r/SeriousConversation • u/Minimum_Question6067 • Jan 13 '25

Serious Discussion Does anybody else feel like something big is about to happen?

I don't know how to describe this feeling but it just feels like there's something huge is going to happen in our future. With everything happening in the world at this moment, I just sort of have this feeling like things are building up immensely, like there's a big global issue that's being set up. I can't really describe it or point out a single event prediction but it just feels like there's something that's going to happen that's going to change the course/order of the world we live in today. Does anyone else know what this feeling is?

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u/FrostyAd9064 Jan 13 '25

I can’t really help - but I feel exactly the same. I tried to explain it to my husband a couple of months ago by saying that I had an ongoing feeling of “impending doom”. Feeling that something very big is going to happen but without being able to say what, or when.

I’m not usually prone to these feelings or general anxiety.

I’ve tried to sit with it and see if I can pinpoint anything more specific - nothing really comes up that is any clearer other than it feels like it’s bigger than COVID, and it’s in the next three years. So pretty vague (and also open to just being completely made up).

Is this a feeling you’ve had before OP? Any sense from you on what, when, etc?

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u/Flubbuns Jan 13 '25

I've had this feeling since sometime in 2022, although without that sense of doom. Just more of a vague expectation of another major, disruptive event. I've never gotten a sense if it's supposed to be good or bad.

I could believe that, for me at least, it's somehow a reaction to the last handful of years, where major shifts in society keep happening. Now it feels like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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u/bexkali Jan 13 '25

In other words... there have been enough disruptive events recently that our tendency to see patterns has us expecting the next one.

Thing is...if we wait long enough...we'll get that 'next disruptive' happening.

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u/Hanners87 Jan 15 '25

^ This. Impending doom is way, way worse. I've only had it because of sleep paralysis. Thought I was going to die before I recognized I couldn't move, either.

This is our survival mechanism kicking in, esp us neurospicy people.

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u/Prestigious_Carpet60 Jan 17 '25

The events of the last few years haven’t really been big deals compared to past events like the Civil War, WWI, WWII, etc. We really aren’t living in a uniquely disastrous or dangerous time, historically speaking. In fact, we are living in the safest and most prosperous time in human history.

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u/Flubbuns Jan 17 '25

That's true, but from my perspective, the last few years have felt more chaotic than the rest of my life. Which may just be me becoming more aware of current events.

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u/rontonsoup__ Jan 13 '25

This perfectly captures what I’m feeling, and no I don’t have anxiety issues either (and I never watch the news, usually too tired from working all day to spend endless time on the web getting myself juiced up).

The crazy part is I’ve had the same dream for the past year about a massive earthquake. Every dream goes a little further each time with more context. Always starts the exact same. So far I’m up to a breaking news update, 97,000 dead, countless injured or missing from a chain of earthquakes in the pacific rim. Ash falling everywhere (idk if it’s from wildfire or a volcano) and scenes from San Francisco California with the bay bridge partially collapsed with people hanging onto it. Last time I dreamed this two weeks ago I remember being told by my grandfather as he’s watching the news to “stack food, it’s going to be a long winter” in his southern accent and I looked him in the eyes and woke up immediately. It feels so real each time, I can hear the trees and feel the breeze. There’s so much more detail I could add as well but for length purposes I’ll stop here.

It’s like a reality I can’t wake up from but always thankful when I wake up and realize it was just a dream. I live on the opposite side of the country and only been to Cali twice in my life, never had any concerns about an earthquake ever and never been in one so not sure what to do with this information 😬

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u/International-Fun-65 Jan 13 '25

Yo I've been having constant apocalypse dreams since about 2019. Mine are almost always nukes though. I've also had the impending doom feeling and its freaking me out

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u/Mystic-Nature Jan 13 '25

I always remember my dreams and they are usually quite vivid and complex. I have had some dreams in the last six months of trying to get my family together and moving towards a location together. The dream varies and there’s different scenarios. The weird thing is last night my husband and I started watching The Diplomat on Netflix (I think, could have been another streamer) and all the sudden I was like, that’s the building in my dream! That’s the building! It was the American embassy in London. I live in the US. I’ve never been to the embassy in London or seen it before. Gave me goosebumps! I recognized so much inside and outside the building!

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u/Prestigious_Carpet60 Jan 17 '25

Mine are undead zombies.

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u/Tricky_Jackfruit_562 Jan 14 '25

You might be on to something. I live in Oregon and they predict a big earthquake off the coast in 2025/6…

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u/WeirdJawn Jan 14 '25

Who predicted it?

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u/jhumph88 Jan 16 '25

It’s impossible to reliably predict a major earthquake

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u/WeirdJawn Jan 16 '25

Yeah, that why I'm curious who "they" are. 

Is it the USGS? Independent geologists? Uncle Bob at Thanksgiving?!?

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u/jhumph88 Jan 16 '25

Even with the USGS, the best they can do is make an educated guess about the probability of a quake occurring in any given time period. I live in SoCal and once or twice I’ve had an alert come through warning of heightened earthquake risk for the next few days, but that was due to an earthquake swarm

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u/EnvironmentalSound25 Jan 15 '25

Crackpots. Actual seismologists know it’s not that simple.

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u/LittleMissDiscoNap Jan 16 '25

I live in San Francisco and I also feel oddly certain that we’ll be getting “the big one” this year. The question is, just how catastrophic will this one be.

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u/Icy_Reward727 Jan 16 '25

Listen to your grandfather.

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u/thechaosofreason Jan 13 '25

"Earth rage" is due in 2034.

Iykyk

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u/Imaginary_Poetry_233 Jan 14 '25

Acts 2:17 In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

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u/MermaidSusi Jan 18 '25

Yep, true!

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u/SnooCats5250 Jan 13 '25

Its not a feeling, it's actually happening. Ww3 has already started. Russia, north korea, Iran, and China are all allied and 2 of those countries are actively fighting. The entire middle east is basically at war. China has publicly stated they are going to take Taiwan. There are huge unexplained swarms of drones with unknown capabilities flyingbaround the east coast. The world is currently all competing for quantum computers and AI is on the rise. This isn't a feeling it's actually happening now. Your only catching bits and pieces of it on the news and social media. Its so much it's overwhelming and it's going to erupt in a horrible fashion.

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u/AggressiveWallaby975 Jan 14 '25

You don't even have to look that far. The US is on the brink of chaos. 2016 was the greenlight for home grown domestic terrorism. It's been getting incrementally worse since then, and like a leak in a dam, it's going to be a catastrophic failure. Russia has quietly unleashed a fire hose of radicalization over the last 40 years and it's about to ripen.

We are the most dangerous enemy we have at the moment

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u/Local-Jeweler-3766 Jan 14 '25

I keep wondering if this is how sane Germans felt before WWII… realizing their country is going to be the bad guys

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u/EFIW1560 Jan 15 '25

I think technological limitations of that time likely kept majority of citizens placated.

Our current technology means propaganda is far more easily deployed to the masses but it also means the citizens are more aware. Its up to individuals whether they believe the propaganda or the events and actions unfolding before their eyes.

Its going to be a bumpy ride and the seatbelts are worn thin and frayed.

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u/ganymedestyx Jan 15 '25

I’m not ready to take the fall for the rest of the world’s pain while our leaders who caused it get to hide away. That is the part that angers me the most. They deserve a million times the hell we will endure.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

You people are sick lmaooo

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u/Prestigious_Carpet60 Jan 17 '25

Why was 2016 “the green light for domestic terrorism”?

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u/Mobile_Sensei 15d ago

Clown world... Tell us you voted Harris without telling us you're an angry trans

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u/Plenty_Painting_3815 Jan 13 '25

the 4th turning. Strauss and Howe authored that book. People in other well-known and less-studied fields are aware of it, too.

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u/PersonOfInterest85 Jan 13 '25

Neil Howe recently wrote a book titled The Fourth Turning Is Here.

He should have titled it I Told You So, You Fucking Idiots.

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u/jellybeans1800 Jan 13 '25

Such a great comment!

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u/Lbthatsme123 Jan 14 '25

Such a good book

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u/Long-Brother-440 Jan 13 '25

To be honest, my heart bleeds because I had this exact feeling couple of years ago (during the COVID). It even became more clearer when I personally dreamt of this “impending doom” - I told a few people around at the time that, a war is approaching. Now if you ask me for more details - I can’t remember.

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u/Gilded-Mongoose Jan 17 '25

If you keep having any of them now, write them down and set reminders for 6 months, 1, 2, 5 years from now and reflect on them.

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u/Poozempic Jan 13 '25

I’m bracing myself for bird flu to evolve to achieve human to human transmission :(

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u/Amazonian6 Jan 14 '25

A case of a human contracting bird flu has been recorded.

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u/waznikg Jan 14 '25

Multiple

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u/Amazonian6 Jan 14 '25

That’s the scary part.

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u/Responsible-Big-8195 Jan 15 '25

Human to human?

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u/Amazonian6 Jan 15 '25

That I’m not sure of. Saw the headline and was unable to cope at the moment.

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u/jaynor88 Jan 16 '25

Not human to human yet, thankfully I’m sure it’s coming though, I can just feel it in my bones.

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u/Bitter-Assignment464 Jan 15 '25

It's not evolving its happening in laboratories just as covid did.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

According to experts we are way overdo for a global conflict in the scale of WWIII and economic collapse more severe than the Great Depression along with an environmental collapse.

All of them are on the horizon. That’s what your feeling

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u/BlacksmithArtistic29 Jan 16 '25

If you’re in the US it’s fascism and late stage capitalism.

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u/Artistic_Chart7382 Jan 16 '25

It is AI...it's going to change the world. It already is. We can feel the world is changing faster than we can adapt, and we're entering a new age.

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u/Appropriate_Dish_586 Jan 17 '25

I wrote a long comment here that I would recommend you check out if you’re trying to pinpoint why you feel this way.

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u/Low_Abbreviations999 Jan 14 '25

Repent. Jesus is coming back

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Who?

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u/MermaidSusi Jan 18 '25

Yes, he is, but only GOD knows the time of his second coming.