I KNOW those things are possible, simply because I've had so many of those situations come up that it couldn't be a coincidence. I've been working with ESP abilities and the like for about 3-4 years half committedly anyway. I'm a natural in precognition, which is the ability to receive impressions of the future(aka prerecognition). That's mostly how I've figured that it's not only possible, but it's real. I get future impressions everyday that always turn out to be right, I've prevented hazards, because of it, I mean heck sometimes I've gotten it through hearing too, but I usually get it through visions. In my mind I thought of the expression, "Curiosity killed the cat." Then next day I got out of class to go pee and when I got done a teacher was yelling at a student across the hall and said, "Curiosity killed the cat" and there's no way that was by coincidence because of an 8 hour day at school at that very spand of 2 minutes she would've had to said that for me to know about it. Anyway, I could go on with stories too, but heck most of them I can remember. Even though I'm VERY intuitive, I still haven't been able to activate anything. Who knows, I'm still working on it, maybe when I do I'll really be good at it. I've work with things associated with ESP like telekinesis. And it takes some serious time and effort, and that's why I think this ability is so rare. There's little psi/pin-wheel things that practicioners use and I got it to the point where I could spin it for 1 hour and a half non stop, and I could have kept going but I started to feel drained, but I'm convinced I could've gone another half hour or more. A good place to learn about it is
http://www.psipog.net .Good luck!