I dont remember how many times I have looked at my post count ever since I started posting here. Well, these lookings are sparse enough for me to not have any idea of whenever they even were more than 3 or not, let alone remember any. Today I looked, and got 1,042. What called my attention here is that looney 42, the famous "number of life, the universe and everything else" of my favorite author. Not so long ago, another forum member asked someone to look at post number 42. If I am not wrong it was a discussion to do with life or the universe, and, if my memory is not failing me, it was also the only time I ever saw anyone point to a post by writing its number on this forum.

Arent coincidences lovely little things? =)

I dont remember how many times I have looked at my post count ever since I started posting here. Well, these lookings are sparse enough for me to not have any idea of whenever they even were more than 3 or not, let alone remember any. Today I looked, and got 1,042. What called my attention here is that looney 42, the famous "number of life, the universe and everything else" of my favorite author. Not so long ago, another forum member asked someone to look at post number 42. If I am not wrong it was a discussion to do with life or the universe, and, if my memory is not failing me, it was also the only time I ever saw anyone point to a post by writing its number on this forum.

Arent coincidences lovely little things? =)

There is no such thing as mere coincidence, they are recognised, they are meaningful becasue they have a meaning that has been recognised. They mean something and something more when you can point them out.

If you haven't, read the Celestine Prophecy, you can use coincidence to do things.

There is no such thing as mere coincidence, they are recognised, they are meaningful becasue they have a meaning that has been recognised. They mean something and something more when you can point them out.
If you haven't, read the Celestine Prophecy, you can use coincidence to do things.

Yes they are. As a matter of a fact they are miracles and they are for you alone. In short they are the tying up of loose ends as one realizes the unity of all things in what they have personally experienced through the senses and that which created the senses. You can't go looking for them; only enjoy them as they occur. Manored the fact you notice coincidences means you are "tuning up".

Now here is where you really need to be careful and not mistake them for what many call "signs". Well, they are but you can't assume you can look for them. Ha, that will drive you "literally" bonkers. Ha! I know; been there, done that and you will be surprised just how many angels it took to get me through that, ha! Seriously. Well, that's a part of my life I haven't told yet.

Sun let's apply coincidence to thought processes and what dreams are. If our dreams are disturbed that means we are confused in what we dream has no connection to anything we have ever experienced and it is the self conscious trying to make sense of it. That is why it is we have a difficult time remembering our dreams. Only if they are so confused they can't help but remember them illustrates the intensity of the confusion.

It's hard to imagine what a natural state is; but I assure you it has nothing to do with rate and speed. On the contrary, the opposite is true. When one slows down they will be amazed at how many coincidences they will notice and in that alone there is a peace of not being alone and something else being involved that is efforting through coincidences to link us up.

I promise you coincidences are not "flukes". Not by a long shot. They are very real. They are just assurances that there "is" something else involved trying to let it be known that "something else" exists in all that is present in what we call reality.

I have no idea of what that means in it's entirety, but it does offer a great measure of assurance that we think we control, we have no control at all and that is so immeasurably load lifting. The more we try to control, the more we lose control.

William

coincidence scares me sometimes, and even makes me want to believe in premonition and fate, well, maybe not fate, but coincidence IS wierd.

I'm not scared, I do realize rather, there's something incomprehensible.
Here's my story:
As I was 17, I had a girlfriend, fallen in love etc...ten years later we had short contact, incidental one, we talked about a concert of a group, that was very important to us 10 years ago. She told me she had tickets for her and his husband. I missed ticekts, they were sold in few hours.

As the date of the concert was closer, I've checked ebay for tickets, and realized, day by day, prices were going crazy - 3-4 times more. I gave up.

Fortunately, a day before the concert I've checked once more. There were 2 tickets, for regular price. Clicked 'buy now'. Good luck - this was a city near to mine.

I went to the address, a nice guy opened the door and let me in. Small girl run and stared at me with big eyes.

After few seconds, it came to me, SHE is washing dishes and not seeing me. After 10 years of not having any contact we met...oh, no, I've met her.

Is there any but anecdotal evidence that dreams are predictive of the future? What is the evidence? I hope this is not an embarrassing question.

Until we can view others' dreams, I'm not sure what sort of other evidence we could get. It seems to me it will always be person's anecdote X claiming Y was predicted.

But can't we tell whether his prediction was accurate? Let a study group predict, and we can have a control group. And then we can see whether the study group predicts better than chance.

Well the problem with that is, from what I've seen, these people usually don't have these predictions on a whim. They randomly have these dreams. So, it's not like we could ask a bunch of people to predict something, since they don't even know the next time they'll be able to predict. I suppose we could check up with the group every day, but that may become unreasonable.

Hello sneer, are you saying this was the home of the woman you "fell in love with" ten years prior?
William

Is there any but anecdotal evidence that dreams are predictive of the future? What is the evidence? I hope this is not an embarrassing question.

I think the reason that no one does it is that they already know what the result would be. Since there is no reason to suppose that dreams are predictive.

Probally not =)

I think there is too much subjectiveness to the whole thing. If we just tell a bunch of people to try to guess the future in their dreams and rate their success, a defender of future seeing on dreams can claim that they didnt use the correct dream interpretation method. And then they could claim that ever person has its own correct method that they must discover...

I think that Zetherin is correct, and we wont be able to prove prevision through dreams false until we can see other's dreams.

Yes, that is why we would have to design the study so that vague predictions which have to be heavily interpreted would not count. It would be like studying a fortune teller. We would need the rule that the fortune teller (or the dreamer) has to make unlikely predictions. That is predictions that, would be unlikely to be successful. If a fortune teller, or a dreamer, predicts it will snow in January, that doesn't count. But if the prediction is that it will snow in June, that will certainly count! Dreaming that you will meet a blond man is too vague to be of any significance. But dreaming that you will meet a blond man who comes from India, and who will offer you the Kohinoor Diamond, would count if it turned out to be true.