Posted on 01/04/2024 3:13:02 PM PST by Eleutheria5
My youngest sister was pregnant and she and her husband chose not to learn the sex of the child until the birth. One night she dreamed she was in her car and she looked in the rear view miser and saw a girl in the car seat and she thought “her hair is lighter than mine”.
And this is exactly what happened.
Another time - before she was married - I was staying at her house and she was on her way home from work. I suddenly thought “I have to go pick up Jill”. So I drove up to where the bus would let her off at exactly the time she stepped off the bus. She was shocked and said “what are you doing here?” What had happened was she had driven her car to the bus lot but then when leaving downtown she got on the wrong bus and wouldn’t have had her car to get the rest of the way home. It was dark at the lot where the bus took her and who knows what could have happened. I actually figured this was an angel intervening.
As a little kid I saw things that were going to happen with alarming frequency. One day I told my mom about it, and she hugged me and told me that “that’s just how WE are”. Unfortunately we both grew out of it, but evidently it runs on her side of the family.
This is more common than many people think - it doesn’t really take a lot of rigorous discipline, or following this or that “method,” to be able to view future events. That is what I was pointing out in my post, that predictive ability lies inherent in everyone; it doesn’t need to be “believed.” It just happens. Practice is helpful.
Good story! Since I practice, I have a lot of stories like that. In fact, the evening after this “nostradamus” post, I had an extremely weird predictive dream that was mind-boggling. I’m still kinda freaked out about it. (Sorry, can’t give the details.)
It’s easy to see why folks would be a little scared of someone with enhanced predictive capability. I mean, what if everyone knew you could predict future events - and you chose to lie to them, or became overconfident and made a wrong prediction? That could be a disaster.
A lot of predictive dreams - for example - are hard to interpret and you don’t realize that you predicted some event until it’s happening or after it has happened.
I dreamed about the Christmas tsunami a couple of weeks before it happened. (The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, taking a staggering 230,000 lives in a matter of hours.) I also had a predictive dream about the tsunami in Haiti (In that dream I actually SAW a wall of water in the distance, bearing down on what I eventually learned was the famous lighthouse on Port-au-Prince.)
But what can you do? If you try to warn people, they just think you’re nuts and/or full of sh1t. And if you DON’T warn them, you might end up feeling really guilty. So, there are all kinds of reasons the predictive function is not that great of a thing and a lot of people fear it.
You probably didn’t “grow out of” your predictive talent - life happens and everyone has other things to do. If you ever have more than a few weeks of uninterrupted leisure time it may return.
(Wondering: By “WE” did your mom mean Italians....? 😋
“Why did I decide not to wear shoes?”
Your story nicely touches on some very deep philosophical issues.
Has the future already happened but we just don’t routinely perceive it?
If it has already happened then does that make the universe deterministic, i.e. there was no possible universe where you wore shoes before that walk.
Or—if you did decide to wear shoes would you have created a new timeline with the craziness of the “butterfly effect”? That minor change eventually would change everything in the alternate timeline.
Or—did that alternate timeline already exist and you just chose to follow it.
Does that mean there are infinite possible timelines that your choice creates?
Add to that the complexity of everybody else’s choices as well as all your other choices.
Crazy stuff.
One scenario you left you. You warn people, they say you’re crazy, and then it happens and they see it. NOW, the people you told expect you to see everything that’s going to happen in the future and expect you to tell them about the events. When you DON’T see something and tell them, they think you’re holding out on them.
In my mom’s case “we” is her side of the family, which is Irish/English.
Mr K (not the one on this forum) who I live with is an ardent believer in so-called “string theory.” I was interested in string theory for a while and still am, but my interested dwindled when I realized there’s no scientific way to prove it. It’s a great theory, though.
In the case I gave, I had been not wearing shoes - in settings where I probably should have - for some time. Years. But yeah, that was madness. I SAW this happening like it was on a movie screen or something. I even heard one of my foot-bones make a crackling sound.
I think my decision not to wear shoes that evening was possibly an act of defiance - I would prove my premonition wrong, gosh darn it!
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