But it was never anything important, so you never brought it to anyone else’s attention – say, by finishing their joke? Even though you had evidence at hand of your prophetic ability?
nicwolff, normally when I bring it to people’s attention, they either freak out, laugh nervously, or go off all skeptic on me. I’ve pretty much stopped talking about it (except here, obviously) since its not a very useful talent. Also, carrying your dream diary around with you waiting for something to happen where you can point to it and say "ah ha! I dreamed you would tie your shoelace and then pick up that gum wrapper six days ago" seems kinda geeky, don’t you think? I dated a guy once (briefly) who used to sort of taunt me with it — "hey, did you dream this? huh huh did ya did ya" which wasn’t really all that pleasant.
I also spoke with a psych professor at length about it when I was in college, but she was also pretty dismissive — basically she suggested that I was probably somehow bending my waking perceptions to meet the expectations my subconscious had set due to the dream.
The thing I should stress is that these experiences (for me, anyway) are always very very short (perhaps 5 – 15 seconds long) and are never anything important. They’re exactly like the examples above — a stranger crossing the room in a specific way, looking at an unusual object in a store, overhearing something odd playing on the radio of the car next to me at the stop light.
I suppose I could start keeping the dream diary again, and then carry a video camera around wherever I go, but that seems a little awkward. I’m aware this is a weird thing about me. But (as this conversation bears out) I’m also aware that I’m not the only one it happens to … I honestly believe that its a pretty common, though totally useless, talent — and one that can be honed if you pay attention to it but that ultimately never yields any useful information.
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