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You didn't predict the future though, it's a memory implanted in your consciousness that makes you think you did.


I feel as though I need this explaining further.

I believe Manc is referencing Dennett's Consciousness Explained. You can find a friendly primer here if you want
https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/fb1/ ... Theory.pdf


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You didn't predict the future though, it's a memory implanted in your consciousness that makes you think you did. It's a feeling, an illusion. It's not rare, our brains do it all the time, consciousness is all about memories filling in the blanks. Our consciousness is a post-edited, polished, coherent version of what our millions of sensations are constantly feeding us. And our brains constantly get it "wrong".

So how can I have a dream, write it down, it is about people you have never met, when I meet them it happens, and it happens to them, not to me?

If it was something that I could influence, then I could understand, but these are things I could not affect, yet they happened exactly as I "predicted" in my dreams.

When I first started having the dreams, I knew I had had a premonition, but I couldn't remember what, until it started to happen, then it would come back and I'd watch the scene unfold as if I was unattached to my body. Later on, I could remember the dreams after I woke and I could document them. As I got older, the dreams were less and less frequent, probably once every couple of years these days.

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Just wish I could have deja vu about lottery numbers.

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