[drain]

I have similarly experienced dreams (day dreams even) that seemingly predicted the future. Not discounting a possible spiritual phenomenon, but at least for me I reconciled these situations as being possible "memory falts". E.g. one time I knew exactly what a friend was going to say before they even said it (phrase was long and unique enough to seem unlikely for me to just be able to predict it). Although it seemed my mind reading powers were happening in real time, experience of the moment only exists in my memory. So it is possible that my brain imagined that experience.

Maybe recording dreams on physical notes is the way to go to account for possible memory shenanigans.

Or indeed it could be that one can recall a dream that happened by chance to be analogous to a real event.

[NovaDudely]

One does have to wonder if it is a case of us reconstructing the timeline after the fact. What we think as being the way it happened and how it actually did could be very different. But when it feels so real it can be hard to dismiss.

Semi related. I remember see someones story about how they would talk to god when on LSD, so one day they figured, get a note pad, ask what the meaning of life is and then write it down to study the next day.

They did that and all they had written down was "Walls." It felt so profound at the time but was probably meaningless.

[yadingus]

> They did that and all they had written down was "Walls."

dude, that's deep

No but really, a lot of revelations I've had on trips, the extremely skeptic would disregard as nonsense, but I consider there's some sense there, only it comes from a different kind of lateral thinking and can get lost in translation.

If you think about it, even a single word, in your sober state of mind, carries huge amounts of information that we take for granted. If you shift those symbols around a bit, then you can have a single word like "walls" be the epic conclusion of a meaningful thread of ideas that you think is so obvious, you will be able to unpack later by just reading the word.

But while you were tripping, you're basically incapacitated precisely because you're devoting so much energy to following these symbolism labyrinths and then of course the trip is over, and the sober mind state has too many other background operations to worry about, so you can't "unpack" that meaning anymore.

[amatecha]

Nah, one time I was startled by a phone ringing full seconds before it actually rang. The person I was around was startled by me reacting to it, because "nothing was happening", then the phone rang. Unless we both simultaneously falsely constructed that memory :) lol

[andrepd]

You live for 700,000 hours. There's bound to be plenty of weird coincidences during your lifetime. You're not a psychic.

[sethammons]

Human perception is not fully accounted for. My speakers used to crackle right before my cell would ring. Could be something like that. Just because you can't imagine that someone's account as being real doesn't make it not so.

[amatecha]

No way? Damn, I had no idea I wasn't this thing I hadn't ever claimed to be! Huh.