Precognitive Dreams or Just Mere Coincidence?

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  1. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    No this is the only case that I have had any dealings with. There are already 4 books written about the case, and within weeks the ones campaigning for the release of the convicted, expect to be told of the findings of the inquiry into the case. This was on a request by the convicted for a Royal Pardon.
    There is no case like it. I'm just waking up , its early and I'm not making much sense. But if you were interested in investigating the connection between Justice, Truth and the Spiritual you'd have another story for sure.

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    This seems outlandish, but since other theories are likely impossible, the unlikely too be true is the best option. I'm playing the classic "we only use 10-15% percent of our brains or whatever it is" card. I think what may happen is your subconscious side is able to use the rest, like in Inception. Your brain may actually be smart enough to actually calculate the probability of events happening and piece together it's own premonition based on an educated guess. What people don't realize is that the brain can do things much more
    amazing then what is done with it, including by
    People with photographic memories and similar abilities. The brain is seldom ever, if at all, used to it's full potential.
     
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  5. Arioch Valued Senior Member

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    Too bad that's wrong though. Yes, it is true that we only consciously use around ten percent of our brains, but that doesn't mean that the other ninety percent is just sitting there turning to mush. The overwhelming majority of the brain is used for bodily maintenance and other automatic responses(such as the brain's model building capabilities), while much of the leftover bit are used for memory storage. So it's not like the rest of our brain is dormant, just waiting for us to tap into it, it's pretty much all being used(hence why we evolved bigger brains in the first place) and most of it is being used for vital functions.

    The "we only use ten percent of our brains" line is a bit of bad science that got absorbed by society(much like the myth that glass is a liquid) and has been readily abused by pseudos and cranks alike(who are usually advocating the same position).
     
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  7. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    The expected announcement was not made prior to the elections in November. The next earliest time was in March. We are more than halfway through March but not much is being reported in the papers. I am not sure what is happening in the Justice Department itself.
    I will keep the thread informed if there are any developments.
     
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    It absolutely true, but it is rare.
     
  9. origin Heading towards oblivion Valued Senior Member

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    I have read that people with a photographic memory consider it a curse. We are suppose to have our memories fade. It allows use to get on with our lives and not carry around a bunch of baggage.

    For instance when we lose a loved one the memory fades and we the feeling of hurt fade over time. For someone with a photographic memory the pain of the loss does not diminish over time. It is as a loved one that died 10 years ago just died yesterday.
     
  10. Arioch Valued Senior Member

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    @Rob --

    No, it's not. People with eidetic memories are not using more of their brains than the rest of us, their brains just function differently. It's a qualitative and not quantitative difference.
     
  11. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    Sorry Arioch I was talking about precognitive dreams. They are rare but definitely happen.

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    @Rob --

    Sure they do, but with a frequency that is less than would be expected by random chance. In other words, given that we dream about many, many things each night(the overwhelming majority of which we don't remember) it would be surprising if some of our random dreams didn't vaguely(and it is always vaguely) resemble events that happen at a later time. And given that there are over seven billion people dreaming every day, it would be highly surprising if such dreams didn't occur every night.

    Once all of the facts are put into perspective such precognitive dreams become far less amazing and are what should be expected, not due to people actually seeing the future but due to purely random chance. And the fact that they occur less frequently than would be expected by chance tells us that our dreams(indeed, our thoughts in general) are not ruled by chance but by the physical interactions inside the brain.
     
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    I understand what you are saying, so you think it is just chance, and I suppose there will be those that happen by chance, but if you ever did go and read the series of dreams I worked with there is no way it could have been chance.
     
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    @Rob --

    You say that there's no way that it could be coincidence? Then show me your maths.
     
  15. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    I would love to do this but how do you rate the vision back to numbers? And then to get the file and find the evidence never released backs up the evidence from the dreams. Some of it seems billions to one chance.

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  16. Arioch Valued Senior Member

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    So you're just assuming that it couldn't be coincidence but you don't really know.
     
  17. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    I have thought about the coincidence factor and it is so unlikely. If you want to do the maths you are welcome to try but they are not the sort of things that can be quantified. Like you want (or don't want to do). But I have more interesting things to discuss at the moment sorry.

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    Tomorrow mate.

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    His explanation of the Monty Hall dilemma was wrong for a strater.
     
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  20. Arioch Valued Senior Member

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    His solution may have been a simple one, however it's not, strictly speaking, wrong.
     
  21. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    It was so wrong to start with I researched it on the internet and others agreed it was wrong or at least no advantage to change choice.
    I never went back to the rest of it for it failed first base.

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  22. Arioch Valued Senior Member

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    I dunno, the mathematicians I've run it by didn't seem to have any problems with it.
     
  23. Robittybob1 Banned Banned

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    Well it looks all right till you really check it out.
    But what would be really benefit if you went through the websites I told you about and work out the maths of it.

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