Weird. Earlier today I awoke from a nap after strange dreams and attempted to produce images in midjourney of a giant aquarium breaking. I must psychic or something.
It's Midjourney. It has me wandering the uncanny valley for hours every day, there is so much undiscovered country. My sleep is disrupted. I'm in an altered state and I'm more tuned to recognizing coincidences and generally making associations between images that may or may not be floating around in the latent space.
Case in point - yesterday morning she told me about a vivid dream of a major apartment fire she had. Look what just happened in Lyon [0].
You could dream about a fire for any reason, and fires are unfortunately common enough to at least make local news so unconsciously scanning a headline during the day may plant a "dream worm".
But this happens quite often, even for personal things, like details of the birth of our first kid a couple of weeks before the due date, down to the amount and color of hair, the precise time for a natural birth, and the mino complications right after.
It always gives me split second pause because I want to believe ("quantum entanglement" is weird or witchery is real - she's East European after all). But there's almost always a good explanation for the percieved prescience.
You do realise that becoming a 10x dev will mean you're getting underpaid? It's better to become a 0.1x developer so you're sure you're getting the better end of the deal ;).
Speaking as a 10x dev, this is truth. I have felt underpaid most of my career. After 30 years, I don’t give as much at work anymore. I bought a farm and most of my energy goes there instead. I suggest wishing for a healthy balanced life. No happiness comes from being undervalued and underutilized.
In my reading I have read of several such occurrences, and experienced one myself. On 2 Feb 1990 I fell asleep in front of the TV and dreamed I was a journalist in Cape Town, South Africa. There was buzz about a possible speech by F.W. de Klerk in front of Parliament. I was concerned that I needed a snack on the way, and hoped that the gov't would provide donuts. Then I woke up and CNN was nagging me that de Klerk was about to address Parliament. The subject was South Africa transitioning out of apartheid.
We're rational enough to mostly chalk it up to coincidence or selection bias, but not calculating enough to take advantage of gullible people
(Edited to mention selection bias)