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First of all, a precognitive dream is not a prophecy: It is a forecast, based on all presently available data (world lines). If I wish to make use of my newly received precognitively derived information, I can change the future. For example, if I am looking forward to having a dinner date with someone, and have a very clear dream about meeting her in a colorful and unusual restaurant, I will have a certain level of confidence that the event will come to pass, even though it might also be a wish-fulfillment dream. However, if I tell my prospective dinner companion about my dream, she may well say, "I was planning to meet you at that new and interesting restaurant, but I don't want you to get the idea that I am the slave of your dreams, so I'll see you next week instead." This is the vicious-circle type of paradox about self-referential statements that Bertrand Russell describes in his writing in Theory of Types.
2 The dream is a forecast of events to come about in the future, unless you do something to change them, based upon this new information. Such an action does not falsify the forecast. There is no paradox. To make this clear, since it is a cause of a lot of confusion, we can discuss another hypothetical example. |
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A messenger has information from a spy who has learned that an enemy is going to attack us. That's the message. Armed with this new data, we launch a surprise attack on the enemy, and chase him away. He then, of course, cannot and does not attack us. However, we do not fire the messenger or the spy as a result of this, because the information in their message didn't come to pass. Their message described the probable future, which would have come to pass without the intervention that was made possible by the message. |
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A second question asks, "How can I dream about being in a plane crash, if I don't actually get to experience it?" The answer here is quite different. You dream about the real crash, and then dramatize the events to include yourself in it. Our friend got to see a plane crash at quite close range, and since he was supposed to be on the plane, he had no trouble putting himself on the plane in his dream. We would say that the frightening crash that he experienced in the afternoon was the cause of his dream |
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