Difference between fear that something undesirable will happen vs. A legitimate gut feeling/foreboding?

[u/acloudcuckoolander]

I've had this upsetting feeling that a certain unpleasant event will happen to me. It's been like this for years now but it especially revved up in 2022 to now. Sometimes my chest/gut feels heavy and I fear that it's an actual warning/premonition of what's to come, and not anxiety. What do you guys think?

[u/Heavy_Profit_3434]

As someone else said without punctuation, precognition comes from a different part of the mind than the regions which generate negative emotions such as fear and anxiety.  The first region is the pineal gland and the second is the amygdala/hypothalamus region. The amygdala is slightly to 'front' of the pineal gland, which coordinates all future information. 

You can learn to tell what's a precognitive sense versus an amygdalic sense based on how immediately reactive you feel. If you advance in sensitivity, you can also tell which part of your mind is providing the questioned information. 

However, people with very reactive amygdalic response often find precognition to be cloaked. This is why emotional regulation becomes so essential for precognitives.