What's a sensation that you're unsure if other people experience?

It's not really earth shattering like standing amongst peers telling all who will listen that the next great earth quake will happen when and where, or which sports team will step out of mediocrity and claim a championship.

It's more or less stupid, self-centered nonsense.

I'll be at work monitoring phones and a random fax will come across my desk and as I'm looking at it I'll get a call from that particular person asking for something else entirely. Or I'll be in the back end of my work station and think I hear the door bell and rush back to my position to see that someone has just begun approaching.

On multiple occassions I've been out front of my house on the porch smoking a cigarette with one of my video game characters logged in doing something automatically, exposed to whomever wants to attack it, and while I'm AFK I'll get this overwhelming sense of dread. Usually a catalyst will spark it like an ominous black shadow streaking past my peripheral or an object falling out of a tree and crashing into a neighbors car. I'll some how "know" that my in game character is in danger and I'll put the cigarette out to get back inside and back to my computer to see that as soon as I made it back, danger was landing on grid to try and assault my guy, being just able to save it from destruction that I would have definitely lost if I not acted on the intuition.

My Grandfather lived hundreds of miles away. I was out on my front porch one afternoon. I noticed a particular movement of the clouds that was not spectacular or amazing in any sense, but I couldn't stop thinking about them. The low grays move west, the high whites flow east. I had posted that on my facebook status. I don't know why I did. It was like auto-pilot. Later that day I received a phone call my Grandfather had died. Later that week I had learned the time line and the times matched up. My fascination being when he collapsed to the floor, his heart hemorrhaging. The post being the exact minute he died.

Just recently for some unknown reason, my neck had been hurting. Not a muscle pain, sort of a phantom pain. It hurt, but it didn't. Yet even though it was/wasn't real, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Then I receive a phone call from a family member telling my my dad had a clogged vein in his neck and had to go in for surgery to get the blockage removed. Hours after learning of his predicament, my neck pain faded to non-existence.

Hell, earlier today I was driving home from the store and I was skipping radio stations and in the midst of driving let the radio rest on a station I never listen to and some song I didn't really care for came on, yet the chorus got stuck in my head. Then while I'm repeating it in my mind, a guy I rarely talk to logged on and spoke the words of the chorus I had playing in my head. He lives hundreds of miles away and there's a zero percent chance we were listening to the same radio station. It wasn't even a popular song.

There's more random stuff, a lot of it mostly forgotten. I just see there's an ebb and flow to the way existence works. Life is like a giant never ending sine wave. Flows up, flows down. I just approach it with a hands-free mentality. Instead of trying to control my surroundings, I just let everything happen the way it wants to and spend my time observing and trying to connect the dots.

This existence is like a lightning bolt. It makes the connection with the ground first, then the flash of electricity follows. It can only exist once the connection between the two polarities is achieved. But the connection has to be established before it can come into being.

We only had a beginning because we pre-established an end.

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