Shane, I have had that exact experience, too, but when I’ve examined it, I’ve found that it seems more likely to be a case of having had a ton of dreams and experiencing a reality that coincides with one of them than of predicting the future.
That’s my experience. It’s an experience I’ve had frequently in my life, and it’s one that has fascinated me, therefore I’ve thought quite a bit about it. Perhaps your experience is different; I don’t know. I can’t comment on it, because it’s your experience and I don’t know the details.
If you showed me objective evidence to support your claim, it might change my opinion of the situation in the abstract; simply hearing your subjective narrative of your experience does not. I don’t think you’re lying, or misguided, or silly; I just think that you and I have different explanations for similar experiences we have had, and I think that my explanation is more likely to be accurate than yours, while acknowledging that I have very limited information about your experience and thus cannot come to a definitive conclusion about it.
I’m not closed-minded about inexplicable phenomena, but I also know that many phenomena that at first seem inexplicable can actually be explained. If you read the Sacks article, you would see that Sacks is not trying to scorn or dismiss anyone’s experiences, but rather bringing a set of information that most of us don’t have to bear on it.
I know several advanced quantum physicists, by the way, and none of them believe that human beings can predict the future. Not one of them.
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