reply to post by deltaalphanovember
I don't know if "logic" has anything to do with actual life.....
I don't think my having this... thing (it's neither a gift or a curse, but it sure does feel like a burden. Well, most of the times. Those who
listen to me have also been able to take action before getting embroiled in situations that were clearly no good for them), anyway, I don't think my
having this ability (which is not "switched" on all of the time, it's something I have little control over) was in any way "predetermined" or
anything. It may not be "meaningful" at all. What I do know as that it appears to be genetic, on my mother's side.
But I do feel like there could be an underlying "functionality", a utilitarian purpose, to everythig in the universe. And most scientific research
appears to be geared that way, that's their basic assumption: what is the "use" of this or that (organ, phnomenon, etc.)?
Which is why it feels like there could or should be a "utilitarian" purpose to this ability. And that's why it feels so frustrating to be unable to
prevent many ("bad", i.e. undesirable) things that you clearly sense or even see in advance.
However I don't feel we can "do nothing" about the future.
As I said previously, I believe we can choose (by focused attention, by synchronizing ourselves to a desired outcome) from a "soup" of endless
possiblities.
It's just that situations that are "bigger" than individuals, than ourselves, because they involve many people cannot depend on the "choice" of a
single individual. (That's why "positive thinking" - actually positive *feeling* - is so important, IMO, so long as we act accordingly.)
RE how I "do" this: first I get a feeling, usually vague, then I try to identify it, where it's coming from, and then bracing myself!, I clear my
mind to see if I can get more concrete information about it. If there is something (and it's not just a queasy feeling because I ate something bad

), I get fragments of actions, situations yet to happen. I am sure I could get a whole lot more if I wasn't scared of what I might see. It's
highly unpleasant.
Then, if the situation is undesired and relates to my own personal life, I do everything in my power to stand in the way of such a course of events
and divert it, like you would divert a river, by deciding it's *not* going to happen and acting accordingly. *Deciding* is the decisive word here.
But sometimes, when it involves other people, I can do nothing about it, except trying by all means to get them to steer away from that course.
sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
When it doesn't.... that's a terrible feeling.
EDIT: Oh, sorry, I just saw you asked about the range of these feelings. Yes, I've had distinct visions about very specific events involving
different regions and countries (war, killings, very specific buildings sustaining very specific damage), eight years before they happened. At the
time there was no indication that something like that could ever happen.
[edit on 8-10-2009 by Ethereal Gargoyle]
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