@CriticalCupcake that before his incident he used to have nightmares of dying in just such an incident. But he wouldn't accept that fear and would instead return to sleep with the intent of revisiting that scenario, but instead navigating the incident successfully and surviving it. So later when he was caught as the only officer following a suspect who stopped his own vehicle, exited, and began firing on my father before my father could even stop his own vehicle intuition was already primed. =>

@CriticalCupcake So quickly was my dad able to recover and take action that during his response he still hadn't stopped his own vehicle completely and he had to crouch and walk in the old behind-the-door firing position - that was more useful when your unit was a steel-doored LTD - both cars bumped.

In my own experience I was at a druid ceremony of remembrance for the father of a friend. In part of the ceremony each participant in turn approaches the family of the deceased to offer (cont)

@CriticalCupcake words from their heart. Many shared condolences but the instruction was made that if you channeled or received a message through the veil it was appropriate to share it. Having my own extensive history with spirituality I opened myself and received the message "remember peanut butter". Having never met her father I did not know it's significance until I indeed shared it and she cried happily. Later she told me offbeing her diabetic father's partner in smuggling peanut (cont)

@CriticalCupcake candy and ice cream into the house past her mother. This is only one such truly metaphysical experience I've had, but I still count practical intuition to be as valuable a tool ass anything otherworldly - allowing your brain to come to logical conclusions with facts you legitimately have access to but might otherwise impede yourself from accessing.