I had someone approach me today needing to talk about a pretty constant stream of precognitive dreams. The dreams were from his own perspective and were quite mundane.
Seems to me there are several possibilities:
1. You want to believe so much in precognition that you simply believe that you have witnessed a series of events and simply confuse the past with the future (mind you Einstein believed these were illusions anyway).
2.During sleep you are in tune with your higher self and a collective conciousness which can focus in on a person or event around people that you know and then your subconcious puts you at that place at the right time (its a bit like the story of the guy walking past the phone box and answering the phone to find it was for him).
3. You do truly create everything.
I notice that several people on this forum have talked about precognition. My understanding is that it is entirely useless and is just part of the scenery of meditation.
The guy in question does not meditate as such. He is a film producer/script writer and often uses what he describes as 'hypnotic trances' to help visualise a scene or get additional ideas. It's the same as shutting out the noise as we would in DM. I suppose he is having lucid dreams.
Whichever and whatever he is having a hard time living with it.
quote:Originally posted by karl .... Seems to me there are several possibilities:
1. You want to believe so much in precognition that you simply believe that you have witnessed a series of events and simply confuse the past with the future (mind you Einstein believed these were illusions anyway).
2.During sleep you are in tune with your higher self and a collective conciousness which can focus in on a person or event around people that you know and then your subconcious puts you at that place at the right time (its a bit like the story of the guy walking past the phone box and answering the phone to find it was for him).
3. You do truly create everything.
I notice that several people on this forum have talked about precognition. My understanding is that it is entirely useless and is just part of the scenery of meditation.
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Whichever and whatever he is having a hard time living with it.
All three possibilities are possible and in different times. Number three is "ultimately" true, but only in a Uber-metaphysics sense, as when you realize and identify with the Only One.
There are also more mundane possibilities, such as just the conscious mind 'creating' order on recollections of dream content (which are mostly junk anyway).
I don't understand what "he is having a hard time living with it" means. You mean it happens often? If it does, then have him stop doing his mental creative exercise. Do something else that breaks up the normal pattern he got into. But first ask him to get me the winning lottery numbers.
precognition ?
Posted - Feb 27 2009 : 11:57:57 AM
