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Originally Posted by paqart The point I'm trying to make is this: regardless of how complex, dramatic, simple, or pedestrian, one of these psi events may be, when it happens to you, you will know that these questions of cold-reading, selective memory, improper double-blinds, etc, are not a factor. Until it happens to you, it will be difficult to believe, because the events themselves can be so bizarre or alien to your own experience. And I haven't even come close to describing some of the stranger incidents in my files, so far, this is all run-of-the-mill stuff. |
I think one's reaction to an event like depends on the way one approaches evidence. To say that I would believe it once it happened to me is too easy. In particular, if someone doesn't believe, you can simply say they must never have had a "real experience." You can dismiss the possibility that they had experiences just like yours but interpreted them differently.
For me, it's a question of probability. If I can't calculate the probability of a dream matching a future event, then I will simply assume it's coincidence, or possibly that I had knowledge that I forgot I had. People are going to have dreams matching future events purely by coincidence. How do we decide which ones are coincidence and which ones are premonitions?
~~ Paul