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Premonitionshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PremonitionQuote
A premonition occurs when future events, often calamitous in nature, are foreknown via individual psychic experience. Cassandra in myth is a woman whose premontions allow her to foresee the worst, and yet is disbelieved by her people.
This is an empirically unverifiable yet anecdotally supported phenomenon. Individuals alleging to have had premonitions often report the experience to have taken place within the context of a dream. Experiences range in nature from a strong sense or conviction that something will occur, which is the weakest form, to psychic visions taking place in a state of full consciousness and awareness. These visions are usually images that are able to unfold when the human is in a state of conscious shock, hence bearing witness.
Among the most well known of such reported premonitions is Abraham Lincoln's prophetic dream of his death and funeral, which he related to both his bodyguard and his wife mere hours before his assassination. Another famous example is the sinking of the Titanic. Some people reported having dreams about something bad happening on Titanic's voyage.
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Premonitions are not necessarily the result of anything paranormal or supernatural; it is possible that the human mind is capable of an extraordinary feat of reasoning to produce an accurate view of the future. A number of ideas support this notion. Autistic savants perform amazing feats without apparent effort. Going to sleep on a problem often results in waking up with the solution. Bayesian logic is usually very accurate. The human mind is full of information and experience and knowledge of the world. If the mind is capable of such a calculation, then there is probably a way to enhance this ability. Concentrating narrowly on a job is effectively a request to exclude all extraneous ideas, including premonitions. What is needed is a state of free association, where the mind is concentrating on any topic in particular but is free to consider random ideas. The few people who have been reported as experiencing premonitions all report that they receive them at intervals of a few months, and that they come into mind unexpectedly. It is a pity that more do not come forward; perhaps because professional psychics have given the phenomenon a bad image.
As a youngster I had a lot of premonitions in the form of dreams but my grandmother always discouraged me in talking about it..I never knew why..but these dreams became less and less as my knowledge of the world increased. This goes against what is written above where human mind is capable of treamendous feat of reasoning...hence results in premonitions...
Any thoughts? or Premonitions
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