Future Memory

[moseslmpg]

My future memory is like my past memory; basically everything is extremely vague and I'm not sure if it really happened (or will happen). I do get a moderate amount of deja vu and a general feeling that what I am doing now is what I was supposed to do. If my memory functioned more normally, I think I would be able to remember things in the future, though as it is I can't even remember if I have taken all of my vitamins on a day to day basis...

[Virtual_Cliff]

I have definitely experienced precognition over short periods. When I am involved in some tedious task alone my mind fills with noise - fragments of music and speech; often some of these stick in my memory and I hear them soon afterwards on the radio or in conversation.

However I would not underestimate the power of suggestion. When I was a student I used to take the National Express coach from London to Bath to see my girlfriend. I always looked forward to the magnificent view from the A4 above Box, down the By valley towards Bath. It gave me a thrill of pleasure. Ten years ago I landed a contract working at that very place, and could stroll over from my office and look down on that lovely view in my lunchtime. There are other examples, but everyone must have known something like this. And there are some things I'm still waiting to happen, but they will.

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

I figured I was going to be rich and successful

Question is, how many people at CR feel that they can sometimes, perhaps without understanding it, access future memory?

Well not me for one but can it be developed perhaps as a skill or is one born with it? Or have we all got it but are not all aware or have ignored it? Could it relate to a past or future life? I only have questions not answers because if there's something I'm missing out on to help me become rich: feel free to make suggestions!

Snoopy.

[cyberpi]

Well, like this week I was late for something... I was up the night before until like 8:00am. I made the mistake of laying down to just get a quick wink, and I quickly fell asleep. In my dream I felt someone come and say that I was being misled. I quickly gave him a name and I felt myself being on a bus. I looked out the bus at the person who was trying to mislead me, and I don't know why but I let him know that I knew something by looking at my wrist. But I did not truly know why. The person outside the bus was tipped off and saying, "You knew?" Then I was kind of laughing as he got angry. Then I awoke and realized that it was precisely the time that I was supposed to be somewhere. It was 10:00am and I was supposed to be somewhere at 10:00am. I still needed a shower and I was going to be late. My reaction was mixed in awe as I was both delighted and pissed at the same time. It was kind of like deciding who I was in the dream.

On a few occasions I have slept when I wish I hadn't. On many others I have woken up precisely at the time that I mentally requested before I fell asleep. Is it possible for a person to have an alarm clock in their mind? I don't think so. I was not conscious of what it was that I was being misled for or by. If the mind knew, the soul didn't... if the soul knew, the mind didn't. There is a serious disconnect and I tend to believe that God (swt) or another entity comes and helps. Either that or I... the soul... knows something somewhere else but has no special power here over effecting memory. It is like either the dream was tailored in part for my benefit as I was awakened for my benefit, or I know something my mind doesn't but I can't bring it into the world. It is truly a bizaar relationship.

Measurably, I can only state that I occasionally wake up at the precise opportune or innopportune time with no alarm clock or tangible influence. I could form a scientific study around it. This time though I had a record of the dream as I came out of it, and it was rather strange.

As for waking Deja-Vu... yeah I get that too... just minor pieces. More a feeling. Usually around important events. Its not like predestination, but an indication that a situation was predicted and considered in advance.

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by cyberpi

. Is it possible for a person to have an alarm clock in their mind?

I can tell you there Cyberpi buddy, we do have a clock inside our minds. After 27 years of service requiring absolute timeliness, regardless of having an alarm or not, we can hone our internal clocks to be alarms for us.

[cyberpi]

Originally Posted by Quahom1

I can tell you there Cyberpi buddy, we do have a clock inside our minds. After 27 years of service requiring absolute timeliness, regardless of having an alarm or not, we can hone our internal clocks to be alarms for us.

I doubt it. There are too many seamen who have proven you wrong. As you may have learned measuring time was paramount to naval navigation. Certainly doing things in repetition trains the mind and body... thats not what I'm talking about. Try counting 60 seconds and compare it with a clock. Even a musician will find it difficult to keep the same beat without a reference. Then try several hours worth and see if you can match the clock by even one minute.

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by cyberpi

I doubt it. There are too many seamen who have proven you wrong. As you may have learned measuring time was paramount to naval navigation. Certainly doing things in repetition trains the mind and body... thats not what I'm talking about. Try counting 60 seconds and compare it with a clock. Even a musician will find it difficult to keep the same beat without a reference. Then try several hours worth and see if you can match the clock by even one minute.

I understand. Kind of like a watched pot never boils...

[wil]

I think there is a difference between having an alarm clock in your mind and a stop watch. The biggest being that you are awake..conscious. Having access to your unconscious clock when you are conscious is a feat few have, probably a skill which can be developed and honed but one that would take much more work than utilizing the 'alarm clock'

I used to think I needed to tell myself what time it was when I laid my head down, and what time I wanted to get up. Now I just go to bed and as I drift off think of the things I want to do in the morning, and when I want to be where. My inner clock, knows when I went to bed, and calculates the time needed to do the chores I've assigned myself in the morning, adds the commuting time and subtracts it from my requested arrival time all without any 'effort' on my part.

This works when I go to bed anytime has been utilized at all hours and at times when I was only going to have two hours of sleep (after 20 hour days) and for days in a row of limited sleep, always waking up refreshed.

Your internal alarm clock also knows your body and sleep rhythms and if you are smart enough to get up when it wakes you up you are at your peak, there is no snooze alarm for me, and if I take another 10 minutes or even an hour...I am groggy, slow and not ready for the day...

trust yourself, or the access you have I think this clock is not really ours, we are all tapping into the same clock.

[Rouge47]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

I've always gone through life with a sense of future - of Fate.

Trouble is, it's always been difficult trying to work out the details.

I figured I was going to be rich and successful in media (not newspapers - media formats) and it all seems to be happening - though nothing like I'd have expected.

Oftentimes I'll see a vision of something but not comprehend it. I've seen myself working with computers and the internet long before I ever touched them, though didn't understand what I was seeing at the time.

A more recent example is that I used to try and work out where I'd live.

When I was a child, I remember writing my name backwards - Nairb.

I looked at it, and for some reason changing the 'b' to a 'n' - Nairn - seemed important. I looked it up and found there was a real place in Scotland called Nairn, by the Highlands. I figured I was suppose to go there someday.

Fast forward a few decades...

Living in the inner city of Hull wasn't much fun for my girlfriend, who longed for countryside. She's from the Isle of Man, but housing is so expensive that moving there couldn't be an option. Scotland seemed a good compromise.

It was a choice between renting in Stirling, or renting in Inverness.

Inverness seemed to call, but felt too much like a jump. Stirling was more practical - nice and central, and we could explore most of Scotland from there, to see if we could find the "right " area to move to.

So we rented near Stirling and drove everywhere except the far south-east and far north-west.

When we finally drive up towards Inverness I got a real buzz - something special.

After exploring all of Scotland, there were only two areas we decided we wanted to live - either on the Black Isle, north of Scotland, or near the Moray Firth, between Inverness and Nairn.

We went house hunting, and eventually found the best property in our price range. It had views over the water to the mountains of the Highlands.

It was in Nairn.

I'm still trying to peice together what my future holds. I already think I have an idea of key moments in my future, but have no idea how the road travels to them. I think that's part of the fun in life.

Even still, it's funny how I often feel a sense of future memory, but I'm not the only one - whether it's going places, or meeting people who seem somehow familiar.

Question is, how many people at CR feel that they can sometimes, perhaps without understanding it, access future memory?

This reminds me of the Matrix, when Morphius asks Neo if he believes in fate. Neo said no because he didn't like the idea of not being in control of his own life.

Fate, in turn, is that exactly. Fate is the determination of an outcome in the future of a present or past situation/action. There is no way to bend fate for it is what it is. That is the problem with time travel (won’t delve off into that too much). I don’t believe in fate either. As a Christian I believe we have the right to chose how end becomes and how we become at the end.

Although I have had a few dreams that could have predicted the future I believe that they are things that may be instead of things that will be, as Edunezur Scrooge said.

[JosephM]

Originally Posted by Paul James

This reminds me of the Matrix, when Morphius asks Neo if he believes in fate. Neo said no because he didn't like the idea of not being in control of his own life.

Fate, in turn, is that exactly. Fate is the determination of an outcome in the future of a present or past situation/action. There is no way to bend fate for it is what it is. That is the problem with time travel (won’t delve off into that too much). I don’t believe in fate either. As a Christian I believe we have the right to chose how end becomes and how we become at the end.

Although I have had a few dreams that could have predicted the future I believe that they are things that may be instead of things that will be, as Edunezur Scrooge said.

Hello Paul James,

So you don't believe in fate.... My dictionary defines Fate as "The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events". From a Christian standpoint, it says no one comes to the Father unless the spirit of God draws him. It also says that it is God's will that all be saved. It also says you were choosen of God, and also Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Ephes. 1:5
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

And one might even say, who can resist his will?

I just wonder how you as a Christian reconcile those writings, especially the predestinate one. This is not a trick question nor am I saying you are not correct nor that the writings are. I am only inviting you to elaborate on your understanding in hopes that we might all benefit if you are interested.

Love in Christ,
JM

[Virtual_Cliff]

Originally Posted by JosephM

And one might even say, who can resist his will?

Daft question Joe. We all can resist his will. We picked the fruit, remember?
VC

[wil]

But who's to say that wasn't his will? I love what was provided prior by bb or dauer me thinks...you leave the kids in the room and say whatever you do, don't touch the red button on the vcr...play with any toy you want, watch any video you want but don't touch the red button....

me thinks they were setup.

[Faithfulservant]

Hmm I read a study on sleep.. We do have internal clocks we are geared to sleep at night no matter how much we fight it... The study concluded that every hour after 10:00pm equals 4 hours as far as regeneration goes... I dont know how true it is but after being a night owl my whole life and needing a full 8 hours sleep then resorting to early bedtime I now can do great on 6 hours sleep without a yawn..

[Rouge47]

Originally Posted by Virtual_Cliff

Daft question Joe. We all can resist his will. We picked the fruit, remember?
VC

Smarty pants!

[Rouge47]

Originally Posted by JosephM

Hello Paul James,

So you don't believe in fate.... My dictionary defines Fate as "The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events". From a Christian standpoint, it says no one comes to the Father unless the spirit of God draws him. It also says that it is God's will that all be saved. It also says you were choosen of God, and also Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Ephes. 1:5
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

And one might even say, who can resist his will?

I just wonder how you as a Christian reconcile those writings, especially the predestinate one. This is not a trick question nor am I saying you are not correct nor that the writings are. I am only inviting you to elaborate on your understanding in hopes that we might all benefit if you are interested.

Love in Christ,
JM

Hi JosephM,

We'll I guess what I mean is that we all have a right to chose whether or not we want to love and be with God or if we shall ignore him. Fortunatly I chose to know Him. I love Him and be with Him. But, our choice still remains. This is why I don't believe in fate. Besides, wil has a point: we ate the apple.