I think I'm psychic?

[deleted_by_strongbad]

I say run with it, and like people said already start a dream journal. I think dreams are pretty much mundane firings of the brain and such, but that isn't to say that I think they are irrelevant. It sounds like your dreams are largely analytical of your day to day life rather than allegorical, so reading the accounts of your dreams may give you insights into various aspects of your life that you may want to change but haven't explicitly considered.

Beyond that, your brain could be running calculations on the outcome of potential scenarios, and again thinking about the logic or lack thereof had in your dream scenario may be helpful too.
As far as total grasping at straws/lets have fun with most-interesting case hypotheticals:
Right now any physicist worth their salt will admit that our concepts of time are largely based on guesswork. There are models out there for events that appear to chronologically go A, B, C may all be actually occurring B, C, A or all simultaneously, or any other variant. I'll be the first to admit that using these models to explain "psychic" phenomenon are largely based on taking the models out of context, but who's to say that that isn't what's going on. What if you are somehow simulating a model or observing a point of time from another angle allowing you to see it before you would reach it from your normal perspective.
Just random speculation, and as such take it with a grain of salt and I wouldn't "believe" any future "predictions," but outright ruling them as impossible or without at least speculative value I think is equally foolish.

 

[Doclector]

This does happen to me, sort of. But not every day.
If you remember it, and, for example, write it down, then it happens, you are.
If it happens, and you then remember yourself seeing it when you woke up, you are not, it's just your mind playing tricks. Deja vu it's called. That's what happens to me.
Btw, if you are psychic, AWESOME!

This, I am quite cynical of the whole future-seeing thing, but this is the best course of action, only, don't accept it as evidence if said task is something that was inevitable anyway, or something you could possibly control yourself. For example, if you see yourself doodling, then that is not specific enough. If you are given a specific kind of work to do that you wouldn't have usually done, then that may have merit.

In the unlikely event that you are precognitive, then don't do anything hasty. There is no evidence or even solid folklore to say precognitive people are possessed.

 

[Axelhander]

Union rules require I remind everyone that you aren't psychic, nobody else is psychic, and psychic powers are a huge load of Grade A bunk [http://handsomefatman.com/carlos/bunk/].

Precognition is a farce, people. Provide evidence showing that psychic powers ARE in fact true, and you'll have done what nobody else in history has done.

 

[MurderousToaster]

And I think I'm a unicorn, what's your point?

 

[Hoplon]

I bet he thinks his eyes are cameras too.

 

[Wintermoot]

I sometimes dream that I preform a action (like breakfast,shuffling cards etc.) and I somehow end up preforming that action in a few days on the EXACT location where I dreamed it would be (its fairly useless it doesn't tell me where to find money,valuables etc.)

 

[Stuberfinn88]

Well im going off of most of my dream cases here:

a persons dreams is based on the subject for what they were last thinking about before falling asleep, in their subconscious, creates a field based around that, which eventually can divert into some other subject entirely, bust mostly is about what you expect to happen in a certain situation. if your having constant dreams about school, then you are probably constantly thinking about school, whether its something thats bothering or affecting you on a subconscious level.

if what your seeing in your dreams is showing up in reality the next day, unless the things you see are just basic things then I would have to say that your school life must be boring, if the class is generally repetitive enough, it would be easy to tell what the next day will be like. Even then it could be that you have had so many repetitive moments that your deja vu is in full swing, in correlation with your dreams bringing back past experiences and slightly changing them.

Then there is the fact that you think your psychic when your not because you use your dream, and forcefully make that dream to be re enacted in reality by intervening yourself into the situation to make the dream you had come true.

if none of those, and your dreams are happening in real life without your own meddling to create it that way, and the situations in school that are happening in your dream are things that are out of the ordinary, things that have no connection with anything other then your dream, then I might just say that you would have a gift of some sort.

 

[loc978]

Dream-induced deja'vu? I've had that plenty of times... it pretty much just means that your life is predictable enough that you subconsciously know some of the things you're going to do in a given day.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

Dream-induced deja'vu? I've had that plenty of times... it pretty much just means that your life is predictable enough that you subconsciously know some of the things you're going to do in a given day.

Pretty much this even if you hate to admit it. Your live has just become more repetitive it doesnt make you psychic if you can remember a thing you have done hundreds of times.

 

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*writes it down*

Done to your satisfaction sir? xP

Either that was quite funny, and I applaud you, or you missed the point - difficult to tell which in text.

Still, you probably want to believe that you're pyschic, but untill you can pull out a picture showing everyone what happened just that moment - that you had drawn that morning - it's all just normal Deja Vu.

 

[valkeminator]

I had similar experience myself, sometimes I felt like "hey I thought I have seen this or done this before" at certain point. Made even bizzare should my guesses actually become accurate prediction, Especially when playing poker or even rolling a dice. In the end I suppose its just coincidence.

However, do note that I think mystic do exist in this world, I've seen people getting possessed and stuff... I even remember one mystic cracked open a coconut and what came out was a whole lot of little snakes. Don't even ask me how he did it.

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

No not really. your more of a more common deja vu.
I have the same feelings and dreams like once or twice per week.

 

[ShadowKatt]

Yeah, this probably wasn't the best forum to post this in. Four pages of highly flammable "Eat you alive" to prove that. Not the most open minded forum on the internet.

 

[Hobonicus]

I just wanna say, one of the first threads I ever read on the Escapist (maybe a year ago?) was a kid saying basically the EXACT same thing. Even some of the wording is similar, and the responses are (rightfully) nearly identical. Weird.

Asking the same question and getting the same response from the same people is weird?

One would have to have a rather dull life or a poor sense of the word strange for that to make sense.

Wow, callousness of the internet at work... I make a minor silly remark and someone takes that as bait to imply an insult.

I said "weird" for a couple reasons. I specifically remember the post I read about a year before because it was one of the first posts I read on the Escapist and it's absurdity was enough to be memorable. So when this post is made, with almost identical wording (especially the bit about getting a snapshot from dreams), I found it interesting and at first thought they'd resurrected their old post. Though maybe that means my life is so boring that I'd find a coincidental post interesting, eh?

The other reason I said "weird" was as sort of a parody of the OP. Saying "weird" suggested that there was something amiss, and quietly implied that maybe I had a similar precognitive experience with the other post, with a similar feeling of deja vu.

Or, third reason, I just said "weird" because I plain thought the idea of getting a feeling similar to deja vu in a post about deja vu was weird. I don't keep that word on reserve or hold it in the same regard that you apparently do so I just wrote down whatever silly thing came to mind in the few seconds I had to comment. I'm sure everyone else understood what I meant.

So no, it's not simply asking the same question and getting the same answer that was weird. It was the context as it pertained to me and the execution of such a specific post, not just the generic situation.

I know it probably doesn't seem like a big deal, but I don't post on the internet much and I hate it when people misunderstand any depth in a comment and use that misunderstanding to casually throw insults around.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Yeah, this probably wasn't the best forum to post this in. Four pages of highly flammable "Eat you alive" to prove that. Not the most open minded forum on the internet.

Being "open-minded" has nothing to do with it. ESP isn't something that is discriminated against, it would have to be real first. And most posts I see are pretty polite. So what point are you making?

 

[noxymoron19]

Some times boys dream that they're havuing sex and are going to ejaculate, then you wake up and ejaculate. Does that count as seeing the future? Who cares as long as you enjoy it