Now I want to know what the hell a deja vu is. Every time I have one I feel like I'm a character in a movie that suddenly realizes he's in a movie. I lock up, I freeze. I say, "Oh man...I'm having a major deja vu...this is so weird." In recent years whenever I have a deja vu I've thought how similar it is to being in a dream, and then I think what if this is a dream? What if this moment is something I've had a dream about and that is why it seems so familiar. In fact there have been several times where I was almost certain my deja vu was a past dream.
This concept of seeing the future through dreams is referred to as precognitive dreaming. There have been many instances throughout history that have referenced precognitive dreams (The Bible), but concrete evidence is still lacking. Psychologist claim that dreams are too unpredictable for anyone to say what is a precognitive or not, after all you can't be sure if it is precognitive until the actual event occurs. But in a book titled Dream Telepathy, written by psychologists Montague Ullman and Stanley Krippner, there have been experiments done where test subjects slept in a lab for 16 nights and there were 5 nights that were recorded as precognitive of the following morning's events. Now of course this could be just a coincidence, or it could be clairvoyance. But sadly this is only a research related blog teaser, and I have run out of space to continue on.
You might be interested in reading the Surrealists' take on dreams (see Andre Breton). Also, how might this respond to, say, a movie like Inception?
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