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no offence - it sounds liek something out of X-Men
none takenquddusaliquddus said:no offence - it sounds liek something out of X-Men
I already covered this, but a lot of you are operating on the belief that some dreams are, in fact, a snapshot of the future. They aren't. The belief that they are is simply the human propensity for pattern recognition latching on to a dream about a common event, followed by an experience of a similar event.quddusaliquddus said:... there's a difference between influencing it from foreknowledge of events and your everyday actions. It's like saying that if you knew the formulae for a falling object then you could influence it ... now we influence falling objects everyday e.g. footballs, but if you have forrmulae i.e. insight into its future course - then you can adjust its height weight etc ... to change the nature of its fall to the ground.
Using that as an analogy - can this be done with dreams?
I've had a lot of dreams, few I can recall now, but I'm fairly certain none of them came true. Something more the opposite has happened though; events have occurred which seemed to me dreamlike.quddusaliquddus said:Did anyone have a dream come true - So true that it's just plain weird? ... maybe even beyond explanation?
russ_watters said:I already covered this, but a lot of you are operating on the belief that some dreams are, in fact, a snapshot of the future. They aren't. The belief that they are is simply the human propensity for pattern recognition latching on to a dream about a common event, followed by an experience of a similar event.
Sorry guys, but its just a coincidence.
loseyourname said:This isn't a personal experience forum. Anecdotal evidence is hardly worth anything.
loseyourname said:Thank you for bringing it to my attention that hardly anything is more than nothing.
quddusaliquddus said:But there is at the moment no plausible theory on this other than your model-genrator theory or the time-travelling theory (on this forum anyway).
Well that's just it - it is nothing.quddusaliquddus said:When it comes to dreams - it's worth more than nothing.
To believe it without evidence is worse. Sorry, I use the scientific method. That ain't it.russ: To deny something outright without any evidence (or to believe in something) even though there's a chance it might be true isn't right. Can u not hold out the possiblity?
TENYEARS said:Russ, foolishness is a constant. It is the human condition. Science is not a thing, it is a bandwagon of human beings ... If a human wants the truth, they will find it, they will realize it ... What you have no clue of haunts me all the time. I have seen the future of humanity...
hypnagogue said:Scientific evidence demands reproducibility. If we cannot reliably reproduce a phenomenon, does it automatically entail that it doesn't exist? Maybe we just don't know how to reproduce it. If we humans weren't as bright as we are, perhaps we would never figure out how to reproduce static shocks. But our failure to reproduce the phenomenon would be a shortcoming on our part, not good evidence against the phenomenon in question.
loseyourname said:Without reproducibility, you have no way of knowing whether or not the experimenter in question is simply lying.