Premonition

I saw it, like I don't know, I saw it. I saw it on the runway, I saw it take off, I saw out my window, I saw the ground and - the cabin, it starts to shake, right and and the left side blows up and then the whole plane just explodes. And it was so real just like how everything happens, you know. Alex Browning, explaining his vision of Flight 180.

A premonition is a type of prophecy the protagonists of the Final Destination franchise experience, consisting of an impressionable warning of a future event. This phenomenon is characterized by such sensations as anxiety, uneasiness, a vague feeling of disquiet suggesting impending disaster to actual visual or auditory hallucinations. Premonition is sometimes referred to as a "gut-level" feeling. The sensation tends to occur prior to disasters, accidents, deaths, and other traumatic and emotionally-charged events.

The sensation of premonition may be considered precognition at times because there is no clear-cut line between them. However, generally premonitions are sense-oriented, dominated by a syndrome of physical uneasiness, depression, or distress that is without discernible source or reason. It is an unexplainable feeling that "something is going to happen." Precognition, on the other hand, is more precise, involving visions or dream of the event that is to occur in the future. Throughout the series, these instances of precognition are often reffered to as a "vision".

A premonition is a noun for: a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment. It can also be described as a forewarning.

Final Destination films

Some have noted on the significance of premonitions throughout the series. Up to this point, it has never been fully explained how the main visionaries suddenly got these premonitions. Although, The Final Destination has suggested that Death would give them ultimately as part of a ruse to set them for what was really the plan all along. Another possibility is that there is another force fighting against Death that gives premonitions to an individual who has the potential to save the largest amount of people as possible shortly before a deadly disaster occurs to alter Death's design and so all surviving people can get chances to live longer. Although, the most plausible reason for the characters getting premonitions is due to the fact that they possess a type of psychic ability.

Final Destination

Alex Browning had a premonition of the Flight 180 explosion while sleeping before takeoff.

Final Destination 2

Kimberly Corman had a premonition of the Route 23 pileup. She also had a premonition of drowning herself into a lake so she could revived by Ellen Kalarjian to achieve new life that could defeat Death.

Final Destination 3

Wendy Christensen had two premonitions: the Devil's Flight roller coaster derailment and the Train 081 derailment.

The Final Destination

Nick O'Bannon had eight premonitions: the McKinley Speedway disaster, the Tagert Theatres explosions and six individual premonitions fragments as to how the survivors were going to die.

Final Destination 5

Sam Lawton had a premonition of the North Bay Bridge collapse.

Final Destination Bloodlines

Iris Campbell had a premonition of The Sky View collapse.

Final Destination novels

Final Destination: Dead Reckoning

Jessica Golden had a premonition of the Club Kitty collapse.

Final Destination: Destination Zero

Patricia Fuller had a premonition of the South Hill Meteroline bombing.

Juliet Collins had a premonition of the Mornington Crescent explosion.

Final Destination: End of the Line

Danny King had a premonition of the 34th Street train collision.

Final Destination: Dead Man's Hand

Allie Goodwin-Gaines had a premonition of the Merlin's Tower elevator collapse.

Final Destination: Looks Could Kill

Stephanie Pulaski had a premonition of the Coral Clipper disaster.

Final Destination: Death of the Senses

Jack Curtis had a premonition of the John Doe's murder spree.

The text of the premonition from Final Destination: Death of the Senses:

The moon in the sky, phases flashing across it impossibly quickly... A circular table... Faces, blurred, distorted, flickering past too fast to see them... Distant laughter... Clouds speeding over the city, swallowing it in night... The moon turning to black... A flash. Light reflecting on metal. A knife... A dark, narrow passageway, the ground covered in snow... A woman's face... Blood gushing from a wound, a slashed throat... Another woman, screaming... Empty eye sockets, swimming with black, glistening ooze... The knife descending, stabbing into flesh... A man's face, ruined, a wet hole in its center... Severed hands, fingers still twitching... A woman wailing in pain, face running with streaks of blood... Another man clutching at his head... The knife slowly peeling through skin, an ear falling away like meat carved from a roast... A woman struggling for breath, eyes wide... A gaping mouth, white teeth speckled with red, nothing beyond them but emptiness... A face, somehow familiar yet oddly wrong, distorted in some bizarre way, lurching backwards, trying to escape from something unseen... The table again, seen from above, a five-pointed star with dark pools at each of the points, a bigger pool at the center, something resting in the dark liquid... The moon again, blooming from a tiny crescent to a full circle, blazing with light in the sky... And behind it all, a man's voice, "While the Eye of Artemis is at its widest, so shall my work be done. The senses of this city shall be purified..." Final Destination: Death of the Senses, Pages 15-16

Final Destination: Wipeout

Ravyn Blackthorne had a premonition of a plane crash.

Final Destination comics

Final Destination: Spring Break

Carly Hagan had a premonition of the Hotel Grand Tzolk'in explosion.

Trivia

• Nick O'Bannon and Kimberly Corman are the visionaries with the most premonitions and is the only visionary to have rapid interpretative visions.
• When a visionary has a vision, in real-life, nothing visually happens as visions, no matter how long (often spanning several minutes) as vision is, they happen instantaneously on the outside world with the visionary at best only pausing for a few seconds while seeing the vision.
• In a film, never has a vision came true in the exact way as seen in the visionaries' premonition. Often, accidents happen faster/sooner in real-life than in the vision.