice to have as a starter. I can't for the life of me remember what it was, but I know that it had 'raw' cheese in it.
And thén I thought: "we can't have that, because you can't eat that cheese when you're pregnant".
Weird thing is, I was pretty sure (really really sure) that I wasn't pregnant.
And my best friend had the same feelings about children as I do. I like them if they are someone else's, but I wouldn't want them of my own.
And that is what she always said too.
So... as far as I knew, nobody present at that particular dinner was pregnant.
So... why not make a recipe with raw cheese.
Still, I decided to make something else for a starter. Just to be on the safe side.
Our friends arrived for dinner and we exchanged all the little newsfacts of what had been going on in our lives. And then she said: "We have some bigger news too."
And then she dropped the bombshell.
She was pregnant.
Which was quite shocking news.
For hubs.
Because... well, apparently I knew already.
And, when Evie was born, another friend who was pregnant and we knew thát, came to see little Evie. She was due the day, it was a Wednesday, she came to visit us. But everything was quiet on the southern front, so I didn't have to keep the towels and hot water ready. She said.
I told her about my premonition about the evening Evie was born (one of the 'mindblowing' examples in my previous post). She asked if I could tell her when her baby would be born.
I held her hand and said: "Your baby will be born coming Friday. At about three o'clock in the afternoon." And we had a good laugh, because whát do I know, haha!
Anyway, thát Friday she had her baby. Not at three o'clock I believe, a bit later I think. I'm not quite sure anymore. Shé was stunned and told all our other friends that I had predicted (haha, I'm a predictor) that her baby would be born that day.
I'm convinced it was sheer coincidence.
But hey... whát do I know!
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This and your previous post reminded me of a similar thing that happened to me many years ago.
ReplyDeleteWithout getting TOO personal, I woke up one morning after a very vivid dream, looked at my wife, and said "You're pregnant and it's a girl." A bit more than 9 months later, my first daughter was born.
I was as certain of this as I have ever been of anything, yet I can't explain how I knew...but I knew.
My niece was expecting her little boy at the start of November last. I had two numbers going round in my mind, 7 and 11, but wouldn't mention them to her as she was already overdue. Baby arrive on 7th of the 11th at seven minutes past eleven, and weighed - no, not 7lbs 11oz but 7lb 13oz - so I just missed a triple whammy! :)
ReplyDeleteYou're spooking me a bit now! You could be the next Uri Geller or something!
ReplyDeleteWow, I guess you are the gal with the hunches that prove to be more than just a hunch! Very interesting. Although I do think that this tends to be more common with females.
ReplyDeleteThat is quite cool, i sometimes get a feeling that either my mum is going to ring and she does. Or i am just thinking of ringing her myself and then she rings. Actually that happens quite often and mum gets the same feelings i do. There is definately something in it.
ReplyDeleteSam,
ReplyDeleteAre you sure it was just a vivid dream ;-)
But it's weird that you were so certain. We know more than we know I guess.
Jinksy,
that is just spooky! To me you are the good Witch of the West ;-)
Mara,
hehe, or even worse; the next Patty Brard (who apparently 'knows' things too)
Oz Girl,
that's what I thought too, but if you've read Sam's comment, some boys have 'the gift' too ;-)
Samantha,
oh yes, that happens to me too. And to my sister. Do you think it has something to do with the power of thought?
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ReplyDeleteI read this post and the previous. It certainly is interesting how sometimes we have these premonitions. MY WIFE and I often have instances of where we were talking about someone, and then that person will call or write or enter our life in a profound way shortly thereafter. I rarely have those moments myself, and neither does MY WIFE, but when we are together, I guess our ESP is increased.
ReplyDeleteWe also used to put out streetlamps when we walked under them. Seriously. Not every one we walked under, of course, but enough of them so that it became an obvious thing we noticed. That doesn't happen so much anymore, but perhaps they are constructing the streetlamps better these days :-)
Suldog,
ReplyDeleteyou and your wife are very 'in sync with the universe'. The putting-out-streetlights-phenomena is very weird. And practical if you want to create a dark corner to... uhm... get to know each other better ;-)
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ReplyDeleteI believe there is more to life than we know so far, and I also believe that if we stop cluttering our minds with practical things and allowing ourselves to override 'instinct' we can come up with some very strange premonitions - or just things that we seem to 'know'. I don't know how it works, but for some people it does seem to!
ReplyDeleteSuldog's street lights reminds me of Douglas Adams' .. I think it was The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul! LOL!
There's a cheese you can't eat when you're pregnant? Ohh sad. Oh very, very sad. Who would make a cheese like that?
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