Psychics?

[Guest Wormwood]

Okay, I need to start this off by saying that I'm a skeptic. I don't believe in angles, spirits, astral planes or auras. I've always taken the scientific route to explaining things. So this to me doesn't make sense.

So the summer before last i am staying at my mom's house for vacation. One night i have a very strange dream in which I'm sitting at a computer in a big room that I've never seen before. I'm sitting next to a girl in a leather jacket who I've never seen before. I say to her the exact words, "Didn't you know, cougars love peanut butter". Strange and seemingly random. I wake up wondering what the hell that was all about. Fast forward a few months and I'm just starting out in high school. I don't remember a thing about the dream and don't care. I'm in business class and our teacher gives us a group project to do in which we have to pick which supplies from a list we would take to survive in the wilderness. The other person in the group is a girl and we are sitting at a computer reading the list of supplies when we get to the option to take peanut butter. She wants to put it on the list and I make a joke saying "Didn't you know, cougars love peanut butter". I feel out of control as i say this and my mind remembers the dream i had a few months ago. As i finish my sentence i feel myself return with a weird numbness, and a feeling of deja vu.

Now that was just my most memorable experience with that, I've had many more events like that happen before and after that event. I'm naturally inclined to disprove it, but i just don't see how. i have no explanation for the events.

So i guess what I'm asking is whats your take on this situation. Is it truly a metaphysical phenomenon, or just a series of strange coincidences? I really have no way of explaining it.

(Sorry for the long read.)

[Avalanche]

A thing that can happen is a sort of deja vu. You experience something and for some reason like a brainfart, it get's slotted in to a time that it never took place.

 

You experienced the actual thing, then had a kind of brain malfunction or hiccup, so the memory was "stored" as coming from that night. In reality, you never had that dream.

 

Deja vu is when your brain attributes an occurrence to a memory you had, when in reality you never had such a thing happen.

 

Basically you thought you had a dream like this. I've had loads of these. You experience something and then are tricked into thinking it was a memory. You remember it like a memory but it never actually happened.

[Guest Wormwood]

I suppose that make sense. Really makes me wonder how much else my brain has altered my memories.

[Sands]

Memories are very easy to manipulate, which is why I don't understand how some of these guys trust everything their super special awesome unique snowflake tupper showed them from their SUBCONSCIOUS memory bank. Just don't worry about it, shit happens all the time and it's normal. Unless you suddenly notice stuff not being normal. Then I guess there's a problem.

 

I can second the whole "woah, I saw a dream about this!" déjà vu feeling, happens to me all the time. Now if you (anyone reading this) could actually remember the dream before and use it to see the future? That would be pretty solid proof that shit like this has more to it than just a brainderp.

[Lacquer]

You never had that dream. You brain suffered a small temporal skip (filed it incorrectly into memory storage), and made you think that you experienced it before. For whatever reason, whether it was your supposed rationality or something else, it decided to also make you think you dreamt it.

 

What avalanche said. Look up memory construction and deja vu.

---

I can second the whole "woah, I saw a dream about this!" déjà vu feeling, happens to me all the time. Now if you (anyone reading this) could actually remember the dream before and use it to see the future? That would be pretty solid proof that shit like this has more to it than just a brainderp.

 

That's why more people should be using dream journals.

[Avalanche]

You only need a dream journal for 2 weeks to about a month. If after that you start to lose recall then your brain is derp.

[Mowgly]

wormwood, if you get a feeling of something that's going to happen, say it out loud to someone else , that way you'll know it's not a brain fart. Like when I was with my brother doing housekeeping and I felt my celphone ring... I went looking for it and no call/no lost call. So I went back to my brother and said when that happens they usually call me after a minute, something like a minute or two passed and I got called, he had a frightened expression LOL

[Avalanche]

I predicted 9/11 and there were plenty of frightened expressions when that happened lol

[Merman]

I find that just by writing dreams down for a few weeks you will start to remember every dream you have in vivid detail without having to write it down upon waking. Although in this case I guess it would need to be written down in order to prove you dreamt it before it happened.. Also auras are proven to exist.. they've been captured with Kirlian photography.