You are about to depart on a vacation when someone in your group suddenly freaks out and claims to have saw a vision of the vehicle crashing/exploding and everyone dying, would you believe them?
Potential Movie Spoilers (Its kinda the core plot tho)
Yes this is obviously in reference to Final Destination Movie/media-franchise
By vehicle I mean like anything. Bus, Train, Boat, Submarine (like the Titan lol), Plane, anything you would plausibly travel on in your lifetime.
For me it would depend on how vehemently they oppose going and how much money is invested in the travel. $20 taxi? Sure okay, we'll walk or take a scooter. $1000 plane ticket? Fuck it, may as well die.
I would believe them that they had the vision, I wouldn't believe it would literally happen, but I would consider if it was a sign that the trip was not a good idea for some other reason.
I don’t necessarily believe in “supernatural”/“paranormal” type stuff but I am of the mind that a good chunk of the information we process is unconscious, and those “bad gut feelings” sometimes are a means of our bodies reacting to said information.
Now, it could also be anxiety, mental health crisis symptoms etc. but those are also technically reactions to things. Assessing what is actually being reacted to and if it’s worth changing entire plans over is the important part.
I don't put stock in the paranormal/ supernatural, but I've seen every one of those movies, and I know that if you try to get out of the situation, you'll end up in an even worse Rube Goldberg machine of death.
Which was wrong. Tetanus is not caused by rust. It's caused by punctures. You can get tetanus from a perfectly metallic silver nail. Rust just provides handy nooks and crannies for the tetanus microbe to sit and wait. If I remember right, it was a fishing hook on an unused pole in an otherwise clean house/ closet. Unlikely it would have tetanus lingering.
I'm currently marathoning the movies, and I'm like, one of those people who would bash the person freaking out.
but, if it happened once, and turned out to be true, I would believe them if they said it a second time.
also, I would not really care.
I'd make them a bet. I'll give them 10.000 euro right now, and if I don't die, they give me 20k right back. Surely, if they had a true vision, they'd go for it, right?
If I had less time to think it over, I'd probably just laugh at them really really hard.
I'd make them prove it, tell me something that happened or was said or seen in the vision that they couldn't have known. Something which can be verified.
A vacation and the sweet release of death? That sounds far too good to be true. Obviously we still go on the holiday! It's not every day that a psychic predicts your demise, it would be foolish to pass up such an opportunity. What better way to enjoy your time off than with the knowledge that you're never going to have to go back?
If anything happens and we don't die, I would want my friend to know I will be sorely disappointed. That two-bit clairvoyant will never hear the end of it if I have to live.
I'd probably still go on the trip. I don't believe in supernatural stuff, but even if they were right, didn't Final Destination involve Death hunting down everyone who escaped the plane crash? I'd rather die quick on the plane (or maybe have a chance of living, maybe I was supposed to be one of the few survivors?) than deal with any of that.
As someone with mild travel anxiety, I'd probably be the one with the vision. And even if not, it would make a good excuse to skip the trip and stay home like I wanted to do in the first place.
I'd believe they had a vision, but beyond giving this person everything they need to not go if they don't want to, me going would depend on the person, my relationship with them and how much effort/money was already invested in the plans.
Visions and dreams most likely talk about vague feelings/vibes someone got due to a variety of reasons imo, so it's good to pay attention to them. However, taking them literally and going through great lengths just in case they play out exactly as imagined also seems foolish to me.
Long ago I had a friend who claimed something similar. In front of the camp fire, he claimed he was feeing spirits inside of him and that he became possessed. He gained attention from the group for about a minute. At first they asked if he was okay. He continued to act possessed, so they stopped being kind. They yelled at him, made fun of him, imitated him….
I sat next to him and quietly asked if he was okay and needed anything. I didn’t really know what his reaction would be because I didn’t know him. He was a friend of a friend. Still, I told him that him and I could leave to take a walk and talk. He didn’t respond and simply stared at the fire. He ignored us for the rest of that night.
The following morning, he decided to act ignorant. “What happened? I don’t remember anything.” The group was pissed at him and barely talked to him. He hasn’t been invited to anything ever since.
This whole thing was very unfortunate. It’s a memory of mine that is painful. I understand back then we were teenagers. Teenagers explore their identities, sometimes in cringy ways. That’s normal. But still, the event isolated him from the group. And if I talk about this whole incident to anyone who was there that night, they still resent him.
I suppose this is a long answer to your question. If someone claimed they had a vision of the vehicle crashing/exploding and everyone dying, nobody would believe them and they’d be in for a tough time.
Even if you don’t believe them, they obviously won’t be able to enjoy the vacation unless you avoid the circumstances they’re afraid of—so you might as well humor them.
The mere act of being told that something bad will happen changes your actions and choices on a subconscious level thereby likely avoiding the exact chain of events that lead to the moment seen in the vision without doing anything overtly different.
I've seen the first two of that movie series for the first time ever just yesterday.
i would try to escape the vehicle as fast as I can, even if someone is joking - because we don't joke around with fate 😭 (I'm way to scared to fly or go to a foreign country in general so this is a really unlikely situation for me to be in)
Lol I just pirated it yesterday and watched the first 5 movies. I would kinda get freaked out when random start dropping or if it got windy.
Yea honesly idk how I'd react. I'd probably just act like a good friend and go with them off the vehicle to comfort them, while similtaneously having the goal of getting off the vehicle, two goals done at the same time.
Then if that vehicle actually explodes or whatever, I'm gonna get so freaked out and I'm gonna start getting paranoid about what's the worst way death is gonna get me. Probably my phone exploding, since I kinda have it like 1 feet away from me when I sleep. So just a thermal runaway and BOOM I'm dead. So I place the phone far away in anticipation of this. But then I'm near an airport so perhaps some piece of a plane is gonna break off and smash through the window into me in bed, crushing my head.
Yea idk if I even have the will to survive this, I'm kinda suicidal so I might just kms to get it over with.
My car was parked on the street, my wife told me she was going to re-park it in the driveway, and as soon as she left I had a vision of her being hit by a small, speeding black car.
I ignored it as nonsense. I SHOULD have said "Forget it, I'll move it myself." I did not.
About a minute later I hear "CRASH!"
Yeah, small speeding black car, crossed a double line, destroyed the car. She was fine. Dash camera caught the whole thing.
Bonus: Little black car had mom in the passenger seat holding a baby with no car seat or seatbelt. Dash camera caught that too.