Have you ever had a premonition? What makes a person know something is going to happen before it actually does? Is it a paranormal event or is it just a feeling that we have that things are not as they should be? Scientists do not believe in premonitions. They believe in what they know as fact. However, there have been many recorded instances of people knowing or having a feeling about an event before it happened.

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Ian Stevenson, a biochemist in Canada and a psychiatry professor, has a very prominent example of recordings of premonitions. Two weeks prior to the Titanic devastation he was able to record over nineteen different premonitions from his patients. Each premonition included something like visions of people canceling their trips because they felt that something bad was going to happen and even some dreams that people had of the actual disaster.

Premonitions, by all accounts of those who have had them, are not pleasant. They are accompanied by either fright or uneasiness over what they feel is about to happen. The people who have the premonitions often do not know what will happen but they know it is not good.

Premonitions are far more common than most people realize. The premonition is normally about someone or something that will affect you. They may come in different ways. It can be a dream or a feeling. Many call it sixth sense.

The premonitions that are seen or felt are often surrounding a death, a murder, a plane crash, a robbery, or an accident. The incident happens, typically, within a few hours of the premonition. Dreams can cause a very negative emotional mark on a person that has a premonition. They are not able to communicate the level of dread that overcomes their emotions.

Then there are dreams that we have no doubt about the meaning. They are clear and the dreamer sees something happening to a family member or someone close. This can be a very upsetting dream and often people will try to block it from their minds. They may succeed for a while until the dream comes true.

Is it possible that premonitions come from beyond this world? The premonition is a feeling or something you see as in a dream. It is fueled by apprehension of something that is about to happen but we do not know what. Premonitions are sense oriented.

Could events on another dimension be the cause of the premonitions? Some believe that the premonitions that come in our sleep are a direct result of us being in another dimension somewhere for the time when we are asleep. Astral projection is a theory that is close to this theory.

Is this really something that we cannot believe is happening? People throughout history have been the victim of ridicule because they believe something that most feel is impossible. Do you think that people actually believed that a man would be on the moon at some point? If someone would have brought up the idea in times prior to it happening they would have been thought of as crazy.

How Do You Explain These Premonitions?

Just because something does not fit in with the normal way we think, is it to be dismissed without another thought? There are many instances of premonitions that have been recorded throughout time. Take for instance the premonition of Abraham Lincoln of his own death. He dreamt only ten days before his death that he was with people who were mourning in the East Wing of the White House. He asked a soldier standing nearby who it was that had died and the soldier told him it was the President.

Have you heard about the book that was written in 1898, Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan? This book was written 14 years before the disaster of the Titanic. The book was about a ship called the Titan, which sank in the North Atlantic. The ship struck an iceberg - the ship had three propellers - it did not have enough lifeboats - it was the same size as the Titanic - all uncanny characteristics of the Titanic even down to the name.

Morgan Robertson is the author of the book. How is it possible that he wrote about such an experience that would come pretty close to true fourteen years down the road? No matter if you call them visions or premonitions, the events of the book are very similar to the Titanic that actually sunk. Is it possible that the author had a premonition of the event and decided that he would publish it in a book?

It is something that may never be understood. Things unfold from the universe and mysteries are solved in their own time. It is not possible to predict when a premonition, or vision, will be shown to someone.