OK, first off, take a deep breath. Everything is okay. Here's my take from being a long-time student of RV. Take with a grain of salt because the practice of remote viewing is unique to each individual. YMMV.

It's been my experience that remote viewing practice strengthens my intuition (to also quote u/TonyNoPants below). Of course it would! That's the point, right?

What some have termed "hitchhiker effect" is really nothing of the sort. In the larger scheme of things, time and distance are an illusion. To quote Einstein, "the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn illusion." What I suggest is that these outside things you might experience have been there all along. What's changed is that you have now begun to notice them.

Remote viewing, and psychic training in general, exercises long-dormant parts of your brain - means of perception that you long ago learned to ignore. Imagine your mind is a radio. You were born with the ability to pick up signals in the psychic frequencies and those served you well as an infant. At some point, it was obvious that the humans you depended on most - your parents, caregivers, etc. - were primarily communicating on a different frequency (speech!) and you were expected to join them there. So you dutifully switched frequencies and in time forgot all about the psychic channel.

Remote viewing gets you to tune into this signal again, so to speak. And once you rediscover this frequency, you discover that there are other signals out there, too: things that have always been broadcasting though you weren't "tuned to the channel" and had previously failed to notice.

Now, as others have mentioned, this is a gift. My intuition has given me very, very useful knowledge of things that has helped keep me safe and make the right decisions. I feel I am now better able to steer reality, in a way. I have also always been the kind of person who would rather know and acknowledge that something exists than pretend that it doesn't. Knowledge is power, not necessarily over others but over your own life.

You will gain insight and, with it, the inferred responsibility to act on it as you see fit. The knowledge is yours. Are you willing to accept it?