I’d just like to look at this point (though I agree with you that IWLN should certainly consider whether he has a ‘gift’ - a separate thread in GD perhaps, so IWLN can guess numbers or cards?).
We know that our parents talk about our childhood, and often repeat stories to different visitors. As you say, young children can remember things (though not always very accurately).
So it is well within our experience to say that children could indeed have memories based on later parental stories. (You can say that the details wouldn’t be there, but that can depend on your parent’s love of gossip!)
However your alternative explanation has no evidence or experience to support it.
So Occam’s razor applies…
That’s fair. For the record though, I don’t strongly dis-believe any of this anymore than I believe it. My family was always very verbal, with lot’s of “remember when’s”, when I was growing up.
Although there weren’t any pictures, I would assume the descriptions were very good. We moved to a new home when I was born.
I don’t think assuming that my memories come from another source other than personal experience is making up some sort of explanation. I don’t believe long term memory goes back that far. At least I know it doesn’t for most people. I doubt it does for me, but don’t know. My memories from the first 9 months or so of my life came in the form of repetitive dreams when I was about 10 and when I described where I was, my mom told me that was my room when I was a newborn, but we didn’t live there long. The skeptic in me could almost admit that some part of me remembered where I once lived, but to have any memory of before I was born seems pretty ridiculous.
No system. It’s just a gut response. I’ve always been good at it. I have a stange fascination for numbers, their combinations, the odd coincidences of them. I really like numbers. That sounds weird, but it’s true.
I’m not the one who says I can do this, but sure, why not. You were conceived in 1980, but something is telling me you were also conceived in 1960. So you’re either a 22 year old man or would have been an almost 43 year old women. I’m not going to go for a third try, because I don’t have any other gut feelings. I’ve never played this game remote before and since I don’t believe in it, I’m not counting on any success. Hmmm…What a weird answer.
Big difference between flying dreams and the feeling that you are “floating” somewhere else. And to be able to will those dreams to happen is unusual. But still, I believe they were just products of my inquisitive mind.
I wasn’t trying to debunk anything. As I said before, I don’t believe it’s true, but I don’t believe it’s necessarily false, either. I can only have any real certainty about myself. I am only familiar with some of the more famous anecdotal information and it just seems that these people always have multiple abilities and are pretty far out there.
Okay, stop and read what I really said. Below is my quote.
You automatically only heard gullible. There is a big difference between being mistaken and being a phoney. I don’t believe you are. I’m sorry I offended you. I didn’t intend to.
I have chose a reasonable explanation for most things that happened to me. My choice. I have had one “event” that took the “die hard” out of my skeptic and that’s pretty much the limit before I willingly give myself the “delusional” title. Even if these things were real “gifts”, in all honesty I wouldn’t want them. Good luck on the experiment. I do love finding out impossible things are possible. I just prefer it if someone else does the finding out.
That would be a big NO on that one. And he is a she.
I fought kicking and screaming every step of the way, when Priceguy was insisting I use the Razor on my “God event”, I never could. But I embrace the Razor completely for anything else that happens to me. Oh and Glee, I’m pretty sure I know three of the things that are on your desk.
Why not see if you have a ‘gift’?
I can easily set up another GD thread, agree conditions with you and you can test yourself.
Cityboy916 made a claim, and is prepared to back it up. How about you?
9 more objects to go then!
Do post in my GD thread, especially saying which is the chosen object.
(I don’t know whether you should put your knowledge down to paranormal powers - that’s your decision.)
Why else does the question of paranormality even exist if not for occurences unexplained? An activity that actually occurs and defies known laws, but without a known characterized evidence. Gravity is still such, we know it exists as a force but not why, nor its actual substance.
Some Quanta exhibit a sudden change in trajectory for, as of yet, unseen and unknown reason or deflection. The Theory is that it is interference from an infinite number of parallel universes and timelines. The Quanta amy have interaction and dependence upon multidimensional dissonance.
I don’t do paranormal, it does me.
Much of my mystical experience has been Synchronistic (Synchronicity) in its characteristics.
Absolute, definitive proof of Psychic ability!
Every lottery winner is a Psychic, demonstrable by his/her predicted winning numbers- The winning ticket. There are thousands, maybe even millions, of instances of precognition in proof, through lottery winners everyday. Every lottery winner very literally had foreknowledge and precognition of a future occurence.
I let the machine pick. I’d hate for anyone to say I had an unfair advantage. Wait, don’t most people that win just have random numbers chosen by the machine? Shoot, another psychic theory down the drain.
I don’t know how you did that, but you nailed it. I was conceived in the summer of 1980 and born in May 1981. I hesitated to post my real age on this board because I have never identified with people my own age, in fact I am young for my generation (dad’s 60, sis is 35, one cousin is 33) and I wanted to interact with others without coloring their perceptions with a big glaring 22. But, fair is fair so here it is for the world to see.
Now what exactly do you mean also conceived in 1960 - are you saying I lived once, died, and came back? Please get back to me on this one as soon as you can and let me know if that is what you mean to imply!
What activity ‘actually occurs’ and defies known laws? Have you got any examples?
Gravity is part of science. We know it exists; we can make predictions years ahead of planetary movements under gravity, as shown by eclipses.
We don’t know why gravity exists. Does this bother you? Why does light illuminate? Why does oxygen react so much? What is the meaning of these questions?
Do you mean Brownian Motion?
Whose theory is it?
What is multidimensional dissonance, and how do you know it exists?
As I see it, I have three options here. The first is to go buy a new computer and come back under a new user name, eradicating IWLN from the face of the earth forever, try to answer you honestly or lie like my life depends on it. I’ll get back to you late tonight after I get done pricing new computers.:smack:
My bad. It didn’t occur to me until a few hours after I posted (that’s how dense I am :smack: ) that I should have worded that differently or better yet, not posted it at all.
Suffice it to say you were so right-on that I replied in the haste of the moment, caught up in my amazement. :o :o :o
FTR, there’s no reason to lie. I’m not sure what is so embarassing but if it’s something you don’t want published on the SDMB, feel free to send me an email. Other than that, don’t sweat it.
“Lucky guess” is extraneous and only a lingual and anthropomorphic characterization of the reality of the precognition of a future ocurrence in time. Precognition doesn’t require intent.
I am, of course, talking about human chosen winning numbers. And up until about 20 yrs. ago there was no auto-comp. choice. I certainly don’t know the statistics, for self chosen versus computer chosen winners. I certainly don’t think most people use the computer, probably about 50/50 I’d guess. Regardless, human or machine, it demonstrates precognition of a future event. A machine wouldn’t be exempt from a precognition or “arrival” at a prediction of a future ocurrence, it simply demonstrates that this is a natural law or force that exempts nothing, just like gravity.
