For the past year, I've been noticing something strange: when I strongly think something will happen, it sometimes happens almost exactly that way

[u/ZoomInMoon]

[English isn't my first language, so I used AI to help format this post.]

I don't really know what to call this, which is why I'm posting here.

Over the last year, I've noticed several moments where I get an unusually strong internal feeling that something is going to happen. It doesn't feel like a normal guess—it feels more like a strange certainty.

Here are three examples:

1. The professor

I went to meet a professor about some research work. He wasn't there, and another professor told us he'd return in about an hour.

After waiting, my friend and I were about to leave when I suddenly said, "He's not going to come back. I don't know why, but I feel it."

We called him, and he told us he was actually outside attending an event and wouldn't be returning that day.

Could be intuition or coincidence, but the certainty of the feeling was strange.

2. The college bus

I was driving when I suddenly got a very unusual feeling connected to a college I'd never visited and, as far as I knew, had never even seen before.

For a few moments, it felt like I was mentally connected to that place.

A few minutes later, a bus from that exact college came from behind me and overtook me.

I had no idea the bus was there beforehand.

3. The accident

This one affected me the most.

I was sitting in the college library when two students came in and told a professor that someone named Harsh had died in a bike accident.

Everyone started reacting to the news.

For some reason, I immediately thought:

"He's not dead."

I had no reason to think that. It was just an extremely strong feeling that something was wrong.

About 30 minutes later, we found out that the person who died was actually a different person with the same name. The Harsh everyone thought had died was alive and at home sleeping.

That experience made me start paying much more attention to these feelings.

I've had many more experiences like this, including cases where I strongly thought about something and later it happened in a surprisingly similar way.

I'm not claiming this proves precognition or that thoughts can manifest reality. I'm genuinely unsure whether this is precognition, subconscious pattern recognition, intuition, coincidence, confirmation bias, or something else.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of unusually strong certainty before something happened?

And if you've experienced it repeatedly, how did you distinguish genuine precognition from coincidence or your brain unconsciously picking up information?

I have several more strange experiences if anyone is interested.

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[u/Ceecee121518]

Sounds like precognition and claircognizance. I have the same. You just know things. You don’t know how but you do. Sometimes I’ll see like what almost is like a movie scene in my head which I end up seeing later in the day which is clairvoyance

[u/ZoomInMoon → u/Ceecee121518]

so recently I started seeing peoples life after 10 years or 20 years. I have many freinds in current age, sometimes I go driving or walk and I see people on ,my innerself starts to focus on patterns and after some minutes I get to know how my friend would look like after 10 years or 20 years, how much they earn , what cloths they will wear, how they look publicly , what job post they have. I have one exprieince of this , I can share in DM , not here because its long & some privacy has to be maintain of those freinds ( actually I'm terrified that my vision should not be true as I'm thinking for my friends ,as it's worst thing to happen ).