I think I'm psychic?

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katsumoto03

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Nope, you're not psychic or "posessed" or whatever. This happens to me a lot and I used to think they were visions too when I was a little kid. It's just Deja Vu.


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MasterOfWorlds

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If it's small things like some random activity you might do in class, then probably not. If it gets more complex though, like say, you hear screeching tires and a crash in your dream and sometime shortly after someone you know is in a car accident, then you might have some sort of precognitive abilities.

And speaking as someone who has spoken to a few psychics, they actually tend to be very spiritual people, so no, I don't think you're possessed. If you were, I don't think you'd be getting things like mundane visions. If you want more information, look up Edgar Casey, I think that's how it's spelled. He was a world famous psychic that even got visions in other languages. He never used his gift for profit, and actually helped to treat sick people, and also got his son his sight back after an unfortunate accident. At the very least, you might find it interesting.
 

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Deja Vu all the way! I used to get that all the time as well.

If you think that you are psychic though here is a challenge. When you have your 'screenshot' in the morning, write down exactly what is going to happen and where it will happen. If your predictions match up with reality consistently THEN we can start talking about being psychic.
 

lacktheknack

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Deja Vu is an annoying little tool... I've had the same things happen, but they went away. I'm pretty sure it's your brain playing tricks on you. A small stream of coincedences at one point (like genuinely predicting the mundane future twice in a row by sheer luck) fused a couple synapses in your brain, and now you think the random occurrences were dreamed of.

If you can't write them down every morning, it's Deja Vu.

If you can, then WTF?
 

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Eico said:
Hobonicus said:
Depth?

Depth in: "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."? Oh dear, oh dear...

I will point out the silliness of it for you;

1. "One of the first" - it wasn't even the first. If there was something odd, unique or out of place, it being the first post you ever read and this being the second some time later could possibly be interesting. It being one of the first maybe and this being some random date later? No. The human brain is too wishy washy for that. It's not unlike people who use dates kind of close to a disaster as proof for their conspiracy beliefs. Example: "Well, this happened around this day, and this person died near that day almost a year ago, so it must be related!"

2. "Maybe a year or two ago" - that is a massive difference in dates, further adding to the point above.

3. "Basically the EXACT [sic] same thing" - it was kind of perfect? It was a little exact? It was sort of 100%? Doesn't work.

4. "Nearly" - two things being nearly the same in a world of seven billion people is weird to you? How... odd [/irony].

One cannot put forth a notion in a free world and expect it to be immune from critique, hun. Critique does not mean insult, either. I'm simply showing you my perceived errors in your idea as my education would see them.
Oh my god, this is ridiculous...

"Depth" does not mean "deep", which is what you're implying I believe. I never said my little insignificant post was deep, but it did have slightly more depth than your initial response gave credit to. Okay I'll do a list too, with my numbers as direct responses to yours.

1. We clearly are using the word "weird" on vastly different levels. I cannot recall ever noticing two posts of equal absurdity being so memorably similar. As far as forum posts go, it was not a normal occurrence to me. You seem to like obsessing over words, so what's a synonym for "abnormal"? "Weird", maybe? I could have used the word "interesting" but like I said before I was sort of mocking the idea of precognitive abilities and their unnatural (or "weird") significance which is something you've chosen to ignore, presumably in favor of drama.

2. If you're gonna quote me, don't just make shit up. I never once said "or two". It's ridiculous enough that you'd try to justify arguing over something so minuscule, but even worse that you think you can misquote me to me. And even if I had said that it wouldn't change the point.

3. You're right, those words are contradictory. Complaining about them is crazy though, you're smart enough to understand that this kind of language is used acceptably in intelligent circles every single day. We aren't robots, using factually contradictory terms in such a harmless way is not an indication of unintelligence, but using that as an argument against me might be. I mean, come on, really? Even if this was in any way substantial, how does nitpicking like that make any point whatsoever?

4. I guess see my response to number 1. Something can still be weird in a quirky insignificant way without being horribly bizarre. You're exaggerating to an insane degree and acting like it's the only way. If you can only view it in a large scale generic sense, then yeah of course many many things will be similar. But normal people don't do that. If a man who seems perfectly content with life suddenly kills himself, are his friends and family wrong for thinking that's strange? Feelings work on all levels, it's all about context and you're ignoring mine.

And don't give me that critique bullshit. You casually tried to be insulting, and instead of ignoring it or apologizing, you're actually trying to justify that disrespect by scrutinizing over my wording. Normally somethign like this wouldn't bother me, but your stubbornness to remain pretentiously insulting kind of astounds me so I'm interested to see if it's just some misunderstanding escalated by pride or if you really think you're in the right.
 

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o rely cause that happens to me as well like i am riding in the car and bam i feel like i have seen these before in my dreams it so werid
 

teisjm

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Hobonicus said:
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.
Maybe it's the same person prematurely reincarnated
 

Turing

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Hectix777 said:
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
Yeah, my mother had the same thing. Turns out she's just crazy.

Seriously though, this is not an uncommon phenomenon and there are scientific explanations for it that doesn't involve superpowers. Sorry
 

Tanner The Monotone

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Hectix777 said:
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
I find that there might be an ability to see shortly in to the future by way of Deja vu. It might be that a part of your brain that is dorment might turn on for a short time.

It's either that, or you had a very powerfull brain fart.
 

SinisterGehe

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I put an card in to an envelope, please send me a private message telling what card it is. And since if you are psychic you should be able to know the message I sending to you with out reading it first.

Honestly, I had the same feeling for long time, then I realized because I could always guess what happened the next day because every day was almost the same.

Don't think that you are psychic, you most likely aren't, but if you still think you are just please promise me, do not make a psychic show and act like the biggest douche in the world, and Do not think you can help the police, too many people have died because police contacted a "psychic investigator" that led the to the total bollocks of an conclusion.

No offense, but I just don't believe in to supernatural, I believe math.
If someone kindly would give me a response of the probability of card X being in the envelope (simplified please, I should be able to do the math myself but I just suck at it.)
 

PurplePlatypus

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Let me put it this way.
You are cherry picking. How many dreams do you recon you have that nothing ever comes of or you just don?t remember? Also, how many events during the day that you might have expected to have dreamed about don't crop up in a dream?

Oh memory, such a tricky thing, you might also want to be weary of if it happened at all. How similar where the dreams to the scenario? Are they as you remember them or were they just close enough that you threw the inconsistencies out the window and just replaced them? You can actually do that without ever realising, we do it all the time to patch up memories.

Add onto that every day, you do pretty similar things, or at least you?re in particular environments each day. You know these environments, you?re in them often, you generally know the lay out and any objects and people that usually take up the space. This is enough to imagine any number of scenarios, typical or a little less typical, that could very well happen. So the law of large numbers will have coincidence happen, maybe even fairly often if you generally have these ?realistic? dreams.

Baring all this in mind, what do you do? How do you determine if you actually might have a power or whether stuff just happens and we generally dream about stuff?
Well there are some things you can do, keep two diaries. Keep a dream diary, wright it when you get up. The second diary is a normal general diary. In this diary you right down events from the day as they happen. Not all events just the kind of events that would pop up in these dreams. To make this as non-biased as possible, once you have written the dream diary don?t look at it again and try not to think about the dreams after writing it.

At the end of the day/week or whatever period of time compare the two diaries.
Keep count of: Matches, dreams that didn?t have an event and events that didn?t have a dream.
Have a look at the numbers. You may also want to look up what would be statistically significant, this will involve a bit of math.

If you do this, post the results here, it would be interesting to see what happens :)
Bear in mind this still won?t be the best kind of evidence ever but its good start.
 

Garrsus

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Niagro said:
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]
no deja vu is when your brains synapses fire randomly and thus confusing your memories but he is saying i DID not thought i did so it couldn't be that.

but it sounds cool, as a tip try putting words into someone's head, i think i have managed to do it but i could just be insane.

like think of something and see if someone says it or does it.
but maybe you are steering the day towards that outcome some how you never know.

also that's clairvoyance isn't it?
 

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Hectix777 said:
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
Simple, in the morning write down what that 'screenshot' is and then compare it to the event that occurs.

If you are, instead of getting 'screenshots' simply getting a lot of 'deja vu' then that is possibly a mild neural disorder. I'm not a neurologist, but if the deja vu feeling is overly common I suspect it isn't a good thing.
 

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I've had the same sort of experiences, although mine are usually about places I've never been, or doing stuff I've never done.... So who knows, I mean I know you aren't possessed (I mean really) and there's no real way to disprove ESP or anything else supernatural, we just don't know....
 

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trooperpaul said:
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
This used to happen to me, when I was five I believed I could always predict which rerun episode of a tv show would be on that day based on the dream before..

But I was a child.. you know?