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To everyone who's experienced this or curious about it in any way, I'd thoroughly recconmend J.W. Dunn's book An Experiment With Time. He experienced dream-precognition to a great degree and developed highly intriguing scientific theories on the basis of his experiences.
No but J.W. Dunne does, and this little book influenced C.S. Lewis quite a bit.
I haven't read it yet (been thinking of picking it up), but this is about that:
http://www.amazon.com/Experiment-With-Time-Studies-Consciousness/dp/1571742344/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
I am a huge fan of William S. Burroughs, and although I think he was frequently (especially in old age) really gullible, his lifelong obsession with dreams informed his work and life in really productive ways.
If you want to start wondering if our understanding of time is at all correct, start doing a dream journal. Stop if it gets too annoying (unless you're an avant garde writer), as writing down your dreams solidifies them in your memory like real events, and you'll start stumbling around the world having errant thoughts like you have to be careful of the toothy fish that lives under the TV.
However, what you'll probably notice, even within a week or two, is a hard-to-explain prescience in your dreams. For example, I was recently dream journaling again for a class I was teaching on Burroughs (I have a neat job and can sometimes just teach stuff that I like, as an elective.), and I dreamt that I was a boxer who was supposed to throw a fight for the mob, but I didn't, because I wanted the win. I then turned myself in to the mob to take whatever was coming to me. It was the mobsters from True Romance (this is obviously a very Tarantino-inspired dream). They beat me up, yadda yadda not important.
I get up and go to the computer to write this down (since I'd assigned a week of dream journaling to the students, I made sure I did it too), and Firefox is open to Google News. Top story: James Gandolfini died.
James Gandolfini played the enforcer in True Romance.
How many other mob-related dreams can I remember having? How about... zero. Ever. In my life.
Could be something, could be nothing, but mysterious nonetheless.
(BTW, that's how you think about the paranormal. A mystery. Anyone who says they think they've got it figured out is deluding themselves.)
An old colleague and good friend of mine has worked for many years in human sleep research. At his request I have spent a good amount of time validating methodologies and statistical soundness of various studies he has unearthed.
If you are interested in learning more about current and past research, here are some reasonable starting points.
Susumu Tonegawa, a neuroscientist at PILM, led an experiment that claims to have isolated a genetic characteristic involved in situational pattern-matching and memory:
News article
A recently published book by Richard Wiseman, a reputable psychologist and skeptic of precognition:
Amazon reviews
A recent publication on precognition by Daryl Bem, a researcher and psychologist at Cornell University:
Paper
Richard's review of Daryl's procedures, including an experimental design concern with rebuttal from Daryl:
Review
J. W. Dunne's historical case study research on precognition in dreams:
Amazon review
Long-term research at Princeton University led by Robert Jahn regarding a purported human affect on randomization experiments:
Main site
As with all disruptive research, my experience is that this is a field in which deep emotions from both "sides" interfere with effective discourse. Remarks such as the non sequitur "you must be religious" made by Rooster_Illusion are typical: many persons inappropriately ostracize those who hold an agnostic, skeptical, and scientific stance. My main interest in this thread was to give my experience in logical and reasoned discourse to Rooster_Illusion, which Rooster_Illusion seems to have mistaken for me believing coercion and psychological manipulation are positive actions.
Ever hear of this book:
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