As I reported yesterday on the thread about dreaming of places before you've seen them in real life, the friend who is the subject of this thread is currently in Egypt for a few weeks with work. Yesterday, to quote what i wrote there, he
"called me from there to express his overwhelming sense of foreboding. Specifically it was triggered by/tied in with what he kept referring to as constant deja vu all day. (.....) I asked is it just in the moment that he encounters a thing that he has the sensation or is he actually anticipating what's around the corner before he gets there. He insists its the latter. The example he gave - if ive not misunderstood him - is of telling the people he was in a car with that a stranger was going to pass in front of them next. and - again if ive not misunderstood - a very specific person whose face he had in mind, mole on chin and all - then did so.
I asked if he had this feeling before and if so did anything come of it. He says he only has it before a death. And indeed he did once report - and i repeated on these boards - about his having this restless presentiment prior to a particular family death. "
The latter is of course a reference to this current thread. He was on the phone again tonight that the foreboding and deja vu have continued unabated. I pressed him further for details of the latter and what he described appeared to be more precisely psychic flashes of the future. Images popping vividly into his mind's eye.. one such this morning had prompted him to ask a female work colleague in his new workplace if there was anyone who fit a very specific description..smokey grey beard, glasses, yellow shirt, name beginning with R (he saw these things in his mind).. An hour or two later he spotted the person he was describing , right down to the colour of his clothes and pointed it out to his colleague. "That's Rashed" she told him.
Such examples are clearly precognition or clairvoyance rather than deja vu as you and i might use the term. They are not a normal daily experience for him, but are the trigger for his familiar sense of dread. He ended our conversation saying wearily he's going to phone his mother back home and see if everyone is alright.
An hour later he rang me back. He reports as soon as he spoke on the phone his mum started sobbing "have you heard the news?" A close cousin, a young man under 30, had been involved in a car crash and died of a cardiac arrest. It happened yesterday....