Finally a "woo woo" post

The first time I remember actually knowing that something would happen before it did happen was my first year of teaching, when I was the assistant basketball coach for the Rossville Lady Bulldogs at Rossville High School in Northwest Georgia. This photo is of the head coach with the team and our bus in Atlanta for the state championship game.

My prescience happened on the Sunday before the weekend that we were in the Final Four. We had just won our quarterfinal game to put us into the semifinals.

I remember being in the shower, thinking about the possibility of the team's winning the whole thing.

And a chill ran through my body. I "knew" that the team was going to win the state championship.

I had no doubt.

The best I can describe this feeling is that it's a "knowing." Like deep inside you KNOW.

The kind of crazy part of this story is that if we won our next game and made it to the championship we might run into our rival team that had beaten us FIVE times during the season! We'd played them twice in the regular season, in a Thanksgiving tournament, in the subregion and region championships...and they'd squeaked by us every time.

So winning the state championship might involve having to beat them if they won their next game and we did, too.

Well, we both did win.

So we were set to play our rivals AGAIN for the big prize, the state championship.

But I wasn't worried. Because I KNEW we were going to win it all.

I even acted on my knowing. I bought a couple of bottles of sparking grape juice, the ones with the hooded tops like champagne, and a set of plastic cups "suitable" for champagne. And I took those on the school bus with us to Atlanta.

We won the semifinal game, so I took the sparkling grape juice to the championship game.

I had the bottles and cups in the dressing room, waiting for the players to crack open the bottles to celebrate after the game.

And sure enough, after a back-and-forth, low-scoring game, the team won the state championship!

Just as I KNEW they would!

We went back to the dressing room, and the girls opened the bottles of sparkling grape juice (no one sprayed them, though) and gave everyone a sip.

And we toasted our state championship.

I remember that a couple of the players kept the bottles as souvenirs, and on our way out a middle-aged woman saw them carrying the bottles. She looked at us disapprovingly because she seemed to think they were actual champagne bottles. I just chuckled.

That was the first time in my life that I can say for sure that I had a prescient "knowing."

I've had some others since then. The ones I remember are mostly negative ones, times when I knew something bad was going to happen.

But this one was a really positive one. It made the whole state tournament experience more enjoyable because even in those close games I knew we'd win.

Many times I've had people share that they have or had prescient dreams. That isn't one of my gifts. Though I do for sure believe that people can dream the future.

I think that in ultimate reality, time is not linear. It might even be an illusion.

But I don't want to get into explanation for prescience here.

I just plan to share some experiences in these posts about woo woo experiences I've had. I thought I'd start with one of the first I remember, one that is also a positive one.

Now YOU can ponder the times you might have had a view into the future...or maybe, like me, you KNEW.