Dreams and Deja Vu
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:57 pm
There was a comment in another thread relating to how unusual experiences might shape our metaphysical world view.
That got me thinking about what got me started exploring new age and now idealism as a way of accounting for experiential anomalies.
From a very young age I have experienced a strong sense of deja vu, particularly when on holidays or in unusual locations. After a few years, I realised that I could trace this feeling to vaguely remembered dreams in which I had had a preview of the future. This got me more interested in dreams and my recall became stronger - to the point that when I got deja vu, I sometimes recollected the exact dream it related to and could gain a sense of knowing what would happen.
I would first be interested if anyone has experienced this order of events in their life?
Secondly, from a philosophical stance, lets assume what I am saying is true. Given that the dreams were relaying 'physical' phenomena that had yet to exist (i.e dreaming of a building when I was 8 years old that wasn't built till I was 20) surely this disproves the ultimacy of material causation as caused by my brain, and the materialist realism paradigm in general?
That got me thinking about what got me started exploring new age and now idealism as a way of accounting for experiential anomalies.
From a very young age I have experienced a strong sense of deja vu, particularly when on holidays or in unusual locations. After a few years, I realised that I could trace this feeling to vaguely remembered dreams in which I had had a preview of the future. This got me more interested in dreams and my recall became stronger - to the point that when I got deja vu, I sometimes recollected the exact dream it related to and could gain a sense of knowing what would happen.
I would first be interested if anyone has experienced this order of events in their life?
Secondly, from a philosophical stance, lets assume what I am saying is true. Given that the dreams were relaying 'physical' phenomena that had yet to exist (i.e dreaming of a building when I was 8 years old that wasn't built till I was 20) surely this disproves the ultimacy of material causation as caused by my brain, and the materialist realism paradigm in general?