Gut Instinct

ilovesleep

How often are they correct?

castie

Depends what youve eaten

ilovesleep

A series of events happened with a guy I know which led me to believe I was being strung along. You know words are cheap and actions speak volumes more and all that. I needed to have it out with him in which I did. I hope I did the right thing.

Pherekydes

74% of the time they are correct, and the remaining 23% of the time they are wrong. :pac:

castie

Pherekydes wrote: »

74% of the time they are correct, and the remaining 23% of the time they are wrong. :pac:

And the remaining 3% its just gas???

Pherekydes

castie wrote: »

And the remaining 3% its just gas???

Hydrogen disulphide.

100 people were asked if they trusted their gut instinct. 74 answered that they trusted their gut instinct 74% of the time.

xoxyx

ilovesleep - are you having a gut feeling that you should take the day off?

Feisar

I worked as a bartender all trough college.

When I was fairly experienced in dealing with people I found i could tell trouble coming in the door. I'd just know someone was going to be a problem.
It was probably me subconsciously picking up on body language/vibe whatever giving me a "feeling".

FlutterinBantam

Was walking home after a bit of a 'séisúin' and a kebab and felt a bit of pressure in the bowel.

Needed to break wind badly but had a gut feeling it might be fraught with peril.

Anyway ignored it,and sank a deep sonorous one into the jocks, echo off the fcuker.

Sure enough the jocks were like a thrushes chest when I checked them at home.

Had to be boil-washed:mad:

xoxyx

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Was walking home after a bit of a 'séisúin' and a kebab and felt a bit of pressure in the bowel.

Needed to break wind badly but had a gut feeling it might be fraught with peril.

Anyway ignored it,and sank a deep sonorous one into the jocks, echo off the fcuker.

Sure enough the jocks were like a thrushes chest when I checked them at home.

Had to be boil-washed:mad:

I bet, in real life, you're the kind of person who coughs loudly so that nobody can hear the spash - EVEN WHEN YOU'RE HOME ALONE!!!

Biggins

Usually very accurate.

Emiko

ilovesleep wrote: »

How often are they correct?

Most of the time.

Your subconscious is generally better at processing info than your conscious mind.

If you have that nagging feeling (I normally feel it in my chest area), listen to it.

sbsquarepants

You should definitely always "listen" to chest pains!
I've learned through many a hard, sad and sometimes downright painful or dangerous life experience, to go with my gut feelings. I'd say they are ALWAYS right. Have been so far anyway.

FlutterinBantam

xoxyx wrote: »

I bet, in real life, you're the kind of person who coughs loudly so that nobody can hear the spash - EVEN WHEN YOU'RE HOME ALONE!!!

Not so much a splash, honey, more like the sound of a flock of pigeons taking off suddenly.

No cough could cover that bad boy.

Your gut instinct is wrong sweet cheeks;)

kfallon

ilovesleep wrote: »

A series of events happened with a guy I know which led me to believe I was being strung along. You know words are cheap and actions speak volumes more and all that. I needed to have it out with him in which I did. I hope I did the right thing.

I'm sure you did the right thing, if your instinct tells you that you can't trust the guy then it needs to be sorted one way or another!

I'd say most of the time my gut instinct is right but it has been known to be wrong when judging people. Some people I thought were fookfaces turned out to be sound and vice versa!

--Kaiser--

Gut instinct is usually what people call the very quick and subconscious thought processes your brain performs without you noticing.

There's a book that deals with this
Blink

Temptamperu

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Gut instinct is usually what people call the very quick and subconscious thought processes your brain performs without you noticing.

There's a book that deals with this
Blink

I seen a documentary once that says its a throw back to when we were hunters and gathers and needed split second reactions.

mkdon05

Was on a bus in poland a few years ago. We never bought a ticket (Weird set up there, you have to buy them from a newsagent) and I got a really strong gut feeling to get off the bus at one of the stops. I ignored it and sure enough the inspector got on at the next and shafted us with a fine. :mad:

I tend to listen to my gut more often than not since then.

xoxyx

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Not so much a splash, honey, more like the sound of a flock of pigeons taking off suddenly.

No cough could cover that bad boy.

Your gut instinct is wrong sweet cheeks;)

Damn! I thought I had you nailed. Ok - you're a petite woman then???

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Gut instinct is usually what people call the very quick and subconscious thought processes your brain performs without you noticing.

There's a book that deals with this
Blink

Thing is, people keep blaming feelings of discomfort on gut feelings. I know so many people that say they had a bad feeling about getting in a car / train, and then they did get on and everything was ok, that I am skeptical, to say the least, about the very small minority who miss a crash because of a "gut feeling".

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Gut instinct is usually what people call the very quick and subconscious thought processes your brain performs without you noticing.

There's a book that deals with this
Blink

"Gladwell tells the story of a firefighter in Cleveland who answered a routine call with his men. It was in a kitchen in the back of a one-story house in a residential neighborhood. The firefighters broke down the door, laid down their hose, and began dousing the fire with water. It should have abated, but it did not. As the fire lieutenant recalls, he suddenly thought to himself, "There's something wrong here," and he immediately ordered his men out. Moments after they fled, the floor they had been standing on collapsed. The fire had been in the basement, not the kitchen as it appeared. When asked how he knew to get out, the fireman thought it was ESP. What is interesting to Gladwell is that the fireman could not immediately explain how he knew to get out. From what Gladwell calls "the locked door" in our brains, our fireman just "blinked" and made the right decision. In fact, if the fireman had deliberated on the facts he was seeing, he would have likely lost his life and the lives of his men."

Right, I'm convinced so! :rolleyes:

parrai

ilovesleep wrote: »

A series of events happened with a guy I know which led me to believe I was being strung along. You know words are cheap and actions speak volumes more and all that. I needed to have it out with him in which I did. I hope I did the right thing.

So would it be right to say, you liked the guy, you liked what he was saying but thought it too good to be true, and now are thinking, I hope I haven't ruined something good? That would be a gut instinct... Is is right?

Seachmall

Like most people I'd imagine it's a little over 50% (little better than chance).

Of course it varies depending on the situation but presumably it all averages to 50% or a little over.

problemchimp

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Was walking home after a bit of a 'séisúin' and a kebab and felt a bit of pressure in the bowel.

Needed to break wind badly but had a gut feeling it might be fraught with peril.

Anyway ignored it,and sank a deep sonorous one into the jocks, echo off the fcuker.

Sure enough the jocks were like a thrushes chest when I checked them at home.

Had to be boil-washed:mad:

In the bin lad!!!

jackie1974

My sister stopped breathing when she was a tiny baby, my parents put her in the car to drive her to the hospital but she was gone blue. My mother said that she started C.P.R. even though she had never heard of it or seen it done but that instinct just took over. My sister would have died only for it.

Seachmall

xoxyx wrote: »

Thing is, people keep blaming feelings of discomfort on gut feelings. I know so many people that say they had a bad feeling about getting in a car / train, and then they did get on and everything was ok, that I am skeptical, to say the least, about the very small minority who miss a crash because of a "gut feeling".

It's a memory bias. We all get gut feelings during the day and learn to ignore them but when it coincides with a random or unpredictable event it's a big deal and we remember that we knew it was going to happen. Then we try to remember instances that might prove we have great instinct and, well, we find it.

I'm not saying some people don't have good instinct, some do, but it's a simple interpretation, subconcious or otherwise, of information fed to us. Some people are very good at it but most of us do no better than chance. But of course people will tell you these things don't apply to them.

Kevin Duffy

In a relationship, if you feel you can't trust the other person then you can't be happy in the relationship. If you're not happy, there's no point in being in the relationship, so I would say that by definition your gut instinct should always be followed in relationships and you did the right thing.

ilovesleep

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

In a relationship, if you feel you can't trust the other person then you can't be happy in the relationship. If you're not happy, there's no point in being in the relationship, so I would say that by definition your gut instinct should always be followed in relationships and you did the right thing.

Thank you folks. Without going into the details. Trust was eroded and he was rude and disrepectful. I suppose I just needed to come to peace with my decision today. I feel like my head is cracking.

Saila

my head says not much, but my gut says almost always