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Fiona Steinkamp
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The dreamer may even unwittingly forget all the small details in the dream that did not later match up with the future
event. When you hear the report second-hand, you hear
only what that person remembers of the premonition and
the future event. This is not necessarily an objective or reliable account.
Thirdly, you cannot know whether there were subtle cues
in the environment which may have led the person quite
normally to have had that apparent precognition. For instance,
in a survey I conducted, one participant wrote:
In the autumn of 1957 I had a very vivid dream of
flying over a wide green valley with here and there
columns of smoke arriving from what appeared to be
bush fires. About two months later I was flying out to
Kenya and somewhere over Uganda looked out on to
a valley which appeared to be identical to that which
I had seen in my dream. Even the location of the
bush fires appeared in reality to be the same as in
the dream.
This might appear to be a good instance of a precognitive
experience. Surely it is unusual for anyone to go to Kenya
and the bush fires, with the location of a particular fire, are a
specific detail. However, the participant concluded the description of the experience with the following paragraph:
However, maybe the dream did not come out of the
blue. Ten years earlier I had flown down to Nairobi
and perhaps I had a residual memory of seeing the
same or similar valley.
With this further information, the experience sounds a lot
less impressive. In this instance the participant had thought
critically about their apparent premonition. However, many
people may simply be unaware that their ostensibly precognitive experience has arisen from forgotten background in-
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SORRY!
Wrong guess!