Poll: Do you think Dreams can predict the future.
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No, no-one has ever had a dream where they can see something they have never seen before, your brain can make up new things using existing features that you have already seen, to see into the future through dreams is something I'm sure even quantum physics doesn't propose as possible, and you get some weird sh*t in quantum physics
Predicting the future? Really?
James. Randi. Educational. Foundation.
Prove it - and get a million fucking dollars - or shut up.
James. Randi. Educational. Foundation.
Prove it - and get a million fucking dollars - or shut up.
sort of.
the brain has the computational power of 9000+ and does a lot of work in predicting patterns. fluid spacial dynamics (can i flush the toilet without it over flowing), parabolic projectile tracking with opposing air friction (Frisbee), estimation of launch velocity (throwing a ball). and none of that seems strange. So I say that while sleeping your brain could be running a diagnostic on the probable scenarios that will play out in the future, like a weather forecast. and like a weather forecast, if your life has been the same day in day out, then it becomes easy to predict which things will stay the same and which things have the greatest potential to change.
example.
suppose you work an office job and have a half hour commute. on a regular basis you will come across traffic and have surface level conversations with your co workers. your dream is; one day you go to work with no traffic and arrive early, you talk with your boss and find that they have hired a new secretary, she is starting that week, and her name is sherry. when she arrives later that same day you are surprised and decide to introduce your self and have a conversation about the traffic and it works its way around until you find out that she is originally from a small town near where you grew up. you wake up and figure its just one of those things.
Two weeks later it happens was it a prediction??
so you missed traffic, (maybe you left 5 minutes earlier without realizing and beat some of the rush). you talk to your boss (because you see them no other reason), they mention a new hire(it is that time of the year), it's a secretary (it always is), her name is sandy (seems familiar), when you see her you talk to her (because you're polite and your day has been going well), it turns out that she's from a town near where you grew up (there has been a book published on the idea that you are highly likely to meet people from where you live and from your past because people you associate will tend to make similar life decisions)
suddenly every thing pops into place and you swear you had a dream about this exact thing happening before.
tl;dr
it's a numbers game b/c your head is a massive computer, that gets bored with the mundane.
the brain has the computational power of 9000+ and does a lot of work in predicting patterns. fluid spacial dynamics (can i flush the toilet without it over flowing), parabolic projectile tracking with opposing air friction (Frisbee), estimation of launch velocity (throwing a ball). and none of that seems strange. So I say that while sleeping your brain could be running a diagnostic on the probable scenarios that will play out in the future, like a weather forecast. and like a weather forecast, if your life has been the same day in day out, then it becomes easy to predict which things will stay the same and which things have the greatest potential to change.
example.
suppose you work an office job and have a half hour commute. on a regular basis you will come across traffic and have surface level conversations with your co workers. your dream is; one day you go to work with no traffic and arrive early, you talk with your boss and find that they have hired a new secretary, she is starting that week, and her name is sherry. when she arrives later that same day you are surprised and decide to introduce your self and have a conversation about the traffic and it works its way around until you find out that she is originally from a small town near where you grew up. you wake up and figure its just one of those things.
Two weeks later it happens was it a prediction??
so you missed traffic, (maybe you left 5 minutes earlier without realizing and beat some of the rush). you talk to your boss (because you see them no other reason), they mention a new hire(it is that time of the year), it's a secretary (it always is), her name is sandy (seems familiar), when you see her you talk to her (because you're polite and your day has been going well), it turns out that she's from a town near where you grew up (there has been a book published on the idea that you are highly likely to meet people from where you live and from your past because people you associate will tend to make similar life decisions)
suddenly every thing pops into place and you swear you had a dream about this exact thing happening before.
tl;dr
it's a numbers game b/c your head is a massive computer, that gets bored with the mundane.
Absolutely not. That would violate every know physical law about the universe and the laws are LAWS because no on has found anything to disprove them yet.
It's bullshit to be frank. Utter bullshit.
Edit: okay it doesn't actually violate every know physical law about the universe, just a lot of them. Besides if there were an actual biological method by which the brain were able to predict the future when you dream I think your brain would be giving off some VERY... Different readings than a normal sleeping brain. We'd have detected it by now is what I'm saying.
People who think they have a "special" ability are just people who want to be "special". I'll believe one when one gives me conclusive scientific evidence
It's bullshit to be frank. Utter bullshit.
Edit: okay it doesn't actually violate every know physical law about the universe, just a lot of them. Besides if there were an actual biological method by which the brain were able to predict the future when you dream I think your brain would be giving off some VERY... Different readings than a normal sleeping brain. We'd have detected it by now is what I'm saying.
People who think they have a "special" ability are just people who want to be "special". I'll believe one when one gives me conclusive scientific evidence
Wow. I thought I was the only one.
Every few months or so I will have a dream that I experience in a later date. Sometimes years later even, which is weird considering I can't ever remember the last time i've had a dream other than the ones that happen in real life. But the ones that I can destinctly remember end up happening to me one way or the other.
Edit: Yesterday I remember having an exact moment when taking a state-required test. I stopped for a second as I was reading the passage they gave me and thought... wait I've read this before. Sure enough I had, it was about a man running through a forest and seeing this family of foxes wrestling each other. I was shocked when I thought back to this exact moment being dreamt about 2 months ago.
Strange, the rest of you seem extremely skeptical. JEALOUS MUCH?
One other weird thing, my family members (mother and her siblings) experience similar episodes. Once or twice we've actually shared dreams... but thats a very personal topic for another time.
Every few months or so I will have a dream that I experience in a later date. Sometimes years later even, which is weird considering I can't ever remember the last time i've had a dream other than the ones that happen in real life. But the ones that I can destinctly remember end up happening to me one way or the other.
Edit: Yesterday I remember having an exact moment when taking a state-required test. I stopped for a second as I was reading the passage they gave me and thought... wait I've read this before. Sure enough I had, it was about a man running through a forest and seeing this family of foxes wrestling each other. I was shocked when I thought back to this exact moment being dreamt about 2 months ago.
Strange, the rest of you seem extremely skeptical. JEALOUS MUCH?
One other weird thing, my family members (mother and her siblings) experience similar episodes. Once or twice we've actually shared dreams... but thats a very personal topic for another time.
I doubt it - although to be honest, my dreams wouldn't totally rule that out. When I dream and remember it at all, which is rarely, 80% of the time it's of boring, everyday stuff that happens in my day-to-day life. But no, I don't believe in dreams accurately predicting the future, at least outside the possibility of your mind considering what might happen in the future and possibly getting it right.
Youre the one who thinks youre some sort of wizardJaeke said:
Just saying dont point fingers.No. No one is a wizard. This isnt hogwarts. You cant see the future and no ones a psycic. If you CAN predict the future feel free to collect your 1 million prize money from the american skeptics association.
i get them sometimes so i am going to have to go with a yes.
who knows seriously? until we unlock all the secrets of the brain i can't be sure if they do or don't
who knows seriously? until we unlock all the secrets of the brain i can't be sure if they do or don't
Nope.
There was a guy (Daryl Bem) who did some research trying to demonstrate that events in the future affect the present, but his research didn't survive replication. That is to say, the experiment was repeated by several others, and did not produce positive results.
There was a guy (Daryl Bem) who did some research trying to demonstrate that events in the future affect the present, but his research didn't survive replication. That is to say, the experiment was repeated by several others, and did not produce positive results.
Dreams are in no way mystical. They're just your brain having fun messing around with itself so you don't go crazy. That's why, when you're sleep-deprived, you go crazy. True scientific fact.
However, if someone from the future plays a future recording by your head while you're sleeping, then, that's a different story. That or an angel.
However, if someone from the future plays a future recording by your head while you're sleeping, then, that's a different story. That or an angel.
I've had this happen to me a few times, wherein I will dream of scenarios and interactions that then happen to me with a degree of jarring accuracy months, or even years after the fact.
I have a few hypotheses about why this is.
1: A handful of the ones that took more than a few years may be false memories.
In this scenario, something happens to me in real life that is vaguely similar to something has happened to me in a dream before, resulting in me adding in details to the memory of my dream in order to make it seem more startling.
2: The Monkeys on typewriters scenario.
Wherein my dreams contain so many different elements that when thrown into the proverbial "paint mixer" or my mind that they cannot help but occasionally create experiences that will eventually come to be in real life.
Either way, it is not a use form of pre-cognosis, and I have since merely tucked it away as "something neato that sometimes happens to me..."
I have a few hypotheses about why this is.
1: A handful of the ones that took more than a few years may be false memories.
In this scenario, something happens to me in real life that is vaguely similar to something has happened to me in a dream before, resulting in me adding in details to the memory of my dream in order to make it seem more startling.
2: The Monkeys on typewriters scenario.
Wherein my dreams contain so many different elements that when thrown into the proverbial "paint mixer" or my mind that they cannot help but occasionally create experiences that will eventually come to be in real life.
Either way, it is not a use form of pre-cognosis, and I have since merely tucked it away as "something neato that sometimes happens to me..."
I certainly hope not otherwise my 3rd grade teacher, Lil' Kim, and Walter Cronkite have a lot more to do with my future than is reasonable to expect.
You are pretty much correct. Deja Vu is when your mind confuses a short term memory (such as going to a new place for the first time) with a long term memory. This gives the feeling you've done or been somewhere before, but because you haven't and don't have a memory of it - your brain is left with this disturbed feeling of having done something but unable to recall it. There's a term for the exact opposite too (thinking you're doing something for the first time when you've done it before.)Esotera said: