25 Of The Greatest “I Called It” Moments In Someone’s History

There’s this thing called intuition. It’s the ability to acquire knowledge without conscious reasoning or an explanation. The ways it can manifest can be various - from gut feeling, inner sensing, to pattern recognition, and so on. 

There are many explanations for what exactly intuition is, as at one point or another, it has managed to capture the attention of fields like psychology, philosophy, and others.

Today, we’re not going to discuss every single point made about intuition ever, as it would take way too much time, plus it’s pretty convoluted. Yet, it’s not like we’re not going to talk about it at all; we’re gonna discuss a few things, those that seemed the most interesting. 

Some psychologists believe that intuition simply relies on the “powers of pattern-matching”. Basically, it takes into account long-term memories of similar situations and presents them as in-the-moment judgements. A person might not even realize their brain is doing all this, and that’s why they assume it’s their intuition and not memory speaking. 

So, it might seem like something you feel, understand without using logic, just a gut feeling, but in reality, it’s still using logic, the kind that stems from deep-seated knowledge, and that’s why it feels like it comes to you naturally. 

Yet, as we already acknowledged before, psychology isn’t the only field that delved into what intuition is. When it comes to philosophy, its explanation of intuition is quite intertwined with religion and spirituality, especially in the East. 

Here, Buddhism puts intuition beyond the conscious mental process, as they explain, conscious thinking cannot necessarily access subconscious information and render it into a communicable form. Essentially, in parts of Zen Buddhism, intuition is viewed as a mental state between the universal mind and one's individual or in other words discriminating mind. 

Astrology has a say in how intuition looks, too. They explain that it has 4 types, based on where it comes from – clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizance. 

Whether to believe these things or not is up to you; we’re not here to tell you what to do, we’re just here to shine a light on how intuition is viewed in different fields. Keep in mind that everything we mentioned today is barely scratching the surface – everything goes way deeper, and it’s up to you to read up on it if you’re interested. 

Why did we start talking about intuition in the first place? Well, no matter where one’s intuition comes from, which type it is, or whatever else, it doesn’t change the fact that from time to time, it leads people to have those “I called it” moments in life. Probably most of us have had at least one or a few of them.

Today’s list is made up of people who decided to share about these moments online. After all, most of the time, calling something before it even happens tends to be fairly memorable. So, why not boast about it on the internet, right? 

Have you ever had any similar “I called it” moments? Please share your story with us!