Premonition

Foreknowledge

The premonition is one of the most widespread Extrasensory manifestations

At one time or another in our lives,and sometimes regularly, many of us experience a Premonition or Foreknowledge - about what is going to happen in the future

Although this Phenomenon is so widespread,the Scientists who were studying extrasensory phenomena encountered many difficulties investigating it and proving its existence One of the most obvious difficulties in investigating premonitons is caused by the fact that they are generally recognized as such only after the occurance of the predicted event

Premonitions Appear in many Guises

1. The can occur as vague feelings

2. As knowledge that is accompanied by a certain degree of certainty - like Telepathic knowledge - when the person knows who will be at the other end of the telephone line

3. As and odor that evokes some kind of feeling

4. As a voice or sound

5. As a sight

6. As a dream.The appearance of foreknowledge in a dream is not rare

Foreknowledge is generally clearer and sharper than a feeling.In contrast,the nature of the feeling tends to be more difficult to define precisely or even almost precisely.For this reason,the person may feel uncertainty about his feeling and about the manner and time of its realization.This vagueness in the person's own ability to define the nature of his Premonition or of Foreknowledge constitutes an additional obstacle for the researchers who are investigating and additional obstacle for the researchers who are invertigating such feelings.Of course, their spontaneity and their occurence in the context of a particular event also make their investigation more difficult

People sometimes tend to dream about various occurences.Disasters such as fire,explosions,accidents and so on.In spite of the irksome feeling that accompanies dreams of this type,many dreamers do not attribute great importance to them.Sometimes even when the event troubles them, they are afraid to tell others about their dreams.At times,they let it slip out of their consciousness and interpret it as 'another of those scary dreams' Only after the event occurt,does the person grasp the truth of his dreams or of his Premonition

John Dune

One such case is that of John Dune, a Scottish citizen who saw a train becoming unrailed in a particular place in Scotland.In spite of the bad feeling caused by the dream,Dune tried to attribute it to subconscious elements,interpreting it as a meaningless dream.Only after the accident actually happened in that very part of Scotland,exactly as Dune had seen it in his dream,did he understand that his dream had been a Prophetic dream and a Premonition

For these reasons,the study of premonitons became almost impossible.It is very difficult for researchers to discover whether the information that reaches them after the event is genuine,or whether it is just some fictitious story invented by someone for reasons of his own after the event

1966 - Welsh Coal Mining village of Aberfen

Important in-depth research about premonitions was conducted following the fatal slag slide in the Welsh coal-mining village of Aberfen.It was an important step toward solving problems in researching the topic.On October 21, 1966 - a fatal slag slide killed over 140 people in the Welsh village of Aberfen.Many people claimed that they had seen and sensed the fatal slide before it occured.A psychiatrist by the name of Dr John Baker decided to investigate the Phenomenon.He interrogated 76 of the people who claimed that they had had dreams or Premonitions about the tragedy.SOme of their forecasts were somewhat vague.One person dreamed that the village school disappeared - which is what actually happened during the slide.A woman who perished in the slide told her mother a few days beforehand that she felt her death approaching.Althoug h it is not possible to prove that these forecasts actually precede the disaster, Baker discovered several interesting points.None of the people who experienced Premonitions saw the event in its entirety,but rather only parts of it.Moreover, the Premonitions began about 3 weeks prior to the disaster and were most widespread on the day before it.Patterns of this type were also revealed in other studies on Premonitions

Prime Minister Spencer Perceval

On May 3,1812, a British citizen awoke from a shocking nightmare.In his dream,he saw the prime minister of Britain - Spencer Perceval in the lobby of the House of Lords, and a man dressed in brown, attacking him suddenly and assassinating him.In his dream he saw Perceval dressed in various shades of blue.For some reason,the colours of both the assassin's and the victim's clothes were etched in his memory.Eight days after the dream,the British prime minister,Spencer Perceval, wearing a blue suit,was shot by a man in a brown overcoat.Eight days after the dream,the British prime minister,Spencer Perceval, wearing a blue suit,was shot by a man in a brown overcoa

1974 - Tower of London

In April 1974,a visitor to the Tower of London,heard the screams of young children.He looked around carefuly,but there were no children in the vicinity.It seemed to him that he had heard the screams,which wee so clear and blood-chilling in his head.The experience was so weird that he told several people about it in an attempt to understand what it meant.A few weeks later,a terrorist bomb, injured over a dozen children in exactly that place

Premonitions Not always Bad Omens

However - dreams & Preminitions do not only accompany disaster and traumatic events.Cases of good fortune may also be accompanied by Foreknowledge,which permits the person to intervene actively in improving the situation

1946 - John Goodly's Dreams

John Goodly, a British student who had a dream that is the secret dream that of many people.A dream that changed Goodly's life. In March 1946, Goodly a student at Oxford University - had a strange and unusual dream.In his dream Goodly saw the name of 2 racehorese.When he woke up the next morning and remembered his special dream clearly,he discovered that both horses were running in a race that day.He quickly went to place bets on the 2 horses.To his astonishment,both horses won.During the subsequent twelve years,Goodly had many dreams like that - and won a fortune

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All about The Sixth Sense - Tom Pearson