r/AskReddit: When Did Your Instincts Scream "Get Out Now"?

Near-Death Experiences and Instincts

• 💡 A user narrowly avoided a murder-suicide attempt by a friend by choosing to sleep instead of attending a party.
• 🚗 Another user recounted a terrifying experience where a friend drove recklessly on a highway, narrowly missing oncoming traffic, leading to the end of their friendship.
• 🐶 A dog's aggressive barking at a stranger in the user's apartment, despite the stranger being seemingly friendly, alerted the user to a potential danger, possibly a drugged drink.

Escaping Dangerous Situations

• ⚠️ A woman avoided a sexual assault by leaving a party after a man made her uncomfortable, and he was later arrested for the crime.
• 🔥 A house fire was narrowly averted when a user's instinct prompted them to check a hallway, discovering a candle had started a fire in a plastic cup.
• 🚆 A user on a train platform sensed danger from a group of men and moved away, later learning of a robbery at knifepoint at the next stop involving men matching the description.

Miraculous Escapes and Gut Feelings

• 🏠 A last-minute change of plans saved two children from being at their grandmother's house when it burned down, killing their great-grandmother.
• 🏡 Similarly, a child's decision not to attend a slumber party saved them, as the host house later burned down, killing two twin girls.
• 💊 A mother's gut feeling led her to check on her sleeping daughter, discovering she had been given a double dose of medication by a babysitter, preventing a fatal overdose.
• 🐦 A less dire but still instinctual moment involved leaving a bird enclosure just before friends were covered in bird droppings.
• 🔫 A planned club outing was avoided due to a gut feeling, which later proved prescient as a gang-related shootout occurred at the club, critically wounding bystanders.
• 🚨 Three individuals wearing balaclavas on a train prompted a user to exit at the next stop, later learning of a robbery and shooting at that station.
• ⛪ A user's strong intuition about a new priest led them to avoid private meetings, later discovering the priest was arrested for child sexual assault and attempted murder.