Ulalume
tart of darkness
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Gellatly, I hope your father has a fast and full recovery. :grouphug:
I get the sense of foreboding quite frequently, but it generally comes to nothing. Instead, it seems to work the other way around. When I have a thought, absent any particular feeling, that something is going to happen, as if it's simply a fact - that's the time it will happen.
For example, the night before the September 11th terrorist attacks, I was just going about my business at home when a very specific thought appeared in my mind for no reason: "the world is going to end tomorrow." There was no feeling of foreboding with it. I told myself to stop being silly, but when I woke in the morning, the attacks were already in progress.
Of course the world didn't end, but it did for a lot of people, and some unpleasant changes came about because of it - so the world didn't end, but was changed. Don't know if that counts.
I wasn't in any physical danger from the attacks, but some of my loved ones were, so perhaps that's why I picked up on it at all.
A few years later I had what I can only call a "prophecy" complete with terrifying vision (which I'm not prone to, BTW, before anyone asks!) but have been hesitant to write about it. But there was still no sense of foreboding with it, at least not in the sense being talked about here.
Thanks. I thought Heidegger had something to say about it. And there was Camus, too, who said (strictly paraphrasing here, as I don't want to dig up my philosophy books tonight!) that knowledge of our own death drifts back to us from the future, and that's why we get spooked.
I get the sense of foreboding quite frequently, but it generally comes to nothing. Instead, it seems to work the other way around. When I have a thought, absent any particular feeling, that something is going to happen, as if it's simply a fact - that's the time it will happen.
For example, the night before the September 11th terrorist attacks, I was just going about my business at home when a very specific thought appeared in my mind for no reason: "the world is going to end tomorrow." There was no feeling of foreboding with it. I told myself to stop being silly, but when I woke in the morning, the attacks were already in progress.
Of course the world didn't end, but it did for a lot of people, and some unpleasant changes came about because of it - so the world didn't end, but was changed. Don't know if that counts.
I wasn't in any physical danger from the attacks, but some of my loved ones were, so perhaps that's why I picked up on it at all.
A few years later I had what I can only call a "prophecy" complete with terrifying vision (which I'm not prone to, BTW, before anyone asks!) but have been hesitant to write about it. But there was still no sense of foreboding with it, at least not in the sense being talked about here.
Here you go!
„Die Angst vor dem Tode ist die Angst ‚vor‘ dem eigensten, unbezüglichen und unüberholbaren Seinkönnen. Das Wovor dieser Angst ist das In-der-Welt-sein selbst. Das Worum dieser Angst ist das Sein-können des Daseins schlechthin.“
– Martin Heidegger: Sein und Zeit (1927)
Thanks. I thought Heidegger had something to say about it. And there was Camus, too, who said (strictly paraphrasing here, as I don't want to dig up my philosophy books tonight!) that knowledge of our own death drifts back to us from the future, and that's why we get spooked.