I have just read "The frequency of déjà vu (déjà rêve) and the effects of age, dream recall frequency and personality factors" thanks to a Google search. Art, I have to say it's nice to see this kind of research being conducted. Here's the link to anyone who has not read the article:
http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/ ... 473/pdf_23As the evidence builds, and we start to accept the reality that "some" dreams have this precognitive potential to predict a future event. The next step is uncovering the mechanics of how this is possible and what allows for such a defiance of physical law. All I can do is share some of my thoughts on the topic based on my own personal experience.
There really are very few explanations that warrant any real logical explanation in my opinion. I can see two avenues that research branch into:
1.) We somehow travel through time and observe a future event.
2.) We are creating the dream and it actualizes some time later.
In the first case, it might be easier for us to accept this is a type of quantum leap as we are starting to understand how consciousness exists within Quantum Mechanics and could be entangled with itself across the spectrum of time/space. With theories presented by Takaaki Musha in his publication, "Possibility of High Performance Quantum Computation by using Evanescent Photons in Living Systems" we can speculate that if something is faster then light, then it may not be governed by the limits of time/space. Could FTL computation give our consciousness time traveling potential?
Link:
http://www.scipub.org/fulltext/ojbs/ojbs8110-14.pdfThis is something that I seriously consider as that presents a possibility that sits with my logic. I can see this direction getting more momentum then number 2 on the short list.
Number 2 however, presents something even more dramatic in what it implies if true:
The original dream is created by the "dreamer" and it actualizes. If true, what would this mean? I have thought long and hard on this second path of thinking based on personal experience which suggests that the initial dream is "a created event that later actualizes".
One really needs to start at the source of the experience, which is clearly something we call a "Dream".
If a dream has the potential to actualize into "Reality" what is "Reality" in relation to a dream?
Are they one and the same? Are they different? If "Reality" can first be a dream, then certainly we must pay closer attention to this "Forge of Reality" so to speak. The processes and mechanics involved become very important scientifically. Regardless of our faith, beliefs or desire to extract away from such a metaphysical source, the fact is... dreams are more then just dreams.
I have been speaking with Robert Waggoner and Ed Kellog recently. Robert sent me a copy of his book, "Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self" which was an excellent read. He covers what he calls "ambient lucid precognitive dreams" in the book. Lucid Precognitive Dreams are a step up from a non-lucid precognitive dream in my opinion.
This emerging awareness of precognitive dreaming clearly has more levels to it's nature. Which means we can deconstruct the phenomena and dissect what these levels are and what they mean:
1.)Symbolic Precognitive Dream – A dream where the normal symbolism of dreaming invokes an experience that up until an actual event occurs, the mystery of the symbolism is then realized. I will give a personal example:
"I have a dream where this old man is teaching me how to drive a forklift on an old dirt logging road. A person stops the forklift and demands that I take off my boots and give them to him.".
In reality, I have never driven a forklift. However, in time I get a job at a steel factory and train on the forklift. I do not own a pair of steel toe boots yet, so the foreman gives me a pair that were in the lunch room as there was a work safety inspector on site that day. He and I didn't consider that the owner of the boots would be angry and storm out on to the yard. In reality he stood in front of the forklift yelling and screaming and threatened me. Made me take off his boots and I had to walk back to the lunch room in my socks.
That is a classic example of what I feel describes symbolic precognitive dreams.
2.) Third-person Precognitive Dream – Where the observer sees something in a third-person vantage point, and it happens some time later. I have no personal experience with this particular type of precognitive dream suffice to say I have read about it and talked to others who have. It's the classic you watch an airplane crash to then see it in a newspaper some days later.
3.) First-person Literal Precognitive Dream – What you dream occurs in your normal sensory first-person view. What you think, feel and experience in the dream later comes true. This is what some Déjà Vu masquerades as in my opinion, as it is this type of precognitive dream that I associate with Déjà Rêvé.
4.) Lucid Precognitive Dream – Were you are awake and aware you are dreaming in the classical lucid dreaming sense. Not sure if this applies to all the above three, suffice to say in my personal experience one can have a state of lucid wakefulness knowing one is in fact dreaming, to then have such an experience come true in the same process and mechanics as normal non-lucid precognitive dreams.
As to other venues of precognitive dreams, these ones come to mind as the most relative to the nature of the phenomena. As you know, I have talked about changing a lucid precognitive dream before it actualizes. This curiosity was fully explored back in 1997-1998 when I had many successful changes actualize from simply consciously changing what at first was nothing more then a lucid dream.
The precognitive element or potential is never fully realized until it actualizes. However, knowing the changes first and observing them happen later completely demonstrated at least to me, that there is this potential. It is the closest I have come to actually understanding and realizing a very real relationship between dreams and physical reality.
Now, I have found very few people who also claim to have changed a precognitive dream and observe the changes happen here. All of which also practice lucid dreaming and other consciousness during sleep. The implications are huge. What is the full potential? If anything, all I did was scratch and poke at the surface.
Just some thoughts on the topic.
by A Dark Philosopher on Mon May 25, 2009 6:56 pm 
