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Dreams-predicting the future

Submitted by jwiltsee on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 6:26pm.

This week in class we learned our vision and hearing depends on a combination of inputs other than just our eyes or our ears.  And that we can sometime "sense" when things are going to happen without a direct stimuli.  I'm trying to make a connection here to dreams in which in the future you think to yourself that you had dreamed that a certain situation would occur.  Is the mind able to create dreams that predict the future?  Since the mind is able to "sense" things, is it able to sense the future without any direct inputs of what the future has in store?  And then how is it able to piece together images that your have never seen before to create the future situation in the present? 

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