| lolita said: I'm not going to convince anyone, it's only an annecdote and it weighs no proof, sadly because there is no way to verify this... But please don't try to convince me otherwise unless you have a very good explanation. To me, it was just too precise to be something random. All I can say is that unless it happened to you, you simply cannot understand or believe, and that's fine. I'm not here to impress or prove anything to anyone. |
As I said, most of it can be explained by confirmation bias, that still applies to dreams (thats if you're actually remembering a dream and it isn't some kind of post hoc rationalisation in response to a delayed memory).
People who have suffered a crime have put people away because of testimony that was based around identifying a photo of the supposed criminal only to find that the DNA evidence contradicts this years later and that by seeing a photo of a person that might slightly resemble who attacked them, they literally insert that image into their memories and ovewrite what they actually saw. We do have brains that can do that. Such a mechanism could definetely work in other instances.
I didn't discount the possibility, as i said "I think a lot of it..." But for every vivid dream or experience how many don't come to pass? Thats the real point. Its very easy to say that insert phenomina is real when it happens once or even a few times, but it has to be weighed against when it doesn't. Thats all I'm saying. If you have 1000 dreams and only 1 comes true, is it really a premonition or is it more likely to be just a random thought that just happened to concur with the future?
I'm not saying it can't happen, I mean we do have big brains that can work out the inner workings of the universe and predict without doing any physics calculations where that ball you just threw is most likely going to land. It might happen in other ways rarely, who knows, but its going to take extraordinary evidence to prove the claim, as it should.
