Intuition: Translating the Body’s Signals Accurately

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving my friend Leslie called her mom to tell her, “I’ll be driving down to your place on Wednesday morning, rather than tonight. I am just too tired to drive right now.”

The moment those words came out of her mouth she reported feeling a sinking sensation in her body, like she knew she was going to have a car accident.

This had happened years before in a similar way, so it felt familiar and eery.

As we spoke about it this morning, she told me more. “Weirdly enough,...