Blog #5: On dreams
Have you ever experienced a moment when you go "I dreamed about this"? I remembered I felt that way not once, but many times before. Usually I would feel like I dreamed about something which was happening, then a minute later, I wouldn't be so sure about it. The dream just became like an illusion, or I would just forget it right away. Sometimes I felt like I'm a psychic, but the idea just seemed so ridiculous.
Some Asians believe that if you dream a dream 3 times, it will come true (Asians do have a lot of strange and interesting believes). Some believe that when you sleep, the soul leaves your body and travel around, which creates dreams. People might argue on the existence of soul, but there is an experience called "Weight of the Soul", when someone weighed his father before and after he died, and there was a weight loss. There are people with continuous dreams, like you would dream one thing one night, and it will continue on the next night or maybe a while after. You can actually remember what you dreamed in you next dream. Then some people think they can dream the future, sometimes fuzzy, sometimes clear. The mind can do tricks on you to make you think that you dreamed of what is happening, but it's just what you think you did, or de javu.
Believing that you have seen the future in a dream is surprisingly common, with recent surveys suggesting that around a third of the population experience this phenomenon at some point in their lives. Paranormal believers believe that some people have the gift of precognition, and it happens in their dreams. Scientists, on the other hand, believe that it's the work of probability. You dream on average 4 dreams a night, and when something similar to your dream happens, you get that de javu feeling and it makes you feel like you dreamed about the future. However, there are people who can dream exactly what will happen and they can see and remember it clearly. So do you believe in precognition dreams?
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