ok all, i have something for you here. I have indeed seen the future through REPEATED dreams. Then seen the manifestation of it in my 'present'.
This past summer, I had a re-occurring dream: I catch thieves breaking into my van. While trying to stop them, I manage to save a bag of $1200 that was inside the van. They get away with everything else except the $1200. About 2 weeks later, my van gets broken in to. Hours before the break-in, I ?coincidentally? remove the bag of $1200 from the van for UNRELATED REASONS that I had up until that point, stored in the van (I was on a long road trip). At first, what seemed to have happened was I dreamed of what would happen in the future, and received some kind of warning through the dream about my money.
This raises a lot of interesting questions. What is free will? Is our path in life predetermined? Many people cling to the friendly idea that they have complete control over their future, and that their destiny is whatever they make it. For a while, I thought this to be so. But there are some complicated problems with this notion and the dreams I had about the break-in. If all future events are manifested as an effect of our own free willed choices, in other words, if we are really in control of our future, then why would I have dreamt of a future event at all? If free will is so, then the event of the break-in would have been only one of billions upon billions of possible outcomes of future events, which would in this case be controlled by my choices. In theory, something as simple as wearing a different color shirt weeks beforehand could have made a huge dent in the probability of the break-in. So the event of the break-in according to free will couldn’t have possibly been inevitable until the moment it starting happening. Therefore there would have been no reason for me to dream of it weeks before hand.
This reasoning about the notion of free will brings me to consider the possibility of a predetermined path to our existence. Where free will is nothing more than a comfortable illusion brought on by a defiance to reality. A reality in which all instances regarded as moments in time (all past instances, present and future instances) exist simultaneously within a space of eternity. Similar to a photo exposed multiple times of the sun passing where several moments in "time" are represented in one frame by the different positions of the sun in that frame. In this example, the frame represents a space of eternity, while the different positions of the sun represent different instances all of which exist simultaneously in the eternity frame. Look at one position of the sun in the frame. By observing the future positions of the suns instances within the frame you can predict its past positions, and vise versa, you can observe the suns past positions within the frame and determine its future positions. In this case, the future can be predicted by the past, as can the past be predicted by the future. The nature of cause and effect runs in ALL directions. No matter which direction time is perceived, the outcomes are reasonably predictable. So, considering this, does time, or whatever we consider to be time, even have a real direction? Or does it simply exist, with neither a begginning, an end, or a direction?
Memories can be described as a recording of causes to which the effect is the coinciding existence frame. After all, I wouldn’t be writing this sentence if I hadn’t written the sentences before it, and I can remember doing so. Regarding the dream in reference to what I wrote above, I can suppose that the dream was a temporary slip up in the singular awareness of the order of instances that simultaneously exist in an eternity frame. That my dream was a memory of an event that is still happening AND HAS ALWAYS HAPPENED in what is relatively now a past frame of existence in an eternity frame. This wasn’t a warning of any kind, but was a "memory" of an event yet to occur. In a sense, I traveled through time in my dream and caught a glimpse of what was to be an effect of a cause, and, the cause of an effect. Since time has no direction and all instances 'are' in an eternity frame, my dream was simply a relief from the illusion of times direction. A memory of the future.
Now, you may say that this is all nonsense and if what I said is true, then why didn’t I dream of exactly what happened, if
(according to me) what I saw in the dream was exactly what would happen in the future? This is because within the eternity, an infinite (eternity) amount of instances exist. and while I was dreaming, I was seeing the same type of event happen in different ways, in different life paths, or, dimensions, different instances. The imagination (subconscious) view this realm of eternity. An idea of the imagination is the subconscious observing different outcomes of instances. Like playing a game of pool, when you can ‘see’ the path at which you need to hit the ball, you are seeing existing moments in different instances in eternity.
Statistics and probability are only proven relative to a particular sequence of instances. The more instances within a sequence are observed, the less probabilities there will be. The longer a consciousness follows a path, the harder it is to get off that path., the longer one lives, the less choices he has.
infinity <---- 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 ? 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 ----> infinity
-In infinity, the probability of the missing number to be 9 is the same for it to be any other number, or simply to not ‘be’ at all.
In infinity all outcomes are equally possible. In a single life path, “statistics and probability are only proven relative to a particular sequence of instances”. In infinity, statistics is a measure of inversely proportional probabilities where all opposing outcomes are equally possible.
When I was 10 or so, I dreamt that my mother had died. In the dream, she was being taken away from my house in a casket that was made of glass. I ran up to her and looked down upon her before she was carried from the house. Looking up at me, she said, "don't worry, everythings going to be alright". When I was 21, she died in my house while I was flying back by plane from a short vactaion.
The dream was simply a preperation for what was to come in the future, so as not to be so much of a shock.
Now, if i had this dream after the fact, then i could rationalize it away as just my own mind trying to deal, but the fact that i saw i happen BEFORE it 'did happen', forces me to realize the significance of the dream.
