RE: Deja Vu
April 25, 2015 at 4:30 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 4:33 am by robvalue.)
It's impossible for me to try and account for all these weird experiences. But here's a few thoughts.
Coincidences happen. If many coincidence happen, that is just a coincidence.
Confirmation bias: how many dreams have you have in your life? How many have not been at all prophetic?
Memory is unreliable: It may well be you are retrofitting an experience to a dream you had, and the details of the dream have become somewhat degraded and your brain fills in the gaps.
Self fulfilling: If you "know" something is going to happen, you may act in such a way as to make it happen.
I don't know what else I can say. The mind is very fallible, and we are easily tricked especially by ourselves. Yet, coincidences do still happen. Any attempt anyone makes to attribute some sort of supernatural cause is an argument from ignorance. There's still plenty of stuff we don't understand, and it's totally OK to say "I don't know why that happened." Being comfortable with that is a good way to shake off supernatural worries. Randomly making up an answer, or accepting one from someone else, gets you no closer to the truth.
Coincidences happen. If many coincidence happen, that is just a coincidence.
Confirmation bias: how many dreams have you have in your life? How many have not been at all prophetic?
Memory is unreliable: It may well be you are retrofitting an experience to a dream you had, and the details of the dream have become somewhat degraded and your brain fills in the gaps.
Self fulfilling: If you "know" something is going to happen, you may act in such a way as to make it happen.
I don't know what else I can say. The mind is very fallible, and we are easily tricked especially by ourselves. Yet, coincidences do still happen. Any attempt anyone makes to attribute some sort of supernatural cause is an argument from ignorance. There's still plenty of stuff we don't understand, and it's totally OK to say "I don't know why that happened." Being comfortable with that is a good way to shake off supernatural worries. Randomly making up an answer, or accepting one from someone else, gets you no closer to the truth.
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