In July of 1987 during the last night of my 1 week honeymoon I felt anxious all evening. Actually kind of scared, for no reason. That night I had a dream that my new sister-in-law(husband's sister) was missing. There was a search for her and I found her drowned in a creek in our park. It was very eeiry. To this day I remember how she looked in my dream, laying on her back, eyes open, I could see her entire body. Well needless to say, when I woke up all I could think about was getting home, seeing my family. I even told my sil about it, I told her I don't want to scare you, it just seemed so real. It really disturbed me.

One week later my husband and I hosted a fun day of golf for his work. I woke up with a foreboding feeling. A terrible feeling that something bad was going to happen. All day I felt this. Then towards evening it started to wain. At the party that night I got a phone call. It was my sister. My 4 year old nephew(my brothers son) had drowned in the lake at their cottage. He drowned at 5:00pm, almost exactly when my dread started to subside. He was dead, this sweet little boy. His smile was so awesome, his personality so sweet. Immediatily I remembered my dream, and then my pit of the stomache worry I had all day.

What are your thoughts?

Sounds like you had a promonition. But sometimes we don't interpret things very clearly. Someone in your family was about to have a terrible accident and you somehow picked up on it. It makes sense that you would since your nephew was on your side of the family. I don't know why you saw your SIL though.

Oh, I am so sorry for your loss. =( I fully believe you had a premonition. These things don't always come through to us crystal clear though. Perhaps because of your recent marriage, you had your 'new family' on your mind quite a bit and that's why your SIL was in the dream vs. your nephew.

Kell

Tammy, I would say that you are probably tapping into some psychic abilities that perhaps you aren't even aware that you possess. Do you now, or have you ever, felt that you have psychic ability? I think that you probably do. To improve your abilities, you need to work with it, and keeping a journal of dreams, and also those times when you feel that serious foreboding, or being anxious and not knowing why. Then, also log anything that has happened in your life, or even in the world, and you may begin to see even more of a pattern emerging. Your visions in your dreams may become more accurate... like your dream about your sister-in-law drowning. You had it right about a family member drowning... you just picked up a different person in your dream. You also identified the water as being familiar, kind of 'close to home', so to speak. Instead of your sister-in-law drowning in a creek in your park, it was your nephew drowning in the lake by a family cottage. That is so very sad about your nephew. My sincerest sympathy to you and your family.

This strange and very strong feeling of foreboding is something that both Kell and I experienced in the last part of August, and early September last year. Our foreboding disappeared with the collapse of the WTC towers. That was such an eerie feeling, I don't think I will ever forget how I felt. I was so uneasy, and I just couldn't sleep, couldn't focus on anything very well, and I could hardly sit still without squirming. Kell felt the same, and we even discussed how anxious we felt, but I just wouldn't go away, until after September 11.....
I have had this happen before, but never quite that strong.... I felt like it just 'rattled my soul'.

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. They were quite interesting! =O!

azspirit

Thank you for your quick responses. I have always felt too I had a premonition. It's happened more than once in my life, usually when something bad has happened to someone I love and care about.

azspirit...It's amazing that you and kell had that foreboding about 9-11. I had felt since early summer that there was something...and as I watched the horror unfold that morning on TV, it was if I heard, "this is it", I knew in my heart. I didn't have the deep dread, that I felt at the time of my nephews death and at other times in my life, it was more of a itch that I couldn't scratch, or a spot in the darkness that I couldn't get to.
I have felt and contemplated at times that I might have phychic abilities, but to be truthful it kind of scares me.
I've done a lot of reading about it, and sometimes I'm so sad to see that many make a joke out of this ability. To many of them it's a way to make money, to screw people over.
There is a very strong part of me that wants to see if I can develop my abilities, especially lately in the past year. It's almost like I'm being led to do this. Then I become wary and unsure and I surpress it again.

Thanks again for your thoughts.
=)

[ March 04, 2002: Message edited by: chatter ]

We were feeling that horrible anxiousness up to a about a month prior to 9-11. I've never felt so anxious in my life! I almost felt paralyzed. At the time, we were thinking maybe it was because my dad was recovering from his broken jaw (from July), but everything was going smoothly with his recovery so that didn't make sense. I just couldn't put a finger on it - like you said.

Try not to be afraid of your gift. It shouldn't always bring bad tidings. Think of it this way, if you're ever in a position to change the outcome of an event, you will know it ahead of time and be able to act on it. Just go with the flow and let it unfold. ;-)

Kell

Tammy, you shouldn't be afraid of your abilities, but I can understand why it seems so negative to you, based on your experiences so far. Psychic ability can be very good, too.

Here is a little exercise that you can use, if you get the chance, to help you discover that the ability can be very helpful. If you have a lost article, and you have tried in vain to find it..... just focus your mind very intently on the article (as a vision in the mind), and then tell you subconscious mind to 'Find'. Just that one word, 'find' is all that is needed. Now, forget about the article, and go on about your day, and don't think about the article, and don't keep looking for it physically. Let your subconscious mind do the work. In a short time (for me it is usually less than a day, but it can take longer), you will suddenly have a vision in your mind of where the article is, and if you go there, you will usually find it!! You have just tapped into your psychic ability. I use this to find those things that you just have absolutely no idea where they are.

I used this method not long ago... to find a pair of expensive leather shears. They had always been kept with my leather tools, in a special gym bag. I had no reason to put them anywhere else. But, they just weren't there. I looked other places, but no luck. So, I used my method described above.... and lo and behold, in a couple of hours, my mind sent me to look in a bag of books I had taken on my last trip to Northern AZ. Sure enough, they were in the book bag with the books, and I have no idea why they were there. I am the only person who uses them, so it wasn't someone else putting them there.... strange, and I would never have looked in the book bag. This is a small example of one way to use and develop your psychic ability.... and it is a "good" thing... and not bad news, like your premonitions have been so far.

Hang in there... I think your gift is well worth developing, and anyone who laughs about it just doesn't understand gifts of the spirit, that can't be seen, touched or physically verified.

Blessings,

azspirit

[ March 25, 2002: Message edited by: azspirit ]

I would try, as AZ says, to develop this gift and I do call it a gift because, if nothing else, it did prepare you in someway for this tragic event. Without the forbodeing feelings, the shock of hearing this news would have been much worse.