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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  How completely frightening! Thank goodness you had that little feeling, that momentary perception of a potential problem - it saved you! I read a book about "gut" feelings recently that was so interesting and helped me understand how instantly our brains sense things about people & situations & how beneficial trusting that instinct usually is. I think it doesn't hurt to be just a bit paranoid out in public or around strangers in this day and time! I mean, watch HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell and some of those shows, watch almost any newscast & the stories will curl your hair!!!!
Once I was going to ride up in the hospital employee parking lot after dark with a guy who didn't "look" right, got into the elevator & stepped right back out, walked back onto the concourse & blended back in with the crowd. Just something about that guy weirded me out in a heartbeat & I was outta there. Never had that visceral reaction to anyone happen before or since and never saw him again but I could not stay in that elevator car with that guy after those doors closed for some reason! I always wondered why that happened but I now know from reading that book that there was some perceived slightly threatening or worrisome oddness about him that my brain picked up on that I consciously did not! So I believe in following that little gut feeling or still small voice or prickle that warns you. |
No kidding...a book on 'gut' instinct? Fascinating!
A topic for a different forum, perhaps...lol, but I do believe and wholeheartedly agree there is a 'connectedness' that we 'pick up on' at certain times...there is much we do not consciously 'know' but trusting that 'gut' instinct has saved many, from what other people have told me of their own experiences.
Leaving that elevator car like you did may have been the best thing you did for yourself...and us...that day..."us" because, while nothing negative that might have happened can be proven, but possibly because of your actions, you certainly survived, allowing us to meet you here on YT.
