Everyone always felt like they knew something was going to happen, just before it happened. We call it intuition or foreboding. It’s a form of premonition, but it doesn’t refer to major events, but to personal situations that involve us, assume that something will happen in a certain way, but does the feeling have truth?
There’s a lot of talk about apprehension in popular culture. It is common to say, for example, that a mother’s heart is not wrong, this statement refers to the apparently being able to perceive what is good or not for their children, we also tend to say many phrases. like “I feel that” or does it smell? These expressions are related to the supposed possibility of being able to see beyond the apparent.
“Be true to your feelings and be even more faithful to your feelings. -Luis Gabriel Carrillo-
The forebodings are halfway between intuition and premonition, supposedly functioning as a kind of radar. They vaguely understand that something, good or bad, is going to happen, that path leads to a happy ending, while another leads to great difficulties, or even if a pleasant event, or a tragedy, is about to happen. Are they as accurate as many people claim?
Ivan Tozzo is the vice president of Chapecoense, a Brazilian football team that, in 2016, was the protagonist of a terrible plane crash in Colombia, and as a member of the group’s management, one of his tasks was to be present in the matches of the South American Cup final, however, before boarding the plane that was about to crash Tozzo had a feeling, decided not to travel without knowing why, that decision saved his life.
A former Salvadoran guerrilla, Francisco Cerquera, recounts that one night he was tasked with guarding the southern part of his camp and that, unlike other times, on this occasion he was afraid. So frightened that a severe stomachache was invented to free he himself from his task, that she was delegated to another combatant. That same night, the army attacked them exactly where they refused to watch.
On social media, a mother named Martha Fernandez recounts her experience, said her son was late at night, but not always at the same time, once, even though it was still early, she felt distressed, hours passed and her son did. it doesn’t come. During the night, he received a call saying that his son was in the hospital and had been run over. The mother said she had begun to feel anxious an hour before the accident.
Certainly, there are many other testimonies of similar phenomena. Science has also raised this question. In fact, several experiments have also been conducted to discover the truth and from all this an interesting concept has emerged: that of ‘abnormal anticipation activity’.
Northwestern University of the United States reviewed 26 studies in different locations, the central theme of which was the foreboding, which had been published between 1978 and 2010 and, in an attempt to answer the question of whether it was possible to have an intuition, the researchers responded vigorously: yes. According to his research, there are situations in which humans effectively anticipate what will happen.
The secret of all this is not in a magical force, but in what is in the unconscious. The researchers claimed that the unconscious has much broader and deeper information and knowledge than the conscious. Some physiological tests have indicated that the body reacts to the stimulus. A study from the University of Washington corroborated this analysis with a 2005 experiment.
Dr Julia Mossbridge, head of this investigation, said that if people are in tune with their own bodies, they can detect a risky situation up to 10 seconds earlier, she says these phenomena can be considered worrying. reaction is called “abnormal anticipatory activity. ” It states that it is not “normal” in the sense that it does not apply to all individuals. On the other hand, it is in fact verifiable in the laboratory, and somehow, It can be said that the feeling has a real background.
According to Mossbridge, this can be explained by our current knowledge of biology: measuring instruments show changes in the respiratory, cardiac and pulmonary systems seconds before a dangerous event occurs, but, until now, the reason remains unknown. The Northwestern University group says it is possible to find explanations in quantum biology. The study was published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Percepction Science.
Although it is not possible to make credible all the sensations and thoughts that invade us, they are often so intense that we cannot ignore them, we can call it sixth sense, intuition or omen, however, welcome are the sensations that help or protect us at certain times in our lives.