What did you "know" before the world knew it?

Question

I am seriously asking this joke..and please don't poke fun at this!
I myself knew about the world trade center when I was 17..and I had been on the top of it..visiting it..when I "saw" the strangers who would do horrific damage to the building and to the people..but, I was wrong about in how many years this would occur! It frightened me so badly that I kept bugging my mom to go...I just wanted to get off of the building..this was in 1979! I knew that the building was going to be smashed or broken in some way or another..didn't see the accident...but, just had a awful, awful feeling..and could see where the men were from..they were wearing white and black prayer shawls...It made me mad that I could NOT do anything about it! This was to happen but, I thought oh, perhaps it will happen in another ten years...or so...Little did I know about the other times that it actually did happen and then how many years later it occurred! WHOA!!
I also thought America would not care..I was wrong!

You know what? I was serious but I hadn't realized that I had said that "I am seriously asking this joke" (this was NOT a joke...when I was asking this..I think what happened as somewhat usual for me..is I am thinking what I am going to ask..and either somebody or something may have been distracting me..so that when I "thought" that I had said it "correctly" to you all, and then posted it..I never checked to see if I had written it "Correctly" or not!
This was a mistake...I am NOT joking about the 911 incident...in no way what-so-ever...okay?!!!
Just needed to clear this up!! Very important!!!
Sorry!

You know what? I was serious but I hadn't realized that I had said that "I am seriously asking this joke" (this was NOT a joke...when I was asking this)..I think what happened as somewhat usual for me..is I am thinking what I am going to ask..and either somebody or something may have been distracting me..so that when I "thought" that I had said it "correctly" to you all, and then posted it..I never checked to see if I had written it "Correctly" or not!
This was a mistake...I am NOT joking about the 911 incident...in no way what-so-ever...okay?!!!
Just needed to clear this up!! Very important!!!
Sorry!

Answer 1

This is nothing more than a coincidence blended with a creative memory.

You were 17 and frightened on top of one of the tallest buildings in the world? No surprise there. Your fear? That the building would collapse. No surprise there either. So you could see they were Muslim men and came from the Middle East? Sounds like you memory is filling in blanks here. Our memory fails us all the time, even in recent events. I have a hard time believing you had a premonition 32 years before the event. I also have a hard time believing that your premonition was anything more than a vague fear of heights.

Answer 2

I saw the whole Y2K scare back in 1981. Nothing paranormal about it, just my pragmatism showing at an early age. I remember asking myself even then "But we're gonna be out of the 1900s in my lifetime... how are we going to write the date then?"

I recall in Mad Magazine about 20 years ago, there was a segment called "Remember when..." and one of the statements was "Remember when people waited five minutes before the first joke about a tragedy?" The picture with the caption was of a plane crashing into a skyscraper with people running away, and and one of the people was asking his neighbor "Did you hear the one about the plane that ran into the skyscraper?" (This edition came out shortly after the Challenger explosion, if memory serves me correctly.)

I wondered for years why no terrorist had tried something like that. It seemed like a much more efficient use of suicide bombers than just blowing up a restaurant or bank. (Again, the pragmatist in me.) And despite what homeland security wants us to think, it's not all that complicated--Take over a plane, kill the crew, steer it into a tall building. Any of us could do it, if we were so inclined.

But yes, you probably have a fear of heights, or (like me) no faith in the structural integrity of anything man made; your young mind formulated this image to validate your fear, or to put a face to it.

Answer 3

I was in primary school when I was certain that in the coming new century (the millenium) there would be a war. True enough, the Iraq war was declared 5 years since I felt it would come. For the believers out there, you will believe this is clairvoyance of some sort. For the non-believers, you'd be observant enough to know the trend is that there will always be a war every century. World peace just never lasts.

Alternatively, I have 'known' someone's response before they've expressed it. Such as the occassion when my mother asked me what my cousin wanted to pursue as a career and when my friend asked me to guess her weight. I can't explain rationally why my answer was an accurate one though.

Answer 4

I was around 11 years old (36 years ago) when I had seen this also.But, it's also called remote viewing. I remember being a little boy named Michael sitting in one of the seats on the plane and asking his mother why no one was doing anything. Than I was one of the terrorists saying: "Praise Allah" just before the plane hit the second building. Than I remember being on top of the building when it went down. I also remembered the Tsunami and being some of the people who had done videos and witnessed or were talked about on the news even after some of them had died and how they died. You are not alone with this gift or curse. Many might see the future but very few can change it.This is the curse of second sight.
Supposedly, the terrorists will also try to set off a nuclear device in Rome near the Vatican.

http://www.victorzammit.com/book/4thedition/chapter18.html

http://www.trvnews.com/tsl/031502/index.html

Answer 5

One: I was out of town. It was early in the morning and I woke up from a deep sleep and told my friend that I had to leave as my grandmother had died. My friend said that I couldn't leave as there was a blizzard and the roads were hazardous; I should call my parents. I said that there was no need to call; I had to get home. My grandmother was not in the hospital when I left. Yes, she had died in my absence.

Two: When leaving the house, I'm often compelled to take strange things with me. These are items that one would not usually take. 90% of the time, someone needs the strange item that I've taken.

Maybe that isn't exactly what you asked, but ...

Answer 6

Out of all the millions of people throughout the USA it would actualy be more amazing if someone hadn't forseen the destruction of the twin towers.

I bet someone has forseen the same thing happening to every tall building in the world.

I'm afraid you're just the statistic.

Answer 7

Thats kind of creepy.
There was the car bombing of the world trade center which was in the early 80s, maybe '81. Nobody really cared about that one. A small number of people died, and it was on the news for a day or so. So if your prediction was about that particular bombing you were right on target.

I dont think my story is nearly as intense, but here goes.

I knew the ending of the Village about a couple days before me and my wife went to see it. She read a 3 sentence synopsis of the movie in an advertisment in the paper, and I said, "I bet its going to be in the present day, and its some kind of huge experiement." We laughed about it, but now she won't let me guess at movie endings anymore.

Answer 8

1) Holy crap your avatar looks almost like my twin! - sorry that was a random thought I wanted to share.

2) It's not quite like your stuff, but I once had a dream about my (Biology experiement) mice dying, and that I only had one female mouse left. A few weeks later, I found one of my male mice dead in his cage. I know it's really small scale compared to your one, but I wanted to contribute something - rather than lying and saying nothing.

Answer 9

I have had experiences where I knew what was going to happen before it happened. Sometimes it was a site and sometimes it was just a "strong" feeling, for the lack of better words.
Have you ever had it happen other than the time you mentioned?

Answer 10

well.. it's prolly nuttin much but I hv dis thing where words get stuck in my head for no apparent reason. And usually, da moment dat word pops in my head, someone ends up saying dat word to me. Hmm I don't think I'm even making any sense but well anyway, it's just a fun thing dat hppns to me, tho sumtimes freaky.