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Oneka
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 08:52
Deja Vu


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_vu

Well, iam posting this here because this happens to me extremely alot and is very wierd to me..

Iam starting to not call this Deja Vu any more because the meaning is that you have felt like you have expeirenced it but really havent... this isnt the case for me

Quote: "
Psychology. The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.

An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu.
Dull familiarity; monotony: the déjà vu of the tabloid headlines.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Deja%20Vu
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What happens to me is what I have called myself as "Fore Sight"
and no, its not anything iam making up, iam being 100% honest with you in this and the only person I really talk to this about is my father because hes into that kind of wierd stuff and all, I just wanted another opinion on it..

But what happens to me is alot of times I will have a dream about something and it being a dream I pass it on and not really give it a second thought but I dont really forget these dreams, they just may be put into the back of my head...then after these dreams...it could be from one day to years before the event actaully happens...and the event plays out exactly as it does in my dream...
now, these events can be vary minor things or something important..but I have no control over what I see, or what happens
I think of wanting to not do what is going to happen but I play right into what happens everytime, pretty much my fate is sealed on what iam gonna do and I cannot change it even though I want to >_<...

Now this has been happening for years...I would say about 5 years now...and its now normal for me but I just wish I had some control over it xD

In all seriousness...
-I cannot see what I wanna see
-Iam not making this up
-Iam not some kind of soothsayer or oracle
-I cannot see other people's futures
-I remember each event like it just happened
-My memory of the dream and event will spark as soon as it is happening
-People and things that are in my visions are about 95% accurate of what they are in reality

AND, if you have had expeirences like this but not like deja vu please post...its really wierd >_>, maybe iam a mutant from X-MEN anyway time to eat


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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 09:17
You'll probably get ridiculed because there's no real way to prove it. Either way, no comment from me.


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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 09:20
Happened to me once. Wasn't anything exciting, just about 1 minute of me being in a certain area of a restaurant on a gambling trip (i wasnt gambling, my family was). Even the texture on the wallpaper was the same. Cool stuff, but I can't see any application for it, especially because I've had dreams that haven't come true before, so how would you know what will and will not happen?


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I also have deja vu and fore sight ALL THE TIME. I don't let it get to me though, because it's not like it affects my life in any way, it's just a bit creepy.

I have thought about deja vu actually being a mental disorder, where when something happens, you suddenly THINK it has happened before, even though it really hasn't, like memories instantly popped into your mind.

Anyway, I think this is the longest post I have ever posted.


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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 10:13
I sometimes swear that ive done something previously that im currently doing but dont recall ever doing it, however i dont believe in things like visions into the future and stuff.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 11:01
Happened to me on numerous occasions!


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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 11:23 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2006 11:28
You've pretty much just described Deja Vu with this statement man ...

Quote: "My memory of the dream and event will spark as soon as it is happening"



Here're a few of the "amazing" things I've experienced as a result of the brain being a completely lunatic device of random happenings:

-Seen my girlfriend stand at the bottom of the bed and walk out of the bedroom window (ROFL!!!) while she was still in bed next to me.

-Heard someone whisper into my ear one night, loud and sharply, clear as day, but I was home alone and nobody was there.

-Sat through a series of events, on more than one occassion, knowing I've seen them before and trying to say what will happen next, but just not quite being able to beat it to it happening, before finally it's gone and life carries on as unpredictably as normal.

I'm sorry kid, you're not the one. The brain is a complex device and is particularly unreliable when tired. People normally experience deja vu, ghost sightings and other funky things when they're tired - either late at night, or perhaps in the morning, or during the day after a hard days work, just when they didn't sleep well that night. The reason why none of them last that long is when you twig what's going on, you often snap yourself back into full conciousness. As the brain gets sleepy, it loses it's ability to fully process your senses and thoughts properly, and because your brain is sleepy, its interpretations can be misinterpretations.

It's all very difficult to properly explain, but explainable it is. However, if you can actually have one of these dreams and remember it, and write down all the events that will occur, fold up the bit of paper and keep it with you until it does occur, then you can be sure yourself it's true. I personally would then think you were lying, but at least you'd know yourself your gift is real.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 14:59
It happens sometimes, but it's not going to be much use to you, you can't really gain anything from it. You will have normal dreams that mean nothing, and these preminitions, but you will not know which is which.

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Oneka, for the love of Thor, please put some carriage returns in your code snippet so my browser doesn't stretch to 544123^53 pixels wide.

I've heard that deja vu is caused by a chemical inbalance in the brain that triggers nerve centers associated with recognition. So for a few breif moments, this chemical "tricks" your brain into thinking you recognize something that has never happened before. I don't know if I believe this theory.

I've had deja vu lots of times, and it's pretty freaky.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 18:03 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2006 18:06
They showed a study on Discovery as to why Deja Vu happens, and it came back with some pretty big results. I forget what the particulars were (Ill find a link) but they came to the conclusion that people arent remembering them doing the same thing when they have deja vu, they're drawing on a few thoughts they had a long time ago that are similar to the current event, and their sub conscious/creative mind turns it into a "wtf, this already happened".

So say you saw a lumber jack competition on TV, and then went to one, you might get deja vu, bad example but you get the idea.

The foresight thing is the same, you'll think you dreamt of it but instead it's just your natural common sense kicking in telling you what is going to happen. Like if you see a ball fall, you'll know it's going to bounce. People have extreme versions of that where they start predicting a bunch of things in a row, based on the fact that the end-events are obvious based on the original circumstances, but instead of thinking its nothing they jump to the thought of them being psychic and think they thought of it a long time ago, when in reality they only thought if ti a few seconds before.

Ill look for a link now.


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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 18:04
Quote: "so how would you know what will and will not happen?"


I have this happen to me quite often too, I just never say anything about it because I think its just me =P. But anyhow this happens when you think about something while your drifting off to sleep the so called "deja vu" dream can happen while doing this, the dream can tell you something that might happen years in advance or days months, etc. If you notice when you dream about it then it happens how crystal clear the dream was IE vivid, that is how you know the dream has a higher chance of happening.

This has happend to me since I was in middle school so I'v been having them for quite some time. Weird to say that it is useually something dumb, but my latest one was a weird very weird one...Thats a tale for a diffrent day.

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this happens to me alot as well Oneka. Strangeness, I have been known to finish people sentences, randomly. I know how you feel.

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i had a dream once that i was sitting in the back of a car, and we were driving paste a big red house with large trees surrounding it.

some time later we went on a vaction, driving the car, i was in the back seat, and all of a sudden, there was the big red house with the large trees surrounding it.
..creepy.


other than that, i experience deja vu on a daily basis.
i get up in the morning, get on the bus, the regular people and bus driver is there, i sit in the same seat (so do the other passengers) i go to work, i sit with the computer, travel home by bus, sit in front of the computer then i eat dinner and then i go to bed.

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Lukas, thats not deja vu, thats just being boring


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Quote: "Lukas, thats not deja vu, thats just being boring "


True, true....

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Dave J:
You'll probably get ridiculed because there's no real way to prove it. Either way, no comment from me.
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Yeah thats why I dont tell people it much...I pretty much think people will say iam crazy...thats why this is the first time ive done this outside of family...and what better place then the forum?


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Saikoro:
so how would you know what will and will not happen?
"

I really do not know what will and will not happen...but I only have a strong feeling on which ones do happen...
Some dreams I can automatically tell are not based on things that might happen..

Other dreams, that I can recall 95 to 100% of what happened after I wake up and they feel different are usaully the ones...


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Fallout:
-Seen my girlfriend stand at the bottom of the bed and walk out of the bedroom window (ROFL!!!) while she was still in bed next to me.

-Heard someone whisper into my ear one night, loud and sharply, clear as day, but I was home alone and nobody was there.

-Sat through a series of events, on more than one occassion, knowing I've seen them before and trying to say what will happen next, but just not quite being able to beat it to it happening, before finally it's gone and life carries on as unpredictably as normal.
"


1 and 2 I have nothing much to ever relate to that feeling...

3, The thing about that is, my actions play into the dream so I cannot do anything to change it...I may think it, but what ever I do will exactly come out the same way it does in the dream..
I think the best thing I could start doing is recording my dreams on paper, and recording the actual event on paper and compare the two....


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Fallout:
I'm sorry kid, you're not the one. The brain is a complex device and is particularly unreliable when tired. People normally experience deja vu, ghost sightings and other funky things when they're tired - either late at night
"

The thing is, I have these dreams at night yes,
But I dont have the actual thing happen until sometime during the day it happens, it doesnt matter for me if Iam sleepy or not, most of the time I have had the right amount of sleep that night or something like that

One way I know this isnt a fluke in the brain complex blah blah blah

Is because Iam posting this becuase it happened Thursday again...and this is what was a major difference

-In the dream I saw maybe two people I have known before and alot of people that I have never met and I was in a classroom..

What happened in real life was, (iam currently in summer school I R dumb) my summer school teacher had us in a different classroom and so when I walked in (which I was late that day) and sat down a few momements later I was reminded of that dream and ever thing played out exactly as it did in the dream...at that moment I now knew who those people in my dream where and they were 100% the same people in my dream..

When I had the dream I kept thinking about it constantly trying to figure out who those people where and spent about a week on it...at the time I thought it was maybe some friends of mine that I havent seen in a while and they looked different but that wasnt the case...oh yeah and the dream was like back in fall of 2005 and it just happened June 20th 2006




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Pincho Paxton:
It happens sometimes, but it's not going to be much use to you, you can't really gain anything from it. You will have normal dreams that mean nothing, and these preminitions, but you will not know which is which.
"

Yeah, the dreams only tell me pretty much what happens..nothing major yet..one time I saw my friend come back in a dream from a vacation and the next day he did...(he didnt tell me when he would be back)
The main thing I have learned from this is the brain has many features and workings that havent really been explained too much...
brains are cool

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SirFire:
I've heard that deja vu is caused by a chemical inbalance in the brain that triggers nerve centers associated with recognition. So for a few breif moments, this chemical "tricks" your brain into thinking you recognize something that has never happened before. I don't know if I believe this theory.

"


Yes, I know the difference thats why I dont like to call it Deja Vu any more..I know the feeling of both, but I dont have Deja Vu that often....when I have deja vu, it feels different then when having foresight...foresight at times will make me feel very uneasy and may give me adrenaline rushes...its like having a bomb explode next to you...my sense are like raised...and It just a freaky expierence...Deja Vu for me just has like a weak feeling of foresight...it just feels like if ive been somewhere before...that is like maybe your in a forest and you go in a circle not knowing...that type of feeling and is never related to any dreams..

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RUCCUS:
So say you saw a lumber jack competition on TV, and then went to one, you might get deja vu, bad example but you get the idea.
"

Yeah thats what deja vu is like for me lol but that doesnt happen too often

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RUCCUS:
The foresight thing is the same, you'll think you dreamt of it but instead it's just your natural common sense kicking in telling you what is going to happen. Like if you see a ball fall, you'll know it's going to bounce. People have extreme versions of that where they start predicting a bunch of things in a row, based on the fact that the end-events are obvious based on the original circumstances, but instead of thinking its nothing they jump to the thought of them being psychic and think they thought of it a long time ago, when in reality they only thought if ti a few seconds before.
"

1. I have visions that may be as simple as that or maybe more complex then that...I know what you mean about the ball bouncing thing, but how do you explain predicting what people will say and your responses? maybe the your response part but I dont know how sometimes I can tell what someone will say?
2.Ive never thought as myself as a psychic..I dont want to be one..
I just really think what happens is really wierd..and I dont ever think of the event a few seconds before it happens..there is always a time gap between the dream and event which is anywhere between 1Day to Years

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Oddmind:
this happens to me alot as well Oneka. Strangeness, I have been known to finish people sentences, randomly. I know how you feel.
"

I know what you mean...for me I think iam just good at reading lips because as someone is saying something I can know usaully the next word they are saying at the time they are saying it before they finish the word and I can think of the word..but I cannot say it at the same time as they can..if I try to I would be talking at like a .5 second delay....
^- all I think that is being able to decipher what someone is saying at the time of saying it.....

But very often at times me and my cousin will say the same thing at the same time...but thats because we mostly think alike...

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Lukas W:
other than that, i experience deja vu on a daily basis.
i get up in the morning, get on the bus, the regular people and bus driver is there, i sit in the same seat (so do the other passengers) i go to work, i sit with the computer, travel home by bus, sit in front of the computer then i eat dinner and then i go to bed.

"

Well if your doing the same things often then your bound to feel like youve done it before lol...



Anyway...its all wierded and stuff...now my head hurts...


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I swear I've seen this thread before...




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Everyone knows that Deja Vu is just a glitch in the Matrix, jeeze

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When I have deja vu, I often realise immediatly, and I can tell what happens next It's really odd.

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everybody knows chriss angel. here is his version of what "deja vu" is.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/50822/criss_angel_deja_vu/

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A lot of this can be attributed to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=417


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the deja vu part, but wehn you remember waking up during the middle of one of those conversations thats a bit different.

good stuff on that site tough it does explain alot... but not everything...

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I've had this happen today even. I was at the movie theater. Though some of the explanations fit though. I swore I remember dreaming of it, even though I don't remember dreaming of it before. Wierd.....

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I heard a while back that they think Deja vu is to do with the left and right sides of your brain. Can't remember exactly what they said but it was something along the lines of them being slightly out of sync for a bit. So you get that weird feeling when the other side of the brain catches up a few moments later.

I used to get Deja vu when I was a teenager. Never again really. Once I remember walking the dog and thinking exactly how a cloud was going to move and how another dog was going to come round the bend. All happened exactly as I thought a second later. Although the best was when I was watching a program, got that weird deja vu feeling and was mouthing the words the presenter was saying just before he said them. Spooky.

Hmmm. Interesting. Because I couldn't be bothered to read this whole thread I tried CTL+F for the word "left" to see if anyone had mentioned the brain theory. Keeps screwing up IE (doesn't screw up anywhere else). And this is IE6, which I reverted to a while back because IE7 wasn't 100% yet. Although I do need to reset the PC to fully install the SpySweeper 5.0 update I suppose.

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Quote: "Heard someone whisper into my ear one night, loud and sharply, clear as day, but I was home alone and nobody was there."
That's called scytsoprentia(sp?).

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You mean schizophrenia?

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Quote: "I can't believe this thread has gotten this far without anyone actually trying to discredit it"
I wouldn't call my brain thingy explanation of deja vu going along with old Nostradamus there (I'm guessing as I didn't bother reading the initial post. Sorry).

Just read some of it now. Aha. College is cool eh?

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Now iI'm not into all this and I'm slightly sceptical but I have similar things happen but believe I can explain them away rationally. That is not to say it feels odd.

Example 1, today I thought about taking apart a pocket FM radio and case modding it. See if I could work something cool and see how it worked. Later on this evening I was on digg.com looking at headlines and saw a site about taking things apart, like FM radios. Now this is coincidence, possibly? Fate, possibly? or just the fact that I had this idea still in my mind and seeing this connected it.

Example 2, the threads author mentioned foresight. This is interesting as I feel sometimes a remeberance of situations. I stand in the situation and think, oh. Now an idea about this is we dream of many different things at night but only remember them if we wake up in them (or something like that). It is also possible to influence people to dream of things by using psychological techniques that happen to us all the time in our subconctious (very dodgy spelling). It is, like situation one very possible I have been there before and seen the feature but it is also possible, that as the situations can happen when your near or around local places, your mind is 'jogged' and it says 'Oh, I remember this'


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Let me try and explain this to you:

Deja Vu happens when we need to change something in a localized area, a house, school, etc. The way we do it is by going directly into the mainframe of the area. Unfortunately, this takes a little bit of time, so we need to go back a few milliseconds. We don't exactly know how far to go, so we try to overshoot it. Most people wont notice this difference, but if we guess too far and something destinctive happens (a bird flying by), people may notice it. It has nothing to do with human brains, though.

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Quote: "It has nothing to do with human brains, though"
Doubt its to do with our toes

Quote: "if we guess too far and something destinctive happens "
Sounds like brain to me. Brains......

Theres quite a bit online about the left/ right brain theory. Sounds cool to me.

Quote: "Now this is coincidence, possibly? Fate, possibly? or just the fact that I had this idea still in my mind and seeing this connected it"
Thing is of the serious amount of seconds you live in your lifetime then the chances of something coincidental happening is pretty low on a day to day basis, but over your entire lifetime then it would be pretty high. I mean I cannot believe that that someone would live for, say, 70 years and never have a coincidental moment. Because of the sheer unlikelyhood of one of these moments happening however, then when it happens we totally respond to it. 99.999999% of the time it doesn't happen and we think nothing of it. Think of a floating red tree and you see a plastic cat stuck in the sewer. Do you notice this? Do you hell. X minutes later (however long you thing is relevant to be foresight - how about forever?) and you see a pink flower on a fence. Close enough. Spooky...

Couple this with the fact that people *want* to believe in something else. They have to. It's in our nature. Who the hell would really want to believe in nothing else, and this is it? Getting a bit close to getting this thread stopped there, but it was skirting the edges after all.

Not saying I don't believe in any of that stuff, just saying I think is very unlikely.

And personally I'm in the "Mediums etc etc are just *extremely* sensitive people who can pick up on the smallest thing and don't even realise it, but see it as a dream or whatever" camp. Tops if you can do it

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Apparently the reason why most dreams arn't remembered is because they're really mundane. Like taking out the garbage, or sitting, or walking.

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I dream every single night, but only remember it if I wake up from it. Most likely I dream dozens of small dreams all night that I'm unaware of.


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Quote: "I dream every single night, but only remember it if I wake up from it. Most likely I dream dozens of small dreams all night that I'm unaware of."

What do you guys mean by "waking up from it", dont we all wake up? o_O; I remember most of my dreams..


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Yeah but you don't dream all the night (only a few minutes) and if you woke up during a dream, you'll remember it like all other real things (not more, not less).
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Not true. You are dreaming all through the night. If you weren't, you'd be dead.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 01:54 Edited at: 25th Jul 2006 01:54
Quote: "Not true. You are dreaming all through the night. If you weren't, you'd be dead."


No, you're wrong. you only dream during REM sleep(not remark, its random eye movement )... and i doubt you would actually die if you didnt dream..


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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 02:43
"The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra
You can have plenty of dreams but only a fraction might involve an event that eventually happens later. Some dream scenarios, probably most, definitely do not happen. So when one of them does and you remember dreaming of it you cannot logically say that you foresaw the future: your subconcious mind spewed out many scenarios and some happen to come true. Here are two observations from someone who has been dreaming a very long time: (1) the older you get, the more boring the dreams get, and nightmares become quite rare, and (2) you can actually solve problems in your sleep, although whether it's in the dream state or something between that and waking might be subject to debate. I used to solve calculus homework problems in my sleep now and then when I went to bed troubled that I had not solved them yet.
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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 03:22
The thing is....how are the dreams able to accurately show what happens? its pretty weird...


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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 03:27
They don't. They're random. They may coincidentally show what will happen, but they're just that, coincidental.


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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 03:54
Quote: "its random eye movement "


Isn't it rapid eye movement?

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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 06:15
This also happens to me very friquently aswell (3-4 times per day at least)... I kind of enjoy it, knowing what someone might do, and you know what you do back, and you know it it does/doesn't work.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 09:45
As aforementioned dreams can be influenced using certain techniques, but they can only be suggested.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 13:18
Quote: "Isn't it rapid eye movement?"

yep

i had something going back about 3 weeks, where i was sitting on my computer, surfing these forums infact, and my mom comes in and asks me to go down to the garage, i said i would and then for no particular reason i had a very strong feelin that one of my friends would be there so i went down stairs and my mom said she would drive me there, and then the phone went, ten minutes later we set out, then when i entered the garage there was my friend; which i thought was extremely weird


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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 14:55 Edited at: 25th Jul 2006 14:57
Considering all you really are is your memories, then it's amazing how the brain adapts. So you dream about a lion. You see a cat in real life and you brain can then fool you into thinking you dreamt of a cat. Amazing how your brain can change things. And because you changed the memory then it *really* happened as far as you are concerned. Notice I didn't put any "perhaps", "think", or "theory" words there. No-one else is so I thought I would make it fact.

I once was sure that Stallone played Terminator at one point (it wasn't actually that actor with this film, but almost as famous, and I can't remember the real actor and film; doesn't matter really). I even could see the scenes with Stallone in it. Bloody amazing is the brain basically. Once I realised I was wrong then it all got wiped away, and Arnie replaced him. But for a while there it was true to me.

Personally I go down the Dirk Gently road with this sort of stuff.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2006 20:43
I remember many years ago my ex-gf from Saskatchewan would call me spottedly throughout the years. But every time she'd call would be the same day I would think to myself "Gee I wonder if Robin is going to call today."

But myself, being logical, attribute this to mere coincidence. Obviously anyone with half a brain would not say these kinds of things are anything more.

Hundreds of thousands, or millions of thoughts can go through your mind every day, and if one of those thoughts draws a parallel in real life, then it's nothing to be amazed at.


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Well I do not believe it is actually possible to see the future in our dreams, I also attribute it to mere coincidence.
What I find amusing are the lucid dreams. Ever had one of those?

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Posted: 26th Jul 2006 04:37
oops, rapid... sorry


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Quote: "What I find amusing are the lucid dreams"
Not really. A friend of mine reckons he can identify something false in his dream (computer listings being blurry is a classic) and then realise he is having a lucid dream, then just has a ball. Personally I have had dreams where I realise that I am in a dream, but only in a wishy-washy-far-away type away. Like when you "see" someone in your dream, don't actually recognise them, but *know* that it is you dad. But you don't actually think "It's my dad", you just *know* it. Without ever mentioning it or thinking about it. If you see what I mean. Confusing or what?

Although once I had an amazingly realistic dream. I mean most of the time it's just some sort of screwed up fuzzy film, but once I had a dream where I was in this local game shop that looked totally different to how it normally looked but I knew it was *the* shop I normally went to. Anyways in real life for weeks I wanted Spy Hunter. So I looked around the shop with my mum for it. And I found it. Picked up the cassette, read the instructions, looked at the screen shots, the lot. Was so detailed and realistic. Then it turned out a little kid had grabbed the last copy. Everyone in the shop looked at me nastily as I tried to grab it off him, so I had to let him keep it. Interestingly I thought I owned the game for a good 30 seconds after I woke up. Lot longer than normal for that type of thing. Heh, when I went to the real shop the next day they didn't have Spy Hunter, and I had to settle for Beaky and the egg snatchers (you *had* to buy something). Made myself half like that rubbish game by playing it to death. Obtained Spy Hunter along with about 10 other games on a C90 6 months later through less legal means Ah, we were all practically drug dealers in school in those days

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Posted: 27th Jul 2006 00:42
I sometimes have picture-perfect premonitions about the next day in my sleep. They're rare, and pretty much the only dreams I can remember. After the premonition I always wake up, and forget about it until it actually happens. It is very freaky, because I once managed to dodge a punch at school a second before it happened from a thug who hates me because I hate football.


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Posted: 27th Jul 2006 06:31
Lucid dreams are what I have all the time. Sometimes I'll get so frustrated in a dream, like I'll be running for somebody, come to a locked door and realize I forgot my keys at home. Something will happen where I will realize I'm dreaming, and I'll just make the keys appear in my hand. It's strange, almost an agreement I make with my subconscious--- i.e. don't think about it too much or you'll wake up, but here's a solution to your problem.

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