I think I'm psychic?

[TiefBlau]

The psychological concept of Deja Vu is not seeing something you've seen before, but something similar to what you've seen before. In this way, you may think you've seen something earlier in your dreams when in fact you simply covered something vaguely similar while you were unconscious.

If it's been happening every day in your life, there's also the fact that you probably have confirmation bias; that is, you tend to search for evidence that confirms your beiefs, whether you mean to or not. For example, if I told you that a random number generator really isn't random at all, you will probably be searching for all sorts of patterns in it, even if there really isn't any.

That's my speculation, anyways.

 

[TimeLord]

I dream of things that happen in the future, i think it's your brain playing tricks on you

Pretty much this.

I have had dreams of things that happen later in the week. When they happen I get a major sense of deja vu.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

If you're just seeing yourself in class or something then you just have really boring dreams. Sorry, no psychic-ness. Unless you see the exact assignment you end up doing.

 

[Klopy]

I doubt you're psychic. Sorry, but your mind is consolidating memories when you sleep, so while its doing that, its runs a screen saver for fun. Just seems like your screen saver is boring. Its easy to say that, if I had a dream that I was driving everyday, I was psychic. That's not really the power of the mind, its just knowing that I'll end up doing it tomorrow.

 

[Murray Whitwell]

Déjà vu

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

No you're not psychic. As has been said the brain is complex, more so than the structure of superclusters. Confabulation is the production of memories and perceptions for example, and is a symptom of psychological dysfunction, though less so with a matter of memory. Or you might be having boring dreams and lots of de ja vu.

I'd see a doctor before a priest.

Edit: Not that I'm saying see a doctor. Unless that is you feel this is sincerely an issue.

 

[GotMalkAvian]

This happens to me from time to time, and I know that a lot of the skeptics' responses in this thread don't really describe the experience. I ofen have dreams that foretell events that won't happen for months, and I'll always say "no way that will happen"; yet, months later, these things come to pass. I don't have any explanation for it, but I believe that when we sleep we can occasionally tap into a level of psychism innate to every human being.

 

[ronnom 666]

I thought I was the only one?... damn there goes my super power...

 

[BlackWidower]

If you are, I know a guy who will give you a million dollars. He lives in Florida, goes by the name Randi. All you would need to do is prove it. Should be easy if it's true.

http://www.randi.org

 

[Kevonovitch]

wow, all these posts, and nobody even suggested something along the lines of "we create the world around ourselfs in an image" so if you set yourself w/ X image, your gonna subconciously end up with image X every time? i forgot what that theory is called, and i'm too lazy to google atm

 

[New York Patrick]

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

If you want an answer on what this is, there are two versions:

Simple Answer: No. This is actually just a more specific and unique, well documented case of deja vu like experiences.

My Frivilously Crackpot Answer: Well, its about damn time! The fact that this occurs on a regular basis means that your subconcious is functioning in an area normaly dormant. Again, the frequent deja vu thing is something that seems to happen to alot of people I talk to, ESPECIALLY me. I found that keeping track of it makes you notice just how insanely unnervingly convincing it can be that you ARE precognitive.

I personally accept that this is because you ARE precognitive, to a degree. No, I don't claim that you can harness this ability and become a fortune-telling superhero or some nonsense. You aren't "psychic" psychic. Just sort of psychic. If this trait ends up being common in your family later down the line, maybe your great great great great grandson will be able to control it, but for now, just roll with it.

 

[The Heik]

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

Most likely it's just your subconscious drawing connections between what it was thinking about during your sleep cycle. Whenever you go to sleep, if you've been thinking hard about something during your waking hours(ie something important you're going to do tomorrow) your subconscious tries to calculate/solve your thoughts (that's where many dreams come from). In the morning, your brain has already run a few simulations on those thoughts, so when one of those possible paths vaguely matches, it feels like precognition.

I tend to get a few same kinds of "future snapshots" myself, albeit at a longer time until fruition. In my case it's simply the fact that my dream thoughts will eventually coincide with one of my goings on, as there are only so many logical outcomes in the same rough set of data inputs aka my daily life (eg. I will eventually talk about food with one of my friends, and as my subconscious knows my likes and dislikes it can estimate some of the more likely outcomes)

Sorry dude, but unless your snapshots last longer than a few seconds, you're not psychic yet. It's just more shenanigans from the weird gray goop between your ears.

 

[crudus]

It's nothing like me tripping or finding a $20 or the winning lotto numbers, just some idle task I'm doing in class.

Ok, two possible theories.

A: You retroactively create those memories. Dreams and memories are tricky. It is possible you fill in the missing points of your dreams with things that happen throughout the day.

2: You are dreaming of everyday tasks. It is essentially like saying "It is going to rain" when you are talking about the Amazon. Example, say you dream you are riding the bus. You then wake up and ride the bus to school (I am assuming you ride a bus to school...and that you go to school). That isn't precognition. That is just you dreaming about something you do daily.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Those damn bees. When will we be able to live without fear of them?

What movie is that from? It looks hilariously terrible.

The Wicker Man remake. Yes, it is great in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way.

 

[tthor]

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

elaborate?
are we talking moments of deja'vu, or what exactly?

if its moments of deja'vu, in which something happens and you immediately recall something very similar or almost the same happening at some point in your memory, this is easily explainable. what deja'vu really is is the brain processing information into its longterm memory before it processes it into shortterm memory. this causes it to feel like you've already had the event happen in your memory,

however, if you truly believe this to be something more, there is a simple method to test it: keeping a detailed dream journal. every morning, immediately after you wake up, write down everything and anything you can remember from your dream (doing this for a while will also make it easier to remember your dreams, making the whole task easier)

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

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.

Psychologists have pretty thoroughly debunked ESP. Some things just aren't possible, like predicting the future. As to your "healing abilities", it is the placebo effect.

 

[cl20]

perhaps because you dream the events, you do everything to make it happen (subconsciously)

 

[Smooth Operator]

"some idle task I'm doing in class"
Most likely a task you did thousands of times before, yet you never paid attention to it because it has become second nature, now your dream pulls up a random memory highlighting that task and you see it in a whole new way... "oh my god! I dreamed of picking up this pencil!"

Or you actually are psychic and we shall burn you at the stake: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live! (Exodus 22:18)
Sorry I had to take a stab at the Christianity possession nonsense

 

[[.redacted]]

lulz

I know what you're getting at with the whole - creating fake images - but one time I remember dreaming about talking to my mum about an English test I had taken while she was putting washing into the... well.. washing machine..!

2 days later the scene unfolds, with the exact same script

I came away feeling.. strange.

I have also had similar experiences, everyone has: essentially, put it on paper or it didn't happen =P