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This is a video response to LivonAir's inappropriate dreams video. I left a comment on that video
and I really wanted to make a video response because I also have freaky dreams. Not the
same kind of inappropriate dreams that Liv was talking about. (kissing sounds) No, no, no, no, no, no,
no. But a different kind of dream. Dreams which
are predictive of the future. Premonitions. Taking you on an adventure into the unknown.
Well this video is going to be about that. Dreams that predict
future events and what they could mean and the explanation for them.
In the Movie Knowing with Nicholas Cage the future of mankind is predicted through a sequence
of numbers that relate to disasters which are yet to
come. What if there was an ability that we didn't fully
know about which would allow us foresight of terrible events and which could be used
to prevent loss of life.
I've started recording my dreams on my facebook page, because for a long time I have thought
that I have the gift of premonition. But I wanted to try
and make a time stamped record to ensure that it wasn't
just wishful thinking on my part.
I find that when I dream about airplanes landing in strange places or crashing down that not
long after a plane will come down in real life. That's
what I said when I posted the comment to Liv on Air's video.
Here's an example.
On the 12th April this year I recorded the dream that a jet landed in my garden.
On the 13th of April a jet came down in the ocean in Bali. The most recent example was
on the 18th April. Hours before we were told about the Bombers
in Boston being brothers. I had a very distressing dream involving
a school I had never been to and a brother I do not have. Was my dream trying to give
me clues as to the identity of the bombers? If so how did facts like this end up getting
registered in my subconcious mind.
Because I think about this a lot I actually came up with my own theory which is that some
events are so psychically charged with strong emotions that they send out waves which transcend
linear time and can be picked up before they occur.
However, I started to do some research into this and I found an article by Richard Wiseman
dated 22 February 2011.
The article discusses the work of the psychiatrist John Barker. He had a long a long standing
interest in the paranormal and in the wake of the Aberfan disaster in 1966 he arranged
through a newspaper to find out if anyone had foreseen the tragic events. He received
60 replies from people who all seemed to have had visions of what was to come.
In fact more recent surveys suggested that around a third of the population experience
this phenomenon at some point in their lives so I am not alone. It is a lot more common
than you think. Abraham Lincoln had a premonition about an assassination and Charles Dickens
and Mark Twain also reported dreaming about events that were yet to unfold.
Is this all proof that we do have the ability to see into the future? Scientific research
offers an alternative explanation.
The science of dreaming was pioneered by Eugene Aserinsky. He was the one who found out that
dreaming occurs during the REM cycle of sleep. Since then a lot more work has been done which
reveals that we all dream a lot more than we know.
Scientists have found that we have, on average, 4 dreams per night. We forget most of them
and really only remember the gist of a dream if we are woken while it is happening. The
exception occurs when unusual events in life trigger our memories of a dream after we have
woken up.
So if we have a dream about a plane crash or something happening to a famous person
and then we hear news related to aircraft or hear that persons name mentioned we may
recall details of the dream. In addition to this because of the surreal nature of dreams,
the content can be twisted to more closely resemble what actually transpired in real
life and provided that the person dreaming wants to believe that they are psychic there
is no limit to how closely we can alter what we actually dreamed to match reality.
So all that is happening is that we are having dozens of dreams per week. Most of them are
forgotten, but it only takes real life events that had some similarity to what we dreamed
to act as triggers to help us recall dream fragments and we then tell ourselves that
we predicted the future when in reality it is just the laws of probability at work. Further
evidence for this explanation is that premonitions are usually about disasters and negative events.
It turns out that around 80% of our dreams are about negative events. So it is more likely
that our memories of dreams will be triggered by those kinds of events.
'All this is very well and good,' I thought as I read the article. But how about my situation
where I wrote the dream down and the bad things happened after I had remembered it. Well it
turns out that science has rational explanations about this too.
Firstly we tend to dream about the things that worry us. In my case I had been worrying
about having premonitions about plane crashes and as a dyslexic person I have always been
anxious about school and exams. Perhaps I may have heard speculation that there were
two people involved in the bombings, possibly brothers. This could have fed into my dreams
and changed the content.
The second explanation involves statistics. The article asks us to imagine Brian a random
person living in Britain. Assume that Brian dreams each night of his life from age 15
to 75. There are 365 days in each year, so those 60 years of dreaming will ensure that
Brian experiences 21,900 nights of dreams.
Also assume that an event like the Aberfan disaster will only happen once in each generation,
and randomly assign it to any one day.
Let's also assume that Brian will only remember dreaming about the type of terrible events
associated with such a tragedy once in his entire life.
The chances of Brian having his "disaster" dream the night before the actual tragedy
is about a massive 22,000 to one. However In the 1960s there were around 45 million
people in Britain so and we would expect one person in every 22,000, or roughly 2,000 people,
to have this amazing experience per generation. It is a principle known as the Law of Large
Numbers, which states that unusual events are likely to happen when there are lots of
opportunities for that event.
Now this example is only about people's dreams concerning the Aberfan tragedy. In
reality, national and international crisis happen on a daily basis.
Acts of terrorism, Aeroplane crashes, volcano eruptions, assassinations, serial killers,
earthquakes, tsunamies, kidnappings etc.
Given that people dream about doom and gloom more often than not, the numbers quickly stack
up making the chances of someone having a prophetic dream an inevitability.
Still I do seem to get rather a lot of these predictive dreams. Maybe rather too many to
explain in terms of statistics alone.
So I think I will continue to record the dreams that I remember because I still think that
I my dreams are often really imaginative. But I will try to be more detailed in my recollection
and not so ready to accept that my dreams arevisions of the future. But if I do ever
have a feeling that a dream is trying to tell me something I will tell people.
I would be really interested if you could tell me whether or not you've experienced
anything like this. Let's stay in touch, subscribe to my channel and keep this video
in your favourites. Come back and tell me if you have any dreams of doom and gloom.
Or maybe you've had a dream predicting something good that you think might come true.
Are you persuaded by the science or do you still think that there is something unexplained
at work.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks for watching. See you soon on my youtube channel
Dominic