Why are so many of you so close-minded about inexplicable phenomena? Do you think there’s an explanation for everything in life that the rational, logical mind can comprehend?
why is this a bad place to start from? An explanation is just a description of what happens. If we can see or otherwise deduce what happens, we have an explanation for how it happens. It’s possible we have blind spots we’ll never be able to get around, but it certainly makes no sense to begin with the assumption that that’s the case. The harder we work to figure things out, the more we seem to figure out.
If so, how do deal with quantum physics?
Not yet understanding something does not equal its being fundamentally incomprehensible. The copenhagen interpretation is one way to look at quantum physics. There are a number of other thinkers out there offering alternate views. David Bohm’s holistic approach is pretty neat, in my opinion. multiverse theories are interesting but a big far-fetched for me. But there are plenty of possible ways to try to understand strange phenomena without resorting to "it’s magic".
Does strange phenomena make you feel out of control if it can’t be easily explained away?
This is the part that bothers me. These explanations don’t "explain away" things for me. They make the world richer and more exciting. I think it’s utterly fascinating that the brain can understand time on multiple levels, for instance – that doesn’t take the magic out for me: that puts it in.
As I said above, that Dunne book made the claim that dreams take place in an expanded timespace so you can travel back and forth a few weeks or so. But look at it objectively: if this were the case, then major world events should coincide in dreams much more commonly. If say 20 million people were quite directly and traumatically impacted by 9/11, then some portion of them should have had premonitory dreams about it – even a very small percentage would have meant a very large number of people sure of something bad on the horizon. But it wasn’t like that at all. Undoubtedly, out of 20 million, by sheer chance there must have been some people who had airplane/building crash nightmares the night before. They probably think they had premonitory dreams. But given the large numbers of people involved, it would be more surprising if no one happened to have such dreams that night.
The thing with confirmation bias is that all the other people who had airplane crash nightmares in march forgot all about them, but the ones who had very similar nightmares the week before the event felt certain they’d experienced something psychic.
Why are all the premonitory dreams mundane things like people tying shoelaces or crossing rooms? Because those things happen all the time. It’s not strange to dream about them, and it’s not strange for them to occur in real life, so it really isn’t strange that they would happen in both from time to time.
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