I glanced in my rear view mirror and the speed that he was driving was almost shocking to me. We were in northern VT driving on the interstate and people typically didn’t drive that fast in this area. I looked to my left to watch the truck speed by my driver's window as we crested a hill and started down the other side.  He flew past me like I was standing still, except I was driving almost 80.  

There was a king sized mattress in the bed of the truck and it caught my eye. In the moment that my eyes focused on it, I felt a thought float through my reality. “That mattress is going to fall off the truck”. 

I had a whole internal dialogue with myself as if time was standing still and someone had paused life. 

“Erin, that is simply ridiculous” I thought to myself. “The truck is clearly driving over 100mph and the mattress hasn’t come off the back of the truck yet so it clearly isn’t going to”. 

“Why don’t you trust yourself and these messages? Why after years of seeing your intuition be accurate would you question it.” 

“I guess because I am human.” 

The mattress lifted off the back of the truck and floated through the air. I gently guided my car into the passing lane and the mattress landed directly in the lane that I had been driving in parallel to my car. I recognized that the intuitive hit had allowed me the opportunity to navigate the situation with ease. I watched the truck wrench on his brakes and attempt to come to a stop in the breakdown lane. He was going fast enough that even with immediate braking he was hundreds of feet from the mattress that rested in the middle of the lane, just after the crest of the hill. 

As I continued my drive north up the interstate I sat and pondered my intuition and the distrust that I had just demonstrated in it. I trust myself with intuitive hits that “make sense” but in spaces where my intuitive hits defy logic I am not as trusting. I smiled at myself and felt grateful for the situation and the messages that I had received around the experience. It provided an opportunity for me to work on myself and offer love to the parts of me that don’t trust me.