When to trust your gut instinct, and when to ignore it

All In The Mind

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Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We all have moments in our lives when we feel an unconscious pull towards a certain decision.

Should you walk down that dark alley? Does that person seem a bit off? Why is that giving me the heebie-jeebies?

For Isla Lucas, a gut feeling while on holiday saved her life… Or did it?

We take a look at the science and fantasy of intuition.

If you liked this episode, you'll love our episode on The Pleasure Of Pain

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0:00.0	ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more.
0:07.6	Okay, so this story is wild.
0:10.9	It's 2008.
0:12.3	Ila Lucas is 23 years old, and she's been traveling through Nepal in India with a friend.
0:17.0	I love the chaos of it.
0:18.4	It's just sent through overload.
0:19.7	Loved it.
0:20.2	Now they're in Mumbai, their last stop on the trip. On their final morning in the city, her friend wants to go to this one particular cafe.
0:27.8	I try to stay away from a lot of the real touristy hotspots. So my friend had obviously read and lonely planet. She's like, well, Leopold's cafe is the place to go. Oh, it's super touristy.
0:38.2	I don't really... Okay, let's go.
0:40.1	Anyway, it's a beautiful cafe.
0:41.6	I can understand why it's a tourist hotspot.
0:43.4	Beautiful Raj era decorations, Tiled Wars.
0:46.6	But we went to this cafe and I just was restless.
0:51.6	It wasn't like a sudden feeling.
0:52.9	It was like, I don't want to be here
0:54.2	I was unsettled
0:55.2	And I was constantly looking around
0:56.9	I didn't feel comfortable
0:58.4	I was just sitting bolt upright
1:00.4	Arms like flat on the table
1:02.6	Yeah I wasn't relaxed
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