How many of you has this happened to in your life?

Question

Have any of you had the same thing happen...the instant another was in your area, you KNEW something extraordinary was going to happen? I have had that happen to me once in my life, a long story, but 9 months of incidents brought me to a place 1500 miles from where I have lived, as soon as I saw a car in my rear view window (it was a speck on the horizon) my heart went through the top of my head! Lasted 16 years! Amazing how fate/karma works in life. I have zero doubt of past life, of meeting the same souls in this life...how many times have you met someone you had either an instant "love" for or an instant aversion to...with no words spoken? This has happened to me on far too many occasions to think other than past life...I already knew the soul! Let me hear form you all on this subject...and yes, I am probably crazy, but I love being crazy! The phrase, "soul mate," is far over used in our society..but I have no other description for this...so many events led up to my being there.

I would love to hear your stories if the extraordinary, the "wierd, unexplainable" has happened to you...I think it has happen to far more than we have been led to believe! I also think we tend to keep quiet about it for fear that others think we are a tad out of sync with reality

This question arises from another's questions which showed a clip from ABC Good Morning. I, for one, had no doubt that all events that HAD happened were for the reason of these two meeting.

Answer 1

ah, yes.... for me, I seem to 'attract' the Old Souls.... people who are special folks, who are there just when I need them most, who fill gaps in my life with love and just recently, a PLACE had the same effect on me.....

Old Souls are those who have 'been around the block' a few times already and are so close to getting it right and going to the place where they don't have to come back again from.....I sometimes almost believe that there's a soul's gathering somewhere where we know each other before we're ALIVE on Earth.... the attraction to some folks is like having met up again with someone you loved while you were in that gathering place...maybe they are angels?and we are, too?... with one, my friend who passed away, I was sure she was an old soul.... but I loved her so much, I knew that I'd be a wreck when she passed from cancer.... but... the feeling that she'd 'gone on' was overwhelming and uplifting.... she didn't have to be here anymore, or come back again to get it right... she went on to her paradise... and feeling that, I couldn't grieve too much, so I was helped knowing that she was not in this Shade anymore.....and never would be.... rather than that making me feel empty, it filled me with joy....
it had happened when my mom passed, too.... strangely, too... when she passed, I needed her desperately... I always felt her near when I'd go to sit beside her stone...and talk to her.... then my dad passed, too, and when I went again to talk to her, I felt that she, too, had 'gone on'... as if she had just been waiting for dad, so they could go on together.... not leaving me, cuz she knew that once he was off my back, I'd be fine.....
and then those lovely souls who stepped into my life, both sort of substitue 'mom's'.... (I lost my mom when I was only 19)... they taught me, held me, then showed me what love was, and how to leave this world better.... I am the product of all these Old Souls.... and better for it....
then, the place.... a wonderful canyon in Arizona that took my heart and my breath away when I first saw it... felt a huge connection with it.. couldn't figure out why until it just washed over me one day while I was looking at the pictures I'd take of it... it was 'home'.... exactly that feeling.... of having been away a long time and that feeling when you are coming back and see the old home place for the first time in years and years..... very strange.....

as for aversion, I've yet to feel that one... not really... but I do get that hairs on the back of my neck tingle about a few folks... but since I just avoid interaction with them I'm never sure.....then there's how the words posted here make one want to know more about a person.... you, Goldwing, are one that's caught my interest.... with your words......

Answer 2

That is the way it was/is with my husband. I had been married twice before. The first was right out of high school and the other one I knew I was settling for less. The first time my husband and I looked into each others eyes something happened. We fell in love. It is like we have always known each other. We think the same about so many things. We are very very often on the same wavelength about feelings too. I have never been more comfortable with another person in my life. We truly are soul mates. We have been together for 4 yrs and the feelings are as strong or stronger than ever. We would rather be together than anywhere else.

Another instant bond I have had is the the daughter of my oldest sons girlfriend. My son and his girlfriend have been together for about 3 yrs and the little girl thinks of him as Daddy. They are both in grad school and would be married but it would ''mess up'' their financial aid.
When I met this little girl I fell in love. She also loves me deeply. I ache to see her when she is away. I could not love her more if she were my own.

There have also been people with whom I had an instant uneasy feeling about.

By the way there are much worse things than being crazy.

Answer 3

Is that the deja vu people talk about? I've had that "been here already" or "seen that already" feeling several times. I read that it is actually a temporary mis-wiring in the brain so that an instant of the present is actually stored in the past, so it seems like we've already experienced it.

As for taking an instant like or dislike to someone, I believe we are more animalistic than we think, and we tend to discount anything associated with the concept. But I believe some of us are much better at reading people's body chemistry, electrical charges, and physical positions. And I think some people give off much more odor from their body chemistry, more powerful charges or whatever from their electronics, and more obvious physical posturing than others.

If dogs and other animals can decide to like or dislike based on what they see, feel or smell, then it makes sense that we should be able to do that, too. It's just that we have come to rely so much on just vision, whereas other animals have developed other senses as well. Also, we have come to believe we are so much more advancedin every way than our animal friends. When our other senses actually do something, we don't even realize it and tend to attribute it to magic, or past lives or whatever.

Dunno if these are factual or not. As good a guess as any, but maybe not as much fun.

Answer 4

I've been new places and felt like I'd already been there. I've been in situations and know I would be ok, like it had happened before. If I go on 'instincts' instead of trying to figure out what to do, situations seem to turn out better for me.

There are people I meet and have an immediate connection with. We often have similarities in personalities, sometimes you feel closer to them than folks you are actually kin to. I think there are no coincidences that these things are coordinated the way they should happen, if we will just let them.

Answer 5

I very much believe that we reincarnate on this earth (always in human form) many times. Every person we meet in life here we know and love on the other side. Each time we come here, we learn different life lessons in order to perfect our souls. I have met people many times that I had never known before, but I always get that nagging feeling that I DO know them somehow. A lady that I worked with several years ago is an example of that. I had never met her, yet it was like I KNEW her like an old friend. The funny thing is, she said the same about me. Also, our personalities were so similar we could have been twins in that way. I prefer to call these people "kindred souls". Nothing in life is a coincidence.
***I just wanted to add that this is not the only incident that I've had, there are many more things-many seem insignificant, but are amazing just the same. One night we were watching tv, and for some reason we started talking about old songs, Frank Sinatra in particular. All of a sudden, all by itself our stereo came on, tuned to a radio station that I've never heard of, and guess what was playing? That Old Black Magic by Frank Sinatra! Just today, we were on our way to the grocery store. All of a sudden, it popped into my mind that we were going to see my husband's sister there. I didn't think anything about it until we ran into her at the checkout! These are only a few things, but I have learned to listen to that little voice in my head more often! (No you are not crazy, we have discovered the truth!)

Answer 6

Yes this has happened many times with me. The last time this happened I was metting and dating woman on the Internet. I had corresponded with this one lady. We seamed to have so many things in commend that I thought it was some one from my work place playing a trick on me. I was out on a date with another lady,but it seemed as a little voice kept saying "Harleylady,Harleylady" I came right home and ask her to meet me for dinner in a town half way between our homes. I arriving early stopped in a little shop to kill time before metting her at the restaurant. I was alone in the shop except for the owner. I kept hearing foot steps up stairs and thinking it is her. There were no visible stairs. Al of a sudden a door at the back of the shop open and a women came down the stairs. I knew it was her. Our eyes meet and she walked up to me and ask if I was Nevergrold. We looked into each others eyes for like we had a stare down contest. When we dis start talking it lasted for 5 hours. It has been as if we have always known each other. She knows me better already than either of my x wives.

Answer 7

Sounds like when I met my first husband, in an elevator at work. I already knew his name, and the way he looked at me ... it was as if I was meeting my best friend for the first time. At our wedding he told a friend of his that when we met, he knew I was the girl he was going to marry. JJ was killed in 1986 at the age of 33 by a drunk driver.

On the day he died, we were in a book store, when something really strange happened. I followed him into a dead-end section between the stacks, and when I turned the corner, he wasn't there! I looked all over, and finally saw him at the other end of the store. To this day, I don't know how that happened, or what exactly happened. It was surreal.

I also have a reputation at work -- I know what people are going to say before they say it, I know which patients are going to show up unexpectedly that day (in fact, sometimes I dream they are going to show up, even if they haven't been in for six months), I know who is on the phone as soon as it rings. It's become a running joke around the office!

Answer 8

Yes, several times. Most memorable was a man who came into my office. Neither of us knew or had ever heard of one another. We looked at each other and it was like an electric shock went through me. Later he told me it was the same with him. Unfortunately, both of us were married at the time and we had too much sense to take it any further but I've often wondered what it would have been like to be with him. I still think of him sometimes.

When I met on of the best friends I ever had, it was the same. It was like we were instant sisters. Have been very close for past 20 yrs.

Answer 9

Yes definitely. I was seperated from a child at birth. Always knew in my heart we'd find each other. 36 yrs later we did. He had always loved me and looked for me. As i looked for him. I went to be with him and it was like we had always known each other. Never an awkward moment. So much in common. He married a woman with my first and middle name. We know we have always known each other.
An ex husband that remained a best friend until his death two years ago. Knew me since I was 15 until I was over 50. We loved each other and he loved all my children not just his. Many times trhough our almost 40 yrs. we were there for each other in the middle of the night, during medical emergencies, some our later mates understood and joined us in being best friends and some did not get it.
I've also a bad penny kind of person that shows up every 15-20 yrs. after being certain the person has surely passed on - nope up they turn delighted to try to take advantage of me again. You know the type that just because they have known you and see you again expect themselves to be brought into the fold like they didn't turn every 20 yrs. needing a place to stay, a meal, money. When I know I should be giving them a what the hell do you want instead of hugging the b*stard like a long lost friend.

Answer 10

I was 12 years old and was on an extended vacation with a friend and her family. We had rented a motel in West Yellowstone which was a long way from home. My friend and I went to bed and to sleep. Sometime during that night I woke after a particularly bad "dream" shaking and sweating and absolutely terrified. I had dreamed that my father had connected with an electrical wire and had a very severe shock.

After we returned home I discovered that on that very night my Dad who was a diabetic had had an insulin "shock".

Perhaps this was ESP. I knew nothing about an insulin shock at that age so the electrical shock was probably a way my brain related it to me.