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Post by swankivy on Aug 20, 2010 19:22:51 GMT -5
What Did You Expect?
Sometimes it's easy to tell that there's a surprise or revelation brewing in your life, and it's only natural to try to guess at the unknown. Do you have a good track record of seeing things coming before you "should"? Or does life usually surprise you?
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Post by SHO! on Aug 20, 2010 20:04:37 GMT -5
What Did You Expect?Sometimes it's easy to tell that there's a surprise or revelation brewing in your life, and it's only natural to try to guess at the unknown. Do you have a good track record of seeing things coming before you "should"? Or does life usually surprise you? I'm so use to analyzing every nuance that passes my way that I'm hardly surprised anymore. Not by movies, books, TV shows, nor the actions of the people around me. I have been prone to having simulated conversations with people that aren't there and then going to talk to actually talk to them and have the pattern of the discussion go basically the same way.
It's gotten to the point that I feel at my most unease around new people that I cannot predict yet. It bothers me sometimes. I wonder if it is a symptom of being too removed from people for too long, more of an observer socially than a participant. I'm pretty sure that there is a disorder that describes that, don't know what it's called though, perhaps something like autism maybe?
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Post by meggie on Aug 20, 2010 21:34:14 GMT -5
I get twinges of anticipation a lot, but never any sign of what it's for. It's always the same feeling - heart pounding, hyperventilation, almost like an electric shock.
I do get blindsided a lot, though. I'd say maybe it's 35% precog/75% complete surprise.
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Post by blondiviolette on Aug 22, 2010 19:43:28 GMT -5
Usually I have an image in my head (both metaphorically and realistic as in an actual scene like a movie playing out) or thought about how things will turn out. If something is coming up and it is an event for example, I will imagine what a scenario will be like and of course get very surprised and side-tracked that it didn't go that way at all and everything was completely different. Occassionally I do have moments where I will have a dream or see something inside my head and it doesn't make sense but then later on the dream or vision actually comes true either in a straight-forward or roundabout kind of way. Sometimes there has been a feeling that although something appears to be over, it really hasn't had an end and sometime in the future there really will be a conclusion, as well as noticing signs pointing to that happening, and this has proved true too. I don't believe in things like 'The Secret'/destiny/fate but sometimes the paths you choose to go down, decisions you make can change life seemingly magically like destiny as if the universe is saying that this particular thing has to be sorted out now so this/thisandthis is going to happen, however, the true deal is that you chose to go to that place and so did that other person (perhaps for example someone you really needed to work something out with) and therefore you linked up there even though it was oh so random and amazing to be in the same place at the same time. This probably seems completely irrelevant to your question, but what I'm saying is, sometimes people have an idea in their head that a life story between themselves and another person *should* have a certain conclusion, they might not see it coming, but they think to themselves that this is the way things would be in a decent world, so when a good scenario really does happen, they can trick themselves into believing there is a powerful force leading them to certain places, like they say to themselves, "The 'universe' knows this isn't the way things should be, so obviously this day was going to arrive where person x and person y met up and sorted out their differences, I should have or did know that' so it's like perhaps think they subconsciously saw around a corner before the meetup happened when really they had no idea and are basing it on what an ideal world would be so therefore the 'universe' provided which is simply not true (in my point of view, but am I an expert?; no). I don't think it is a very fair that some people really do have psychic powers to see what's coming next and others don't, especially in dangerous situations. It makes me very confused that one woman can see a vision in her mind of her son drowning in a pool and be able to rush to save him and another woman would not have that experience and the child dies, as if one life is more precious than the other. I think a lot of psychic experiences do a world of good to help others but there certainly seems a lot of favourable people and situations out there which seems to put some above others; I'd like to think everyone was equal and has the chance to make a difference rather than selective gifts to certain people in a world where every life, situation and person is precious.
Logically there can be optimism and cynicism in regards to speculation on what is going to happen in any given situation, for example: "Oh that won't happen because blah blah blah" *gets all bitter* or "This is going to be great and an amazing experience" and of course it can go either way, with some things if you sum up the equation of a worrying situation logically that can prove correct because as the saying goes "A pessimist is never disappointed" and there is just a knowing that things will turn out badly, but what is beautiful is when you think you know what's across the road and that it will be awful but it is actually a positive in the end, life proves your cynicism wrong. So, a huge deal of the time I don't know what's coming and am surprised, life would be much simpler if we could all see what was coming and be able to dodge bullets and instead take chances we never would have before but I guess we would never learn to make our own decisions and live with/work out our consequences to grow as a person. I've learnt in life that for the most part, no matter how much you think you know what road your or someone else's life is heading down, you really have no idea, and if you're out in the world, life really isn't always going to be as predictable as some people think, it's only a matter of time before they're surprised.
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Post by Corinne on Aug 23, 2010 19:09:30 GMT -5
Huh. I don't usually know when things are going to happen to me, actually. Sometimes I use my reasoning to determine that something is likely to happen, but even then, I don't feel like it will. I was totally surprised when I got the Governor General's Academic Medal at the end of high school, but everyone else had absolutely no doubts about the fact that I was going to get it. I should have been able to tell, because I have excellent marks—far better than those of anyone in my grade—but it caught me completely off guard because I didn't feel like it was actually possible. I don't get myself sometimes—my brain and intuition never agree with one another, so I never know which I should listen to and end up all confused and annoyed. This makes me terrible at predicting events to come, so life tends to surprise me a lot (which isn't necessarily a bad thing).
I'm very good at imagining possible scenes of my life for fun, though. ^_^
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Post by SHO! on Aug 27, 2010 22:21:18 GMT -5
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Post by SHO! on Aug 27, 2010 22:33:18 GMT -5
I was totally surprised when I got the Governor General's Academic Medal at the end of high school, but everyone else had absolutely no doubts about the fact that I was going to get it. I should have been able to tell, because I have excellent marks—far better than those of anyone in my grade—but it caught me completely off guard because I didn't feel like it was actually possible. That's weird. That same exact thing happened to me. I don't think it was called "Governor's" anything (though I could be wrong, I decided not to attend graduation and received it later in an envelope with my diploma and mini-diploma), but it said Honor on it, and some other stuff, and was a medal.
With me, I sort of felt my grades were great and other awards I received over the years were notable, but just that nobody was really paying attention. That's why I was surprised there.
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Post by Corinne on Aug 31, 2010 21:41:16 GMT -5
That's weird. That same exact thing happened to me. I don't think it was called "Governor's" anything (though I could be wrong, I decided not to attend graduation and received it later in an envelope with my diploma and mini-diploma), but it said Honor on it, and some other stuff, and was a medal. Well, seeing as you don't have a Governor General representing the Queen in the United States... it's only logical to assume your medal would have a different name. Congratulations on getting the medal, though! ^_^
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Post by SHO! on Sept 3, 2010 23:22:25 GMT -5
That's weird. That same exact thing happened to me. I don't think it was called "Governor's" anything (though I could be wrong, I decided not to attend graduation and received it later in an envelope with my diploma and mini-diploma), but it said Honor on it, and some other stuff, and was a medal. Well, seeing as you don't have a Governor General representing the Queen in the United States... it's only logical to assume your medal would have a different name. Ah, but our schools are state controlled and the head of each state is called a governor. Congratulations on getting the medal, though! ^_^ You too! ;D
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Post by SHO! on Sept 3, 2010 23:23:28 GMT -5
That's weird. That same exact thing happened to me. I don't think it was called "Governor's" anything (though I could be wrong, I decided not to attend graduation and received it later in an envelope with my diploma and mini-diploma), but it said Honor on it, and some other stuff, and was a medal. Well, seeing as you don't have a Governor General representing the Queen in the United States... it's only logical to assume your medal would have a different name. Ah, but our schools are state controlled and the head of each state is called a governor. Congratulations on getting the medal, though! ^_^ You too! ;D
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