Well that was weird and kind of scary.

So I try to make a point not to post stuff like this but I guess I'd like some advice on the topic and don't know who to ask.

I was at work tonight. Going about my business. Fairly slow night only running 2 machines that don't need much attention. Scrolling through my phone doing some research on a project I'm about to take on. Casually messaging a girl on snapchat (nothing serious, just passing the time with small talk). Then suddenly I get a really bad feeling something awful has happened somewhere. I immediately get scared and start thinking of all my close friends and family. Send a few texts, and make a couple calls. Everyone seems to be ok if not a bit annoyed for me calling them at almost 10pm. (11 I just realized for my friend that just moved to Louisville). So I finally start calming down. 

I'm ok at the moment but I'm beginning to realize that I just panicked for 0 reason. I'm not ok with that. I've had issues dwelling on problems in the past but I feel like that's just normal as they were actual problems. This was my brain suddenly going into full alert E36 M3 just hit the fan mode for no good reason. 

I don't know what I'm really trying to say or ask here. And this is a long badly formatted post typed on a phone so it may be hard to figure out reading it. But maybe I guess this experience just shook me a bit and I feel like this needs to go somewhere.

Haints.

In reply to Grizz :

I'm not sure I follow.

Grizz said:

Haints.

Colloquialism for ghosts.

In reply to Floating Doc :

Ah. Ok. That's what I thought. Makes more sense than anything else I can think of right now.

Happens to me from time to time. Most of the time its nothing. But sometimes...

You never know.  I was dating a young lady when I was in college.  She didn't like the college town where we were and moved back to her hometown, Anchorage.

We kept in touch through letters (remember those?), since calls to Alaska were way too much.  I'm sitting in class one afternoon and suddenly felt like something really bad had happened with her.  Walked out of class, ran back to my apartment, called her and asked if she was OK.  She wanted to know who had told me?

Apparently, someone had lost control of their car on the ice, hit her car - exactly in the side of the front tire with his bumper-, bounced off, shoveing her car into a snowbank in the process.  She was fine.  Her car was fine.  The only one who was freaked was me. Freaked at exactly the time it had happened.

Nothing ever happened like that to me before or since.  Absolutely no explanation.  Ghosts?  Maybe...

Panic attack? (I am going to take a wild guess and say someone on here has experience with those)

There might be some physical / diet issue involved.  Noticing anything else about yourself? Tummy issues?

In reply to aircooled :

Well my sleep patterns and diet have gone to hell recently because of night shift and trying to finish my degree. Occasional headaches. Other than that things are pretty normal.

Sounds like a panic attack.

They suck, I had my first one about 18 months ago.

Best description I've heard is that feeling when you fall and the ground is rushing up at you but instead of it lasting half a second it lasts for (for me) a few months.

Find someone to talk to.

In my case it was some professional help, lots of reading and understanding and reflection.  Something from way back might be causing it. I hadn't dealt with my mother passing 4 years ago in any sort of healthy manner, things built up and I was starting to come apart at the seams

A change in diet helped as well. Vitamin D, B complex and Omega 3/6/9 have made a world of difference. 

Meditation helps a huge amount too.

Lots of folks try to take good care of their body, make sure you take good care of your mind too.

Im in the minority here i guess, usually when something like that happens i not only listen to it but i take it seriously.

Sometimes its just the cosmos telling you to act or notice

Daylan C said:

In reply to aircooled :

Well my sleep patterns and diet have gone to hell recently because of night shift and trying to finish my degree. Occasional headaches. Other than that things are pretty normal.

Sounds like your too stressed and your subconscious is taking advantage of the lack of sleep. Not one too push meds but if anxiety is a big part of your life you should see the Dr.. You don’t want to end up with IBD down the road.

I've had those feelings.  I remember calling my grandmother from one of the rallycross championships to make sure everything was okay.

On the other hand, I also remember having a dream where I was at work, but I was talking to someone from high school for some reason, and my mom (who I lived with at the time) called me from Columbus (she never bothered me at work) to tell me that her Accord (she only drove GMs) broke a timing belt.

A few years later, I'm at work, a guy who I used to go to school with happened to get hired in to my shop, my parents moved to Columbus a year earlier, and my mom happened to call me at work of all things to ask me if I can check out the '84 Accord that she just bought to replace her Grand Am, and that is when I remembered that weird-ass dream.  I told her about the dream, and told her to not drive the car, I'm picking it up tonight.  She's also had premonitive dreams like that, so she understood and agreed.

Belt was, of course, ready to blow.  Could peel the teeth off like string cheese.

A couple months later, the head gasket went.  No sense fighting fate, I guess.  I think that was when I bought her a Subaru.

When I was a kid I told my mom, as she was tucking me in bed, “mom, be careful driving tomorrow.” She asked why and I said I had a bad feeling. The next day, we got T boned in the family Aerostar. 

Ive had several instances like this. I don’t believe in BS. I don’t believe in voodoo mumbo jumbo. I don’t believe in paranormal, nor luck, or anything like that. There are a lot of things happening to a lot of people at exactly the same time. Someone is bound to get it right at one point. 

I'm pretty level headed, don't usually get too worked up about stuff, don't worry about much, and haven't had a whole lot of reasons to feel anxious since the long ago days of college exams and papers.

A few years ago I found myself having what I called "anxious spells."  Best way I can describe it, nothing going on in my life or work for me to be anxious about, but there I was, randomly feeling anxious, like something bad was about to happen, or I was about to take a final exam I wasn't prepared for.

I got concerned enough to go see a Dr. about it.  I don't frequent the Dr., and I decide to go on my own, with no coaxing from SWMBO, needless to say, I was worried.

Doc ran some tests, which lead to more tests, and a couple months later I was at an Endocrinologist.  Turns out I have a thyroid condition called Hashimoto's Disease, and it was the cause of my random anxiousness.  I've been on a synthetic thyroid hormone pill for a couple years now, and very rarely have I had a spell since, none of which have been as bad as before being on the thyroid pill.

If this is getting to be a regular thing, and out of the norm.  Go get checked out by a medical professional.

In reply to bigdaddylee82 :

I've had anxious spells before but there was always something to explain why I was worried. This time life is legitimately going pretty damn good for me yet there I was in a full panic for no obvious reason. This is literally the first time I've had any kind of event this bad with or without a reason. That's why it's so concerning to me.

Weird, I'm not one to believe in ghosts or anything of that nature but I had something very similar happen one evening/morning back in 2011. 

I was dead asleep and just shot straight up in the middle of night, around 1am or so. You know when you wake up with that huge shot of adrenaline, so you're UP, not groggy. As I'm getting up to get myself a drink of water my cell phone rings (I used to charge it in the living room so I wouldn't be tempted to sit in bed and stare at it, etc. I find this odd given that it's ~1am. I walk out to get my phone and it was my wife at the time calling to tell me she was at her fathers house. The firefighters had just put out the blaze, but not before he perished inside. 

Lack of sleep can do some pretty crazy things to your moods. I've had the gamut with our youngest not being a good sleeper. Just be aware of it, and if it keeps happening it would be time to talk to a medical professional. But once is nothing to worry about.

Daylan C said:

In reply to bigdaddylee82 :

I've had anxious spells before but there was always something to explain why I was worried. This time life is legitimately going pretty damn good for me yet there I was in a full panic for no obvious reason. This is literally the first time I've had any kind of event this bad with or without a reason. That's why it's so concerning to me.

Are you the type of person that's always expecting the worst, or waiting for the other shoe to drop? Maybe the fact that things are "Legitmately going pretty damn good" just doesn't feel quite right because it hasn't been normal? Like when things get too quiet and parents know something is going on.

In reply to STM317 :

Oh I definitely don't trust when things are actually working in my favor in an obvious way but I'm trying to learn to be happy about it.  There have been things I was concerned over at work but that cloud seems to have passed (which to me means I'm about to let my guard down and get bit, bit we'll have to wait and see) It's the end of the semester and it looks like I made it out with decent enough grades so that's one less thing to worry about. If anything I just worry I've used up too much of my luck lately.

For most of my life I've been aware of when my mom is mad at me even when she isn't around or could not have any idea what I was doing by a feeling I get in the pit of my stomach (I'm sure fully self-induced as I know what is right and wrong and when I was doing something wrong my subconscious would remind me).

Now occasionally I get the same feeling from indigestion or whatever and I have to work really hard to make sure there is nothing I have done (or forgotten to do) that would make mom mad. 

In reply to Robbie :

Oh I know exactly what you're talking about there. This was definitely less "mom's mad" and more "mom might be hurt".

It happens to me occasionally. I usually work myself up in such a panic that I have to call everyone and talk to them just to make sure they are okay. Thankfully there has never actually been anything wrong. 

Antihero said:

Im in the minority here i guess, usually when something like that happens i not only listen to it but i take it seriously.

 

Sometimes its just the cosmos telling you to act or notice

You know just before I smashed my Samurai a couple years ago I had a terrible feeling of dread wash over me. Lifted off the gas, checked gauges, looked around, couldn't find anything wrong, went back on the gas. Kept thinking how odd it was to have this remarkably awful feeling for no reason but tried to ignore it because it seemed to be without reason. I can't let random irrational feelings be the boss of me. Ten seconds later, in an area of the road I could not have seen when I first had the awful feeling, woman in CR-V pulls out close in front of me and cleaves off a corner of the Sammy despite my best attempts to dodge. Maybe if I hadn't lifted off the gas at all, I wouldn't have even had time for a second or two of hard braking before impact as this woman pulled into the road without looking where she was going.

I will never tell my mother this because she already believes in psychics and I like to think it was just an odd coincidence, and that psychics are people who are fooling themselves at best or other people for money at worst, and the CIA once tried real hard to make them work and failed. But that's the only time I've had a feeling like that out of nowhere.

Oh BTW a more helpful answer: Is the shop you're working in producing sound around 19Hz?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/oct/16/science.farout

The Android apps Infrasound Detector and Oscilloscope could help you find out.