Another summer fayre win story like misterfeesh below
As a kid I was at a school summer fayre. I had about 30p to spend, so I was going around trying to decide how to best use my limited funds. I passed the "Wheel Of Fortune," without paying it much attention.

But suddenly I felt rather strange. It seemed as if the fayre had receded, like I was seeing it from a great distance. Like a mild out-of-body experience. I was filled with a feeling, a certainty, that if I went on that Wheel of Fortune, I would win.

So I went up, and asked for a number. There were two left, and for a moment I panicked, not knowing what to do. But then it struck me, whichever number I picked would be the right one. So I took one, pretty much at random. The stallholder span the wheel, clickety clickety.

I still felt confident. No, more than that, assured. The wheel slowed, I saw my number coming up to the pointer; it almost clicked past to the next one, but just held on, rocked back and stopped. I had won. I wasn't surprised.

Now, like anyone with a functioning higher nervous system, I reject the idea of ghosts and such nonsense. But is it possible to see into the future? That seems less clear. I have a lot of time for the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum physics; perhaps it's possible to get some feeling about one possible future? I can't deny that I won, after definitely predicting that I would. I certainly remember an odd sensation, too. Oh, perhaps it was coincidence and a faulty memory and wishful thinking. Makes me wonder, though.

And since you ask, I won a bottle of champagne. Which I was, of course, too young to drink.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 10:51, Reply)