Sometimes when I am very sleepy, I will get random images in my head, I mostly forget them all soon enough. Also occasionally I will get strange feelings of deja vu. I started drawing the images I see, and low and behold, later the exact image I had drawn would be one I would see in my own life. This seemed strange so I started dated and signing the drawings and would have other sign and date them as well. If I remember to do so, I would throw the book into my car or try to keep it nearby( most always forgetting or being to busy to bother) and today was the third time it worked. What I drew three months ago appeared in front of me as I was working. Does this happen to anyone else and what does it mean?
Am I crazy?
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JM Aggie08
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Ive had the same thing happen to me on more than a few occasions. I never went to draw the image i had in my head, but at the exact moment the situation occured, i knew i had seen it before. CRAZY is all i have to say. How the human brain does it.
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begin scanning your drawings, and taking pictures of the real life happenings so that we can be the judge.
Been getting the deja vu thing a lot too. Almost like I see it while dreaming, forget about it, then it comes right back when it actually happens. Also, I have a weird connection to TV. Somehow, I'll think of some show rerun one day or the day before, and that exact episode is on later in the day or the following. Werd...
Not crazy, just stupid
Actually, I get the same experiences sometimes. FYI, Human memory is not very trustworthy. You probably drew a generic picture of your dream and your mind rebuilt that into something that you would probably see in your everyday life anyway. "Look there's that exact some buick from my dream!" Yeah, only did your picture get the color, marks, driver, location, etc. correct? Likely it was not specific enough of a dream. Therefore a generic picture from your dream is easily translatable into a generic "anything" in real-life.
Lots of interesting neurological studies on this kind of stuff. In the end these occurences really aren't verifiable without more detail.
Actually, I get the same experiences sometimes. FYI, Human memory is not very trustworthy. You probably drew a generic picture of your dream and your mind rebuilt that into something that you would probably see in your everyday life anyway. "Look there's that exact some buick from my dream!" Yeah, only did your picture get the color, marks, driver, location, etc. correct? Likely it was not specific enough of a dream. Therefore a generic picture from your dream is easily translatable into a generic "anything" in real-life.
Lots of interesting neurological studies on this kind of stuff. In the end these occurences really aren't verifiable without more detail.
Lots of people get strong feelings of deja vu. Whether it's actually anything strange depends on the specifics I suppose.
About 3 years ago I had a dream in which, among other happenings, I noticed that the living room of my apartment had been rearranged so that the television was where the couch normally was and the recliner was in the opposite corner of where it had been for the past year. I returned from work the next evening to find the living room arranged exactly as I had dreamed it and my roommate had just finished moving things around. I hadn't spoke to him about my dream and he hadn't mentioned the desire to rearrange prior to that time.
This sort of freaked me out because the rest of my dream involved a conversation about the nature of the afterlife with a friend who had died recently. I remember asking him if there was a god, and while reclining on our strangely positioned couch he said there was "something" and it was "kind of like an animal".
Is that weird enough for you?
About 3 years ago I had a dream in which, among other happenings, I noticed that the living room of my apartment had been rearranged so that the television was where the couch normally was and the recliner was in the opposite corner of where it had been for the past year. I returned from work the next evening to find the living room arranged exactly as I had dreamed it and my roommate had just finished moving things around. I hadn't spoke to him about my dream and he hadn't mentioned the desire to rearrange prior to that time.
This sort of freaked me out because the rest of my dream involved a conversation about the nature of the afterlife with a friend who had died recently. I remember asking him if there was a god, and while reclining on our strangely positioned couch he said there was "something" and it was "kind of like an animal".
Is that weird enough for you?
eits
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you're not crazy. the same thing happened to me. after the visions ended up saving my life, they stopped.
i get deja vu all the time...a friend (psych phd student) said deja vu can sometimes be explained when the brain processes one thing twice. An example most of you would understand, would be something like...you save an image to your hdd, but for some reason it gets slowed down and saved twice...you saw it once, but your brain thinks it saw it twice...making you feel deja vu...all of this is supposed to happen is microseconds 
...anyways, i'm no psych person so i appologize if my details and analogies suck donkey nuts
...anyways, i'm no psych person so i appologize if my details and analogies suck donkey nuts I met a girl once when I was younger and I distinctly heard her name and her first sentence to me in my head before she said it. (and yes I was mushroom free). Neat stuff.
There are alot of possibilities. There are alot of phenomena that we've yet to explore and understand.
What some of you are describing here would be classified by believers as a type of psychic ability, the ability to see the future, whether in a dream or a vision, etc. It varies in strength from person to person. It may not hold any significant import as you cannot "predict" it. If you see an image, you don't know what it is or where it came from or what it alluded to. You can't be be sure if it's some future event or just an imagination of your mind until it happens. If you know for certain it's the future and you change it, there's no way to ever know that prior future would have actually occurred. And then you incur the consequence of the change you wrought. If you told the future and changed it to not occur or you told a future which was just imagination that didn't occur or your telling it somehow changed it, most others would view you as insane. How do you know to rely on the accuracy of it? It seems quite a dilemma.
Then you have your skeptics and logicians. They see and view the world differently and will attribute or impose their explanation and meaning unto it. The mind is a complex and intricate functioning, a grand network of which we've barely tapped into understanding. Some process which we have not yet discovered may lie at the cause of your "prophetic" vision. You think you saw some event transpired which you had dreamed of the night before when in actuality your current mindframe somehow "reshaped" itself as if that image you see now was an image of before. Or maybe there is some chemical process occuring which produces by products of delusion or hallucination, tricks of the brain.
There are those categories of people here that I've described as evident by their responses. i.e. "human memory is not trustworthy" "think of a dog...see one" "deja vu...is just mind confusion" "i have dreams like that too" etc.
Alot of theories exist, for and against these kinds of "phenomena" or "mind-chemically induced alterations". Believers will tell you that people are born with different abilities (psychic abilities) just like they are born of different dispositions and constitutions. Some are shorter, stronger, smarter, healthier (stronger immune sys), stronger bones, heal quicker, and so on, and for which some of these categories can be adjusted or changed by the attributes of the external world around the human. If you train to run, you can become faster and increase endurance. If you lift weights, you will become stronger. Your diet will vary you. Different body types have different strengths but can train in different areas to strengthen where they are weak. Big-boned, large frame people will generally be physically stronger. Small, lean people will generally be better runners. Think ectomorph, endomorph, mesomorph types. Believers of psychic phenomena believe some people are born with mind-reading (maybe the most extreme form of empathy), "natural" capability to heal others, dimensional sight (able to see different types of matter or dimensions or beings undetectable to others or scientific instruments), remote-viewing, telekinesis, and so on and so on. Scientifically, there are people who are born that can smell and taste "colors". They don't just see it, but it's also dispersed into their other senses.
The empirically-bent people, your skeptics and logicians, or nonbelievers as you may call them do not, of course, readily believe in ghosts or mind-reading or any other kind of "psychic" phenomena. There's not tangible evidence to substantiate any of these claims. There's no way to verify or test or measure these. They do not have the faculty that believers have to experience these things. If they chose to believe, it will be on faith based on reasoned assumptions; "can so many be deluded or is there something they possess that allows to believe; much like a man blind from birth who has no idea of colors yet those who can see, know colors exist." The blind man is a poor analogy but it confers what I mean by those who are born with certain faculties and those who are born with differen faculties that impact how they will view the world.
What some of you are describing here would be classified by believers as a type of psychic ability, the ability to see the future, whether in a dream or a vision, etc. It varies in strength from person to person. It may not hold any significant import as you cannot "predict" it. If you see an image, you don't know what it is or where it came from or what it alluded to. You can't be be sure if it's some future event or just an imagination of your mind until it happens. If you know for certain it's the future and you change it, there's no way to ever know that prior future would have actually occurred. And then you incur the consequence of the change you wrought. If you told the future and changed it to not occur or you told a future which was just imagination that didn't occur or your telling it somehow changed it, most others would view you as insane. How do you know to rely on the accuracy of it? It seems quite a dilemma.
Then you have your skeptics and logicians. They see and view the world differently and will attribute or impose their explanation and meaning unto it. The mind is a complex and intricate functioning, a grand network of which we've barely tapped into understanding. Some process which we have not yet discovered may lie at the cause of your "prophetic" vision. You think you saw some event transpired which you had dreamed of the night before when in actuality your current mindframe somehow "reshaped" itself as if that image you see now was an image of before. Or maybe there is some chemical process occuring which produces by products of delusion or hallucination, tricks of the brain.
There are those categories of people here that I've described as evident by their responses. i.e. "human memory is not trustworthy" "think of a dog...see one" "deja vu...is just mind confusion" "i have dreams like that too" etc.
Alot of theories exist, for and against these kinds of "phenomena" or "mind-chemically induced alterations". Believers will tell you that people are born with different abilities (psychic abilities) just like they are born of different dispositions and constitutions. Some are shorter, stronger, smarter, healthier (stronger immune sys), stronger bones, heal quicker, and so on, and for which some of these categories can be adjusted or changed by the attributes of the external world around the human. If you train to run, you can become faster and increase endurance. If you lift weights, you will become stronger. Your diet will vary you. Different body types have different strengths but can train in different areas to strengthen where they are weak. Big-boned, large frame people will generally be physically stronger. Small, lean people will generally be better runners. Think ectomorph, endomorph, mesomorph types. Believers of psychic phenomena believe some people are born with mind-reading (maybe the most extreme form of empathy), "natural" capability to heal others, dimensional sight (able to see different types of matter or dimensions or beings undetectable to others or scientific instruments), remote-viewing, telekinesis, and so on and so on. Scientifically, there are people who are born that can smell and taste "colors". They don't just see it, but it's also dispersed into their other senses.
The empirically-bent people, your skeptics and logicians, or nonbelievers as you may call them do not, of course, readily believe in ghosts or mind-reading or any other kind of "psychic" phenomena. There's not tangible evidence to substantiate any of these claims. There's no way to verify or test or measure these. They do not have the faculty that believers have to experience these things. If they chose to believe, it will be on faith based on reasoned assumptions; "can so many be deluded or is there something they possess that allows to believe; much like a man blind from birth who has no idea of colors yet those who can see, know colors exist." The blind man is a poor analogy but it confers what I mean by those who are born with certain faculties and those who are born with differen faculties that impact how they will view the world.
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