themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you mean “documented and verified”? You mean someone dreamed about something that happened? Or someone consistently had dreams that could predict the future? The law of large numbers would suggest someone would eventually dream about something that ends up happening simply by coincidence. It would be a statistical anomaly if it never happened.
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The case I am thinking of is the man who called the FBI with details of a plane crash that happened days later. The last half of your comment is why it isn’t astonishing.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Kinda like how Tesla famously had seen the designs for… I forgot what invention it was; the motor? The AC converter? But he saw them in a dream. But, like… He was already researching this stuff. It’s entirely possible his brain just finished the work he was already trying to accomplish while he slept. This is a common phenomena, too. Getting stuck on a problem, only to come to a solution after simply resting and not thinking about the problem for a bit.
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I would assume it is all connected to the fact that your brain does the majority of processing while we sleep, hallucinates nonsense in the process, and then tries to pretend that isn’t what it did.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Right, but did the person have a prophetic vision, or was it simply a coincidental dream?
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It is obviously a coincidence, hence why “Prophetic dreams” is in quotes. At no point have I claimed it wasn’t mere chance. Stop picking fights for no reason.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not picking a fight, I asked you what you meant by documented and confirmed. A coincidence is not a documented or confirmed case of a prophetic dream, it’s a coincidence.
Like if you said that there was a documented and confirmed case of a human that can fly, and then pointed to that one lady who fell out of an airplane and survived, I would have the same objection.