#117

I’d done some Google Doctoring on myself and was worried it linked to a family history of epilepsy, and the doctor basically looked at me like I’d told her she was a fish and said I should stop worrying (she then asked me how my antidepressants were going and I said fine ta). Apparently with me it’s linked to anxiety, so when I’m anxious my brain hurriedly tries to construct helpful memories or safe places. So that’s why it’s happening all the time, because I’m always anxious about something! But yeah, it can be really worrying.

I prefer the explanation that I can see through time, obviously.

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#118

Same here.

Also, loads of times I get a feeling about something that’s going to happen and it does. Stuff that I guess is just classed as coincidence but happens so much. Like, bought plasters the other morning as I had a feeling M would need one and straight after buying them she fell and cut her knee. Just silly stuff but it’s pretty much daily I think of something that then happens that same day. Often dream about people the night something major happens to them. There’s one person in particular I get weird premonitions about, my neighbour, I knew she was pregnant before she told anyone and I woke up in the middle of the night during her pregnancy and thought “L will name her baby Nova” (she’d not talked about names or even the sex, when she was born she named her Noa…but only one letter out).

My dad had it a lot too. I remember him telling me he had a sort of dream that he’d die at 48. We used to joke about it every birthday it drew closer. Died at 48 didn’t he. He was probably a bit smug about that prediction.

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#119

one of the best tunes that

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#120

Interesting. My sister’s got epilepsy aswell.

Yeah I embrace it, and the premonition thing makes me feel super special and magical.

Once I was in a pub and I said to all the people around me “the Christmas tree is going to fall over!” They were all like lol yeah whatever as if. And it wasn’t even wobbling or moving or anything. Then lo and behold about 45 seconds later the tree just fell straight on the floor toppling over and baubles going everywhere.

I mean I had just done mushrooms but that makes it even weirder.

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#121

did anyone used to think that if you pulled the wrong cable out of the back of the TV you’d be electrocuted

#122

Oh yes. Apply this to all computer cables, speaker cables etc. and that was my house growing up.

#123

I occasionally remember really vivid dreams from years back and they seem to be weirdly premonitory now about random things that have since happened. That being said if you’re having weird random dreams every night some might look like premonitions by chance

#124

Escalators. I dragged my feet as a child and to prevent this my mum told me that if I did this on an escalator I’d be dragged under. Always jumped as far as I could to clear the last few steps whenever used. Petrifying.

#125

Well I guess in that case Silent Running

#126

Now I’m just wondering how to quantify loads of deja vu. I definitely got it way more when I was younger

#127

when characters on kid shows would get like turned into an animal by a witch or something, i remember getting really fascinated thinking about what that would be like. getting turned into a duck or something and still having my own consciousness but being a duck.

#128

had the exact opposite effect on me, pure buzzed off spiderman having loads of arms

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#129

Mine was imagining sheep jumping the fence when I was trying to sleep. Never used to work cos the sheep would just start spinning in the air or freezing or the wall would move and I could never get my bastard brain to just allow the sheep over safely

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#130

last time i was in waterstones someone asked if they had any books about heartbeat, the cashier pointed them to the medical textbooks and the guy was just like no the tv show heartbeat that used to be on on sunday nights, you probably don’t remember it. proper #SentMeUnder, that

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#131

Those songs that were number one for fucking months, that was depressing. Meatloaf, Bryan Adams, Wet Wet Wet, Celine Dion twice. Horrifying.

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#132

totally used to get this, didn’t know it was a thing

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#133

ooh this is good spooky stuff. i had a really vivid dream that tony wilson died and no one gave a shit about a week before he died, so vivid that i got really bad deja vu when he actually died and also found it really weird that people treated it like a huge deal (even tho i’d found it weird that no one treated it like a big deal when he died in my dream)

#134

Yeah had it every now and then when younger. Now pretty much never, which makes me think it represents a decline of some sort.

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#135

This. I saw this aged 14, already in a constant state of mild panic about seemingly inevitable nuclear destruction and they put this on prime time BBC! I’ve just watched it again and it’s soo gratuitously bleak, partly lightened now by the 80s fashions and the Day Today style production (shot of sweet old lady, cut to pumpkin getting shredded by flying glass!).

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#136

So interesting in this thread to hear about so many people with the geometric shapes based night terrors. I have to be really careful when I’m putting music on at home if my wife is around to avoid anything where the beat stays the same but the tempo slows down cos it really freaks her out. Apparently when she was a kid she’d have proper night terrors that involved geometric shapes endlessly shifting and changing alongside music that was always the same and yet always slowing down. I thought it was just her but it seems like this sort of thing is a lot more common than I thought.

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