Impending Doom?
Something I wrote on feelings of impending doom. I thought I'd put it here because it's something that happens to me on occasion, it really bothers me, and I haven't completely explained it away.
Don't feel all alone re: the impending doom feelings. I've been having one for the past week or so that I attribute to the world going to hell. We're all waiting for "something" to happen. And something bad IS going to happen any day now when Dubbya sends troops into Iraq. The sniper will likely strike again at least once before he is caught. the holidays will be starting soon, which generally bring out the worst in lunatics so we can expect bad news in that area, and yes, a number of airplanes will crash. There are generally one or two plane crashes per day, but you don't always hear about them because most plane crashes don't result in fatalities or even serious injuries. But remember, we generally lose between 1000 and 1200 people in ALL types of airplanes in a year. You have more chance of being struck by lightning.
I do think I understand exactly what you're going through, though. With all the horrible things in the world going on right now, it is natural to think that maybe it will get closer to us than we like. We try to take the general feeling of "bad" and try to understand it by making it specific, sometimes by a combination of empathy and projection. It usually starts by some sort of trigger that makes us think that a victim we hear about on tv has a characteristic that makes them "just like" someone we truly care about. That is why the sniper has struck so much fear in all of us here. The victims have been black, white, hispanic, male, female, young, old, etc. All were doing things that we all do every day. In this way he made sure to "touch" all of us. Once the "just like us" connection is made, the next step is to project, as in "how would I feel if something like that happened to me or MY family? Then the fear cycles begin and start eating into our minds and digging into our subconscious.
Of course, this theory doesn't explain away all cases of precognition, and I've definitely had my share of out of the blue precognitions that have actually come true. I've been deliberately ignoring those feelings of doom lately just because I know I'm under significant influence from events completely beyond my control, and I don't want to overreact.