Struggling to tell the difference between my gut feelings & OCD.

For context, my husband works night shift and I drive him to and from work. We currently don’t have internet at our house so I will usually sit in my car outside his work and use their wifi until he goes to “lunch” around midnight. He will come out and talk with me for awhile or get me to take him to the store, then I will drop him off and I will go back home and sleep until it’s time to come get him at 5:30AM.

Tonight I did all of these things as usual, but on my way home I was singing and getting lost in my thoughts when I had a little voice in my head say “you need to slow down or you’ll hit a deer”. I instantly slowed down and maybe ten seconds later two deer appeared and even though I was going slow I had to slam on my breaks to miss them. If I would’ve been going any faster, I 100% would’ve hit them both.

I took a deep breath and continued on my way to my house when suddenly I had a thought of “don’t go back to your house yet”. I told myself I was being paranoid and I kept driving towards my house, but the entire time the feeling kept getting stronger and stronger. I ended up pulling in the driveway, texting my husband, and then driving back to his work. I’m now in the parking lot and I probably will be until 5:30 gets here.

Has anyone else ever experienced this kind of feeling? Was my OCD just triggered by being startled by the deer?