If you have precognition does that mean your actions are planned as well as others As in you see a car crash in your dream and you learn your family member was in one what if you could change it?

Answer 1

I don't equate precognition with predestination (i.e., the idea that everything is "meant to happen"). It removes the principle of free agency from our lives, and leans toward a fatalistic viewpoint. As far as altering the future, why not? We do it all the time. Picture yourself kayaking down a river. Scanning ahead, you see a large boulder in your path and change course to avoid it. You just circumvented disaster with little more than paddle and eyeballs. You 'saw' one possible future and took steps to avoid it. I think precognitive individuals work in a similar manner, but able to see further 'down river' than would be possible using physical sight alone. Another water analogy is that of a pebble dropped in a pond, creating ripples which spread out in every direction. My theory is that 'precogs' are able to pick up on events of particular significance by sensing those "event ripples" not through water, but through time, which echo back to the present. My theory on all this comes from personal experience. For six years before we met, my wife-to-be had weekly dreams of climbing the old wooden stairs to my apartment and knocking on my faded green door. No matter what she did, the door never opened. The odd thing is she lived overseas, where such timber construction was virtually unknown. The day she finally stepped through my door in real life, the dream stopped. Apparently, the door represented a significant departure from her previous life. In another example, my wife dreamt of meeting a co-worker employed in a doctor's office, which was surprising, given that it was quite a departure from her current career. In the dream, the friend had had a makeover as well-- new shorter hair style with vibrant red color. When my wife mentioned dreaming of her in a doctor's office, the co-worker confided her secret ambition was to work in medical administration. Two days later she came to work sporting the identical cut and color hairstyle my wife had seen in the dream. By the way, my wife had never mentioned the new 'do in her dream. To tie this back to the car crash question, when my wife was just a teenager, she dreamt of attending a wake. Her neighbor's son was tearfully recounting how his mother had been struck and killed by a car in front of their apartment building. He had heard the impact from their apartment, and upon running outside discovered her pinned beneath the vehicle. No sooner had he finished recounting the tragedy than my wife was startled awake by an impact in the street below. She could only see the car itself from her window, but immediately realized what had happened. She told her mother, who went downstairs and confirmed the grim news. There are other such accounts, but suffice to say I'm a believer in her precog abilities. I imagine most people would be freaked out by such a "talent" and probably suppress or ignore it. In our case, we simply think of her as being a sort of human TV receiver, able to pick up channels and signals unavailable to most folks. We plan to document other such dreams (which have yet to occur) and mail them back to ourselves unopened as evidence of her amazing premonitions.