Precog

[Rye]

Has anyone here experienced it?
What could it actually be?
Do you think it's possible for it to exist?
Anything else?

[Darth Servo]

No
Nothing
No
What would you like?

[DPDarkPrimus]

No.
Nothing.
No.
Rei likes pie.

[Rye]

Well, i was just wondering what alternative explanations for my experiences with seeing little bits of the future in dreams and once while i was fully awake.

naturally i only remember ive seen it before when it happens, and then have time to alter my thinking or actions a tiny amount before it passes.

The one that happened while i was fully awake, i lived what i can only describe as "a possible future" in which i actually walked forwards and slipped on some stairs and broke my ankle. Then i was back in "the present" and slipped on the stairs, but i was ready for it, sort of at least...and i fell in a different way, and slid down the stairs and ended upright at the bottom.

That is the only recent event that i can remember, but i'm fairly sure i dream random bits of the future, and only remember them at the time.

Deja vu all over agin sort of thing.

and no i don't have epilepsy.

[Darth Servo]

Well, i was just wondering what alternative explanations for my experiences with seeing little bits of the future in dreams and once while i was fully awake.

Oh that. Its usually something very general that you have probably experienced multiple times before (like say opening a certain door) and got imprinted on your subconscious some how. You pay no attention to it before the dream but afterwards its a different story.

[Rye]

Well, i was just wondering what alternative explanations for my experiences with seeing little bits of the future in dreams and once while i was fully awake.

Oh that. Its usually something very general that you have probably experienced multiple times before (like say opening a certain door) and got imprinted on your subconscious some how. You pay no attention to it before the dream but afterwards its a different story.

Ah i like that, that'll do me for the dreams then...

the waking one was hella weird though.

[EmperorChrostas the Cruel]

If you dream about eating a meal, and then eat, is the dream a premonition?

If you dream about taking a shit, then take one, precog, or fiber?

You understand that you dream 2/8 times a day, and how many of these are even remembered, much less come true?

How many dreams do you have that are Alice in wonderland impossible?

[Exonerate]

No.
Brain taking in info and subconsciously sorting it out and making a prediction.
Limited Precog maybe. Nothing as drastic as predicting a event months from now. Like a few second before it happens...
No.

[Wicked Pilot]

I predict that in a small matter of post, this thread will soon disintergate into discussions about some kind of sexual intercourse.

[EmperorChrostas the Cruel]

You missed the point of my post.

You eat and shit every day, so predicting eating or shitting is as psycic as "professising" the sun will rise tomarrow.

Also, the number of "predictions" that DON'T pan out is so much greater than those that do, that most "precog experiences" have less accuracy than random chance.

Only the right guesses seem to be remembered.

Is Wicked Pilot psycic?

(Anal sex, anal sex!)

He must be!

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

A little bit of deja vu, but that's about it.

[haas mark]

Has anyone here experienced it?
What could it actually be?
Do you think it's possible for it to exist?
Anything else?

Yee, dunno, obvious yes, ...?

Experienced it today, as a matter of fact. Driving with my friend Miriam back to my place, she was thinking of going to where else she needed to go on the freeway. I said, "It's rush hour, avoid the freeway at all costs." She said, "Dude, you just read my mind! I was just thinking about whether to go to pick up so-and-so by going on the freeway.."

[UltraViolence83]

I've had something like that. Back in January 2000 I had some kind of understanding that something big would happen on Febuary 11th of that year. Well, that day three of my friends got into a bad truck accident.

A rather funny version of this type of "precognition" is that I oftentimes have an uncanny ability to tell which movies will bomb horribly, by their name, previews, or cover art on the box. I could tell Resident Evil would suck ass becuase of that damn scene with Mila Jovovich running up and kicking that dog thing. Horrible. Of course, this has nothing to do with psychism...Only my disgust at stupid movies.

Oh, and I used to have deja vu at least once a week. Once, I actually stopped it from happening. I was reaching back behind the TV to disconnect my SNES and I just got this feeling of deja vu coming on again, it would hit me when I looked at the plant in the pot by the TV a certain way, which I was about to do. I didn't. I felt fucking WEIRD after that! Silly me.

I'm also a lucid dreamer. If I know it's a dream I can do ANYTHING.

[UltraViolence83]

I'm very capable of reading my half-brothers' minds. But then, we think alike because we're the only ones who truly understand each other.

[haas mark]

Another example: Had a bit of a bad feeling about Bean way back in October. Come March, he's at war.

[PainRack]

Strangely,yes.These are the more unexplainable and discrete events.

Let me see.
-I once had a strange dream as a kid where I was in this white hall,there were a lot of desks lying around waiting for me.As I looked up,I could see a cross and some words.

Well,a few months later,I graduated to a secondary school,and the above scene was exactly what I saw in my dream.

-I had this strange daydream where I was marching in a basketball court.Well,two years later,I was doing exactly that.

-I also had this strange dream where I was discussing the merits of Christina Aguilera and Britney spears with someone else.I don't listen to their songs or even hang out with people who listen to their songs.Well,a few months later,I found myself in that exact same discussion,with that exact same setting and even the exact same words.

-I also had a strange dream where I saw someone getting push-ups because of a wise-ass remark.A month later,presto.

And there's lots more too.The above were just some of the more exactly same events that happened exactly as I dreamed them.

[NapoleonGH]

some of those can simply be explained as your brain putting pieces together in a way that had a high probability of happening regadless, the example with your school isnt all that difficult to see ect.

as to how that convo went just the right way, maybe it happened that way from your end at least BECAUSE of the dream.

[DarthBlight]

I don't think precognition really exists, but I have a story that comes pretty darn close if I could always do it.

A couple years ago, there was a reality TV show on FOX called "Murder in Small Town X" where people were investigating and pursuing a serial killer in a fictional town. As part of the investigation, the contestants have to visit certain locations. Two people are chosen to go out to two locations. One location held a valuable clue to the killer's identity and the other was the location of the killer (and said contestant was eliminated from the game).
In the second episode, the location was a small house out in the middle of nowhere and I kept thinking to myself "This is the house of the bloody fingers." If you don't get the reference, read some horror stories (the funnier ones). And what was the valuable clue? Bloody fingers in a sardine can.

[weemadando]

Has anyone here experienced it?

Had a dream once that there had been an earthquake in some South American village, and I was a rescue worker. As we searched we found no casualties except for a mother and infant. In the morning when I went down and turned on the radio while eating breakfast I heard a news story about an earthquake in South America where the only casualties were a mother and infant.

What could it actually be?

I could have heard the report while I slept (doubtful as I didn't have a radio at this point) and it could have just been coincidence.

Do you think it's possible for it to exist?

Its possible, but it would require predetermination, which I just don't like the idea of.

Anything else?

Your mother is crap in bed.

[Slartibartfast]

I don't know about precog as a psychic thing, but I'm pretty sure my skull (and probably a lot of other people's) or brain can pick up radio signals, at least subconsciously. That's why about 50% of the time I'm humming or singing a song and it's on the radio when I turn it on. (I'm not counting routinely listening to the same radio programming, because I notice that often I memorise the order of the songs without knowing... I'm talking about randomly turning a radio on, or entering a car or bus with music playing, etc)

[Darth Wong]

Precog exists because if you make a thousand predictions and have a thousand dreams and they're all wrong, you will forget that they ever happened. But the one time you make a prediction or have a dream which corresponds to an actual event, IT WAS FUCKING PSYCHIC, MAN!!!!

[Hotfoot]

Precog exists because if you make a thousand predictions and have a thousand dreams and they're all wrong, you will forget that they ever happened. But the one time you make a prediction or have a dream which corresponds to an actual event, IT WAS FUCKING PSYCHIC, MAN!!!!

I'm reminded of an event from earlier this year in my game theory lecture. There were about 40 students in the class (ballpark figure), and the prof said he was going to pick a whole number between 1 and 20, and that he wanted the class to try and guess it. Well, on the first pass, only two students got it, me and one other person. So he eliminated the rest of the class and had us do it again, same rules, 1-20. I guessed correctly again. So far, so good, he's interested. So now he singles me out and does it for a third time. I fail. Amusingly enough, had I gone with my first hunch, I would have gotten it, but I second-guessed myself partway through and didn't trust my gut instinct.

Am I psychic? Hell no. At the most I was thinking along similar logical lines to the professor in regards to how to select his number. Had he been rolling a twenty-sided die to determine his number, it would have had to be all luck. However, people are ultimately predictable, and I think I might have picked up on his algorithm for picking his numbers, at least after the first time.

The first time was sheer luck. I did nothing else but pick a number at random. The second time I chose the number I might choose if I were in his position. The third time I started off by choosing the number I might choose in his position, but figured that he might try some new method of picking a number just to throw me off.

But hey, even if I did guess all three numbers correctly, that's only a 1 out of 8,000 chance. That's not really very significant at all. Once I start guessing people's 1024-bit encryption keys on the first try, I'll claim magical psychic powers.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

Has anyone here experienced it?

Yes.

What could it actually be?

Your brain processes a lot of sensory information without you consciously being aware of it. What you consciously think of as precognition is only something that was so obvious that your brain put it together without you really being aware of it.

Do you think it's possible for it to exist?

Entirely redundant question. :P

Anything else?

I'd like $23.75 in quarters please.

[UltraViolence83]

This is only a little on-topic because it involved dreams...


Last year I had a number of consecutive dreams which involved policemen for no good reason. A friend told me that cops in dreams meant you felt secure in your life...Or that something has changed for the better in it.

I don't know...I have some pretty batshit crazy dreams. I once had one where I was read a Tarot card by a mysterious figure in a robe and hood. He picked it up off my lap where I put it after picking it up face-down. There were others in the room. He went around looking at them and telling us our lives' ultimate destiny. For mine he said "Decay." Go figure.

[haas mark]

Precog exists because if you make a thousand predictions and have a thousand dreams and they're all wrong, you will forget that they ever happened. But the one time you make a prediction or have a dream which corresponds to an actual event, IT WAS FUCKING PSYCHIC, MAN!!!!

and if you get it right more often than not.....? and if you don't have to guess....?