I've got a bad feeling about this

Ever get those gut reaction, those bad feelings about an event or your future or just plain old bad vibes from someone?

You know the type of feeling that are sometimes right mostly wrong but creep you the hell out when your right.

The ones that you don't know why you get them, and have no ration thought behind them but send shivers up your spine, that weird feelings. That makes you say I've got a bad feeling about this?

If so when, why and do you think it's something more than normal or is it just mental indigestion?

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(makes a Star Wars joke)

I'll often get them for no reason, and nothing will happen. That is called general anxiety—or you could say it's mental acid reflux disease.

edited 7th Apr '11 9:09:48 PM by SPACETRAVEL

whoever wrote this shit needs to step on a rake in a comedic fashion

I get them occasionally.

I'm usually right, and yet I usually do not listen to myself.

You'd think I would've learned by now.

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I have this often. Most of the time nothing happens. WHEE GENERAL ANXIETY. HOW I LOVE YOU SO.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

I get bad feelings about the future all the time, but there's no mystery to them. In any given situation, there are more ways for things to go wrong than there are for them to go right.

Nothing wrong with having it. Sometimes it is right and sometimes it is wrong. The one that really gets me is when my hair prickles on my arms and neck and I get that gut feeling. When I don't know why I get pretty wary. Sometimes you notice things in very obtuse manner and your brain kicks in letting you know something is off.

Who watches the watchmen?

I have that all the time, because I have OCD and maybe General Anxiety Disorder.

This happens very, very frequently. Sometimes it's just worrisome paranoia, other times it turns out to be true.

I was walking today, and there was a young guy out, you know the eerie, Evil Albino character type? He embodied it. Yeah he looked cheerful, but Evilly Affable / Affably Evil are tropes too. So when I passed him, I suddenly got a chill down my spine. Like, there was just something so very wrong about him.

edited 7th Apr '11 11:59:12 PM by NickTheSwing

I sometimes do. And almost invariably, after I get them something ridiculously good happens to me.

Therefore, whenever I have a bad feeling I end up getting a good feeling about having gotten a bad feeling.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

It's when I don't have any strange misgivings that something usually goes terribly wrong.

whoever wrote this shit needs to step on a rake in a comedic fashion

Happens sometimes, but usually does not mean anything. But then again, this one is awful at reading people.

If we disagree, that much, at least, we have in common

I get them a lot. Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's not. I chalk most of it up to the old 'cop itch'.

This one thinks that those who have it right have a good intuition, and intuition is explained as a combination of perception, memory and experience most of the time.

If we disagree, that much, at least, we have in common

I have this, in a way. But it's more like "I don't think this is going to work, though I can't put my finger on it, but trust me it's probably a bad idea". In other words, common sense.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD

Deathonabun: I get them occasionally.

I'm usually right, and yet I usually do not listen to myself.

You'd think I would've learned by now.

(cue obligatory twins joke)

I get that feeling very rarely. Last time I got the feeling was when I was writing the OP in my "Help" thread back in October. I just knew something bad would come from it. I could not have been more wrong! The things in my life just sorta.. happen all of a sudden. I've gotten so used to them happening almost randomly, always unexpectedly, while sometimes it'll look like something's gonna go wrong and it won't. So my mind stopped having the feelings.

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I don't get these often, but when I do they're pretty strong.

I don't have them often, but Ive learned to pay attention to them when I do get them. Mr Maddy used the same term for them as Barkey did: "Cop Itch", and held that they were usually the result of the back of your mind putting together pieces of information that you weren't consciously aware of.

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