Do you believe in fate? My sister had a premonition again.

[geminibear]

I am traveling on business every week for the month of April and much of May. Much of this travel will be on small propeller commuter planes into locations without air traffic control. Also I will be doing quite of bit of driving on rural 2 lane highways. My sister disclosed she had a dream this week that I was in a plane crash. She was so upset she had to call me at 3:54 am Monday morning to make sure I was okay. Now she has my mother involved. My mother is also very upset and wants me to cancel my trips, which is not an option if I want to keep my current position. Since mom didn't offer me a larger share of the family business I am inclined to keep my current position. The root of this concern is that 2 days before my 92 year old hospice care grandmother passed away peacefully in her sleep, my sister had a dream about her passing.

 

What do you think? Does my sister have the "gift"? I am of course throwing caution to the wind and continuing on with my travel.

 

Is it bad taste to start a pool to pick the date and location of my possible demise? If nothing happens donating the winnings to charity.

[+ Truereview]

Gem, that's macabre! if your folks believe in premonitions, they probably believe in the power of prayer. I'm now adding you to my list of folks I hold in the light. No worries, you don't have to believe in anything to benefit from this. I got ya covered, osito.

 

Now, to the important stuff (wink), I want your pups if anything happens. I will make them very happy and my pet family will love them. Oh, and I want the snowmobile.

[+ glennnn]

I just had a vision that your upcoming business trip will be safe, and highly successful. I am never wrong! Then you will come home, send me greetings and hosannahs via the Forum, but your sister will continue to believe she has the gift and make predictions.

 

I have spoken! Go forth and prophet.....er... profit.

[mattr]

I think a dream about a 92 yo in hospice care passing away is hardly a premonition. It is far more likely a coping mechanism where one's dream is dealing with an imminent reality. You can lock yourself up in a room and try to remain safe but you will likely slip in your bath tub. Move forward with your life including flying for your job.

[AdamSmith]

The shrink in me recalls that dreams are often enough expressions of repressed wishes held by the dreamer, and other times can be displacements of the dreamer's anxieties about herself onto somewhat randomly chosen objects, such as you.

[+ Truereview]

The shrink in me recalls that dreams are often enough expressions of repressed wishes held by the dreamer, and other times can be displacements of the dreamer's anxieties about herself onto somewhat randomly chosen objects, such as you.

That's even more macabre!

[AdamSmith]

That's even more macabre!

Clinical observations often are, no? As any visit to the doctor is liable to remind.

[bigvalboy]

Listening to you guys is exactly why I'm on medication...

[AdamSmith]

Listening to you guys is exactly why I'm on medication...

Exactly how geminibear should approach his upcoming travels!

[seaboy4hire]

I've had a few dreams come true. The worse was a friend was visiting when I lived in Washington. In the dream I lwt her borrow my car. She was driving by an amusement park and water park called Enchanted Village. She went to make a left hand turn and hit a white van. The next day I get a call at work from her detailing everything that was in my dream. I say proceed with caution Mr. Bear. Say your prayers, even if you might not believe.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[+ bashful]

I believe in fate, I don't believe dreams come true.

[+ azdr0710]

the driving part is MUCH more dangerous than airplanes (even prop jobs).....when she has a dream you crashed the car, start worrying

 

I also agree with @mattr that a dream about somebody in hospice dying is hardly a shocker....am surprised that dream is the cause of the current worry

[+ FreshFluff]

I think a dream about a 92 yo in hospice care passing away is hardly a premonition. It is far more likely a coping mechanism where one's dream is dealing with an imminent reality. You can lock yourself up in a room and try to remain safe but you will likely slip in your bath tub. Move forward with your life including flying for your job.

 

The late physicist Richard Feynman on spooky premonitions:

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Having said that, I'm no atheist, and I've had various "funny feelings" about things that turned out to be correct. But I tend to attribute them to knowledge that I can't or won't acknowledge consciously .

[mattr]

I am not a particularly spiritual person but I have had those funny feelings as well and I do believe that things do happen that don't have a logical explanation. Now if a person told me that someone had come to them in a dream at the time they died, I would believe them.

 

I have two stories to relate. My brother was killed in a small plane crash. On the day he dies, I was sitting in my office and I looked out the window and saw a strong gust of wind whip at the trees and had a chill run up my spine causing me to shiver. I looked at the time on my laptop and saw it was 2:17 pm. Later that evening I found out he had died and although no one knows exactly when the experimental plane he was piloting crashed, the best estimate was between 2 and 2:30 pm. I am convinced he "visited" me on his way out.

 

I am also convinced that my brother saved my life after he passed away. About 6 months after he died, I was running late for a meeting and was driving a little too fast on an almost deserted four lane road. As I came to the crest of a hill I had an overwhelming urge to slow down and move from the left lane to the right lane. There was no rational reason for me to do so. As soon as I came over the hill, a car in front of me abruptly swerved into the left lane to made a sharp left hand turn into a parking lot. If I had continued on my original trajectory, I am sure we would have had a very bad collision. Even though both these incidents were more than 20 years ago I still remember them as if they were yesterday.

 

Having said that though, I am highly skeptical of anyone's ability to foresee the future.

[rvwnsd]

My mother believed that when it was a person's time it was their time. Not a moment earlier, not a moment later. My brother and I took comfort in that belief after she passed away.

 

If it is your time, it is. If not it isn't. Don't stress it. Go on with your life.

 

PS: I hope it isn't your time.

[mattr]

My mother believed that when it was a person's time it was their time. Not a moment earlier, not a moment later. My brother and I took comfort in that belief after she passed away.

 

If it is your time, it is. If not it isn't. Don't stress it. Go on with your life.

 

PS: I hope it isn't your time.

 

Of course there is the old joke where you are on a plane and it is the person next to you's time and you are just in the wrong place at the wrong time..

[rvwnsd]

Of course there is the old joke where you are on a plane and it is the person next to you's time and you are just in the wrong place at the wrong time..

I guess that would mean it was really a planeful of people's time. Sometimes, higher powers work with remarkable efficiency.

[+ Oliver]

... ...

Is that Tangueray in the bag???

[bigvalboy]

Is that Tangueray in the bag???

 

Bombay...

[+ Charlie]

I have had enough experiences of this sort (i.e., unexpectedly sensing someone I knew had just died, and later discovering that they did die at exactly the time I sensed it) not to wholly dismiss the possibility of such an extrasensory perception being accurate, but I have had false alarms as well. I even had a vivid vision a number of years ago of exactly at what hour and in what kind of place I will slip the bonds of earth. I figure, if it is going to happen, it is going to happen, so I don't try to somehow prevent it; I just get on with life. Of course, if you travel a lot by plane, there is no guarantee that this particular trip is the one on which it will happen.

 

If you don't log on here after your travels, however, there will be plenty of speculation here.

[+ azdr0710]

this all reminded me of this old classic, supposedly by Will Rogers:

 

“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”

[mike carey]

Bombay

Yep, my favourite, love those blue bottles.

[AdamSmith]

Bombay...

http://www.manolith.com/wp-content/uploads//2013/03/james-bond-thumbs-up.jpg

[+ purplekow]

I say that by all means you should heed your sister's advice and cancel all your business plans. Then come hide out in Palm Springs in a few weeks while waiting for all the hobgoblins to clear the area. Hobgoblins rarely come to Palm Springs and the few that have been sited there were not hobgoblins at all but turned out to be Steven Kessler.

[Reluctant Daddy]

Has your sister had premonitions throughout her life, or did they recently start? Not a firm believer in this (although it spooks the hell out of me), so I wonder if the death of your grandmother has sparked something that's making her fearful for other family members.