Bad Vibes

[Reality is Optional]

Does anyone else ever have the feeling that something horrible is going to happen? I know INTP is a suspicious type in general, so I was just wondering.

Also, does anyone else ever get bad vibes from people? For example, you just see their facial expression, and then don't like them?

If so, list examples.

 

[BigApplePi]

Does anyone else ever have the feeling that something horrible is going to happen? I know INTP is a suspicious type in general, so I was just wondering.

I know what fear is like. Circumstances can indicate danger or a possibly dangerous situation. That's a good thing if it gets you prepared to face the worst.

Also, does anyone else ever get bad vibes from people? For example, you just see their facial expression, and then don't like them?

Sure. That too. I see someone is unfriendly. Whether that is them or whether I'm in their way ... could be either.

If so, list examples.

Don't have any at the moment. You must be thinking of something.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Does anyone else ever have the feeling that something horrible is going to happen? I know INTP is a suspicious type in general, so I was just wondering.

Something bad IS going to happen, things bad for you might be happening right now or might happen any moment, depends on what is bad.

Also, does anyone else ever get bad vibes from people? For example, you just see their facial expression, and then don't like them?

Yes, you don't have to see their expression, you also get this from reading posts on forum.

If so, list examples.

I know a few particular facial expressions that foretell no good.I have learnt many basic expressions that show how unimportant and how big of a sucker I am in their eyes and how I am going to get used in some way.

Facial expressions are part of language after all, it can project good, bad and some other feelings.

Examples are straightforward, he had this face and then he did this, above case works many times out of many of the time so it is more of an indication.

 

[tvrgvryen]

I've always been quite suspicious and distrustful of people, believing in the worst or opposite of their intentions. For example, the other day I rode in an elevator with two men and had a moment of fear that they would take out weapons and murder me. I'm not sure if I have Paranoid Personality Disorder. I think part of it is social influences. I accidentally watched the video of Daniel Pearl getting beheaded when I was far too little. The traumatizing sight might have tainted my view of people in indistinct ways without my knowledge. Another possible part of it is that I'm cunningly dishonest and manipulative myself, tending to imagine that other people are the same way. If someone were to say something to me, I would both come up with a lie that I would use if I were in his/her position and with a logical reason for the possibility that s/he would use it against me. As for the bad vibes thing, everyone uses the ability to sense them from strangers in order to protect himself. It's a natural instinct for survival. Since communication with a stranger doesn't regularly occur, his physical presentation is the engendering agent of your impression of him which Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking suggests is likely to be true – that is, if you aren't distorted by PPD.

Here is a piece I wrote regarding my suspicion problem for a creative writing class I took last semester. It includes another example of a time I suspected extreme intentions of someone. FYI, it's amateur and I am not a poet.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8zblafr2em66kw1/poem.rtf

 

[nearfantastica]

I'm not sure about bad vibes in regard to events, but most definitely with people. Sometimes I look at someone and just see...a potential dark side. I get the feeling that they're putting on a front. At the same time, I get good vibes from people as well. In the past I've found people that appear friendly and that are reasonably liked sketchy characters, and people that look like typical sketchy characters to be decent people. My instincts about these things are usually relatively accurate; I've learned to trust them.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

I don't trust people.
Not even myself.