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your brain pattern-matching faster than your conscious mind can take credit for.
means A feeling or sense that something, usually unwelcome, is about to happen — a warning that arrives before the event does.
from From Latin praemonitio, built from prae- 'before' and monere 'to warn' — the same monere that gives us 'admonish' and 'monitor.' So a premonition is, quite literally, a fore-warning: the mind sounding an alarm before there's anything to point to.
- word root
- Latin praemonere, to warn beforehand
- survival edge
- gut dread often beats slow rational analysis
- hit rate
- forgotten misses, remembered hits inflate the magic
- horror staple
- entire film franchises run on dodging fate
abraham lincoln's dream — lincoln dreamed of his own assassination 3 days before being shot at ford's theatre in 1865
titanic's warning signs — multiple passengers reported premonitions before the ship sank in 1912, including a woman who refused to board
edgar cayce's predictions — the sleeping prophet made thousands of documented readings with claimed premonitions about future events from 1901-1945