Signs

March 2007:

As a little girl there were several instances in which I greatly surprised some of my friends. On one occassion, I was spending the night with my then best friend and we were looking at her collection of dolls. She asked me to guess the name of her doll. Without thinking, I blurted out "Jessica". My best friend's eyes nearly popped out of her head with amazement. To this day I can't explain how I knew- I just knew that I did.

While on summer vacation shortly before my Senior year in high school, I dreamed my boyfriend was cheating on me with a girl named "Amanda", a girl I never knew existed. The following day, my boyfriend called me stating, "we need to talk". He was absolutely floored when I confronted him asking him if he was breaking up with me for a girl named "Amanda". Turned out my dream was right.

In 1997-1998, my freshman year in college, I repeatedly dreamed UK won the NCAA tournament. I had this specific dream no less than four times and each time it was incredibly vivid. No one expected UK to win that year- they started out shaky and to top it off, there was a new coach. Each time I had this dream, I found myself sitting on the court and watching UK win the final game. That March, UK took home the title of NCAA champions.

I found out in my Senior year of college that an ex boyfriend was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in his back. We dated briefly in high school and I had seen little of him since. Through friends, I received periodic updates on his well-being. One afternoon as I was sitting on my bed, I had a very strange feeling. My thoughts were completely fixated on my ex. I remember wondering how he was doing and really believing he may have passed away. These thoughts consumed me that day...I had trouble thinking of little else. A few days later I received the news my ex had passed away. I truly believe that the day I was thinking about him all day was the day he in fact passed away.

When I first became pregnant, I repeatedly had dreams I was having a little girl. On the day before my ultra sound (to determine the sex of our baby), I dreamed I was at the doctors office having my ultra sound. In my dream, the nurse asked me if I wanted to know the sex of the baby. I responded stating I already knew that I was pregnant with a girl. In my dream the nurse then turned to me and said, "no honey, you are having a boy". The following day during my ultra sound I was told I was having a little boy.

On September 10, 2001 I experienced a lot of anxiety and panic and kept thinking something "bad" was about to happen (though I could not figure out what it could possibly be). I repeatedly heard the song "God Bless America" running through my mind. In addition, I noticed several American flags while driving around town that day- something I normally did not notice. The following day on September 11, 2001, I understood why.

During the summer of 2001, I woke up feeling panicky and anxious one day. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that something terrible had occurred. Shortly thereafter, my mother called me to tell me my three sisters had been involved in a wreck in which the vehicle they were driving flipped three times after being hit. Luckily, no one was seriously injured.

In 2001, I arrived home one day and just knew my older stepsister had delivered her baby that day. I was not close to my stepsister as she lives in NY and I had only met her one time. Although I somehow already knew, it still came as a surprise that day when my mother called to tell me that my stepsister had her baby that day.

In May 2004 while vacationing in Key West, FL I became very upset with my then husband who was in KY. We got into a very big argument and I clearly remember hanging up on him and turning to my step sister and saying, "I wish a tornado would come and just shake him up". I felt SO bad the next day when I checked my voice mail....it turned out that a tornado HAD swept through our neighborhood that night several hours after I had hung up on him.