psychic/strange personal phenomena

[Dexter Sinister]

Dex your like a Swiss clock lol
very pridictable:laughing7:
I'm surprised you didn't go any further in your comment.

Didn't seem necessary or useful to go any further, nothing I could say will change anybody's mind. Interesting though, that you say I'm very predictable, and your very next words indicate I've surprised you. There would seem to be a certain inconsistency in your thinking there... ;-)

 

[Dexter Sinister]

But I'll go a little farther anyway.

coincidence
communal reinforcement
confirmation bias
selective thinking
self deception
subjective validation

etc.

If you don't know anything about all the ways human perception and understanding can be led astray, you'll never figure anything out.

 

[selfactivated]

But I'll go a little farther anyway.

coincidence
communal reinforcement
confirmation bias
selective thinking
self deception
subjective validation

etc.

If you don't know anything about all the ways human perception and understanding can be led astray, you'll never figure anything out.

I'll keep my magic As a small child with wide eyes

 

[El Barto]

some things you can say are coincedences but heres a few that the odds are way to hard to calculate.
a Friend of mine was going to be a father for the third time. So yes I knew there was going to be a baby. For 4 to 4 and a half months I haven't spoken to my friend or saw him in anyway. On the night of the 30 of may I dreamt the his baby was born. In my dream it was supposed to be a boy and it had something wrong with the top of its head, The next morning i tried to call and get some news but to no avail. I called my friends mother to see what was up. That night the baby was born but it was a girl and looked alot like her father compaired to the other two girls. Years later they fouund out that she had a severe hearing problem.
My father built his second house and put up his first for sale. It took a long time to sell which was getting him worried. I dropped by to see him the day after I had a dream. I dreamt of a man that was interested in buying my fathers house. He was a contractor with a red chevrolet pickup. I told this to my dad jokingly and he confirmed that yes there was a contractor with a red chevrolet pickup that was interested. Unfortunately he wasn't the one to but it.

 

[selfactivated]

It doesnt always come to us perfectly does it? But its like a muscle the more you use it the stronger it is. I get dead on sometimes and it tickles me pink.

 

[tamarin]

Karrie, interesting tale! Thanks for sharing! Dexter, you are a font of grounded wisdom. Sometimes, we need to remember that what we see or feel or suggest has more mundane an explanation. But then, but then... there are those experiences that nothing can find an answer for excepting reaching beyond what is given us.

 

[karrie]

My husband was always skeptical about premonitions. He still is skeptical. But, he's seen enough meaningful dreams from my side of the family that when my daughter woke up one morning, having had a nightmare about the house burning down, he asked her for details. She explained that the furnace caught fire, and the smoke detectors didn't work, and we all died. He cleaned the furnace and changed the smoke detectors. Skepticism is understandable, but there are times that it simply needs to be set aside 'just in case'.

 

[selfactivated]

My husband was always skeptical about premonitions. He still is skeptical. But, he's seen enough meaningful dreams from my side of the family that when my daughter woke up one morning, having had a nightmare about the house burning down, he asked her for details. She explained that the furnace caught fire, and the smoke detectors didn't work, and we all died. He cleaned the furnace and changed the smoke detectors. Skepticism is understandable, but there are times that it simply needs to be set aside 'just in case'.

LOL smart man!

 

[sanctus]

My husband was always skeptical about premonitions. He still is skeptical. But, he's seen enough meaningful dreams from my side of the family that when my daughter woke up one morning, having had a nightmare about the house burning down, he asked her for details. She explained that the furnace caught fire, and the smoke detectors didn't work, and we all died. He cleaned the furnace and changed the smoke detectors. Skepticism is understandable, but there are times that it simply needs to be set aside 'just in case'.

Therare so many situations and things that just do not fit the "rational" world. As people, we want to have everything explained for us, examined and monitored. We are uncomfortable with events and happenings that fall outside the realm of reason.

 

[karrie]

Therare so many situations and things that just do not fit the "rational" world. As people, we want to have everything explained for us, examined and monitored. We are uncomfortable with events and happenings that fall outside the realm of reason.

Well, some people are like that, yeah. Me, I'm personally quite comfortable with that which falls outside the realm of explanation. I think I'd be more disturbed if everything was perfectly explainable and there was no mystery in the world.

 

[sanctus]

Well, some people are like that, yeah. Me, I'm personally quite comfortable with that which falls outside the realm of explanation. I think I'd be more disturbed if everything was perfectly explainable and there was no mystery in the world.

Me too. Obviously, I fully believe in the realm of the spirit and things which cannot be codified or explained.

 

[karrie]

Me too. Obviously, I fully believe in the realm of the spirit and things which cannot be codified or explained.

lol... it would be an odd career choice for you if you wanted everything quantified and explained.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

... In my dream it was supposed to be a boy and it had something wrong with the top of its head, ... but it was a girl ... she had a severe hearing problem.

And this is significant how? Your dream was wrong about everything. No connection at all.

I dreamt of a man that was interested in buying my fathers house. He was a contractor with a red chevrolet pickup. I told this to my dad jokingly and he confirmed that yes there was a contractor with a red chevrolet pickup that was interested.

You remember details of dreams that clearly, that he was not just some random guy, but a contractor? I think there's probably a bit of confabulation going on there to bring the dream and the reality into line a little better than they really were, but that aside, contractors and red Chevy pickups are pretty common. You can't conclude anything from that. You sure you didn't see a red Chevy pickup around your dad's house one day? Or a contractor in the neighbourhood? You can't trust your memory anyway, it's subject to modification and reconstruction, especially when it apparently supports something you want to believe.

 

[El Barto]

Oh Dexter your just as bad as those religous zealous that post here. You even have a sceptic dictionary. Your religion is to discredit every thing . If it ever was 50/50 for you you would always tip the scale towards your point . Your a type that will not even reach out to understand the oposing view.
I am right and everyone else is wrong- thats your point of view. I've even seen your post on the bible and you were losing to Gaeme . Yet you demanded that she conceded to you. Really saw your true coluors there. So in short what your trying to tell me is that I'm a liar. You missed your proffesion you should of been a procicution lawyer. You'd even make the innocent guilty with a signed confession.
So posting sarcasm would of been much more enjoyable :laughing7: :munky2:

 

[selfactivated]

Oh Dexter your just as bad as those religous zealous that post here. You even have a sceptic dictionary. Your religion is to discredit every thing . If it ever was 50/50 for you you would always tip the scale towards your point . Your a type that will not even reach out to understand the oposing view.
I am right and everyone else is wrong- thats your point of view. I've even seen your post on the bible and you were losing to Gaeme . Yet you demanded that she conceded to you. Really saw your true coluors there. So in short what your trying to tell me is that I'm a liar. You missed your proffesion you should of been a procicution lawyer. You'd even make the innocent guilty with a signed confession.
So posting sarcasm would of been much more enjoyable :laughing7: :munky2:

Thats not true at all. Dex does have a logical side yes but he isnt lost to it. I find his mannor quite gentle and yes it is his oppinion that the world should be more logical but he has never attacked my way of thinking or my way of life.

 

[L Gilbert]

I'll agree with that and add that Dex is a bona fide realist and recognizes realism as such, and fantasy as such and can tell the difference between them.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Oh Dexter your just as bad as those religous zealous that post here. You even have a sceptic dictionary. Your religion is to discredit every thing . If it ever was 50/50 for you you would always tip the scale towards your point . Your a type that will not even reach out to understand the oposing view.
I am right and everyone else is wrong- thats your point of view. I've even seen your post on the bible and you were losing to Gaeme . Yet you demanded that she conceded to you. Really saw your true coluors there. So in short what your trying to tell me is that I'm a liar. You missed your proffesion you should of been a procicution lawyer. You'd even make the innocent guilty with a signed confession.
So posting sarcasm would of been much more enjoyable :laughing7: :munky2:

An ad hominem attack doesn't strengthen your case, or weaken mine. It's irrelevant. You understand nothing about what motivates me or what I care about. If I wanted to call you a liar, I'd do so directly. But I don't think you're a liar. I just think you're wrong because you're not thinking clearly. Most people don't. It's a learned skill, and our school systems don't teach it. You're making claims about psychic experiences, the burden of proof's on you. Anecdote doesn't cut it.

There's no user registered here called Gaeme. I presume you mean Graeme. Give me a link for that claim and prove that I was losing the exchange and demanding she concede anyway, or I *will* call you a liar.

 

[L Gilbert]

Um, I've had the odd precognisant dream, but I'd hardly jot that down to magic or anything supernatural. More like it was my brain in dreamstate putting patterns life is filled with together; sorta like a jigsaw puzzle.
Wife rang me at work once and I picked up the phone and said, "Hi, Shel, what's up?". "How'd you know it was me?" "I dunno". "You're weird"........... Although, she can predict stuff I'd say or do, as well. She's weird that way.

 

[Alexander]

The thing I love about such stories is that they give you hope. If psychic phenomena are real then we can't be but bone and dust. We are part of something much bigger. There is something out there. What....I'm not sure.

I TOTALLY agree with you! It's like some hope for an afterlife. Although I consider myself religious (probably because I fear the wrath of some god if I said I'm not) I still have many doubts and fears that I will be erased from existance and never have another feeling. It somtimes makes me think, I'd rather be in hell than just vanish.

I believe in spirits and souls or whatever you want to call them. I think.

 

[L Gilbert]

Anyway, as far as the unexplained goes, I'll leave it as unexplained. No way I'll be saying it's due to spirits, souls, or some other superstitious bunk. There's waaaaaaaaay too much nknown about the human brain and mind to be able to aver that weird stuff is due to spooks n whatnot.