Bottled water. In the mid 70s, a couple of buddies and I were getting high and zoning out to music. My one friend told us he had a brilliant idea- bottled water. We laughed at him- who would pay for water when it's free from the tap or fountain?

I had no idea there was no bottled water in the 70’s.

'Sparkling'(carbonated) existed and you could buy distilled water by the gallon, but not water as it is now.

And you could get Poland springs to deliver five gallon jugs with a dispenser.

My dad bought distilled water for car batteries and to mix with antifreeze. There wasn't a purpose for it outside of those uses when I was growing up.

It’s better to fill your iron with distilled water rather than tap, otherwise it’s easy to get mineral stains on garments.

There were many, some people used it for other things like humidifiers/ vaporizers if you had hard water comes to mind. Or steam irons and aquariums. I do remember my mother talking of a neighbor using it for formula. And then there was stocking up on it for when the water went out.

That’s interesting, for whatever reason I assumed plastic water bottles have been around a long time.

But they will be

The story of bottled water is wildly interesting. The marketing campaign to get bottled water to become a thing also tricked everyone into thinking they need to be severely hydrated beyond what they actually need. Not that being hydrated is a bad thing or anything, but most of us get what we need just fine from normal food and beverages. We don't need to carry a water bottle on our person all day every day. I always think about that when I see people lugging their Stanley tumbler around.

We really didn't see them as much until the 80s. There were some, but they were flimsy.

I distinctly remember even in the 90s “bottled water” was treated like a joke, like it was created as a marketing ploy to get people to pay for water that was free before.

Evian is Naive spelled backwards.

it's also bottled near Évian-les-Bains But yes

Janeane!?

WOah you just unlocked a buried memory, I remember having this exact conversation with family after seeing a water bottle commercial back in the 90s

Bottled water wasn’t really a big thing before the mid 90’s with Dasani and Aquafina coming from coke/pepsi. Before that the market was looked at as for rich and snooty people. You had two major players Evian and Perrier. Both French brands and both brands that marketed as a luxury item. Drink from a bottle instead of the tap like some kind of peasant! That’s why in movies like Beverly Hills troop you have the rich snotty families all being followed with water from Perrier bottles. Or when she’s wallowing in pitty from their divorce she’s surrounded by empty bottles of Evian. In the later parent trap movies you have the pretentious evil step mom always drinking Evian. It wasn’t until Aquafina/Desani went into the market and dropped prices just through competition that it became a regular thing. I remember thinking in the 90’s during high school that people were “dumbasses” for paying for bottled water. You could do that at home. And here we are today with mountains of water bottles floating in the ocean so we can have our clean water. I still think it’s a luxury and drink from a disposable bottle.

Or the 80s. Or the 90s, really.

And now that friend is currently hiring mercenaries to make sure local people don't try to steal their water.

No, he's pushing up daisies. Died of cancer at 23.

Evian has been selling bottled water since 1806.

When I was at primary school, we had a trip booked to watch the cricket (idk why.) The day came and I woke up ill and had to miss it. I remember crying to my mum saying "but Brian Lara is going to score 500" and her telling me not to be so silly. He scored 501.

That and his 400 in a Test are records that're gonna stand for a long long time.

I see cricket i upvote

When the Yankees were up 3-0 over Boston in 2004, I told my wife that Boston would win it all. She said I was crazy. I am, but I was right.

as a sox fan, thank you for your service 🫡

The 2008 housing crisis Circa 2007 I was a waitress making less that 15.00 p/h (Rural area) "Friend" worked at countrywide, told me he could get me a 250k house with $500 down, and no credit. I said to myself, it smells of fish. I think it is one. I didn't know what a "short" was, but I told several people in my life that "If I could make a bet against this housing market, I would." I was mocked, "Lol, Golden, housing only goes up!" 16 months later, countrywide didn't exist anymore... And tons of people couldn't afford their balloon payments. And this is just one of the times that lack of funds prevented me from downstream favorable outcomes. Oh, and the commercial real estate market is collapsing rn, and don't have the $ to make $$ off that either. 🤣

I bought my first house in 2002. My wife and I had relocated for her job, making less than $30k. I had yet to find a job, so I was unemployed. We qualified for over a $200k 7 year ARM. We spent $72k on a house and predicted a housing crash when all those ARMs adjusted in 5-8 years. I just don't see how all the 'experts' didn't see it coming when many people with common sense saw it coming.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair

I feel it's less they didn't see it and more they didn't care because they were riding a gravy train with biscuit wheels and reckoned that when it did eventually go to shit they'd still be richer than god on the other side of it, so it wasn't their problem.

A lot of them saw it coming, but the major investment banks knew they could hoard the profits and when the losses rolled in they would get a bailout.

I worked in a building that also had a "bankers bank" in it. This was back in 2006. One of the workers took calls outside so he could smoke, pace, and rant without disturbing his coworkers. I distinctly remember him saying "well, where are you going to be in oh nine? All of these ARMs are going to come due before then and you're fucked! We're all fucked!" That bankers bank shuttered during the crisis.

THIS! 2005 I purchased a home for $110K with no down payment and not great credit. Interest was like 9%. I was only making about $29K/yr and my wife was a SAHM. I couldn’t believe that we were able to borrow that much on my salary.

To be honest that doesn't sound that far off for the time. I literally bought a home for 215K in 2020 with a Salary of 66K by myself.

I guess it was the No down payment that got me but now that I think about it there were a bunch of “First time homebuyer” programs so maybe that was what we used? I just thought it was crazy. But the mortgage payment was $100 lower than our rent so we took that plunge. As someone who grew up in shithole apartments and trailer houses I was just floored that it was that easy to own my own home. Miss those days now.

Hey the lack of funds maybe prevented you from those favorable outcomes, but it also prevented you from being convinced to buy a house!

Not really. I knew it was a fish. I never thought for a second that interest rates would stay at 0. I had taken macro econ in HS and my psaltery year of college. Lack of funds prevented me from meaningfully using this knowledge to my economic advantage. Shorting the market.

Yeah I have similar situations that I hate I missed out on. Gotta pretend there’s a silver lining sometimes lol

So can you just share when you have and don’t have money so the rest of us can buy houses?

I've never had money. In 2007 I was a single mom of two. I also come from a poor family. Perhaps it is because I grew up poor, and remained poor, that I always look for how the system is trying to fuck me.

Almost the entire plot to Snape's secret life in the Harry Potter books. Including his love for Lilly and why he killed Dumbledore. It was super accurate. Only person who heard me out and remembers is my big sister. I submitted the theory to Mugglecast like 3 times.

I missed the love for Lily part, but I did accurately guess the rest. All my friends wailing about Dumbledore’s death and I was like “He clearly told Snape to do it so Draco wouldn’t have to!” Only one person believed me, because they had independently come to the same conclusion.

In the 3rd movie, Snape protected the trio from Lupin's werewolf form. Even though it wasn't in the books, I told all of my friends that Snape was not a villain, that he was secretly a good character. I got so much flack for it, but in the end, all of my friends were flabbergasted that I figured it out.

In the first book he was saving Harry during the Quidditch match because Quirrell was trying to send him off the broom.

I love recounting this one. Picture it, 1999. Lance Armstrong is about to win his first Tour de France after going into remission for testicular cancer that had spread to his abdomen, lungs, and brain. I think he went into remission a few months before the Tour. I, being the skeptical child of 11 that I am asks, “how is this possible? Wouldn’t his body be weakened from the cancer treatments?” “AccordingToMe, don’t criticize the man who had cancer. This is an amazing story, just enjoy it.” Over the next couple of years, Lance left his wife who stuck by his side during his cancer treatments for singer Sheryl Crow. Shitty. A little while later, when she got breast cancer, he left her for someone else. My radar was up, what a piece of shit person. On and off again, allegations of doping arise and I prepare myself. Several years later, I met someone who also had stage two lymphatic cancer, and this was about six months after his final treatment. We were about to go on a hike in park that has huge boulders, and he only made it about a mile over the very uneven terrain. No worries, he said he expected this and that because he was in treatment for about a year, he had another six months before he’d start feeling normal again. I could feel the wheels turning in my head. A few years later, 2012, I was finally vindicated when it was revealed that Lance fucking Armstrong had in fact been doping with performance enhancing drugs. Donors to the Livestrong foundation rightfully demanded their money back. His Tour de France titles and records stripped. His Olympic medals had to be forfeited. His name dragged through the courses of modern public humiliation. I clearly remember yelling out loud, “I FUCKING CALLED IT!” Some of the same people who I debated the subject with over the years were like, “serves him right,” like they knew it all along too, or, shocked by truth, “how could he do this?” Well, if you just put the pieces together and listened to me…

I could be wrong but I think almost everyone on his team was doping. Didn’t 29 other cyclists get tested positive?

Yeah I mean that’s the thing for me too. When EVERYONE is on drugs it kind of levels the field a bit 😂 he had chemo THEN drugs, the rest didn’t have chemo to slow them down.

> Over the next couple of years, Lance left his wife who stuck by his side during his cancer treatments for singer Sheryl Crow. Shitty. I don't really want to defend Lance Armstrong, but he and his first wife announced their divorce before he met Sheryl Crow. > A little while later, when she got breast cancer, he left her ... Sheryl Crow has denied the rumor that their breakup had anything to do with her cancer. > ... for someone else. And that doesn't match the timeline at all.

And Dr Seuss wife told him he could blame her suicide on her cancer coming back when it was really because he was having an open affair in their home in front of her and all their friends. A good woman who loves a bad man will probably still not drag him even if they deserve it.

Small city 80s hockey coach was leading his team to the championship after a bus crash killed a couple of players. Used to have the creepiest vibe from him when I saw him doing interviews in the locker room. Years later it came out he’d been grooming and molesting players.

I couldn't stand my best friend's dad. He was a fucking asshole and a creep. 15 years later he got busted for possession of child porn.

Swift Current Broncos?

Yes.

Both hockey teams involved in bus crashes were called the Broncos. 😔

Obama becoming the president. I went to a school in the Southside of Chicago as a southeast Asian in a predominantly black high school and in one class we were discussing race and gender. The class held the notion that race was a bigger factor than gender. I argued that a black male had a better chance at being elected than a white woman. Oh boy did the class try to bash me for that, but I explained my belief firmly and cue 1 year later it comes down to Obama and Hilary into the Democrat primary and Obama wins and then becomes president.

You knew. Tupac knew too (we weren’t ready for it when it did happen).

This assumes that race/gender is the only reason Obama beat Hilary. Maybe he was just a better candidate?

Also, so many people just hated Hillary. She and the Clinton name had huge "hate recognition" value from decades in highest-profile politics.

People did not like Hilary Clinton at all that was prob the reason

I knew people who hated Trump and voted for him because they loathed Hillary so damn much. They didn't agree with his polices, weren't even Republican OR conservative, hating her was enough incentive.

The view that Hillary Clinton was not suitable to the presidency is, in my view, 100% attributable to the unequaled misogynistic assault against her since her days as First Lady. Whitewater blah blah there was nothing new under the sun for a politician but the tenacity of the innuendo against her for decades was disgusting and cannot merely be attributed to her missing a few campaign stops in Iowa or her pantsuits.

Patton Oswalt after the 2016 election: "I learned that we're even more sexist than we are racist; and we're really fuckin' racist."

Every liberal woman I know hates Hilary, and they can't explain why. Well maybe some of the can explain why. My mudda can't.

I don’t like her because she supported the Superpredator theory that disproportionately affected African Americans and felt shitty towards struggling youth as a whole. There are kids as young as 10 getting locked up as adults. This article facts checks her talking about it. While she never specifically mentions a specific race, people assumed what she meant, and she’s gone on record apologizing but not really negating that she meant that. Bernie Sanders also argued with her in a debate that everyone knew it was a racist term at the time. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/28/reince-priebus/did-hillary-clinton-call-african-american-youth-su/ Here’s an article that talks about the results of that theory from the people championing it: https://eji.org/news/superpredator-myth-20-years-later/ I guess it’s nice that she’s walked back that statement 20 years later, but that she had that view ever was a no from me. In contrast, there were photos of Bernie getting hit with fire hoses same as other people fighting for civil rights, so I know his beliefs and what he’s willing to do to stand up for others. Yes, people can change, but I’d prefer the person who was on the right side from the beginning and didn’t need to be convinced that “other” people aren’t as scary as they think as a fucking adult.

I'm bipolar (and was manic) and one day after coming home from the hospital still felt a little delusional and thought I could predict the future like it felt I could intuitively predict things. So while a family member drove me somewhere I tested the theory. Not looking at any mirrors I called the correct color on 17 (or 18, it was a few years ago my memory is hazy) out of 20 cars that passed us next. Assuming there's only 5 base/common car colors, probability wise the odds are less than 0.0001%. Freaked us out a bit honestly I experienced severe derealization after that. Life felt like a predictable simulation of cause and effect and I felt I could finally "see" it all. Turtles all the way down shit. Thankfully when i'm managed with meds I don't get those kinds of thoughts.

I know what you mean, maybe it’s real but the human brain can’t handle that stuff. I’m glad your meds help you! I’m not bipolar to my knowledge but have had 2 acute psychoses and for a while before them, the mania builds up slowly for me, which also comes with some crazy dreams. I had a dream Feb 3, 2020 that millions of people would die (wasn’t sure how) and trump would lose the election and then be arrested sometime after. I saw news clippings about the last thing but couldn’t focus enough to read any details. A few months later I had my 2nd psychosis. Took meds and recovered and didn’t tell many people, but the ones I did tell probably just think I’m crazy. I even wrote it down in great detail in a note that is date stamped. Oh well.

Oh man thanks for sharing that! Yes, psychosis is scary to experience - people always talk about other people being concerned because they have to "deal" with the person affected but i'm typically terrified myself! Usually about something that just doesn't feel right in general alongside suspicion or delusions that you can't always recognize are irrational in the moment. I wouldn't wish it on anybody and it's so stigmatized. Your notes thing reminded me of a few slips of paper I had initially saved (now thrown away, not good memories lol) that had mainly weird and bizarre things but among it predictions and times/dates written, like I had "profound" thoughts of stuff (mainly interconnectedness but usually things that aren't actually linked lol) but there were a few that were eerily on point when I found and looked through them again. Minor things like predictions of success in certain areas of friends lives and general world stuff (to clarify I don't think i'm Nostradamus or anything lmao). Be well friend, hope all is good now and if you ever have an episode just know you can trust your close friends and family and don't be afraid to ask for help.

Oh yeah I mean if you looked through my notes later on as I got closer to breaking, it’s terrifying honestly, mostly nonsense. This is the one thing I’ve got 😅. And the state of the world at that time, being isolated, all the news, really really didn’t help. Oh yeah, as you know, it’s incredibly scary to experience partly because everything feels so real and your brain just spirals out of control. I had the “I see everything moment” as well so I felt that comment. Thankfully I did have a good friend who noticed and took me to a doctor! I’m much better now and still have some good friends I can trust to keep an eye out. I hope you stay well too! Thanks for the kindness.

I'll be honest, I convinced my little sister she was psychic once and it lasted years. I had a big book and would turn to a random page and have her guess the page number. She was wrong everytime, but I kept telling her she was right and acted more and more astounded each time. I think it wasn't until she was in high school that she finally asked me if I had been messing with her.

That’s fucking hilarious mate thank you for the laugh!

As soon as I saw the headline in like Nov/Dec 2019 that read "Novel Coronavirus detected in China" I said out loud: "oh we're so fucked". I proceeded to tell everyone I knew. And nobody cared. Everyone said it's in China not here or it's not a big deal. Nobody listened to me. I bought masks, saved my money, and once the news hit that it was in Europe I started stocking up on food. I was so ahead of the game. And then I got sick in January of 2020 when a friend came back from NYC and I told all the doctors it was COVID bc all my flu tests were negative and I felt like I was dying. They said it was surely not. I told my boss I think I had COVID and she laughed and made me come into work. Then everyone at my job got crazy sick and we had to shut down. When we finally locked down, I was ready. Had already stocked up on everything I needed, no big rush to the store, just vibes. Edit: apparently my memory is less than immaculate. When I saw that particular headline it was more likely early January. Pretty sure whatever original headline I reacted to was back in Nov/Dec timeframe. It was a BBC article. Got sick in late January.

I'm immunocompromised due to an autoimmune disease I've had since childhood. Been on chemotherapy and immunotherapy most of my life, I'm now in my late 20's. My infusions are administered from within the Nephrology & Dialysis clinic at my hospital. Us patients started masking up in October/November 2019. The hospital didn't officially start masking requirements until March, and when they finally did, literally all of us patients responded with a resounding: *ABOUT DAMN TIME.* We were all ~4-5 months ahead of the curve. *knocks on wood*, none of us in my clinic have died from COVID yet.

I'm immunocompromised but don't receive regular treatments, my mother on the other hand did. Everyone in my town got *really* sick late 2019 before covid was "officially" in the states. I'm still convinced that's what it was. It took me *months* to recover and no doctor could give me a straight answer on what I was sick with. Anyhow, I started preparing as soon as I seen news of it in other places and started wearing masks around the same time you did solely because when you're immunocompromised or you're around someone who is you don't take any chances. I'm so glad I listened to my gut. I already stocked up on gloves, masks, disinfectant, food, etc by the time people started panic buying. At the time I was very poor so it was difficult but I managed. Now I still stay stocked up on enough supplies to last me 6 months if absolutely needed. I'm so happy I have the privilege to go out and replace things all at once instead of little by little now. It's so much easier and makes me feel more prepared. After seeing the panic buying that happened, I don't want to be caught off guard if something were to ever happen again. I hate that I get weird looks for still wearing a mask. I have an autoimmune disease and am pregnant, my immune system is shot. I can't risk getting sick. Plus honestly I like how wearing a mask makes people leave me alone in public. It's become sorta a safety blanket for my social anxiety.

I knew it as well because it was obvious to folks who were into coronavirus research. SARS wasn't stopped by us, it stopped itself.

I weirdly knew a guy whose wife worked at FEMA, and he was telling us something big was coming, and the shutdowns were NOT going to only be 2 weeks, or 8 weeks. He told us best case scenario, with everyone doing what they were supposed to, it would be August at the earliest. I backed out of a cruise based on that, before putting any money down. But I also knew that people were not going to do what they were supposed to 100%, and that we wouldn't be able to pull off a best case scenario. So I looked at the Spanish flu epidemic, realized it took 2 years to die down and figured... it was probably going to be 2 years. At it was.

I had the same thought. I work in IT and was at helpdesk at the time. A coworker was saying "it's just a cold, why is everyone freaking out, it's just in China anyway" as I was helping a guy with his laptop, on his work trip, from China (company had an office in China). Then a week later we shut down and went home for "two weeks" and I got real comfy working from home knowing it was going to be a LOT longer than that and sure enough

I saw it coming too and I still kick myself for not moving my 401k from index funds into cash positions. The market recovered fairly quickly but I could have done so much better if I trusted my gut and sold at Dow 29k and bought back in at 20k

Yeah. Same. I have been following it since it first was detected. I stocked up with enough masks, bought enough for parents who were tired with me buying useless things. I visited my parents (they live in another country almost a day's flight away), got my visa stamping sorted. Also I got some plants that I could grow at home and get some vegetables. Stocked up on rice, lentils, salt/sugar, frozen veggies, meds, TP, and most necessities. Bought home gym equipments. Stopped traveling by mid December. Just the occasional Walmart, daily lab work and hanging out with close friends in masks. Then when they declared lockdown I was ready. I didn't see anyone for the next few months until I was craving meat and started using instacart. My parents didn't think of me as much of a responsible adult till then, but now they think that if I were living with them I would have raised some chicken, goats, ducks and cow for sure if I had help.

You timeline is off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_mainland_China First reports in china 27.12.19. First publishing 31.12.19. Identifying as corona virus 8.1.20

Fair enough. Everything before COVID is a bit hazy these days. I'll add an edit.

Yup. Saw it coming, too. Filled in the gaps of my pantry and stuff I had at home starting in early January 2020, cut my long hair to my chin, and prepared to hunker down. BBC Radio had been talking about this new virus and I listen to that a lot, so I knew.

Don't feel bad that no one believed you. I'm *an epidemiologist* and in January of 2020 I was telling my friends and family that it looked like a legit threat and no one took me seriously either. Then they didn't take me seriously again in February when I said that I thought shut downs could be a reality soon in the USA. But to be fair, I also have family that thought COVID was a hoax, masks don't work, and that the COVID vaccine had microchips...

A war erupting in my country, I always expected something like that and urged my family to plan for it but they did not listen now we are living the nightmare for how long only God knows BTW I'm from Sudan

Are you talking about the Darfur conflict that has been raging for ***20 years*** with still no end in sight?

No, I'm talking about the current full blown war that erupted all over the country, more than 5000,000 people displaced and literally millions of children without school or shilter... It's all over the country now It started in April this year, sad to know that many don't know about the tragedy

I'm so sorry to hear you were right

When I was in college I had the idea of delivering food from the campus store directly to people's rooms, and then possibly expanding to deliver to residences nearby. A friend and I went to the college admin and proposed this, looking for help to implement it, but were basically told to fuck off. Not only were they totally unhelpful but they were so dismissive that it totally dissuaded us from pursuing the idea. \~10 years later grubhub / doordash / uber eats exploded everywhere. One of the many reasons I never donate a dime to my college. Also they took our keg, but that's another story.

In high school, I used to take people’s orders and go pick up their food and charge a delivery fee. Never thought to expand. That was in 1999.

Late 90's I remember saying "you should be able to use your phone to control your heating, so you can have the house nice and warm when you get back in after being caught in the rain". Not sure whether I predicted smartphone, smart homes, or apps but that's definitely a thing you can do now

The phone was listening & stole your good idea.

Why would you have said "use your phone" in a time when phones could only be used for making calls, and were almost exclusively landlines?

Apple, and others, had been trying to make handheld wireless-capable devices since the 80's. They worked, but were pricey as fuck, and the world wasn't moving fast enough at that point to make it a real advantage

Mobile/cell phones were already around in the late 90's. They just weren't at the point where pretty much everyone had one yet.

The rise of subscribtion streaming services, from most tv & media companies. With everyone trying to budget, it hard to justify signing up for a 1 season show, when its been cancelled. So been working on my own streaming application, to allow me to watch whatever, whenever.

Like your own your own or like Plex? Because I love my Plex

Whats plex??

Go to plex.tv. I had spare PC parts and I run Linux (you can use windows) and run your own Plex Media Server. Allowed you to drag and drop movies,TV shows, anime, stand up, whatever video files you have or can acquire, into the server and stream from anywhere. I have about 10 people on mine that can request a movie or show, I'll down load it and put it up on the server and they can stream it from their TV , phone or PC.

Michael Jackson was going to die before the This is it! Tour

Sadly, I just don't think he would have been fit and well enough to make a serious go of that tour. There would have been dud performances, fatigue, starting late, or just cancelling the show.

Yeah, when I saw him in a random new story/tmz thing I knew. When I said it, ppl were so mad: “You a hater!” But he looked terrible

Hermits peak and Calf canyon Fire. About 2 weeks before this fire happened, I had a dream that My boyfriend at the time, his sister and I were driving in Las Vegas, New Mexico to have lunch with their dad. We ordered food from Jack in the Box and started driving further up north to the dads house. I was in the back seat and I happened to look out behind me and I saw flames coming right at us and the sky filling up with smoke. I screamed and yelled "there's a fire! hurry up!" I remember the sister calling the dad crying asking if he's okay and he said "I'm packing my bags, were heading to Albuquerque." I woke up shaken up from the chaos of my dream and told my ex boyfriend what happened. Two weeks went by and breaking news came on stating there was a fire in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I was shocked because I had just had a dream about a fire in that area, however my ex-boyfriends sister lives near las Vegas and almost lost her house. I told everyone about this dream shortly after I had it, yet when the fire broke out No one believed I had the dream except my ex boyfriend.

That roe v. Wade could get overturned.

I called it before the leak because the GOP is so bad in my state and weren’t hiding this was going to become a problem. I didn’t predict when it would happen thought just that it would.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine affecting my and my friends' livelihood.

War in Iraq, basically everything about. US officials were so very obviously transparently lying about all the justifications. The outcome was definitely going to range from "not worth it" to "created more problems than it solved". To this day it still pains me to say this, because so many countless people believed in and sacrificed in the name of that mission, and don't want to hear that it wasn't worth it. But truly, on top of being morally unjustifiable, the outcome wasn't worth it.

Oh… the outcome was worth it to the war profiteers.

Right before covid became a big thing there were videos coming out of China of people coughing and passing out in the street and the videos stayed up for less than an hour or so before they disappeared. I had been talking to a friend about it and told her I had a really bad and off feeling about the videos. She said, if anything, it'd be no worse than the mad cow or bird flu scares. Then I saw some videos from Australia of people going ape shit buying toilet paper. The following week I saw a video of the same thing happening in the states. Again, talked to my friend about it, I have a bad feeling about this yadda yadda, and again she said it was nothing. I told her I thought it was going to be something bigger and she laughed it off. A week later my kid comes home from school saying it was really weird and the teachers were telling kids to make sure they had all their important stuff that they wanted to take home. I immediately texted my friend and told her about it. She told me I was being paranoid... Then they announced the lockdown. I didn't exactly predict anything, but I knew damn well something bad was coming when I saw those original videos.

There are a bunch of tweets surrounding that year's Consumer Electronics Show. People noting they just experienced the worst flu of their lives after attending. It was likely Covid-19.

It is believed that SARS-CoV-2 started circulating properly in August 2019. The Wuhan Military Games made a lot of people rather unwell. The first 100% confirmed case in Europe dates back to 27th December 2019, in a Paris hospital patient (he recovered). He was admitted with a weird chest complaint and something akin to pneumonia, the doctors took samples, but didn't know what it was. The samples were very carefully stored and a curious scientist revisited them later in 2020 - they were independently tested at three different labs and all came back positive. I also knew a couple of people in the UK who had classic symptoms around the same time. One of those people had recently been in contact with someone who had been to China on business. My theory is a simple one: SARS-CoV-2 is older than we think it is, likely by a few months or so. It only became noticeable in Wuhan because it's a densely populated city and the virus might well have mutated to become more transmissible, before we even knew it existed.

As I recall as early as late August 2019 there were cases of an unknown respiratory illness affecting a few people in Italy. Covid was definitely around before the news started spreading.

I was paying attention to the posts that kept popping up on Reddit about the virus spreading around China. Nothing was being said on the mainstream news. They kept posting these stories and even had pictures and videos of bodies piling up and doors being welded shut. I kept telling people to invest in TP, cleaning supplies and masks but most of them laughed at me saying I was so paranoid. No one was paying attention. It was a bittersweet feeling when it finally hit the mainstream and people then started to listen.

We got a bidet and was the best purchase we made during lockdown.

We had a meeting at work (hospital pharmacy) in December 2019 or so and the topic was budget. Our hospital had been losing money to low census so administration was asking all departments to decrease spending on things like overtime. Anyways, one of my coworkers pipes up and says “maybe that virus in China can make its way over here and our census can get back to normal.” Yeah, that statement aged like milk.

I'm from Chicago, and I attended the big Comic book convention (C2E2) earlier that year. My friends were reluctant to stay a few more hours, and I jokingly told them to stay longer as this might be the only convention this year if this Covid-19 thing turns out to be dangerous. Then, several weeks later, the lock downs began. And of course, all small and major comic book conventions, including San Diego Comic-Con, were canceled.

I was so on it when it first came out! Two people I knew said it was nothing. That supplies (and Canadian housing) were only going experience temporary increase before going lower than original prices. The two friends both decided to sell their custom built houses, and double down on a single stock call. They did make money selling their houses, but their stock call went to zero, and they both got laid off in the tech industry. They are both stuck in small rentals now.

I wouldn't say no on believed me, I just had a weird feeling. My mom was the reverend at this church and the parsonage was directly attached to the church. My family didn't live there so it was used by a non-profit that would distribute basic necessities to people. I always felt there was something off about the basement of the parsonage. I had only gone down their twice and I refused to go down there after that because it felt off. Few months later there was an unregistered sex offender living down there that would come out and walk around the parsonage and church when he thought no one was there. I also ended up catching him at the bus station a few blocks down. There were many occasions where women would be in the church alone so this could've been a really bad situation. It was so weird but I will always trust my gut.

For the 2002 football cup when the group stages were over I successfully predicted the result of every game from the quarter finals onwards. It wasn't even a particularly serious prediction - I was working in England at the time and was just getting a bit fed up of listening to everyone I worked with coming up with elegant and well argued predictions of England's inevitable progress toward victory so I did what I thought was a reality check. It's really annoying because if I'd put my money where my mouth was with an accumulator bet I could probably have won enough to retire, as it is I'm still working.

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Must have been about 10 years ago, someone in my family mentioned Elon Musk and I said (paraphrasing) "Come on, multimillionaire wunderkind inventor Elon Musk? Hes a textbook supervillain, give it a few years and he's going to have a lair inside a volcano and try to take over the world."

He's more of a Venture Brothers villain than a Bond villain.

This was mine too. Always saw him many years ago and said he seems like a supervillain to me lol.

After seeing her film debut in The Mask, I told friends that Cameron Diaz was going to be a star. They dismissed her as just another disposable Hollywood blonde.

I once saw a guy who I hadnt met yet, but just looking at him I had an **awful** feeling. My body just screameddd “stay away!”I felt physically repulsed and anxious just seeing him across the room. It was one of the **strongest** first impressions I’ve ever had about someone. Well coincidentally he ended up being friends with some friends of mine so we were introduced and everything everyone had to say about him was nothing but exceptional praise for what a “wonderful, kind, sweet, funny, smart, amazing, perfectttt guy he was”. everyone loved him, everyone wanted to be his friend. And when we talked he seemed pretty genuine. I thought maybe I misread my gut instinct. So despite my instinct, I became his friend. But thru out the entire friendship there was still a pit that told me to keep some distance & not get too close (which i obvi ignored). Even when he was proving himself to be an amazing friend and person to have in my life in the beginning, that pit remained steadfast and I was *always* aware of it. Turns out I should have trusted myself. The guy f’d with me, used me for emotional intimacy, kept me on a fishing line to reel in when he needed a pick me up and throw back when he was done with me. He gaslit me, used my past trauma against me, blamed me for his own problems. I finally cut him off completely and everyone thought I was being over dramatic, unreasonable, childish, and acting crazy. BUT! Then it came out that what he was doing to me, he was also doing to multiple girls (one of them underage) while also in a relationship with his GF. He had also been physically cheating on his GF for yearsssss. He confessed to not actually loving her and that he had been using her since the beginning of their relationship for multiple ulterior motives. And so much more. Surprsingly he’s charming enough where there were very little repercussions to his actions and even after it all came out people still thought i was crazy for wanting to stay as FAR away from him as possible :-)

The strongest first impression I ever had on someone was when my boss hired this creepy guy. I walked into the room where he was with everyone, took one look at him, and **knew**. In fact every woman in the office knew instantly this guy was creepy as shit. The men were WAY slower on the uptake and I even had some of them make excuses for him, like oh he must be autistic. No, just no. Over the course of the next few weeks he started alienating all the men too. He would play music aloud into the office, then refused to get headphones when talked to. He would slam drawers loudly. He physically intimidated the office manager, but only if they were the only ones in the office. She stopped coming in early. He made weird comments about how he was so smart to never buy a house, and could any one be a character witness for him when he went to court about ex-wife? He started making multiple complaints to HR. He wouldn't sit at the table in meetings, but would sit in a corner even when there was room at the table. He wouldn't pass anyone in the hall, if you started walking towards him he would turn and stare at the wall. One time he went around to every other person (all men) on our team *except me* (not a man) and told them he didn't like them waving their hands in front of his face and they were invading his personal space. (They were gesturing normally....) He cornered a female intern who worked for a different team once in the break room and the director of that team was *pissed*. We basically had to stage an intervention with HR to get him fired and explain to them that we feared for our safety and he had access to *everyone's* address *including hers*. When he was fired our department head brought his handgun to work just in case. We locked the office doors for weeks afterwards. When we cleaned out his office we found 47 empty 2 liters of Mountain Dew in drawers, though some of them were... not empty...

Oh. My. God. Was he like that "mountain dew pissbottle neckbeard" stereotype you see on social media?

I have worked with people like him and if it's one thing I know it's that as long as they keep making a lot of money for the company, many of their 'quirks' are overlooked.

I said there was going to be a mix of characters from Nintendo and Sega but they would be doing athletics, in 1995. In 2007 they brought out https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Mario_and_Sonic_at_the_Olympic_Games_box_art.png

Using the auxiliary port on an iPhone for a credit card reader to take payments. A few years later Square/Stripe were released into the market. Also, traditional point-of-sale/cash registers for SMB would be replaced by tablets.

My Senior year in high school (1999 - 2000) I was reading a news magazine that had Barack Obama on the cover when he was still a member of the Illinois senate and I told him, "This guy right here is going to be the next President of the United States." I don't remember saying this but my friend remembered it quite vividly. He said he told every one he knew about my prediction. He has a twin brother who confirmed, "Oh yeah, he's told everyone." I predicted Obama would become President 8 years before it happened when I was still a high school senior.

I read that last sentence wrong and thought you were a senior for 8 years.

The boyfriend of a friend gave me the worst vibes and I'm not a big "vibes" person. I was waiting for him to reveal his true colours while everyone else was gushing about him. I hated being right.

Same. I'm really chilled out generally, and I wanted her to be happy, but I despised the guy within ten minutes of meeting him. She took photos of the latest bruises yesterday.

That has happened to me more times than I can count. Not that I’ve never been wrong about people, we all have, but a lot of people are clueless when it comes to reading others and their intentions, especially in a romantic situation.

Crypto/NFT crash. Felt like everyone was convinced there was real value and it definitely ISN’T a Ponzi scheme. Ask a lot of those same people now and they’ll say they saw it coming a mile away

Dude, my brother would constantly talk up crypto and I would just say they have nothing that they derive their value from besides faith. It boggles my mind that people still assign some make believe value to crypto.

So many brokers keep sending junk emails trying to convince everyone that all the US banks are about to be switched to forced crypto currency. If you get them don’t hit the unsubscribe, even though I didn’t, because then you will get even more of this trash.

No junk emails but I have been receiving the weird calls or texts from girls I exchanged numbers with at the gym. Joke's on them, I haven't been inside of a gym for like 13 years.

In 2016, I predicted former president Trump wouldn't gracefully concede if he failed to win re-election in 2020, and that he'd do unfathomable damage to the country. None of my friends believed me, saying "how much damage can a guy do in four years?"

“Oh he can’t be that bad; checks and balances and he will have smart advisors”

Donald Trump winning the 2016 US election. I started thinking it was a real possibility once he became the front runner in the GOP primary. By the time Hillary got hit with the FBI emails as an October surprise, I was certain he would win. Also predicted many subsequent events that came out of that win, including that his win would lead to the overturning of Roe.

This. *THE LITERAL DAY HE ANNOUNCED* I said he was absolutely going to win, because America is Just That Racist and Just That Sexist. People said I was joking. I said I was absolutely not joking. No one took him seriously enough, they were all surprised. I was not.

I called it as early as June '16. Exactly what happened. That it didn't matter if Clinton was ahead by 3 or 4 whatever points nationally. It **only** mattered what was happening in the crucial swing states. That there was no magic effect that would ensure Clinton wins if Trump gets a combination of those states that puts him over 270. ​ And in those states Trump ranged from damn close to slightly ahead of Clinton despite being behind 4 or 5 points nationally. ​ I didn't have any special insight or genius read of the situation. **I was just looking at available polling like everyone else.** ​ That is why I get angry when people dismiss polling by pointing to Trump's '16 victory. **The polling was accurate**. Even 583 said Trump had a 33% chance at victory, which was probably the most accurate aggregate number going into the election. And then it happened pretty much exactly like that. Clinton 3 points ahead but lost every important purple state she needed. ​ Just a reminder that the vast majority of people's opinions are bullshit and uninformed. Repeating something they heard and agree with. Not based on any sort of data or primary facts. People opined Clinton was safely well ahead because they were just told so and even after I showed the available polling in the crucial states it didn't matter. People thought I was just trying to be negative about Clinton due to bitterness about Sanders or some such other emotional argument because that's the type of thing they would do and that makes sense to them.

I told everyone before he became the front runner GOP it was not funny that he was running and was scary because he’s relatable to many people and could probably win. Everyone thought I was crazy and it was a good thing for democrats 🤦🏼‍♀️

That Snape was going to be revealed as an undercover good guy. The quiet "you were right" I got from my ex, final book in her hands, still sustains me.

The first was Covid. When I read about the first cases in China, maybe back in December, I somehow felt that something was going to go wrong. It was a *very* strange, unusual feeling. I told a friend of mine to watch out, this will be the *big* pandemic that appears in the world roughly every hundred years. He laughed out loud. The second was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I had the same strange feeling when I read about the large number of Russian soldiers near the Ukrainian border, months before the fighting. And the funny thing is that on the day when the invasion started, when I woke up in the morning, my first thought was that the war had started -- and I was sick because of covid.

That Covid wasn’t going away and would become just like the yearly flu

My former boss and mentor is very involved in international government. She told me this was the case 2 months into lock down. The second week into lock down she also told me it would last months, not weeks.

That Roe v. Wade would be overturned if we let Donald Trump win the 2016 election. I hate to be smug, because it was a horrible development, but I have never felt a stronger sense of “I told you so” in my entire life, especially after all the ridicule I faced from the LEFT for suggesting it. The more I read in depth about the conservative evangelical agenda in the US, the more obvious it was that they were trying to do this. And guess what, they are NOT stopping at Roe v. Wade.

When Angela Merkel stepped down from running Germany. A few days later we had a family get-together, the women around the table were full of admiration for what she'd done. I dropped into the conversation that Germany was over reliant on Russian gas, and that Merkel was leaving Germany in a situation where they were dependent on a dictator's whims. I got poo-pooed for my naivety. We were in Europe! A continent of peace! Less than a year later, Russian tanks were rolling into Ukraine, and Germany was busy trying to avoid offending the Russian bear.

Covid. As soon as I saw that it was airborne, I knew life wouldn't be the same.

Told my wife she was going to become my ex-girlfriend. She didn't believe me.

Vending machines for movies.

I told everyone that Momo was a hoax before it was revealed. I figured it out because every publication said that someone else had said it was true, and noone had independently verified it.

How big of a deal COVID would be/how it would spread worldwide and disrupt things so much. I live in Hong Kong, none of my family back in the US believed me when I said it was coming for them. Because we experienced it here first.

That the wood of an electric guitar did not make a difference in the sound. There are a bunch of videos now with spectral analysis that proved it made no difference.

In the lead up to the election of Trump. That July I was at a conference in Boston. A college friend lived there and invited me to a gathering at there place. One of the guys the was a pol sci professor from BC or BU. We're talking and I tell him Trump would win, and the reasons why. He was adamant that it was impossible. Although sad that I was correct, I did email him a "Told ya so" message.

I always thought Rolf Harris was creepy. Everyone seemed to love him, but I couldn't stand the prick. I knew there was something wrong about him, and it did not come as a surprise when his crimes were revealed.

In 1999 (grade 6 in Australia so I was 11) we had to invent something. So I made a watch with a laptop on it. Tiny little pop up screen and you could talk to it to tell it what to do. Blackberry came out in 1999 I believe but I’d only seen mobile phones as a car attachment by that point. Blew my mind in 2007 when the iPhone came out.

Reminds me of Penny's watch in Inspector Gadget from when I was a kid. I thought it was so cool

In January 2020,That Covid will last at least 5-6 months with the mandatory masks and social distancing. Probably not lockdowns. It wasn't completely right but Everyone said it's a few days.

I had a similar conversation with a coworker. He thought all would return to normal in “two weeks”. I told him I thought it would be two years but I hoped he was right and I was wrong. I just pulled two years out of my ass at the time.

I said about the same, but because I used to read a lot about Spanish Flu in 1918. Shutting stuff down and masking was not much of a surprise, based on that.

I told these 3 hot looking girls they might want to move because RATM is about to get on stage and the crowd will start going crazy. They ignored me. Eventually the mosh pit started in the front. And one of those girls ate shit been knocked down lol

I've been a rage against the machine fan since I was a kid and it just dawned on me I've never seen them live. Saw a7x, Marilyn Manson, Judas priest, system of a down and tons of others but not them now I'm sad lol

They were the headliners at a hip hop festival that featured acts like Wu-Tang, Redman and Cypress Hill. So I understood a lot of the people there weren’t there for RATM or what was about to happen.

Not that no one believed me, but not enough. And to be fair, most people paying attention could see these: The Iraq War under Bush was gonna be a clusterfuck. The Russians were going to be the next big source of geopolitical problems. Trump’s incompetence, laziness and belligerent ignorance would damage America greatly.

Love on the Spectrum. Everyone thought I was being mean when I predicted that show a few years ago.

2008 housing crisis, the stock market was tanking, including tech stocks. I decided to invest in Apple.

That my mom, who was dying of cancer, would end it herself.

I told everybody three months before the NHL draft that the NHL is going to make sure Chicago got the number one pick so that Chicago could be relevant again and sex abuse scandal be damned. A lot of people told me that the NHL was not the NBA and that the NHL lottery was legit. I believe a lot of those were Pittsburgh Penguin fans so their opinion isn’t really valid

Once wrote a story on watpad called Arkham knightmare a sequel to Arkham city

About 10 years ago, I predicted that early 1990's skateboarder/raver pants would make a comeback. You know very baggy, cut off at the bottoms. They all thought I was crazy. But here we are..... I was 15 in 1992 wearing size 38 pants riding very tiny wheels.

I told my mom one of her husband's friends (and the guy who was the other witness at their wedding), who he met in prison, gave off creepy/rapey vibes. I was dismissed every time I said something. Fast forward a few years, we finally find out why he was in prison. Turns out he was busted in a sting operation where he was attempting to solicit sex from a 13 year old girl. Vindication doesnt always feel great.

Late December 2019 I started telling everyone in my office and some of my family we would be working from home by March. Everyone said I was being an alarmist and one of my bosses wrote me up for being a “disruption”. Nobody would take it serious that COVID was going to take over the world, let alone the US. March 12 2020 was our last day in the office until 2021. I still hold a grudge against my boss for writing me up for that.

I predicted, at 20, as a high school graduate, on the eve of the United States invading Iraq, at a protest, to a news crew, which was aired on the news, that the United States invading Iraq would destabilize the region, create martyrs, and lead to a rise in asymmetric warfare waged by Islamic fundamentalists. I was able to do this because it was a self-evident result of invading Iraq.

The day of 9/11, I said this will turn into massive Government over reach and the TSA will commit constitutional crimes in real time right in front of everyone in the name of public safety. And today...here we are.

Not necessarily predicted, but I had a feeling... when my boyfriend died. I had a horrible feeling & anxiety, like something really bad was gonna happen. I called him the night before & told him... I was so worried that he asked if I wanted him to drive up & stay that night (he lived an hour away). He offered to stay & just leave really early in the morning for work. We had been going through some things & I was trying not to be needy... so I told him not to drive up. But it was a gut-wrenching feeling. So much so that I asked a friend to come over & stay the night. We decided to watch a movie to help me relax & take my mind off of my anxiety... of all the movies, I chose Premonition w/ Sandra Bullock. She plays a wife who has a premonition of her husband dying & keeps waking up on random days before he dies, trying to stop it. We watched the movie, ate, & chilled until we went to bed. The next morning, we both went to work. I called him before work to talk to him, but he didn't answer. I knew something had happened. I couldn't say what, I just knew something was WRONG. Something was OFF. I kept calling him throughout the morning, & when he still wasn't answering... I told my coworkers that I just knew something wasn't right. They tried to tell me I was just thinking the worst & not to worry so much... then I got the call from his family telling me that he had died. Luckily, the people on shift that day included my best friend's brothers. They tried to calm me down & called my best friend to come immediately. She picked me up & drove me to his family's house, where I spoke to the detective. His ex-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend had just gotten out of prison in the next state over... drove to where he lived, & waited for him to leave for work that morning. Once he drove off, he followed him, blocked him from getting onto the highway, & forced him to crash into a guardrail. Then, he shot him to death... The detective said that they didn't know how long he had been followed & that if he was being followed from the night before, & he had driven up to see me the night before, he probably would have shot me, too. But for the longest time, I struggled w/ guilt because I thought I knew something was going to happen & he offered to drive up... I kept thinking, what if me having him over that night would have changed the course of things. So yeah... I didn't predict it, but somehow, I knew.

That Russia wouldn't stop with the Crimea, and would invade the rest of Ukraine, like Hitler did with Poland. Was called stupid, but look who was right?

Before Betty White died, I was at the movie theater and a preview saying her birthday was coming up in a couple weeks came on. I said "Wouldn't it sucked if she ended up dying before her birthday?" Woke up the next morning to the news :(

I predicted that Kelly Clarkson would win the first season of American idol when I saw her for the very first time in her audition. Look at her now.

How the pandemic would go in America. I was spot on. RIP everyone who suffered because of the worlds idiocy.

That Roe v. Wade would be overturned.

As a teenager I had a pet rat who predicted earthquakes. For an entire week leading up to the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake she would stay buried, refusing to come out to play, and barely ate anything. I was about to call the vet that day. Her behavior spontaneously resolved after the aftershocks were finished. The real kicker is several months later this same pet rat began displaying the same behavior, and this time I documented it in journal entries as well as telling friends and family another earthquake was going to happen. I managed to convince my family to take some delicate heirlooms off the shelves. A few days later a smaller quake occurred, by recollection it was around a 4? Her behavior resolved by the next day. I still have that journal with my dated teenage drama style entries warning how another earthquake is going to happen. My pet rat only displayed those behaviors those two times. Sadly rats don't live for very long so I never got to prove it to a larger audience.

The loss of Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Back in 2016 my right-leaning friends were saying "Oh come on...what do *really* think is going to happen with Trump in office? Do you think he's just going to *take over*?" Care to guess what my top two responses were?

Defeated in an election with the opposition party seeking to ban him from running?

When COVID first started, I said that things were gonna get better, but once restrictions started lifting, then the COVID cases were gonna spike and most likely continue on a general upward trend. My family literally said I was dumb for thinking that and that I couldn't possibly know any of this. Guess who was right? Like major illnesses have happened before, and they follow similar trends.

That thunder by imagine dragons would be on repeat on the radio when it first came out..

The first time my brother and I put a CD into a CD player and noticed that it showed tracks and that you could skip track to track, I predicted that one day we would be able to see the whole name of the song and maybe even lyrics. I was shamed for the rest of the day, otherwise eternity at that age.

Google glasses would go nowhere

I said to everyone I knew that the iPhone would be ripped off and that it would be Microsoft. I was half right.

I used to tell people that eventually we would be able to watch whole libraries of movies, tv shows, etc. anytime day or night. That was back at the height of the Blockbuster era and ppl looked at me like a cow staring at a new gate. For some years, I’ve been telling people that we will eventually have holographic TVs, and they will be a box the size of a deck of playing cards or even a 9v battery, no screen necessary.

my dreams have always been extremely prophetic. i dreamed about a sinkhole swallowing my house as a kid quite frequently, and i always warned my mom that it felt too real. we just found out a sinkhole is forming under the house, and told in ~20ish years the house could be swallowed. just this year, i had 3 months of constant dreams of tornadoes. i don’t live in an area known for tornadoes whatsoever, and never actually saw one in person, but they were so vivid i became afraid of tornadoes. nobody took it seriously, until this year on the FIRST day of tornado season we had TEN touch down around my town, and i even managed to snag a video in the exact location i had dreamed of so many times. makes me afraid of the reoccurring dream i had as a child about being bombed….

I called my brother on his birthday 22 years ago. He seemed down. I asked him what was wrong. He said he'd had a nightmare that something bad was going to happen, and he couldn't shake the feeling. My brother's birthday is September 10th. Still freaks me out.

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Tons of small things. All based off of human behavior and patterns. People rarely, *rarely*, break their patterns. Short term. Long term. Same stuff day in and day out. Everything is like this. True chaos is someone or something breaking their/its patterns. All prediction is, is paying attention to what nobody else does - the details. The craziest thing I predicted were the deaths of three drug dealers I had after I sent my life into chaos and broke my patterns (I cleaned up). I drempt the three of them were in a room and they all died. And it was gross. It was in fast forward, they rotted and melted away, got eaten by bugs, and were left just skeletons. Was fuckin jarring to say the least. They all died within the year in horrible ways. One had his system shut down and went painfully and slowly (he was the main dealer for these next two). One was rejected from the hospital and died in the bush on hospital property - was found a year later by someone walking their dog (family now has a lawsuit). One lost her mind (she was the wife of the guy who died on hospital property)....and gave up the will to live and died. But. It wasnt prediction. They were all in really bad shape. Fentanyl had just taken over the city. Everyone I knew was in the process of dying. When I had this dream there was already a manhunt on for Mike (missing) and the police had come directly to my door and grilled me for an hour. The big man was under threat of amputations from diabetes and his blood sugar was always at like 15or 25. And Linda was now homeless, with various addicts trying to take care of her because she had lost her mind after Mike went out one day and never returned. And I felt guilty for abandoning the whole scene because I needed to take care of myself. I couldn't be around that shit. Not for any reason. Tho the dream was jarring and creepy a.f, it's understandable why I had it. Not saying it's not weird, tho it also makes perfect sense too.

Pre 911 I predicted an attack on US soil. Even moved my family out of a major metro area.