mother's intuition

[Garrett]

Scripps News Service (http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/42706)

the mysterious phenomenon is increasingly prompting experts across many fields to acknowledge its existence

[Anne]

My dad is pissed at me.

My mom woke him up in the middle of the night and told him something bad happened to me. He told her to go back to bed.

He was really really pissed she can now gloat I had been in a car accident and spent the next 9 days in the hospital...

Another time, I needed stitches in my hand. My dad called to say 'just checking you are ok'. I said, 'yeah!' He said, 'ok, good. your mom had another feeling that you were hurt! Silly woman.' 'Well, I did spend the morning getting my hand stitched up, but I'm fine now.'

'... ... DON'T tell your mom.'

She also woke up and paced one night until a phone call came from my brother in the ER, letting her know he had been stabbed and needed a ride home.

But I'm sure she did that all the time, and these were just the hits I know about.

[Garrett]

Is confirmation bias the only thing going on here?

[Garnet]

I don't know. I will tell you this, whatever it is, my mother had it in spades.

[reddhedd]

I believe that we all hear/see things that don't immediately register on our conscious mind, but our subconscious mind sets off alarms if we need to act on something that didn't register.
In the cases of the crib and pool, likely both mothers heard something that set off those alarms, even though they have no conscious memory of hearing anything...the crash of the crib, a splash into the pool.

I have myself done a similar thing...suddenly needing to turn round and check on a happily playing baby to find him drowning. I don't believe it was an angel telling me something was wrong, but some innate subconscious mechanism at work.

That being said, I have no explanation for the other incidents involving great distances. I've heard lots of anecdotes, and some are hard to dismiss...but I have no idea how they might occur.

[ofro]

I believe that we all hear/see things that don't immediately register on our conscious mind, but our subconscious mind sets off alarms if we need to act on something that didn't register.
In the cases of the crib and pool, likely both mothers heard something that set off those alarms, even though they have no conscious memory of hearing anything...the crash of the crib, a splash into the pool.

I have myself done a similar thing...suddenly needing to turn round and check on a happily playing baby to find him drowning. I don't believe it was an angel telling me something was wrong, but some innate subconscious mechanism at work.

That being said, I have no explanation for the other incidents involving great distances. I've heard lots of anecdotes, and some are hard to dismiss...but I have no idea how they might occur.

There is the possibility of subconsciously registering something that triggers an alarm.

Even more so, there is the greater possibility of all that being coincidental. There are hundreds if not thousands of occasions when somebody has a bad intuitive feeling which, upon checking, turns out to be a false alarm. It is almost immediately forgotten, and you'll never hear about it in a conversation. What is not forgotten, and passed on to friends, is the time when something actually coincided with that feeling. It is just a matter of probability. something like that could even happen more than once.

Remember the saying that you never get struck twice by a lightning? It does happen. (http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/07/25/loc_lightening25.html) Same probability issue.

[reddhedd]

Even more so, there is the greater possibility of all that being coincidental. There are hundreds if not thousands of occasions when somebody has a bad intuitive feeling which, upon checking, turns out to be a false alarm. It is almost immediately forgotten, and you'll never hear about it in a conversation. What is not forgotten, and passed on to friends, is the time when something actually coincided with that feeling. It is just a matter of probability. something like that could even happen more than once.



And I think it's probable that this is what occurs in many cases where it would be impossible for a person to be aware of something. Interesting...I'm gonna try to watch myself for this, and see how often it happens....

[DMB]

I must lack it. My son has just sprung a huge and not very welcome surprise on us, and I hadn't an inkling.

[Eudaimonist]

Is confirmation bias the only thing going on here?

The more paranoid one is, the more likely one will be feel paranoid when something bad happens.


eudaimonia,

Mark

[Anne]

For me, I'm constantly worried about our boy. Everyday he goes to sleep in once piece in his bed, I'm relieved my fears didn't come true...

[Brianna]

I don't know. I will tell you this, whatever it is, my mother had it in spades.

Yeah, Damm her for always being right about the asses I dated. :dunno:

[HinduWoman]

How about the number of times mother's intuition did not work though the child was in danger?

[Garrett]

lots of things don't always work

Twins are another group often reported to have some sort of psychic connection.

[ofro]

lots of things don't always work

Twins are another group often reported claimed to have some sort of psychic connection.

just to be a bit more accurate

[Garrett]

The original version was just fine. Since your edit could be tacked onto any sort of report at all, it isn't very informative.

TV News: eyewitnesses reported that a plane crashed into the building
ofro: no, they just claimed that a plane crashed into the building

well, yeah, via a report, ofro