18 Stories That Prove Your Gut Feeling Is Actually a Superpower You Shouldn’t Ignore

Sometimes, everyone around advises following the rules, while something inside quietly whispers, “Come here, do it this way.” These stories are about those astonishing instances when intuition prevailed over logic: from miraculous rescues to sudden births right on time.

• I still don't know how to explain it. One evening, I suddenly felt the urge to take out the trash — at 10 p.m. I never took it out at night. But this time, I just had an overwhelming desire to do it. My daughter and I went together.
  We looked, and there was our cat Marquis right near the trash bin, who had been missing for several weeks! We live on the 10th floor, so it would have been hard for him to go upstairs in the state he was in. Our joy knew no bounds! © Larisa Baranova / Dzen
• Once I was lying at home, unable to escape the heat that dominated outside. There was nothing to do, even though it was a day off. I decided to call my mom, feeling a strong urge to reach for the phone.
  It turned out, she was making homemade dumplings and invited me for dinner. I dashed through the heat, the traffic jams, the real hell — all for my mom and her dumplings. I've loved them since childhood. I could smell them even from outside, because my dumpling radar worked.
  Apparently, it still does. No wonder my hand reached for the phone and my feet took me to my mom in this heat. © Ward No. 6 / VK
• I had a panic attack in the middle of the night after a second interview for a job I thought I really wanted. I had such a bad feeling about leaving the company I worked for and taking this job, but over the next few days talked myself into it because "it was my dream job," "the pay is so good," blah-blah-blah.
  6 months later, after crying in my car nearly every day from having a horrible boss, I left and now know to not ignore middle of the night panic attacks! © flyingviolin / Reddit

• I was 20, in college, and had just started dating a new guy after getting out of a long-term, not very healthy relationship. I was really only looking for a fling, but for some reason I could clearly visualize raising children with this guy.
  Since marriage and kids were not even on my radar at this point, my response to this was pretty much “what the hell, brain?” 15 years later, I’m married to him, and we’re raising 2 kids together. Apparently, my brain knew what the hell it was talking about. © Kaylee_Sometimes / Reddit
• Stayed up all night and laid down in the morning for a quick nap because I had a class with a student in the evening. Didn’t set an alarm because I know I’ll definitely wake up for work. I was, of course, worried that I’d oversleep, but I trusted my body.
  I’m dozing off, noticing the sky getting darker, realizing it’s almost time to get up. Then the phone rings — the student cheerfully says she wants to reschedule today’s class to another day. I’m like, “That’s wonderful! Of course, we can reschedule!” I look at the clock, and it’s 3:15 p.m. — half an hour before the lesson... Now that’s intuition!
  And last time when the class with this student was rescheduled, I didn’t know yet, but my body was unbelievably lazy to get ready, even though I usually gladly go to work — how does my body know all this? © Ward No. 6 / VK
• It’s night, I’ve been lying in my bed for about 2 hours, and still can’t sleep. I can’t figure out why, I seem to want to sleep, but simply can’t fall asleep. I catch myself thinking that right now I want to go for a walk.
  Decided that I had nothing else to do anyway, and maybe a walk and some fresh air would positively affect my sleep, so I got dressed and went out. I immediately headed in a specific direction, although I hadn’t planned the route. A couple of blocks later, I stopped and just stood there.
  Stood until I heard what seemed like a single meow. I listened closely. Heard it again. Realized the sound came from a small dumpster. Listened once more, heard “meow” again, yes, for sure, I need to get it out.
  I pulled out a tiny kitten from that bin. Somehow, my intuition helped me rescue this little fluffy wonder. Naturally, I took the kitten home. © Ward No. 6 / VK

• Knew this girl in high school who was the new girl in year 9, I think. Everyone loved her and wanted to be her friend, but something just felt really off to me about her, like the feeling you get when you look at a snake. So I didn’t really get close with her for that reason.
  A couple of years later, she turned out to be a backstabber who would try to get her friends’ boyfriends to cheat on them with her and always gave 2-face compliments to girls to try and tear their self-esteem down. © Unknown author / Reddit
• My now-husband messaged a simple “Hello” to me on a dating site. I had no info to go off on, but immediately I got a very good feeling. I had been messaged before, and I had not thought anything, so it really stood out. He didn’t even have a good picture.
  The intuition was correct, he is the most amazing person ever. And very good-looking. © ilikecakemor / Reddit
• I was standing at a crosswalk by an intersection in the city center. We waited a long time for the green light, it came on, and everyone started crossing. But not me. For some reason, I had this odd feeling inside, like something was telling me not to go.
  I stopped, looked left, right, cars were stopped, people were crossing, but I was “glued to the pavement.” I waited a few seconds, felt a strange “plop” on my shoulder. I looked — and a bird had “marked” me...
  My inner intuition sure works in mysterious ways. Did it really make me pause, just so I could receive a “gift” from a city bird? It’s frustrating when your inner compass mocks at you like that. © Mamdarinka / VK

• Stayed overnight at grandma’s, borrowed her charger, which is a bit broken. Went to bed and left my phone to charge overnight. A few minutes later, her dog started barking and kept running over to the outlet.
  Having read numerous stories, I approached the outlet, and the charger was so hot that I even got burned. I can’t even imagine what might have happened if it wasn’t for the dog. Tomorrow I’m going to get a new charger for grandma and some food for the dog. © Overheard / VK
• In college, I was browsing a dating site. I liked a profile—a girl wearing a Grinch hat. Wanted to message her right away, but got distracted, and then my laptop died, so I lost her. Still, something kept nagging at me. I spent about 3 hours searching.
  Then I found out that there was a glitch, and she actually lives 125 miles away from me. Nevertheless, I listened to my gut and messaged her. We met in a café, talked for 4 hours, and now, 5 years later, we are married. © Kulladar / Reddit
• 4 weeks until the due date. Already on maternity leave, yet still working on my part of the project. The project is promising and lucrative, and I don’t want to let down the team and the director, as I worked with good people.
  I expected to finish in a couple of weeks and have a week to rest before the birth. But there was a strange feeling, even though I felt great. So, I completed everything in a week at a fast pace. Sent the finished work to the director at 3 a.m.
  Went to get a drink of water and realized my water broke. Gave birth at 5 a.m. At noon, the director called; he first wanted to scold me for staying up all night, but then he was amazed and congratulated me. Later, he often teased me about my intuition. © Marusya K. / Dzen

• I worked at a large company. After a year, I was offered a choice between 2 positions: department head at the central office or assistant manager at an additional branch. My inner voice kept insisting, “Run!” I resigned and joined a small startup.
  The result: the large company was declared bankrupt 3 months later, the owners are on the run, and I am the financial director at a growing company. © Overheard / Ideer
• I enter our building, and a neighbor is climbing the stairs ahead of me, carrying a kitchen cabinet on his shoulder. My inner voice says, “Don’t go right behind him, wait until he goes up.”
  A moment later, the cabinet slips from his shoulder and crashes down the stairs with a loud noise. The neighbor looks at me with wide eyes, and I look at him. All thanks to the sixth sense! © Overheard / Ideer
• When I was a teenager, I was returning home on a winter evening with my German Shepherd. Suddenly, right in front of the entrance, Grand dug in all 4 paws and refused to go further. At that moment, glass fell just a few steps ahead of us. It turned out that a window on the fourth floor broke, but I didn’t hear it. © Sommer Winter / ADME

• During the Christmas holiday, I was supposed to go abroad with friends. Exams at university interfered, there was no one to leave the dog with, and there was a strange premonition. In the end, I celebrated the Christmas with my family, then met with friends, and then I met the man of my dreams! My grandma is right when she says, “If something holds you back, there’s a reason for it.” © Overheard / Ideer
• I have good relationships with all my classmates. I found out that one girl is pregnant with her second child, and I was so happy for her. She even shared that she was expecting her second daughter. But for some reason, all this time, I thought she was having a son.
  Then she texted me saying she had given birth and all was well. I asked about the name, and she replied that there was a surprise, and her expected daughter was born a boy! So, my internal premonition turned out to be more accurate than an ultrasound in a private clinic. © Caramel / VK
• When I was 8, I flew to the sea with my parents. They announced, “Fasten your seatbelts,” but I urgently needed to go to the restroom. My mom begged me to hold it, but I was adamant. The stewardess sighed but let me go.
  As we returned, everyone stared at us in disbelief, and the stewardess was holding a detached part of the overhead compartment in her hands. The compartment, which was directly over our seats, had split at the seam and collapsed onto the seats — right where I was sitting 2 minutes earlier.
  The stewardess sighed and said, “Little girl, if you urgently need to go to the restroom again, speak up immediately. You seem to be our main safety indicator on this aircraft.” And my mom just whispered, “Next time before takeoff, I’m taking you to the restroom myself, even if it’s 20 times.”

Sometimes our intuition knows more than we do. At times, it’s worth simply trusting that inner feeling — it can lead to unexpected and amazing results. If you’d like to read more inexplicable stories, check out this article.

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