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[eerr]

Go forth, and be confidant in these visions of the future.

Because obviously if they are good everytime then you can use them to make assloads of money.

in b4 u r the mentalist.

[Stargrasper]

Go forth, and be confidant in these visions of the future.

Because obviously if they are good everytime then you can use them to make assloads of money.

in b4 u r the mentalist.

The Mentalist wasn't psychic nor prophetic, he was just really freaking good at paying attention to detail.  I guess that could apply here depending on how detail-oriented the OP is...and how good he is at puzzles...

[nenjin]

I had a dream that I got into a fight with my brother. On a 12 hour drive down to my dad's for the Holiday, we fought. And on the way back up.

When you get a vision with something specific, and unexpected, and it comes true, then I'd go invest in a crystal ball. Someone has to be Edgar Kasey before I put stock in prognostication.

[ChairmanPoo]

" It was then that he began that rambling tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the fevered interest of my uncle. There had been a slight earthquake tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in New England for some years; and Wilcox's imaginations had been keenly affected. Upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great Cyclopean cities of Titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, "Cthulhu fhtagn"."

[Virex]

If I have an inescapable feeling that I'm drinking something I've had before, would that be a deja bu?


Anyway, the problem with prophetic visions is not having them but distinguishing them from dreams. After all, the criterion for a vision to be prophetic is "it came true"...

[Stargrasper]

If I have an inescapable feeling that I'm drinking something I've had before, would that be a deja bu?


Anyway, the problem with prophetic visions is not having them but distinguishing them from dreams. After all, the criterion for a vision to be prophetic is "it came true"...

The eternal conflict: prediction versus postdiction.

[Descan]

I had those kinds of things for a while.

I didn't recognized it for what they were, because I always thought Deja Vu was the "memory" immediately preceding events, so I thought, "But I remember this from a dream months ago! I must be the time whisperer..."

[Loud Whispers]

" It was then that he began that rambling tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the fevered interest of my uncle. There had been a slight earthquake tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in New England for some years; and Wilcox's imaginations had been keenly affected. Upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great Cyclopean cities of Titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, "Cthulhu fhtagn"."

I have this dream every Monday

[Jelle]

I don't think deja vu has all to much to do with prophecies.

afaik it's just your brain messing up signals, recognizing something as a memory whilst you had none of the sort.
I had them quite a lot in the past, every week or so that deju vu feeling in a completely random time. Usually when not paying much attention or particularly sleepy/tired.
Doesn't happen as often anymore in my case, no idea why but good riddance I say. 

Anyone care to explain me what postdiction is? Wikipedia is helpful enough but be nice to hear an explenation in this context.

[Akura]

I sometimes get feeling of deja vu. Really annoying when it does. Usually of mundane events that would otherwise by completely ignored. Like seeing a certain car go by. Normally, I'd not notice something like that, unless that irritating feeling of deja vu comes up.

Then again, I could swear I could see some things a few seconds ahead of time. And the other day, I sensed someone behind me doing something, but I didn't know what he was doing until I turned around(moving boxes, I think. I forgot), just that there was motion behind me. Not sure if I'm full of bullshit or not, though.

[Loud Whispers]

I sometimes get feeling of deja vu. Really annoying when it does. Usually of mundane events that would otherwise by completely ignored. Like seeing a certain car go by. Normally, I'd not notice something like that, unless that irritating feeling of deja vu comes up.

Then again, I could swear I could see some things a few seconds ahead of time. And the other day, I sensed someone behind me doing something, but I didn't know what he was doing until I turned around(moving boxes, I think. I forgot), just that there was motion behind me. Not sure if I'm full of bullshit or not, though.

Human's are weird creatures. The whole being able to perceive more things than you can see is something common to me, even with the fact that you rarely register most of the things you see at all. Though the future sight for seconds is something I've never done

[Stargrasper]

Anyone care to explain me what postdiction is? Wikipedia is helpful enough but be nice to hear an explenation in this context.

Postdiction is either when you write something "predicting" an event's occurrence after it has already happened or you take something written before an event has occurred and rewrite or reinterpret it specifically to fit the event in question.  Basically, it means you're "predicting" an event after it has already occurred.

Within the original context of this thread, we're looking at a dream and reinterpreting its meaning to be a prediction of future events after the events have occurred.  The reason this is postdiction and not prediction is because prediction specifically implies you saw something that you expected was going to happen in the future.  The OP says nothing of this.  Nor does anyone else comparing their experiences.

[tHe_silent_H]

I have completely diffrent "visions", rather than a deja vu thing. Sometimes i just see everything as it would be if life just dissapeared. as in how thing would of decayed and rusted. then after a few seconds my vision returns to normal and i've completly missed what anyone was doing during tha time, there are other less frequent types(scarier stuff :/) of this that happen to me as well, mostly places that have a history...

dunno what it is, but I hate it

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I get feelings of Deja Vu so often that some days I feel like I'm walking through events that have already happened. Like my whole life has already happened and I'm reviewing it. It doesn't mean anything. A person's mind can do strange things like that.

Your incident is no different.

[Cthulhu]

Sometimes I have this preternatural sense that ESP isn't real, and then it isn't.  Mysterious.