Can dreams predict the future?
abracad, · Categories: in the news, spiritualityDreams can give us a glimpse of the future, according to the Daily Mail article Yes, we do have a sixth sense: The in-depth study of our intriguing dreams that convinced one doctor.
Referring to The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives by Larry Dossey MD, Sarah Chalmers describes how major disasters such as the 1966 Aberfan coal slip and 9/11 were foretold in dreams.
A fifties study revealed that passengers often avoid trips destined to end in disaster, with ill-fated trains and planes having higher than usual vacancy rates.
Parapsychologist Dean Radin has found evidence in the laboratory that we are able to (at least subconsciously) gain foreknowledge of a picture momentarily before it is shown (Radin found bodily measurements change ahead of distressing images).
Indeed I have occasionally found my own dreams to be predictive, albeit in far less dramatic ways. I will often dream of something for no particular reason, only for that thing to crop up in some way the following day or shortly after. Try noting down your dreams for a while, you may get a surprise. If you do, or have, let us know at the hang out.
This phenomenon was documented by J W Dunne in 1927 in An Experiment With Time.
This raises a paradox, if the future can be predicted that means it must already exist in some form, but if it can be altered (ie by changing one's plans) then that existence must be somewhat fluid. It's apparent that time is considerably more complex than the quantity measured by the hands of a clock or perceived through our senses.
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