I meant put probabilty figures to my dreams and see how unlikely they were.@Rob --
As I said, it's a simplistic answer, one that allows for further reduction and refinement. However that doesn't make it wrong, it's simply incomplete.
Still, this is all rather irrelevant to why I linked to that video in the first place.
It seemed to be more frequent years ago. I don't know if there has been much point at the moment. But I might just try what you said.It's simple really, keep a dream journal and then keep track of the news. If your dreams are prophetic beyond what one would expect by chance then you may have something there. It's only a start but it's better than your current approach which is just to assume that it can't be coincidence.
Some can be quite personal and you're talking about peer review!Keep in mind that you would need to subject your findings not only to peer review(to search for flaws in methodology and whatnot) but also present a larger body of evidence than just this to demonstrate that there's any sort of phenomenon here to study.
Like the dream written down and dated (or entered on the internet) the news paper clips showing the events uploaded. This would be fun. We had a thread like this on TradeMe in NZ but since I was banned all my posts were deleted.@Rob --
Yes peer review would be required because otherwise how do we know that you're not just making it up afterwards or creating self-fulfilling prophecies. And, again, one person's journal wouldn't be enough, it would need to be a part of a larger body of work for it to demonstrate that there's some unknown phenomenon at work here that needs to be studied.
Is that a blog on here? How do start a blog?So start a blog and update it daily. Be sure never to delete or alter any of your posts in the blog.
One possible way to look at precognitive dreams is connected to brain capacity. The current estimate is we use about 2-10% of the brain's capacity. This is true for the conscious mind. The unconscious mind uses 100%.
Sometimes I wonder if I can even get the conscious percentage up as high as that!Some the stuff you come up with is just so goofy!
One possible way to look at precognitive dreams is connected to brain capacity. The current estimate is we use about 2-10% of the brain's capacity. This is true for the conscious mind. The unconscious mind uses 100%.
There have been times when I has exhausted my power of comprehending a certain problem. It felt like the brain partially "locked up".@wellwisher --
You really like demonstrating your ignorance of biology don't you?
Yes, it is true that only about ten percent of our brains are devoted to our minds, but that includes both conscious and unconscious. The overwhelming majority of our brain is devoted to data storage(memory), pattern recognition, and agency detection(which evolved to an anomalous level in humans). There's also a portion of our brains that are responsible for our autonomous body functions, such as breathing and circulating blood.
This "we only use ten percent of our brains" bullshit is just that, a myth based on a poor understanding of science. In fact I think I may have covered this already in this thread. We use one hundred percent of our brains, it's just that not all of that could possibly be devoted to our mind as there would be nothing left for things like memory and whatnot.
Quit spreading the pseudoscience, there's too much of that already in this world.