I think I'm psychic?

[MikeOfThunder]

Are these 'visions' (i'm not actually taking the piss here) are they particularly useful? I mean if you witness something big in the day then possibly delve somewhat deeper but if its like 'I will wake up and eat chocolate of toast' then its pretty much crap lol.

I'm not a religious person but i understand that there are things that we cannot yet explain. Btw I dont think that your 'gift' is anything of value but who knows, I'm just a random twat on the internet Have fun with it either way.

 

[Catalyst6]

It's called "Deja Vu" (sorry, cba accents), it's very common an is caused by your brain thinking it has seen something before, even though it hasn't. It may even generate false memories to go with it.

If you draw your screenshot, and it then happens and you can pull it out and point at it, you're psychic, otherwise, don't get too psyched up.

[sub]I'll get my coat...[/sub]

Ah, Niagro beat me to the punch. Or at least swung at the same target.

Before I wake up in the morning I get a sorta "screenshot" of something that will happen later in that day. It's nothing like me tripping or finding a $20 or the winning lotto numbers, just some idle task I'm doing in class.

I'm assuming that you get a "snapshot" as you said, and you recognize that situation later in the day. This is probably due to the same cause of deja vu, which is sometimes caused by the fact that your short-term memory is sharp but your long-term, "long-term" being defined as in the morning, is fuzzy.

The human mind has a fascinating tendency to fill in the parts of memories that are missing. For example, I cou d typ lik th s an y u c n st ll re d it. That's because your mind draws conclusions from ideas and fills in the missing spaces. Those spaces aren't always accurate, though. You could have a dream about a lottery ticket with the numbers 15, 24, and 38. If you happen to later get a ticket with 13, 42, and 85 you'll probably (falsely) recall that you predicted that because of how you're remembering it.

Since you apparently believe in your abilities you *want* your dreams to come true, so they do so in the same fashion as horoscopes. They are often right for the people that follow them because they will ignore a thousand negatives to focus on the single positive match and call it correct. You might have a thousand things happen to you during the day that you don't notice, it's only the ones that you "predict" that you notice.

In all, no, you're not psychic. There's no such phenomenon, your mind is just taking you for a joyride.

 

[Axelhander]

You aren't psychic.

The sooner you believe that, the sooner you can move on to important, non-bunk things.

 

[Flig]

See, we have dozens of unremembered dreams every night. Most of these are dreams of mundane, frequently done tasks. The Deja Vu you're experiancing is most likely the result of having dreams where you're sitting in class doing something, followed by you sitting in class doing something somewhat similar in real life. Your brain realizes that you've seen something similar to this and tries to figure out what it is. It vaguely remembers the dreams you've had, and either picks one similar to this, or mashes up a bunch, tricks you into thinking that you saw this exact moment before, and makes you think you're psychic.

Happens to a lot of people, which is why Deja Vu is such a common expression.

 

[godfist88]

are you waking up with blood on your clothes? jk.

if you really are psychic you should take advantage of it, you could even prevent someones death if such an event were to occur.

 

[StoneCutter]

My hypothesis is that when asleep our brains are constantly thinking of hundreds of events, only some of which we actually remember as dreams when we wake up (possibly the most outlandish thoughts, those that make the least sense and grab our attention the most). The rest are forgotten until one of them happens, in which case we remember having thought of the event in a dream.

I seem to have similar results with Scrubs episodes, and always thinking of a particular scene of the episode that shows the next day.

Course I'm no neuroscientist, but hey, it sounds kinda cool.

 

[mireko]

Another vote for the 'You're probably possessed by a demon' pool.

KILL THEM. KILL THEM ALL.

 

[Mikkaddo]

It's entirely possible you have a variety of precognitive ability. I know I've seen events in my dreams or my mind that ended up happening in such a way that can only be seen as a form of ESP.

 

[siahsargus]

This is what is happening:
1. You think you will do something, and therefore you will do it. You may also be misinterpreting the content of your dreams, and changing your remembrance of the dream to what happened that day
2. You're psychic. Congratulations on breaking reality.

Basically this. Sorry to be a killjoy, but as a skeptic I can't even take your word that you have dreams that you think a precognitive.However if you could write these down actively try to forget about them, and then open up your prediction at the end of the day to find out if you were right.

 

[Verlander]

I think what you're referring to is deja vu. The only way to be sure is to write out your dreams in the morning, and see how much of that shit actually happens. Seeing as you have this every day, it shouldn't be a problem for you.

Personally, I smell a troll. In Christianity, those with precognitive powers aren't treated as though they are possessed. They aren't believed for a start, and secondly all of that exorcism stuff is made up by fantasises and Hollywood.

 

[LogicNProportion]

Your probably eating caulking. I've seen it before.

So very happy when I saw this. xD

AQUA TEEN IS NUMBER ONE!

Anywho, I think happens to more or less most people at least once. It happens to me a lot. Of course, I chalk it to Deja Vu.

 

[Dr_Horrible]

Here's my take on it:

First of all, you are NOT possessed by anything. that just doesn't happen.
Secondly, I believe in some 'paranormal' things like psychic abilities. I also believe in science, I just believe that science is not yet able to explain some things (and I have seen some things to make me believe in some of what people call supernatural).

If you want to see if you are what people call psychic, see how far you can take it. I, personally, am somewhat empathic, I can 'think myself' into healing a wound faster, and a few other things. I take this as natural (possibly no more than using your brain's reasoning and pattern recognition, or even your body control slightly differently), and something that has just not been properly explained by modern science yet. I don't expect people to believe me here though, it's something you need to experience, and I know it sounds strange.

 

[Konaerix]

I get Deja Vu alot throughout the day...even when I'm doing something that I've never done before.
Does that make me psychic?

 

[Weaver]

Are you sure it's just not deja vu?
I get that all the time.

 

[jimdegin]

I think I'm psychic?

Then you're a dick.

Bit harsh perhaps, but that hit a nerve - this kind of superstition's dangerous in my view. Maybe overly dogmatic the other way. Meh. Them's the breaks.

 

[Wayneguard]

I have recurring dreams where zombies chase me into a lake full of people fleeing the horde and when i surface and yell for help, everyone in the lake has turned into a zombie and is staring at me... am i special too?

 

[Urgh76]

Alright Escapists, time to put your possible merit of deduction to use!

For my whole life, I've always had dreams. I know we've all had whimsical dreams, but the dreams I have are incredibly real, no unicorns or Chuck Norris and me team ups to beat Darth Vader and gain access to the golden land of ice cream and sex. They're really real. Okay so here's how it goes:

Before I wake up in the morning I get a sorta "screenshot" of something that will happen later in that day. It's nothing like me tripping or finding a $20 or the winning lotto numbers, just some idle task I'm doing in class.

It's happened everyday of my life and I've only now decided to take this a little more seriously. I'm Christian, and people who are believed to see the future are possibly "possessed" so I just want to know if I'm really precognetic, my brain is performing a series of equations and events based on random data and determining he most likely course of my day like fate, if I'm actually seein Fate, or it's just coincidence.

Again, really need the input please. Thank you

Same happens to me, and even on a recent occurance, there was absolutely no doubt in my mind that it had occured before, and to back that claim, after the first part of it happened, I said aloud the next thing that occured. My friend behind me was like