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This probably doesn’t fall within the OP, but after I came back from Vietnam, I remarked to my mother that I felt fortunate to escape from there without injury, despite a rocket taking out five of our guys. She just shrugged and said “Well of course; I drew a circle around you before you went.” Ummm. . .huh? I didn’t think much about it until a few years later when my brother was taking all kinds of grief from his supervisor and it was causing him problems at home. He was telling my mother about it and how the guy was on vacation but was coming back in the coming week, when hell would start all over again. My mother called my brother a couple of days later and told him not to worry about the guy, as she had drawn a line through his name and he wouldn’t be returning to work. As in ever. And he didn’t. The man had a stroke.
Now, just in case there is something to it, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to draw a line through a certain president’s name and mutter some curses, but nothing happened. So either I didn’t inherit her evil eye, or it was all just nonsense and coincidence. Likely the latter.
If anyone, including you, wants to use this thread for that purpose, it’d be fun! (and a good experiment and thought experiment and social experiment and creative endeavor et al)
Here’s some from me:
In the next few weeks, there shall be a news story about a group of people (possibly soldiers) who are flooded out (possibly killed, maybe not) while in a valley of some kind, and this story may involve oil reserves or Trump or war etc. It’s possible the flood will only threaten them not harm them, and the flood will be literally a flood of water or the like.
In the next month or so, a famous or famous-enough Asian actor of some kind will announce that he is leaving Hollywood for good, and it will get moderate or more news attention.
I know how stupid this seems, folks, but it’s still fun to try! 
Here’s how Hoodoo works: Predict that bad things will happen. Inevitably, bad things will happen. Then, take credit for predicting them.
If I’m clear–sometime in the next 3-4 weeks, somewhere on Earth there will be abnormally high rain in a region with hills. That’ll necessarily lead to a valley flooding. Soldiers, Trump, oil–these are all option.
A quick search of news articles from the past week or so shows five different news stories that match this prediction: Star Valley, Water Valley, Spring Valley, Bow Valley, and Mission Valley are all stories that would match your prediction. And that’s just US stories, and just the past week, and just the first page of results. Had you made your prediction a week ago, any of these events would have counted as a prediction successfully made.
I hope this helps you see how trivially easy it is to make accurate predictions.
No, it would have to be more than those stories, some of my “maybe”-s in my prediction (at least one if not more) would kinda have to come true, and the story would have to be more national news type thing.
No, I don’t take this stuff too seriously, you can tell it’s just kinda a hobby/fun thing or something I try while knowing there’s a good chance it’s 100% not a real phenomenon.
I would never call this type of stuff of mine a “dream” I don’t take it nearly that seriously, and I love hearing any feedback or criticism anyone has on any part of this discussion, these aren’t sacred claims I’m making, you can’t hurt my feelings or offend me at all by being logically skeptical or dismissive of it it’s all good
This is all like mystical Fantasy Football for me, but that’s a bad analogy because I dislike sports; what about “mystical fan fiction”?
OK. Your prediction was (a) absolutely pathetic and (b) treated us as fools (c) typical of the type of dreck that is offered up in these discussions.
Well I actually made two predictions above, and no I don’t think of any of you as “fools” or the like, not at all. I expect any readers of this thread to take it about as seriously as a Ouija Board
You predicted a flood that would happen “in a valley”. Where else do floods ever occur? On hilltops? Why did you include that verbiage? Why did you include a bunch of other particulars that you were careful to say may or may not happen?
The answer is “because you were trying to make it sound like you were making a specific-ish and unlikely prediction when you were actually only firmly predicting something so general and inherently likely that it is pretty much a certainty”.
You were trying to mislead. You were treating us like fools.
By “in a valley” I was thinking of a canyon between mountains/hills (I’m imagining somewhere quite possibly in the Middle East), and the individuals in question being either soldiers of some kind or uniformed individuals who work with soldiers/armies/Peace Corps/peacekeepers/et al.
An analogy I like to use is: trying to use your brain to do something that’s probably completely impossible (like predicting the future in any psychic/prophetic way) is a great way to stretch your brain muscles, think creatively, apply your mental faculties, and tap into your non-magical hunches/intuition/pattern-recognition/prediction et al. And yeah, it’s also kinda just a silly waste of time, but like I said, I enjoy it like some people enjoy Fantasy Sports or Fan Fiction or Ouija Boards- and I love how you guys are analyzing and critiquing the whole thing, it’s like analytically finding plot holes in a ridiculous Tom Cruise movie
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You predicted a flood that would happen “in a valley”. Where else do floods ever occur? On hilltops? Why did you include that verbiage? Why did you include a bunch of other particulars that you were careful to say may or may not happen?
Lots of flood plains aren’t “in a valley,” although plenty of them are near rivers.
Preface: I am very skeptical of supernatural claims, in general.
As a young person, I twice “predicted the future” successfully, though both times, it was a matter of coincidence, I’m sure.
- When I was about 9 years old, I was already very interested in the weather and meteorology, and had already declared that I wanted to be a television weatherman. At that time, we lived in a far western suburb of Chicago. One warm, lovely summer day, I watched the weather report on the news, and the weatherman said that the wind in the city was coming out of the northeast. I went outside shortly after that, and noted that the wind where we lived was coming out of the southwest. I reasoned that those two conflicting wind directions could cause a tornado*, and said as much to my mother. A few hours later, on the evening news, the same weatherman said that a small, weak tornado had briefly formed that afternoon.
- When I was in high school, several of my friends and I played a tabletop sports game called APBA Football; the game featured cards for NFL players, and we would draft our own teams to play against each other. In the fall of 1981, we were playing games using cards based on 1980 NFL stats, and my kick returner was a guy named Will Lewis, who played for the Seahawks, and who had a penchant for fumbling. The group of us went to a Packers game together that fall, where they were playing against the Seahawks, and after the Packers scored, Will Lewis was set to return the kickoff. I stood up and yelled, “Hey, Stenerud! Kick it to #41 – he fumbles a lot!” Packers kicker Jan Stenerud kicked off, Lewis fielded the kick, and, in fact, he then fumbled the ball (and the Packers recovered). My friends all laughed, as they knew about Lewis and fumbling, and everyone else around us looked at me. “So, what’s going to happen next?”
*- That sort of weather setup is usually not what causes tornadoes to form.