Precognition, Dreams and Deja Vu

receiving direct knowledge or perception of the future precognition is another common psi ability with a long-standing history precognition is usually achieved through prophetic dreams during deep meditation or spontaneously received as images in the mind's eye the existence of this paranormal ability however once again goes against the newtonian grain and strikes close to the heart of people's conceptions of time and free will because if precognition is real then the future must in some sense be pre-written and determined albert einstein wrote time is not at all what it seems it does not flow in only one direction and the future exists simultaneously with the past the distinction between past present and future is only a stubborn persistent illusion david bowm wrote both in common experience and in physics time has generally been considered to be a primary independent and universally applicable order perhaps the most fundamental one known to us now we have been led to propose that it is secondary and that like space it is to be derived from a higher dimensional ground as a particular order and irvine laszlo wrote when asked to define time the physicist john wheeler once replied that time is what stops everything from happening at once scientists are still searching for a good definition because the problem of time is that it doesn't appear to exist i have personally experienced precognition on a few occasions but none as amazing or memorable as the following during college i had what seemed to be a normal dream involving myself and my friend wearing our typical attire talking outside my dorm about what we wanted to do that day now i didn't remember even having the dream until the next day as my friend and i were approaching my dorm every word she said started triggering the clearest most mind-blowing deja vu as the dream came flooding back to me we were both wearing the same clothes i'd envisioned we were standing in the same place and every word she said was exactly as i had dreamt seizing the opportunity to test and manifest this amazing clarity of deja vu i was experiencing i quickly blurted out the entire next sentence that i knew she would be saying and matched her word for word in real time stunned at my simultaneous telepathic mocking she abruptly stopped talking and i laughed uncontrollably trying to explain the whole thing that and other precognitive experiences forever changed my perception of the arrow of time if time is truly linear then we can only remember the past and cannot in any way remember the future but if it is impossible to remember the future then what was my dream how was i able to vividly see and remember the entire scenario in precise detail the night before it happened i guarantee anyone who felt my paradigm crushing deja vu would agree that this synchronicity was far beyond some quirky coincidence michael talbott wrote even our most ancient writings pay homage to the premonitory power of dreams as is evidenced in the biblical account of pharaoh's dream of seven fat and seven lean cows the proximity the unconscious mind has to the a temporal realm of the implicate may also play a role because our dreaming self is deeper in the psyche than our conscious self and thus closer to the primal ocean in which past present and future become one it may be easier for it to access information about the future david ike wrote one near-death experiencer described what he saw once the filter of human perception was lifted he talked of seeing the panoramic view of life everything from the beginning my birth my ancestors my children my wife everything comes together simultaneously i saw everything about me and about everyone who was around me i saw everything they were thinking now what they thought then what was happening before what was happening now there is no time there is no sequence of events no such thing as limitation of distance of period of time of place i could be anywhere i wanted to be simultaneously president lincoln dreamt of his own assassination a week before he died british aeronautics engineer j.w dunn documented several prophetic dreams come true in his 1927 book an experiment with time there are even 19 documented cases of people who pre-cognitively saw the sinking of the titanic some by passengers who acknowledged their premonitions and survived others by passengers who ignored their intuition and drowned and others still by non-passengers swedish scientist and mystic emanuel swedenborg had a gift for precognition and documented many independently verified examples one evening on june 19 1759 upon arriving at a dinner party in goteborg swedenborg had a vision of stockholm burning 300 miles away he told everyone in attendance including the mayor about the blazing fire and that it had stopped only three doors from his home the next day a messenger from stockholm arrived and confirmed swedenborg's incredible vision dutch psychic gerard croissette was well known for the several chair tests he accurately predicted first the experimenter randomly selected a chair from the seating plan of some upcoming public event in a large theater stadium or auditorium anywhere in the world there could be no reserved seating to prevent possible collusion or trickery then without telling him the name the location or the event knowing only the date and the seating plan croissette consistently gave accurate and detailed descriptions of the people who would be sitting in any given chair over the course of 25 years numerous investigators in europe and america were stunned by croissette's accurate predictions including specifics like gender dress features occupation and personality michael talbott wrote for instance on january 6 1969 in a study conducted by dr jewell eisenberg a clinical professor of psychiatry at the university of colorado medical school quasar was told that a chair had been chosen for an event that would take place on january twenty third nineteen sixty nine croissette who was in utrecht holland at the time told eisenbud that the person who would sit in the chair would be a man five feet nine inches in height who brushed his black hair straight back had a gold tooth in his lower jaw a scar on his big toe who worked in both science and industry and sometimes got his lab coat stained by a greenish chemical on january 23 1969 the man who sat down in the chair which was in an auditorium in denver colorado fit crossett's description in every way but one he was not five feet nine but five feet nine and three quarters psi researcher dean raiden highlighted the interesting case of anne ring in his entangled minds book she sent him the following in a letter many years ago i had a very strange dream concerning my father i dreamt that he was decorating the house the way we do in england or used to with paper chains holly etc except the decorations he was using were not the type used for christmas suddenly he sat down on a chair and collapsed and he died i woke up crying so loudly that it woke up my husband i looked at the clock and it was exactly 2 am california time i told my husband the dream and he just said well it's nothing you are always having strange dreams go back to sleep but the dream had disturbed me and it took a long while for me to get back to sleep the following morning was thanksgiving day and as i was preparing the meal the telephone rang and it was my brother calling from london to say my father had died it was a terrible shock because i had seen him in may of that year and he was in robust health in fact he had not ever been ill or in hospital in his life i asked my brother when it had happened and he replied that our stepmother had just called him and told him it had happened at 10 am london time the exact moment that i had the dream 2 a.m california time by the way he was putting up decorations because it was his wedding anniversary to my stepmother and they were going to have a party that night dean raiden wrote how shall we interpret this experience is it a poignant coincidence or is it a case of genuine clairvoyance this was the one and only time mrs ring ever had a dream like this and it contained details and timings that matched real world events i've been told similar experiences by professors at major universities by program directors at the nsf and by generals in the army these are not naive people prone to fantasy they appreciate the difference between meaningless coincidence and genuinely exceptional events the most rigorous scientific study of dream sci ever took place at the mamma needs medical center in brooklyn new york over the course of several years psychologists montague ohlmann and stanley krippner ran hundreds of in-house and at-home dream sessions with thousands of volunteers experiments usually involved trying to predict random images chosen by computer and displayed overnight in a locked room at the dream lab each day volunteers attempted to dream of tomorrow's picture then recorded their impressions for alman and kripner to crosscheck in 2003 when british psychologists simon sherwood and chris rowe performed a meta-analysis of all the mamma needs dream psy results they found that the overall hit rate was associated with odds against chance of 22 billion to one michael talbot wrote in his work at the dream laboratory at miami needs medical center montague allman along with psychologist stanley krippner and researcher charles honorton produced compelling evidence that accurate precognitive information can also be obtained in dreams in their study volunteers were asked to spend eight consecutive nights at the sleep laboratory and each night they were asked to try to dream about a picture that would be chosen at random the next day and shown to them ullman and his colleagues hoped to get one success out of eight but found that some subjects could score as many as five hits out of eight for example after waking one volunteer said that he had dreamed of a large concrete building from which a patient was trying to escape the patient had a white coat on like a doctor's coat it had gotten only as far as the archway the painting chosen at random the next day turned out to be van gogh's hospital corridor at st remy a watercolor depicting a lone patient standing at the end of a bleak and massive hallway exiting through a door beneath an archway other evidence such as psychic forced choice experiments also supports this idea that we can see into the future these entail having participants guess the outcome of future events with calculable possibilities like what playing card will turn up or what dice number will roll in 1989 the maminade centers charles onerton and diane ferrari published a meta-analysis of all forced choice precognition experiments conducted since 1935. they found 309 studies with 50 000 participants totaling 2 million trials where the time between prediction and event ranged from milliseconds to a year the results were surprisingly positive with odds against chance of 10 million billion billion to one one of the most convincing and astonishing proofs of precognition was discovered when university of amsterdam's dr dick biermann hooked several poker players to electrodermal instruments to test learned responses in gambling addicts he found that they all registered rapid changes in electrodermal activity just before being handed their cards not only this but the differences in eda corresponded with the type of cards being drawn when about to receive a bad hand participants showed physiological activity indicating a heightened fight-or-flight response when about to receive a favorable hand their eda calmed towards a relaxation response this indicates that on a subconscious physiological level somehow we already know the future building on biermann's work dean rayden also hooked volunteers up to electrodermal and other physiological instruments heart rate blood pressure skin conductivity etc to test for recordable physical effects of anticipating future stimuli in his experiment volunteers would click a mouse button wait five seconds view a random picture displayed on their monitor for three seconds then watch as the screen went blank for 10 seconds and began again the images randomly shown were either tranquil photos such as landscapes and nature scenes or disturbing photos such as autopsies and erotica lynn mctaggart wrote as expected the participant's body would calm down immediately after he or she observed the tranquil scenes and became aroused after being confronted by the erotic or disturbing naturally study participants recorded the largest response once they'd seen the photos however what raiden discovered was that his subjects were also anticipating what they were about to see registering physiological responses before they'd seen the photo as if trying to brace themselves their responses were highest before they saw an image that was disturbing blood pressure would drop in the extremities about a second before the image was flashed dean raiden wrote the idea of pre-sentiment assumes that we are constantly and unconsciously scanning our future and preparing to respond to it if this is true then whenever our future involves an emotional response we'd predict that our nervous system would become aroused before the emotional picture appears as expected skin conductance reacted two to three seconds after the presentation of an emotional stimulus and the expected differences between the calm and emotional responses were clearly evident but the pre-sentiment effect which was predicted to occur before the stimulus was also observed the skin conductance levels were virtually identical before the button press but as soon as the button was pressed they began to diverge in accordance with the future stimulus nobel laureate carrie mullis had the opportunity to participate in dean raiden's pre-sentiment experiment and was quite impressed with the results he went on national public radios may 1999 science friday program afterwards stating i could see about three seconds into the future it's spooky you sit there and watch this little trace in about three seconds on average before the picture comes on you have a little response in your skin conductivity which is the same direction that a large response occurs after you see the picture some pictures make you have a rise in conductivity some make you have a fall he's done that over and over again with people that with me is on the edge of physics itself with time there's something funny about time that we don't understand because you shouldn't be able to do that in 2004 psychophysiologist roland mcrady replicated biermann and raiden's experiments and published his results in the journal of alternative and complementary medicine with odds against chance of a thousand to one he found that heart rate significantly slowed before future disturbing pictures and that the brain responded differently before the two different types of stimuli dean raiden wrote lest we forget what's going on in this experiment it's useful to be reminded what these results mean the brains of both men and women were activated in specific areas before erotic pictures appeared even though no one knew in advance that those pictures were about to be selected in other words the brain is responding to future events given the controversial nature of this claim biermann discussed in detail alternative explanations for these results he concluded that the fmri results were valid and in agreement with the other studies based on skin conductance and heart and brain measures when you step back from the details of these studies what you find is a spectacular body of converging evidence indicating that our understanding of time is seriously incomplete these studies mean that some aspect of our minds can perceive the future not infer the future or anticipate the future or figure out the future but actually perceive it in ordinary states of consciousness and without the aid of technology most people are able to remember the past but not the future this has led to the philosophical idea of an arrow of time shooting from past to future with us riding along the present in altered states of consciousness or with the aid of technology however many people myself included have been able to experience and remember future events in detail perhaps then it is more likely that time as our ancient ancestors believed is cyclic and infinite not straight and finite it seems that ultimately our consciousness exists outside of this time space matter explicit hologram and therefore under the right conditions has the ability to access and experience anything in the implicat physicist david bohm concurred and wrote that when people dream of accidents correctly and do not take the plane or ship it is not the actual future that they were seeing it was merely something in the present which is implicat and moving toward making that future in fact the future they saw differed from the actual future because they altered it therefore i think it's more plausible to say that if these phenomena exist there's an anticipation of the future in the implicat order in the present as they used to say coming events cast their shadows in the present their shadows are being cast deep in the implicat order michael talbot wrote such incidents strongly suggest that the future is not set but is plastic and can be changed but this view also brings with it a problem if the future is still in a state of flux what is crossett tapping into when he describes the individual who will sit down in a particular chair 17 days hence how can the future both exist and not exist loy provides a possible answer he believes that reality is a giant hologram and in it the past present and future are indeed fixed at least up to a point the rub is that it is not the only hologram there are many such holographic entities floating in the timeless and spaceless waters of the implicate jostling and swimming around one another like so many amoebas such holographic entities could also be visualized as parallel worlds or parallel universes says loy thus the future of any given holographic universe is predetermined and when a person has a precognitive glimpse of the future they are tuning into the future of that particular hologram only but like amoebas these holograms also occasionally swallow and engulf each other melding and bifurcating like the protoplasmic globs of energy that they really are bombs in loy's descriptions seem to be two different ways of trying to express the same thing a view of the future as a hologram that is substantive enough for us to perceive it but malleable enough to be susceptible to change others have used still different words to sum up what appears to be the same basic thought cordero describes the future as a hurricane that is beginning to form and gather momentum becoming more concrete and unavoidable as it approaches ingo swan a gifted psychic who has produced impressive results in various studies including putoff and targ's remote viewing research speaks of the future as composed of crystallizing possibilities the hawaiian kahunas widely esteemed for their precognitive powers also speak of the future as fluid but in the process of crystallizing and believe that great world events are crystallized furthest in advance as are the most important events in a person's life such as marriage accidents and death dr david hawkins wrote time then is much like a hologram that already stands complete it's a subjective sensory effect of a progressively moving point of view there's no beginning or end to a hologram it's already everywhere complete in fact the appearance of being unfinished is part of its completeness even the phenomenon of unfoldment itself reflects a limited point of view there is no enfolded and unfolded universe only a becoming awareness our perception of events happening in time is analogous to a traveler watching the landscape unfold before him but to say that the landscape unfolds before the traveler is merely a figure of speech nothing is actually unfolding nothing is actually becoming manifest there's only the progression of awareness in fact this is a holographic universe each point of view reflects a position that's defined by the viewer's unique level of consciousness a hologram we might say is in and of itself a process there's nothing fixed in a three-dimensional hologram and what then of a four-dimensional hologram it would include all possible instances of itself simultaneously to change seems to be to move through time but if time itself is transcended then there's no such thing as sequence if all is now there's nothing to follow from here to there

Channel: Eric Dubay

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Keywords: precognition, pre-cognition, pre-sentiment, presentiment, future, past, present, time, experiment, experiments, science, scientific, predict, prediction, prophecy, prophetic, dream, dreams, deja, vu, spirituality, spiritual

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Length: 22min 30sec (1350 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 15 2021