Poll: Premonition are they real

[ihatefullmetalalchemist]

I just recently saw Final Destination and wonder if premonitions are real. If so can you prevent them like in the movie and be stalked by death (or not) or are they impossible to prevent.
I personally believe they are possible and might even be preventable but the movie really was disturbing on how they died.
Also feel free to comment on the movie.
Based on what i know it's just another thriller with every main character dying.

 

[Taizan]

Premonitions aren't necessarily real, but for the past 3/4 thursdays i've felt really down. I wasn't sure why, but then i worked out that i found out my dad was really ill on a thursday, over a month ago, so that's kind of like an afternition, which is freaky to say the least

 

[AntiAntagonist]

1. Final Destination is awful.

2. Premonitions are not by definition only about life & death situations.

3. People with "premonitions" are usually deluded or charlatans.

 

[hebdomad]

Allot of things are predicable... People can look at the data, weigh up the odds and predict from there. Or like many 'premonitions' they predict something and it comes true, Its mostly luck. Most of the time they don't happen.

Remember what was predicted to happen in the year 2000?

 

[JohnSmith]

A feeling of premonition is simply your subconscious integrating arseloads of data and outputting its best guess. Certain brands of autism allow more active participation in this pattern finding process, but that is all it is patterns, big or small and the guess is only as good as the data. Some are so obvious you may not even realise that you have made a prediction, for example predicting that something will fall due to gravity.

Final destination makes alot of other assertions aside from someone having a premonition; it asserts in a thoroughly anthropomorphic way that "death" is in fact, "Death" a character with a vested interest in the why and wherefore's of an individuals' methods of demise. Furthermore it postulates that this anthropomorphic being has the power to affect the world physically.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

1. Final Destination is awful.

2. Premonitions are not by definition only about life & death situations.

3. People with "premonitions" are usually deluded or charlatans.

Hey! I was going to say that! The only reasonable conclusion I can come to is you saw a premonition of what I was going to say...

...or perhaps, just perhaps the world doesn't work the way it does in 3rd rate movies...

 

[Gooble]

I think they are real, I've had them a few times, but I agree they are illogical, irrational and make no sense why you would have them, and are probably just freaky coincidences.

 

[goater24]

I had a dream last night that you were going to post this thread.

EDIT: I didnt mean that at all, they are just facets of your unconscious mind and nothing to do with the present. Its like reading a horrorscope and then iftting the words around your life. If you believe in something so much you will begin to think its happeneing to you...See jim Carrey in '23'

 

[Haddi]

The closest I've seen to a premonition is that I was dreaming, began picking up a phone, and my real one rings and wakes me up. GODDAMNIT. See, I'd been having a great dream I wanted to start over from the beginning, so I could remember and write it down. It inspired me with a writing idea....awww....gone forever.

So I'd say no.

 

[kenji8055]

Well thats the rub, if you think you have a premonition maybe it makes you more inclined to do the thing you saw than if you hadn't had the thing to start off with. Think of it as jynxing yourself. Most premonitions I've had are just based on routines or a usual negative outlook, some are so vague that they are guarenteed to come true as you go looking for a link and we all know that if you look for a link you'll find one.

 

[KeithA45]

I don't really know. Every once-in-a-while (maybe once a year) I have a dream that I'm somewhere odd doing something strange, and within a year I'm actually doing in that place doing that thing and have serious de-ja-vu. I don't consider it "predicting the future" as much as I think of it as "an extremely short glimpse". But who knows, maybe their just coincidences?

The 2 biggest examples: Summer camp and my out-of-state job. Two events that I did NOT see coming in any way what-so-ever until after my dreams about them. In both cases I dreamt about the room, the surroundings, and the events, but not the EXACT location, (I.E.: At a camp or out of state) and didn't realize I was matching the dream until I was already in the room doing the action.

EDIT: I should note that I don't believe in the super-natural in ANY WAY what-so-ever or even religion for that matter, so I doubt I'm just convincing myself I have powers or I'm recieving a message from God or what-not.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Premonitions aren't necessarily real, but for the past 3/4 thursdays i've felt really down. I wasn't sure why, but then i worked out that i found out my dad was really ill on a thursday, over a month ago, so that's kind of like an afternition, which is freaky to say the least

If coincidences never happened, you would surely be remarking on how odd it was that coincidences never happened. You don't have to view it as meaningful.

 

[wordsmith]

I have had a couple of dreams (you could say premonitions) that came true.

Firstly: Last summer (june) I had a dream that I was sitting in a triangular lounge on a green sofa, 2 white walls and the third was made of windows. I saw a women I'd never met, and as she started talking and I had the immense feeling of boredom.

Fast forward 3 months... I check into a guest house in Cape Town SA. The following morning, I go to breakfast and meet one of the other people staying at the guest house. As I'm told my bacon roll will be ready in 20 minutes, I go and take a seat on the green sofa, looking out of the windows onto the beach. Some woman sits down opposite me and starts talking about horse boxes and how great her horses were. I start to think "Man this is bor... Hang on!!".

Now, this might not be significant, but for the following facts.
1)I had never seen the interior of the guesthouse when I had the dream
2)I had never been to South Africa when I had the dream.
3)I had never met the woman before, that was the first time I saw her.

Creepy non?

Secondly, a little after the dream of SA, I had a dream that I was following a tractor with pallet boards on the back in my car. The rope snapped, one of the pallets came through my windscreen and I woke up with a jolt.

November comes around, I find myself behind a tractor with pallets on the back. I wouldn't have noticed, but the pattern of the dust on my windscreen reminded me of my dream, and I backed off.

Sure enough, I rounded the corner to find the rope had snapped, and a pallet had fallen on the road at around the place I would have been had I not slowed down.

 

[Hearthing]

I highly doubt them.

To be honest, its the same with "near-death experiences". Personnaly, I think it's lies for attention, but who am I to judge the mental capacity of another human.

If someone is so sure they've seen the future, man, then let them believe it.

If you see your own death, you'll constantly attempt to avoid doing what you where meant to be doing and thus probably die anyway in the process.

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Are premonitions real?
You can - in theory - predict (subconsciously) what the outcome of something will be because history is bound to repeat itself. So I'm going with "myth plausible" on this one.

 

[Elim Garak]

Just heard a case from the first Gulf War described on the radio. A British sailor was in charge of protecting ships off the coast of Iraq. One night he saw two radar blips - they could have been planes (took the same root as planes would) or could have been missiles. He didn't know what was up, but he was suddenly terrified of them. After thinking for a bit, he chose to shoot them down - they turned out to actually be missiles.

Afterward, there was an investigation to figure out how he did it. Nobody could figure it out - they thought he was just lucky. But one psychologist realized that there was a very subtle difference - the time when the radar blips appeared on his screen. They showed up very late compared to when planes, which fly higher, would. He didn't consciously realize that, but subconsciously his mind projected that as a premonition. There was a logical predictive path being utilized - it just was happening behind the scenes. IE he had a premonition.