SERIOUS: Have you ever had a premonition about something, and then it happened?

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Anonymous wrote:I also have dreams that friends are pregnant before they have announced it, or sometimes a few days before they find out. It's happened 4 times. I sense when a deer will be in the road around a bend, which is useful. I've had a couple times when I've gone to inquire about someone's significant other and knew they broke up or were thinking about breaking up, before I could get the sentence out. Long term relationships, not flings. I think some things are just reading people, but some are intuition/a feeling. I have a doctor who says I might be an empath, whatever that is.

It means you naturally understand what's going on with people or relationships, without being told.

A friend of mine is really good at reading situations -- sometimes just looking at someone (say, a new person at work) and knowing how they will react in certain situations. She doesn't think of it as intuition, just something she understands - and wonders why others don't and why people are so impressed or surprised when she's right about a complex situation that no one else foresaw.

She's probably an empath too. This sounds like me and I'm an empath. As I've become more familiar with it i realize I really do pick up the emotions of other people- which is why I often interrupt people and can finish their sentences. Or if someone is having a hard time expressing themselves, say, to a group, I can always pick up what they are saying and translate it so everyone gets it. I even have no issues with people who don't speak the same language. I think it's definitely because I'm an empath, but as I've learned more about this facet of my personality I see the downsides- namely, constantly feeling bombarded with others' emotions, both good and bad. It can be truly exhausting.

Interesting! I think a lot of empaths go into fields like clinical psychology or social work or other helping professions where they can build upon (and harness) their natural ability to empathize. I also think there are probably ways to harness the unbidden emotions you feel coming from others, to help maintain your own emotional balance. I hope so, anyhow, because I can see how it would be exhausting.