pre·mo·ni·tion [prèmm? nísh’n, pr?m? nísh’n]
(plural pre·mo·ni·tions)
noun
1. intuition of future event: a strong feeling, without a rational basis, that a particular thing is going to happen
2. warning about future: an advance warning about a future event
[Mid-16th century. Via French from, ultimately, Latin praemonere “to forewarn,” from monere “to warn.”]
Let me see if this makes sense, but it's how I use to describe it to my friends....it's knowing things without anyone telling you about them...basically knowing without KNOWING. Sounds strange but that's the only way I know how to explain it. Sometimes it's knowing something that's going to happen before it does. Sometimes I've known things from the past that no one told me. I have a girlfriend that I freaked out because I told her that I saw a man, that I didn't know, who said something odd to me. "He said I'll call him Dad." She turned pale, went into her mother's room, (whom I did call Mom) and came out with a picture of her deceased father. Before showing it to me, she asked me to describe the man. I did, she turned the picture around and it was the same man! Who had died 5 years earlier.