A spontaneous impulse to take an immediate, unplanned
action to a given
situation, which in retrospect proves to be the most beneficial
action for that given situation. It's what people feel when they say "something told me..." It's also referred to as a "hunch" or "gut feeling".
When I opened up the present and
saw it was my favorite DVD, I understood why I
felt the foresense a week earlier not to buy it for myself when I was at the
store.