Do dream relate to real life?

Discussion in 'Pseudoscience Archive' started by Franko, Dec 4, 2003.

  1. Franko Registered Member

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    Take it from me.
    I have had a total of 6 predictions that have come to pass so far (that i know of)
    What happens is i will have a vivid dream and will think nothing more of it. but as soon as i expirience it in real life you suddenly realise it was in a dreem.

    e.g. I had a dreem where i walked down a path very bright with steep stone embankments on either side and im talkin to my mate.
    about 2 weeks later I was in matlock baths about to go in the old mine.
    and it suddenly hits me i've been here before i recognise everything the location the weather even the T-shirt my mate bought an hour ago.
    every time it happens it's about 2 weeks later before it actually occurs.

    I have also woken up after having a dream about guitars and been able to play music from the dream effortlessly.

    I want to know if any of you guys have had expiriences like this.
     
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  3. MRC_Hans Skeptic Registered Senior Member

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    It sounds like you are experiencing deja vu. It is a feeling that what is just happening has happened before. It is typical that the feeling is very current, that is, you recognize every moment as it happens, but you do not know what will happen the the next moment (like you would if it was a real premonition).

    The current explanation for this phenomenon is that both brain halves "file" the experience int othe memory, but get slightly out of sync, so you get some sort of "already filed" signal.

    The melody thing is different: If you had a clear memory of the melody you dreamt, why shouldn't you be able to play it? Was it good

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    I suggest you write down your dreams when you wake up. Then when you have one of these experiences, try and see if that dream is actually in your notes. You see, dreams are an elusive thing, most of the time, our memory of them is very sketchy, so we are apt to retrofit them whenever we thing of them in relation to a later experience.

    Hans
     
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  5. Franko Registered Member

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    ahhh
    that premenition i had was in the middle of another dream. and i have a habit of telling people my dream's. (I go out of my way to tell people when they're in one of my dreams).

    plus im into this dream recal thing (i got bored of it after a few months). and i've got a log book of my dreams(what the dream recall book tells you to do) and there it is 26th September 2003 two weeks before i went to matlock with my mate phill.
     
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  7. Yes Registered Senior Member

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    Franco, I experince the same thing on a regular basis. It has even made me slightly worried if I dream something less pleasant that that will happen.
    Just yesterday I had a dream about an old friend that I hadn't seen or talked to for years, he came into a school and I was astonished to see him, because this wasn't his school, he wasn't supposed to be there. And then later that day another mutual friend came to me, he was very irritated and told me that this same old friend had called him in the middle of a school exam.
     
  8. zoobyshoe Registered Member

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    This theory about the two halves of the brain getting out of sync is getting disseminated alot these days for reasons I can't understand.

    The deja vu, the illusion of familiarity, was conclusively explained over 20 years ago by neurologists. It is a tiny amount of seizure activity in the part of the brain known as the hippocampus where memory is governed. The seizure activity causes the person to be flooded with all the physiological reactions that would normally only happen in reaction to a strong memory. This has been demonstrated with depth implanted electrodes that were recording the seizure activity from the hippocampus of epileptics who had this symptom as a common one.

    This being the case, I am always surprised when I read about some new group of people who are trying to explain what causes deja vus. There are a couple of other theories floating around, as well. For some reason these researchers don't seem to have checked the literature, and push forward with the erroneous assumption that no one has figured it out yet.

    Sorry to go on about this, but it boggles my mind to see people still looking for an answer that has already been found.
     

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