posted January 08, 2015 12:18 PM            

I started volunteering as a sales rep at a thrift shop back in October. I hadn't missed a single day since I started. However, for some reason, I wanted to take a specific Wednesday off. I had nothing planned for that day but I felt the urge to be absent that day.

I returned a week later and notice the manager stocked a box of tear gas under the counter. They didn't have it before that week. I asked my manager why she suddenly placed that box there and she told me that on the day I chose to take off, someone stormed into the store and almost broke everything. He got into a fight with the two sales rep there and was on the verge of assaulting them.

I then thought to myself: "That's why I suddenly felt the urge to take that day off for no apparent reason".

posted January 08, 2015 03:48 PM            

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Originally posted by DaniPepper87:
When I first saw my ex, I wanted to push on his neck... that feeling of killing!! But my mind: give him a chance!! Nevermore!! I'll go for the gut instinct!

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I had a similar feeling when my last fling came back with a lousy apology on Valentine's Day last year. I felt something was off .. I so should have trusted my gut. I actually should have trusted it from the very first moment he and I met. My intuition kept telling me: "Just get out of here". I didn't, got my heart broken by a jerk.

The first feeling you get about someone or their intentions is always quite accurate. When your heart/brain starts messing with you, that's when troubles begin.

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Originally posted by Barbiegirl19:
Couldn't agree more.

It took me years to finally follow my gut. I always, always second guessed myself. I had so many teachers in school that would leave comments on my tests about my second guessing. I would have the right answer down and erase it because I didn't think it was correct, it always turned out to be correct.

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I had the same problem in college to the point where it affected my grades very significantly. Instead of getting an A+, I'd end up with a B+ because I erase the "instant" answer I got in order to replace it with something my brain told me. It was so frustrating. Too bad I learned this right after I finished college, argh.

I often realize that when I am not motivated to do something or if I feel extremely uncomfortable at the thought of a situation, it means nothing good will come out of it.

I had many jobs I turned down because I got a funny feeling when I got the offer/did the interview. Then they turned out to be terrible jobs/companies.

The one day I didn't listen to my gut and accepted a job offer I had felt like getting rid off, I had to terminate my contract early because of conflicts I had there.

posted January 08, 2015 04:00 PM            

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I often realize that when I am not motivated to do something or if I feel extremely uncomfortable at the thought of a situation, it means nothing good will come out of it.

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Exactly. I think it's why I didn't force myself with college. I wasn't sure of what I wanted to do, if I wanted to actually do it, and took my time. Now I can't wait to start.

Sorry you had to work through such crappy jobs. That really sucks, especially when you knew they'd turn out badly.

posted January 08, 2015 06:30 PM            

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Originally posted by Barbiegirl19:
Exactly. I think it's why I didn't force myself with college. I wasn't sure of what I wanted to do, if I wanted to actually do it, and took my time. Now I can't wait to start.

Sorry you had to work through such crappy jobs. That really sucks, especially when you knew they'd turn out badly.

I love the quote you added, so very true.

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posted January 09, 2015 10:00 PM            

Sure enough a guy did, asked directions I easily gave and then he offered me money to help him move (despite that I'm a fairly small, and though fit enough I'm not the kind of person some stranger would think to hire to help them move furniture and the like), and the cash he offered just got better and better which made me even more distrusting. I'm certain I dodged a bullet...and interesting enough when I got home I felt tired, fell into an instant nap, and though I don't recall what I dreamed I woke up about 5 minutes later screaming!

posted January 10, 2015 04:10 AM            

But I didn't . (in hindsight )

So I made many mistakes. (One particularly disasterous)

Over decades.

But in the end , I now know that my "first instinct" in every case was TRUE.

Except I didn't trust it/rely on it, at the time.

posted January 11, 2015 08:58 PM            

True intuition is more "out of the blue" as in "why would I think that?" Whether or not I could explain when my intuition was true from a rational standpoint I was surprised by my first impulse or understanding, often because it made little sense.

The false kind is more instinct, often tied into tribal and/or survival. This is the kind where people who say "my instincts are always right" but come up with the most dumb ass things to say (not that they're aware of it, they "know" to trust their gut) like how they say thing about knowing that my friend isn't good with computers and that she's involved with drugs or even that they know how she REALLY voted...because she's black (and because they're bigots they'd reply on this thread that they know to always trust their instincts and believe themselves).

Heck, many here at LL assumed I was a brunette, as many OL do...and I know why. It's because brunettes are thought of as more intelligent and blondes as more dumb and sexual, I've encountered that in life and OL. Studies have shown that's the way people think and given the media and the jokes it's not surprise (even Hitchcock said he liked to cast blondes because they were less suspected of any deep thinking or ability to plot). That's instinct. And it's not to be confused with true intuition.

That's one reason I messed up when I came close to stabbing that guy...I was injured, traumatized, sleep deprived, and the guy was tall, muscular, scarred, and scraggly looking who I couldn't imagine having any kind of job (and thus nothing to lose by attacking me having found me alone), my survival that was already on red alert instantly prepared to stab, but that was instinct and not true intuition.

It's good that he was psychic enough to know. That guy was the most amazing psychic I ever met, but I didn't envy him his gifts and wasn't surprised when he told me how often he's tried to shut his "ESPer" abilities down. He was something of a hermit and one reason he went to that lonely beach where he found me was to get away from everyone and their thoughts, it was a place he could cleanse himself and get some sanctuary from all that, though my presence that particular dusk did interfere with that as I was like a psychic shriek to him. (While not psychotic he said he related really well to River Tam in the first 4:20 of this ep up to where she ran down the stairs to get away from the others in Objects in Space).

Yet even he made mistakes. He shared one of the moments that hurt him the most was when he was told a lie to make him turn against someone and he was so tired himself and in a survival sitch (and back then he still tried to dull his psychic abilities and the pain of others that he was drowning in with drugs) that he immediately and violently confronted the one he was lied to about...and that very moment he felt how hurt the other guy was and realized he'd been lied to, but it was too late...he apologized sincerely to him later and the guy accepted it but the damage was done. Even as psychic as he was he could still make mistakes.

posted January 13, 2015 07:55 AM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
Heck, many here at LL assumed I was a brunette, as many OL do...and I know why. It's because brunettes are thought of as more intelligent and blondes as more dumb and sexual, I've encountered that in life and OL. Studies have shown that's the way people think and given the media and the jokes it's not surprise (even Hitchcock said he liked to cast blondes because they were less suspected of any deep thinking or ability to plot). That's instinct. And it's not to be confused with true intuition.

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Not me - to be honest. Blond hair would have been my strongest guess - if there was such inquiry (personal quiz). Probably cause the brunets I'm aware of - like to keep things short and simple (right to the subject). They tend to have a more - practical approach. While the blonds - were usually more prone to mind wandering and conceptual thinking. And maybe brown hair - are somewhere in the middle. Though, this subject (if hair color - can say something about an individual or not) never interested me to the extent of studying it - so I'm not really sure if there's some actual truth in this theory - or just coincidence. I'm not even sure if that's why i pictured you blond - cause i only thought of this possibility now. I don't know... blond seemed to fit better with your personality or maybe... brown. O.o But this has nothing to do with your intelligence. I never considered blonds unintelligent. Marlin Monroe - for example, had the IQ of a Genius - yet, she played a lot of roles - in the character of a naive girl. And those roles - were probbaly among the first that inspired the creation of the blond girl stereotype. This detail alone - is enough to bust that myth about blond girls. I knew/know personally - couple of blond girls from real life - who proved to be very intelligent - based on their academic performance. One of them is even genius - based on her IQ. Yet, very reserved in private conversations. It's as if - they're on auto-pilot and they're there... but in same time - they're also living in a parallel world inside of their minds. A world that it's off limits to the outside world. Though, this is definitely a coincidence - cause I've seen others displaying this behaviour - even some guy from the mirror.