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lil_devil
New Member
Canada
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 Posted - 06/25/2002 : 18:11:31
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ok heres something youll find odd
im a hard skeptic but i have had prophetic dreams that have come true
always bad ones i dident want to see
happen though ...pretty ironic.
and i have had nightmares i was
paralised in ,and had to scream myself awake to get out of
that is scary stuff! i hate it!
but thats as far as it goes.
anyone had similar stuff?
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
1447 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2002 : 05:46:58 [Permalink]
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quote:
ok heres something youll find odd
Not at all.
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im a hard skeptic but i have had prophetic dreams that have come true
When you compare the number of dreams you have had that have "come true" with the total number of dreams you have had, it really isn't anything odd or special, and certainly not proof of "seeing the future in dreams".
From The Skeptic's Dictionary entry on dreams.
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...the vast majority of prophetic dreams are probably coincidences. Such dreams are impressive to those who lack understanding of The Law of Truly Large Numbers, confirmation bias, and how memory works. If the odds are a million to one that any given dream is truly prophetic, then, given the number of people on earth and the average number of dreams people have during each sleep period (250 dream themes a night, according to Hines, p. 50), we should expect that every single day of our lives there will be more than 1.5 million dreams that seem clairvoyant.
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fortiter in re, suaviter in modo
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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
925 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2002 : 07:59:00 [Permalink]
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Additionally, information on sleep paralysis is available at the same site.
You know, devil, for a conspiracy-minded fellow such as yourself, that site, www.skepdic.com offers wonderfully skeptical essays on many of the very topics you seem so worked-up about. Worth a look.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
-D. Hume
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Catherine
New Member
USA
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Posted - 07/05/2002 : 23:06:22 [Permalink]
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Additionally, information on sleep paralysis is available at the same site.
You know, devil, for a conspiracy-minded fellow such as yourself, that site, www.skepdic.com offers wonderfully skeptical essays on many of the very topics you seem so worked-up about. Worth a look.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
-D. Hume
Edited by - phdreamer on 06/26/2002 07:59:18
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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
925 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2002 : 13:31:55 [Permalink]
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Welcome, Catherine. Were you just agreeing with my post?
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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welshdean
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
172 Posts |
Posted - 07/08/2002 : 06:50:08 [Permalink]
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I had some REALLY strange dreams once, it ws a reccurring dream and it went a little like this........
I was running around a roundabout with a friend of a friend chasing me. He had a real fruit type hat on (it appeared to be about 5ft tall). While he was chasing me he kept picking the fresh fruit from his hat and throwing it at me.........
the dreams happened for weeks and after telling a few friends one of their girl friends piped up the usual, "i know someone who can tell you what it means". It transpired that i have a fear of fruit......(uh!!) and want to be seen as better (in my friends eyes) than the mutual friend that was chasing me!!
I mean, come on.
At least it wasn't the usual "you have underlying homosexual tendancies" or the greatest old chestnut of all time "you were obviously abused as a child"
I believe in nothing; only my scepticism kept me from being an atheist.
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James
SFN Regular
USA
754 Posts |
Posted - 07/08/2002 : 12:35:41 [Permalink]
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<WAG>
Maybe you wanted to get into a food fight with the guy.
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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
Two more years...Two more years...Two more years...Two more years...Two more years...
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