I've already posted this before but I'll shorten it this time.

The day Prince died I didn't find out about it till 3pm that day. I woke up at around 12 noon and from the very moment I opened my eyes I started thinking this strange thought. I kept thinking about Prince dying and how EVERYONE is going to love him and praise him after that. It was so creepy and no matter what I did I couldn't take my mind off that thought. I was texting with my friend when he told me the news.

Even for months now I'd been having strange thoughts and premonitions that something was gonna happen to him. It can't be a coincidence that months ago I started getting back into his music after what I like to call my "zombie" years of dropping out of high school and taking antidepressants and listening to shitty music. When I heard about the news of him getting sick and being flown to the hospital I immediately knew that the end was near. I didn't want to accept it though. I thought to myself "Shut up! Don't say that or even think about that! Give it no thought at all" but very deep in my consiousness I knew.

Also, when I heard about Prince doing a tribute to David Bowie I immediately thought "You're next" and then I mentally told myself to shut up again. It's creepy thinking about all of this.

Militant said:

I woke up on Thursday morning with a fully formed song in my head. I dreamed the whole thing in the 3-4 minutes immediately before waking up. That's not something that happens to me. It was called "Days of A Life".

"I was dreaming when I wrote this...."

I'm considering it his final gift to me.

It's very, very weird that this happened and I get shivers thinking about it. If you look at my Twitter, you'll see I even tweeted about it that morning. And this was some 6 hours before the news broke that he had left us.

I don't talk about Prince to my friends, but a few weeks before he died, I was making a joke about "don't talk to me after Prince dies" or "I'll lose my mind if Prince dies" and that was for real the first time I'd talked about Prince with them...then he died.

I never thought about him dying.

I was so sure I'd get one more concert in....every other city I applied to go to grad school in had or was near a Prince concert. I'm in the middle of nowhere...and this was my LAST choice....if I'd went to school in Bmore or Atlanta like I wanted to -- I could have seen him one more time

Here's one:

3121

3+1 = 4/21

i cant stop thinking about him... i just cant believe he isnt here anymore... .. f*ck i thought it would better by now.. but its not... i cant even look at the numbers 1958 - 2016 ...

had a TOTAL meltdown at walgreens when i saw the time magazine commemorative issue... i just cant believe its happening... like, its not real, right?

itsjustaroundthecorner said:

had a TOTAL meltdown at walgreens when i saw the time magazine commemorative issue... i just cant believe its happening... like, its not real, right?

God, every time I go to the grocery store I have to purposely avoid looking at all those damn magazines. And somehow I still forget and it'll stop me in my tracks for a split second. I can't even go to the gym without seeing him pop up on the TV screens. I then have to look away and try to focus and not breakdown. It's horrible. I'm still waiting to wake up from this horrible nightmare.

leslievette said:

itsjustaroundthecorner said:

had a TOTAL meltdown at walgreens when i saw the time magazine commemorative issue... i just cant believe its happening... like, its not real, right?

God, every time I go to the grocery store I have to purposely avoid looking at all those damn magazines. And somehow I still forget and it'll stop me in my tracks for a split second. I can't even go to the gym without seeing him pop up on the TV screens. I then have to look away and try to focus and not breakdown. It's horrible. I'm still waiting to wake up from this horrible nightmare.

yes, leslie.. exactly...i keep thinking it is going to be over when i wake up ... i think ive dreamed about prince almost every night... in the beginning, i was dreaming about myself and my childhood and how important his music was... lately ive been dreaming that he and i have just been hanging out in his dressing room before a show, just talking....like we go way back....

its so unlike me.. im seriously LEVEL HEADED... but this has absolutely gutted me...

and YES, the magazines are awful.. but dont even THINK about going into a record store.. i made the mistake of going into one today.. i wanted a copy of emancipation.. for some reason, i am missing a few songs... and WOW, that was awful... being in a record store and knowing Prince is gone was COMPLETELY disorienting. ..his section was basically empty for the new copies of purple rain / very best of... the usual used copies of emancipation/come/parade that they cant seem to give away usually are all gone... there are tons of people in his section... its just not the same..

its weird.. i feel like he belongs to me in a way.. i stood by him so many years through the good and bad... even though i wanted to give up on him for whatever reason (JW stuff i didnt agree with mostly.. but i still hung on.. i made excuses for Prince that I didnt make for my own parents!)

and now all these people are clawing around in his section and i feel robbed of what is 'mine'..

its just so weird in so many directions...

thanks 4 letting me share.. i know you guys understand..

itsjustaroundthecorner said:

yes, leslie.. exactly...i keep thinking it is going to be over when i wake up ... i think ive dreamed about prince almost every night... in the beginning, i was dreaming about myself and my childhood and how important his music was... lately ive been dreaming that he and i have just been hanging out in his dressing room before a show, just talking....like we go way back....

its so unlike me.. im seriously LEVEL HEADED... but this has absolutely gutted me...

and YES, the magazines are awful.. but dont even THINK about going into a record store.. i made the mistake of going into one today.. i wanted a copy of emancipation.. for some reason, i am missing a few songs... and WOW, that was awful... being in a record store and knowing Prince is gone was COMPLETELY disorienting. ..his section was basically empty for the new copies of purple rain / very best of... the usual used copies of emancipation/come/parade that they cant seem to give away usually are all gone... there are tons of people in his section... its just not the same..

its weird.. i feel like he belongs to me in a way.. i stood by him so many years through the good and bad... even though i wanted to give up on him for whatever reason (JW stuff i didnt agree with mostly.. but i still hung on.. i made excuses for Prince that I didnt make for my own parents!)

and now all these people are clawing around in his section and i feel robbed of what is 'mine'..

its just so weird in so many directions...

thanks 4 letting me share.. i know you guys understand..

Yes! I completely understand. I've tried to explain it to people who don't get it, and I tell them to think of your favorite sports team (especially an under dog team). Nobody ever cares about them until they start winning games and championships. Then all of a sudden everyones a fan. But to you, they're your home team who you love and have always rooted for so it's frustrating to see people hopping on the "bandwagon" just because they're doing well. I feel like that's sort of our situation, obviously on a much deeper scale than just sports of course. He really was ours. It may sound selfish, but it's how I feel. I never got around to buying Crystal Ball or n.e.w.s. and now they're extremely over priced online or like you said, sold out everywhere in record stores.

You're very lucky to have dreamt about him. I keep praying and hoping that I'll get a dream of some sort but still nothing, and it's frustrating. I don't think a dream will give me closure, but in some weird way I see it as him truly understanding how much he meant to me you know? I'm really thankful for all of you here on the org, I'd sound like I was going crazy if I mentioned all this to anyone else.

I went to the garden centre and there was a huge section with only purple. This is unique because it was 3 times the size than any other colour. So yes, this year the summer garden is big time purple.

Over the weekend I really wanted to listen to 20Ten as its one of my fave albums. However, my CD is completely scratched and has been for about 2 years. (my sister took it a few years ago and kept it in her car without the sleeve grrr) and I don't have an aux cord in my car so have to rely on CDs. So this CD is scratched, the outer rim is completely peeled off and hasn't been playable since about 2013. I put it in just to see if I could listen to one song on my drive and Compassion started blaring out perfectly, so I left the CD in and every track plays perfectly now. Whenever I have tried before I couldnt even get a single sound. I found that very odd.

Plus another thing which I dont think anyone would believe, I was watching a documentary about a little boy with a brain tumour (British posters would know Channel 5 love to show these docs) and my remote was on other side of the sofa, all of a sudden I thought of Prince and how when he was a little boy and he had epilepsy then all of a sudden the tv turned over to Sky Arts, and guess what was on, Sign of the Times. I promise I never turned it over, I was too far away from the remote. I told my mum and she thinks I've gone mad lol but I swear this happened. Funnily enough that night was the first night I started to feel relatively normal. Ever since I've gone back to deep depression

therapyisback said:

Soon after I had found out he had died, I was sitting with my 4 y/o son & he was playing a game on his device. He told me that his game wasn't working. I asked him to tell me what had happened. He had gone into an elevator in the game & the game had glitched, I couldn't believe it, the screen was totally purple.

Yes! On the day of his death, I was driving to the coast, i checked the time, it was 13.30 and then suddenly.. I saw a roadworks sign!! I was truly spooked - Sign O The Friggin Time(s)!!!!

It was clear that Prince had contacted me (now he was dead) to say he had crossed over to the other side successfully, and that comforted me greatly.

ok i wasn't even a fan. i just started listening to him since he died. but since everybody else is talking the light bulb thing, the light bulb in my bathroom exploded and croaked and i had a copy of the national enquirer in there about Prince. The other one is weird...i got this text from some stranger telling me that i texted him and he wasn't no *()_ pizza place. And I said don't text me again...and the person said you are clearly delusional you texted me...*which I didn't.* the next day i was reading about Prince on the internet and saw this thing about a pizza in Under the Cherry Moon. ROFL , I wig out easily.

DoItAllNight4U said:

clairew1975 said:

DoItAllNight4U said:

I've already posted this before but I'll shorten it this time.

The day Prince died I didn't find out about it till 3pm that day. I woke up at around 12 noon and from the very moment I opened my eyes I started thinking this strange thought. I kept thinking about Prince dying and how EVERYONE is going to love him and praise him after that. It was so creepy and no matter what I did I couldn't take my mind off that thought. I was texting with my friend when he told me the news.

Even for months now I'd been having strange thoughts and premonitions that something was gonna happen to him. It can't be a coincidence that months ago I started getting back into his music after what I like to call my "zombie" years of dropping out of high school and taking antidepressants and listening to shitty music. When I heard about the news of him getting sick and being flown to the hospital I immediately knew that the end was near. I didn't want to accept it though. I thought to myself "Shut up! Don't say that or even think about that! Give it no thought at all" but very deep in my consiousness I knew.

Also, when I heard about Prince doing a tribute to David Bowie I immediately thought "You're next" and then I mentally told myself to shut up again. It's creepy thinking about all of this.

I had similar experiences to you well before the plane incident, an uneasy feeling that things weren't right. He then tweeted he had flu. I put my uneasy feeling down to that. I didn't say this on an earlier post but one night I dreamt I was at his funeral, it bothered me so much that I went downstairs to get a drink and checked his Twitter. He was tweeting and deleting and I was like "phew he's ok"! A few days later the plane incident and then we all know the rest.....

I'm one to suffer from a lot of anxiety but I never felt any of that during my "premonition" experiences. I just knew things, but I didn't feel anything. Looking back I think I was having these premonitions at least 2 months before it happened. It's amazing how people experience these things differently. I consider myself such an emotional person but yet I have not felt much emotion about Prince's passing other than denial and anger.

The funniest thing - ok let me first state that the ONLY reason we have Netflix is because back in March we had friends staying with us from New Jersey and they put us on their account. Other than that, we have 9 channels. So, I was sad today and had some time alone - and as a mother, that is like almost unheard of - so I thought 'Maybe I'll see if they have any stand-up comedy on Net." They did so I picked a random guy, John Mulaney - never heard of him before and watched his set. Opening sequence, camera takes the viewer through the halls of the Chicago Theatre and what does the camera stop on?

A blue door with Prince's symbol on it. "Prince and the New Power Generation"

Then I thought I'd better watch some more comedy. So I picked Tig Notaro - knew of her, saw her set on Conan a few years back. Thought she was funny. So I chose that. Three-quarters of the way through, Tig goes into a radio station for an interview. What is pasted

on the frame of the door?

A white 8x10 piece of paper with Prince's symbol.

Complete randomness. Didn't even plan to watch tv - I have too much to do. If anyone has any logic to explain this, I would gladly recieve all.

You know when you can always tell a tree has been cut down. You'll be driving along a road you know, and all the sudden you think - "Wait - somethings not right here. Somethings missing. Someone has cut a tree down. A tree is missing. Crap!" There's something missing in this world. Something truly wonderful. I realize it's Prince.

meagemini2 said:

The funniest thing - ok let me first state that the ONLY reason we have Netflix is because back in March we had friends staying with us from New Jersey and they put us on their account. Other than that, we have 9 channels. So, I was sad today and had some time alone - and as a mother, that is like almost unheard of - so I thought 'Maybe I'll see if they have any stand-up comedy on Net." They did so I picked a random guy, John Mulaney - never heard of him before and watched his set. Opening sequence, camera takes the viewer through the halls of the Chicago Theatre and what does the camera stop on?

A blue door with Prince's symbol on it. "Prince and the New Power Generation"

Then I thought I'd better watch some more comedy. So I picked Tig Notaro - knew of her, saw her set on Conan a few years back. Thought she was funny. So I chose that. Three-quarters of the way through, Tig goes into a radio station for an interview. What is pasted

on the frame of the door?

A white 8x10 piece of paper with Prince's symbol.

Complete randomness. Didn't even plan to watch tv - I have too much to do. If anyone has any logic to explain this, I would gladly recieve all.

You know when you can always tell a tree has been cut down. You'll be driving along a road you know, and all the sudden you think - "Wait - somethings not right here. Somethings missing. Someone has cut a tree down. A tree is missing. Crap!" There's something missing in this world. Something truly wonderful. I realize it's Prince.

This is really beautiful. I think it was his way of letting you know that he's okay now.

meagemini2 said:

The funniest thing - ok let me first state that the ONLY reason we have Netflix is because back in March we had friends staying with us from New Jersey and they put us on their account. Other than that, we have 9 channels. So, I was sad today and had some time alone - and as a mother, that is like almost unheard of - so I thought 'Maybe I'll see if they have any stand-up comedy on Net." They did so I picked a random guy, John Mulaney - never heard of him before and watched his set. Opening sequence, camera takes the viewer through the halls of the Chicago Theatre and what does the camera stop on?

A blue door with Prince's symbol on it. "Prince and the New Power Generation"

Then I thought I'd better watch some more comedy. So I picked Tig Notaro - knew of her, saw her set on Conan a few years back. Thought she was funny. So I chose that. Three-quarters of the way through, Tig goes into a radio station for an interview. What is pasted

on the frame of the door?

A white 8x10 piece of paper with Prince's symbol.

Complete randomness. Didn't even plan to watch tv - I have too much to do. If anyone has any logic to explain this, I would gladly recieve all.

You know when you can always tell a tree has been cut down. You'll be driving along a road you know, and all the sudden you think - "Wait - somethings not right here. Somethings missing. Someone has cut a tree down. A tree is missing. Crap!" There's something missing in this world. Something truly wonderful. I realize it's Prince.

That's amazing. Something hasn't been right since he left us. Not sure if that void will ever be filled again.

I suppose this is semi-relevant to this thread. I re-read Kurt Loder's 1984 Rolling...and Prince and I found the last paragraph to be rather ominous in hindsight.

Whether or not that big limo in the sky he's pursued for so long has turned out to be otherwise empty is a matter for Prince to ponder in the splendid isolation to which he's now entitled.

"It's hard to have that much power and have close friends," William Blinn reflects. "It's tough for him. But if he does not have close friends, then neither do I feel that his solitude is threatening or harmful to him. Some people ... well, you know, the four-in-the-morning phone call: "I'm alone, what do I do?' I think Prince is perfectly capable of handling it. He might make that phone call, and he might be alone. But he knows what to do."

[Edited 5/14/16 13:49pm]

.

[Edited 5/15/16 14:08pm]

This was a strange but comforting coincidence that I experienced this morning. I was listening to one of my favorite sport broadcast via the radio app on my phone. My mom called out to me to check out something on the television. I flipped to the broadcast and couldn't help but notice the ticker on the bottom of the screen. My mind wanders just that quickly It mentioned the lead singer of Red Hot Chilli Peppers was hospitalized due to severe flu. My mind immediately flashed back to Prince. I called out to my mom telling her that I think it was possible that Prince died from complications due to the flu. Anything was possible at this point. I went to turn off the app and instead of it shutting off it switched to the Prince Tribute radio station. I kid you not. I think his spirit stopped by and that "sign" was either him telling me he agreed or just letting me know that he won't forget me either and to thank me for being a fan. I won't overanalyze it but I certainly was comforted experiencing this. I think when we experience loss we like to have signs --- any signs of comfort. This was mine and I feel much better (at least in the current moment) for having experienced it. I take each day moment by moment but at least I can say I am coping. I am in a better place now then I was when the news first broke. I am not new to Prince but I am a new member here. This forum is a great outlet for healing. Thank you so much for this space.

[Edited 5/16/16 9:59am]