Great looking oats! I live in S.C. and we have Libby’s pumpkin available all year long. Maybe it’s a FL thing? And I do not like the organic at all (first time i’ve ever said that).. It is extremely runny and to me at first it tastes great but then it leaves this yucky aftertaste… i’ll stick to Libby’s when I can 🙂

And oh wow, that is crazy about what happened to you!! I think that we DO sense things about people close to us. Two of my best friends are twins and it’s freaky how much they are connected. But I really do think it’s true. I’ve never woken up thinking that it’s going to be a bad day and someone else died but it was just a bad day. I HAVE had feelings that a specific thing was going to happen between me and someone close to me and it did, and that has happened several times. Sometimes you just know.. there’s no explaining it.

My best friend always gets premonitions. She goes to Virginia Tech and the morning of the horrific shooting she had a feeling that something bad was supposed to happen so she skipped class for the first time. Her class was in the building where the shootings took place. It’s so scary and so unexplainable!

Funny you say that about the organic pumpkin, I too think it sucks compared to Libbys ! And regarding the EP, I have a twin sister and one day I was headed out to a doctors appt, and I need to bike there while it was a rain storm, well I ended up having a horrible accident and almost died on the road and ended up in the hospital for 3 days. later my sister told me that day as she watched me leave she got a feeling that i was not coming home that night !

That is so strange– and yet, I know exactly what you mean. I totally believe that some people are attuned to a “sixth sense” of sorts.

So sorry to hear that something bad happened to your friend 🙁

Oh, and I agree with you– organic pumpkin is NOT Libby’s.

I think I used to be more ‘in tune’ with the universe when I was younger. I had a dream that a plane would crash into New York harbour two days before TWA 800 did. I remember being really freaked out by that – and my flying fears started.

I’m paranoid in general so I always have a feeling that something will go wrong. I think that’s because I’m so far away from my family [they are in Canada and I’m in the UK], plus my brother is in Afghanistan so every time I turn on the news my heart stops. It’s that feeling of *not knowing* that gets me.

BTW: I always find that different kinds of canned pumpkin have all sorts of tastes. Sometimes they are mixed with squash too and that changes it.

Pumpkin is available year round in Georgia.

Usually when I get that feeling, it’s completely unfounded. I don’t know what that says about my ability to be in tune with things.

I think it all has to do with energy. We all create energy, we absorb energy, and if you are connected with someone by blood or friendship, you kind of become one in terms of common energy. For example, the conservation of energy: energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed from one state to another, haha, if that makes any sense. That’s why I don’t really believe in shows like paranormal activity because all the crap they say they are picking up on, its all just energy, not an actual ghost.
I’ve often joke with my friends that I am a “freaking prophet” because I’m very good at sensing situations, predicting things for them, and intuitively knowing when something is wrong.
I am a huge believer in this idea of energy, especially Karma.

I’ve definitely had a moment like yours. I don’t know why, but I feel when you’re close enough to someone, you just get senses and can tell when something’s off. Deeper, while it’s happened, I can’t say why, but it’s just meant for you to know.

I hope they’re ok! 🙂

Like Megan, I am a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and purpose for this life.

But I do believe we have a real connection to certain things in the world or to certain people. I have had bad feelings before and not really known what they were about, only to find out later someone I know had something bad happen to them.

I had a weird experience on 9/11/01…I was in college and normally in class during the time the planes crashed into the WTC. But we had switched classrooms for some reason and as we were leaving, my coffee got knocked onto me (onto my new New York City shirt!) so I went all the way home to change clothes, turning on the tv to see the second plane hit. It’s like I was meant to see it happen for some reason.

But I also have dreams about people whom I haven’t seen in a while, like years, and then later on I will see them. I’ve also had a dream about someone and then had them tell me they dreamt the same thing. Very interesting stuff!

I hope your friend is alright.

Caitlin,
I often have things like this happen to me since I was a teenager there has been thoughts where I randomly think of a past moment good/bad where I would be with this person… later to know that something has happened. I can often sense if I’m going to see random people that I normally don’t see. I have also had a few dreams that link up with real situations. Very odd

Libby’s has been missing from my grocer store shelves lately so when I spotted some at Target yesterday I bought 4 cans. I’ve tried other brands – even the one in your photo – they do not compare. Libby’s rules even if it isn’t organic.
My sister has premonitions ALL the time and all of them have actually come true. I believe in having a “gift” for those sort of things. Sorry about your friend. I hope everything is okay.

You can buy pumpkin year around at Whole Foods. I’ve also found it at larger Publixes during the summer, but with th epumpkin shortage it would probably be harder to find it this year.

I have had a few moments like that but more something like I knew someone needed a hug, or a call, or to hear something very specific in the way of advice. Crazy!

OK, the pumpkin in the north thing is totally wrong – this year. Libby’s Farm is literally 20 minutes from my house, and I can’t find canned pumpkin ANYWHERE. The farmers had a really bad pumpkin season 🙁 🙁 It sucks!

Gosh it’s so hard to wrap my brain around those concepts about time, but it’s SO interesting to think about. It’s almost like we, as humans, aren’t meant to be able to grasp the entire time concept..
I hope your friend turns out ok though 🙁 That’s really scary.

I have done this before…but its weird that you said that today, because this morning all the way to work I thought….I am going to get injured today, I am going to be in the hosptial because I am going to get in an accident.
It was the strangest feeling in the world and made me jumpy all the way to work….I could even picture myself in the hospital…hm
nothing happened….but i am terrified of driving home….

I am in SC and I can not find pumpkin anywhere…even the organic kind…bummer

I thought this was such an interesting discussion. I am also a Christian and actually have been in a Bible Study since January that is all about God’s will and being called. I think I have become much more aware of how God can move us in a variety of ways and give us insight as well. But I agree with you, if is often so powerful and so out there that it is too much for us to understand!

I made your pumpkin spice latte oatmeal this morning and it was amazing, topped with almonds and brown sugar.
I live in Michigan and the pumpkin supplies are getting low. Every time I see it I buy a can!

Regarding your ESP moment — it happens to me all the time! A few weeks ago I got to the gym a few minutes before my husband, and I had this bad feeling he was in a car accident. He finally got to the gym, but he told me that he had slid into a lamppost in the gym parking lot! Weird!

That is so eerie. I had a dream that my grandpa died the night before he died. Not in the same way he died, but still…. It really freaked me out.

This post couldn’t have come a better time… One week ago, I was packing my suitcase to go visit my boyfriend in LA (and I live in Tennessee) and I had this overwhelming feeling that we weren’t going to be together any longer and “this moment was it.” The feeling was so strong that I physically shook my body to shake it off. And then, one hour later, he breaks up with me and I don’t go to LA. Very strange how things happen sometimes…

Hi there!
you should definitely read “Life After Death” by Deepak Chopra. It is not a Christianity or any religion based book. He is very educated about spiritual connections and talks about how we live on different planes of the universe and we can tap into things by being consciously aware.

hope your person in your life is ok.
have a good day!

In SC we have pumpkin year round. But after the holidays, it moves to the baking area of the store.

I had a dream two nights ago that a coworker’s wife called to say she loved our save the dates. In my dream, an aunt that I don’t often speak to was in my house while I was on the phone. And then I went shopping for gifts for pregnant friends and couldn’t keep count of who was pregnant. YESTERDAY (while awake!)- when I got to work, that coworker told me how much his wife liked our STDs, I had an email from my aunt, and another dear friend told me she was pregnant. I think my dream totally had me connected to all of these people. I find that happens alot! It can be spooky and also a gift.

I don’t know exactly WHY or HOW, but I do feel like we have connections to people we’re close to. When I was 15 and my father died in a car accident, I was at a late movie and remember feeling an incredibly overwhelming sense of sadness(and it wasn’t a sad movie-Moulin Rouge). The next morning when my mom came to wake me up and tell me, I *refused* to get out of bed, knowing that either my father, his wife, or his mother had died.

On a “lighter” note, my only car accident ever came as I left class one day. I got in my car and said “Crap, I’m going to get in an accident today.” Guess what happened 15 minutes later?

Wow that’s deep!! I’ve had moments like that, but I sha’t go into details – it’d require too much thinking time!!
Soo I’ll just say that your oats look delicious and leave it at that 😛

That is CRAZY!

when i was in high school i had this very “important” (at least i thought so back then) meeting with student council and the school administration. in the middle of it, i just started bawling uncontrollably. we were not talking about anything sensitive (homecoming, maybe?)so the crying came out of nowhere. a few hours later, i was pulled out of class and told my good friend had passed away that morning. it was a total shock, but it’s like i knew the moment it happened and felt her pain as she passed. it’s still the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me- and hopefully it won’t ever happen again. i really hope your friend is ok. you’re in my thoughts.

I don’t think my sences are too in tune to anyone/anything to feel weird connection or get bad feelings. I am somewhat intuitive but not really.

Have you ever read The Secret? It’s all about the energy you put into the universe and what you can get back from it. Another good book about energy is “do dead people watch you shower”. It’s good if you believe in spirits (which I totally do) and it’s an easy read. Kind of fun and not too deep, but it explained strange occurences and stuff.

Very interesting and timely post. Two weeks ago, I was talking to my boyfriend, at length, about my paternal grandmother, who had suffered from Alzheimer’s for nearly a decade. I was just reminiscing about her healthier years, when she remembered her children and grandchildren and wasn’t so frail. The last time I saw her, she had no memory of any of her loved ones. It was heartbreaking.

Anyway, I don’t usually dwell on the negative, and rarely talked about my grandmother with my boyfriend. Still, however random, the conversation I had that night was really cathartic and comforting.

Anyway, the next morning my dad called me to say that my grandmother had passed away the night before. She went peacefully, with my aunt by her bedside. I have to believe that I had some sense of her passing; that the flood of happy memories was her last gift to me.

And I hope your friend is okay! If you need some extra pumpkin from Rhode Izzle, just let me know! I haven’t noticed a shortage, or I just have too many cans in my pantry…

I have had many moments like that. Usually it’s a dream, with lots of meanings are warning signs. Sometimes I know a person is going to call me before they do. Lots of weird things like that.

The ESP thing doesn’t interest me, but the pumpkin thing does. Around Thanksgiving Cook’s Illustrated ran a little blurb about how Libby’s Pumpkin Puree is mostly hubbard squash (a type of butternut squash). So maybe what you really liks is canned butternut squash and not canned pumpkin?

I have dreams about people.. and then I end up seeing them the next day. It’s bizarre.
Example 1 – a few weeks ago, I had a completely random dream where I ran into the teacher of my insurance licensing class. I ran into him at Trivia the next night.

Example 2 – Last night, I had a dream about a marketing rep that works for one of the insurance companies we write through. He walked in the door about 20 minutes ago. He stops by every 3-6 months…. but he was here a month ago.

I’m a freak.

I have definitely had experiences like that before.

Last year I was out wedding dress shopping with friends and I suddently got this anxious feeling that I needed to pray like crazy that a particular family member got a DUI. It was the craziest feeling and completely out of the blue, since my family member rarely drank. They had been dealing with severe depression, but no issues with excessive drinking.

I took a few minutes to pray and literally- no joke, 10 minutes later I get a call from my mom to tell me that this family member got arrested for driving under the influence, completely smashed.. so dangerous.

It may seem like a weird thing to pray for.. but I would rather they be arrested than cause harm to themselves or someone else. Not to mention- the DUI caused them to admit to their depression and finally get help.

crazy things can happen!

I hope that person is okay now! Sorry to hear. I haven’t had anything like ESP before but I am always super interested when things like that happen to others. Creepy!

First, I hope that whatever happened gets better.

Second, I like to think that there’s more to life than we can see with our eyes. I mean, sure it might sound out there, but it’s kind of comforting to think there is something way bigger than us, connecting us and keeping tabs.

My mom has crazy good intuition. Always had. I really think it’s a gift and that some people are more connected to a certain part of their brain than others. They say we only use about 8% of what we could be using up there so who knows what we could all do with 100% or even just with 15%. One of the craziest examples was that I had this friend in elementary school who I would go visit and have playdates with. Her dad was a bit weird but it didn’t matter to me because I was like 6 and her and I would just play in her room or outside the whole time. She had a baby sister that was an infant so her mom was usually busy with the baby. One day my mom told me I couldn’t go over there anymore and if I wanted to play with my friend she had to come to our house. I didn’t understand why but my mom just said that when she picked me up the last few times she got a really bad feeling and refused to let me stay over there anymore. About 10 years ago my mom called me and asked if I remembered that family and how upset I was that she wouldn’t let me go play at their house. I told her yes I remembered. She said, “I just got a call from a mutual friend, the daughter that was a baby when you used to play there has come out and admitted that the father sexually abused her since her infancy. She said it’s been happening for as long as she can remember and he did things to her even when she was a toddler up until a few years ago.” My mom sensed the evil in him and even though she couldn’t put her finger on it, she knew that to protect me, I couldn’t go to that place anymore. God only knows what could have happened to me if I was there longer. I mean, if he did it to his own daughter what would have stopped him from doing it to me too? How crazy is that!