what in the **** is going on...

[Bobby Light]

So Shandi has been waking up with these dreams/nightmares

couple days ago she had a dream that something bad was going to happen to one of her family members...that next morning we found out her uncle had been stabbed.

today, i wake up to go to work, she wakes up and says, "i think there is going to be a bomb threat at walmart today" and sure as ****, 5:15 there is a bomb threat at the north wal mart...

this is some strange ****...

[coop]

no explanation

i called my grandmothers death...and my exwifes grandmothers death....

i said mom granny is dead (1996 - 13yrs old)...fone rang 2 hours later....and before i said that she was perfectly normal....i told the exwife there is going to be a bad fone call today (2003ish) while at her parents and not more than 10 minutes later the fone rang saying her dads mom passed away....

[Tushick]

scary

[coop]

my mom still says i can see the future....and im like mom you are crazy and blv in astrology

[Lepa]

I knew i was going to **** my brains out this morning, sure enough woke up and had to ****.

[spoonraker]

lol I do that all the time too, my favorite one however...isn't really creepy, just funny.

Remember the movie independence day? Will smith, aliens, all that... Anyway back in the nineties when that movie came out, my parents wanted to go to the premiere. Normally I would be a happy kid getting to go to an action movie, but I swore up and down that I had already seen it, and that the movie had been out for a long time. Keep in mind...this was the first day the movie had been screened. I was convinced I'd already seen it, and I was able to quote most of the movie and I knew everything that was going to happen lol.

[AeroSS_87]

This is one of the most intriguing phenomena to me. I've had lots of similar things, but not quite as direct as the walmart thing. The explanation is 'simple'. Usually when you have realistic dreams that are very easily remembered, the root of the dream is sort of a vision of the future. My big thing is realizing when a deja vu moment is happening, and changing it from what I remember.

[AeroSS_87]

lol I do that all the time too, my favorite one however...isn't really creepy, just funny.

Remember the movie independence day? Will smith, aliens, all that... Anyway back in the nineties when that movie came out, my parents wanted to go to the premiere. Normally I would be a happy kid getting to go to an action movie, but I swore up and down that I had already seen it, and that the movie had been out for a long time. Keep in mind...this was the first day the movie had been screened. I was convinced I'd already seen it, and I was able to quote most of the movie and I knew everything that was going to happen lol.

I had that happen with the movie 'clueless' of all things. :lol:

edit: come to think of it, there was another one and I cant remember what it is.. an old one from late 80's or so.

[dsmdarryl]

coincidence

[Bobby Light]

coincidence

coincidence? having a dream about walmart recieving a bomb threat on the day that it actually happens...

[dsmdarryl]

lol yes, coincidence

[JesterMX6]

i've had that **** happen before. freaks me out every time too.

[Bobby Light]

lol yes, coincidence

im not superstitious or believe in BS, but common now, since we have been together this is about the 5th or 6th time some **** like this has happened...

[coop]

i would quit my job and live off her psychic abilities

[dsmdarryl]

In the early stages of sleep I get this falling feeling, but I wake up immediately and it always feels crazy as **** because i slam my arms down on what I'm sleep on and it feels like it catches my fall.

Or I have dreams that I'm running anyone from someone that is trying to kill me but the speed I am running in my dream feels like I'm walking so I always get caught. However, I do wake up before I die everytime.

[spoonraker]

There has been times when I'll realize while something is happening that I've seen it before, and for just a brief second I can know what's going to happen. Usually these instances are very brief and usually about unimportant things like random conversations. The strangest part is I will remember having seen it in a dream, but it will be from years and years ago. I'll have deja vu, and it will be from a dream I had back when I lived in a different state and didn't even know the person I was now living a dream about...weird...

[aquase]

So Shandi has been waking up with these dreams/nightmares

couple days ago she had a dream that something bad was going to happen to one of her family members...that next morning we found out her uncle had been stabbed.

today, i wake up to go to work, she wakes up and says, "i think there is going to be a bomb threat at walmart today" and sure as ****, 5:15 there is a bomb threat at the north wal mart...

this is some strange ****...


She SAYS this stuff is a dream. But what ur really missing is the fact that she arranges all this stuff to happen to freak you out. so then one day she says that you are going to die. Sure as ****, she hired someone to kill you off.


In all seriousness when i dream. it usually happens to me as well. just dont know it yet. kinda like justin... happens later on like a month or two when i forget about it all. and boom. DIDNT THAT HAPPEN ALREADY???

[dsmdarryl]

you'd have to ask her who was in the dream and what kind of relationships she has with the people in real life. assuming there are people in this dream that she knows and it just wasnt like a voice telling her or some **** lol

or even ask her about any objects in the dream that really stood out to her and see if she has any sort of connection with them.

and of course maybe she knows some things that you don't...

[Lepa]

This is one of the most intriguing phenomena to me. I've had lots of similar things, but not quite as direct as the walmart thing. The explanation is 'simple'. Usually when you have realistic dreams that are very easily remembered, the root of the dream is sort of a vision of the future. My big thing is realizing when a deja vu moment is happening, and changing it from what I remember.



agreed i always try to change **** when i catch deja vu

[AWeb80]

I knew i was going to **** my brains out this morning, sure enough woke up and had to ****.

so your saying, you got all the mopar crap outta your system then?:lol:

[Kelvin]

odds are she called in the bomb threat

[Tushick]

odds are she called in the bomb threat

rofl

[dave]

Coincidence.
Some times i snap my fingers just as the traffic lights change.

What you have to realize about dreams is that they arent actually happening like you remember them.

What happens is random neurons fire. With no pattern. No explanation really. But some believe this is the mind 'indexing' short term memories into long term memories.
Anyway.... you have all these purely random thoughts generated, 'go cart' 'old land lord' ' old house' 'a memory of breaking something'.

Then the forebrain interprets this data. Normally it would be completely incoherent thoughts. but because it is involuntary the forebrain thinks they are actually being recalled by control, so it attempts to make sense out of it. In reality she probably had a dream about a bomb, walmart, a phone call she had that day, a fork, ect. her brain put that together.

Seeing the future is impossible.

[Bobby Light]

how do you know?

maybe she did dream that exactly...you dont know, I dont know, no one knows.

[Tushick]

no one does know, youre right. Infact everything is a one big illusion.

[coop]

there is a god

[Chevelle7D2]

one time I had this raging boner in my dream, and in my dream I used this utensil of a boner and was penetrating a hot brunette chick... only to wake up to find me penetrating coz in the shower.

coincidence? I think not.

[coop]

funny everytime someone says hot brunette i think of matt too

[Chevelle7D2]

bak off.

[coop]

dont you mean ON BAK

[Chevelle7D2]

nO, BARE BAK

[spoonraker]

I had a dream once where I died. I woke up the next morning and sure enough I was dead.

true story

[dave]

how do you know?

maybe she did dream that exactly...you dont know, I dont know, no one knows.

just telling you what scientific studies have shown. i apologize for attempting to answer the original question of WTF is going on.

[Tushick]

funny everytime someone says hot brunette i think of matt too

[dsmdarryl]

dave speekz the trooff

[Bobby Light]

just telling you what scientific studies have shown. i apologize for attempting to answer the original question of WTF is going on.

there arent any "?" it was more like a rhetorical question.

[Lepa]

so your saying, you got all the mopar crap outta your system then?:lol:



Yep i came to my sense i'm going to sell the truck and buy a grandam and debadge it.

[dave]

there arent any "?" it was more like a rhetorical question.

you are such a nitpicker when it makes no sense be one. you asked a question. believe it or not rhetorical questions also end in a question mark.

[STOK5OH]

how do you know?

maybe she did dream that exactly...you dont know, I dont know, no one knows.


soo...she pretty much sleeps with the TV on,was half asleep..heard them talking about it on the news,the information played in with the dream. She woke up with this Nostradamis theory,heard it on the news later...BAM...she's got a 1-800-Iknowyourfate hotline.


BUT...I will say this one time,I was going to work and there was a song playing on the radio,I came out to my car 8 hrs. later...and the SAME song was playing right where it was when I went in!!!!:nervous:

[Bobby Light]

you are such a nitpicker when it makes no sense be one. you asked a question. believe it or not rhetorical questions also end in a question mark.

believe it or not they can also end in periods.

[Bobby Light]

soo...she pretty much sleeps with the TV on,was half asleep..heard them talking about it on the news,the information played in with the dream. She woke up with this Nostradamis theory,heard it on the news later...BAM...she's got a 1-800-Iknowyourfate hotline.


BUT...I will say this one time,I was going to work and there was a song playing on the radio,I came out to my car 8 hrs. later...and the SAME song was playing right where it was when I went in!!!!:nervous:

had that song on repeat eh?

[dave]

believe it or not they can also end in periods.



i do not believe you, sorry.

[Bobby Light]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question

[STOK5OH]

had that song on repeat eh?


it was a cassete.:drool:

[dave]

and i still do not believe you.

[Bobby Light]

believe wikipedia

A rhetorical question typically ends in a question mark (?), but occasionally may end with an exclamation mark (!) or even a period (.)

[dave]

you have a way of making yourself look like an idiot on most occasions. this being one of them.

it seems every time you attempt to make a point you get further and further away from making it.

knowing full well that i am able to click the link myself, and see that they have indicated that it needs a citation you decided to exclude it anyway. i dont understand your logic most of the time.

[STOK5OH]

do drugs.

[Bobby Light]

how do i know if you can click the link dave? maybe your computer cannot access wikipedia...how do i know?

i apologize for not copy and pasting the whole article. here you are tho...

Rhetorical question
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A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than to receive an answer. Rhetorical questions encourage the listener to reflect on what the implied answer to the question must be. When a speaker declaims, "How much longer must our people endure this injustice?" or "Will our company grow or shrink?", or "How many times do I have to tell you to stop walking into the house with mud on your shoes?"; no formal answer is expected. Rather, it is a device used by the speaker to assert or deny something.

Contents [hide]
1 Punctuation
2 Examples
3 Notes
4 See also
5 External links



[edit] Punctuation
A rhetorical question typically ends in a question mark (?), but occasionally may end with an exclamation mark (!) or even a period (.) according to some writing style guides[citation needed]. For example:

"What's the point of going on."
"Isn't that ironic!"
In the 1580s, English printer Henry Denham invented a "rhetorical question mark" for use at the end of a rhetorical question; however, it died out of use in the 1600s. It was the reverse of an ordinary question mark, so that instead of the main opening pointing back into the sentence, it opened away from it.[1]

Some have adapted the question mark into various irony marks, but these are very rarely seen.


[edit] Examples
"How can people have hope when we tell them that they have no recourse, if they run afoul of the state justice system?" Edward Kennedy, Senate debate on the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, 1968.
"Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?" William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene 2.
Some rhetorical questions become idiomatic English expressions:

"What's the matter with you?"
"Don't you know any better?"
"Have you no shame?"
"Right?!"
"What the hell?"
"Do pigs fly?"/"Do fish swim?"/"Can fish drown?"
"Are you crazy?"
"Who cares?"
"How should I know?"
"Are you kidding me?"
"Isn't that nice?"
"But who's counting?"
Some TV shows have had rhetorical questions as titles, such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

Bob Dylan's song "Blowin' in the Wind" contains a series of rhetorical questions. This is spoofed in an episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer attempts to quantitatively answer "How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?"

On the BBC comedy quiz show QI, host Stephen Fry once asked panellist Alan Davies, "Is this a rhetorical question?" to which Davies correctly answered "No".


[edit] Notes
^ Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, 2003. p. 142. ISBN 1-592-40087-6.

[edit] See also
Aporia
Figure of speech
Hypothetical question
Question
Humane Systems Design Blog: "Types of Questions"
Get R Done Son!


[edit] External links
What is a rhetorical question?
Audio illustrations of the rhetorical question
A short definition of the term
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question"
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[dave]

lol. im speechless. good job spencer! thanks! that is exactly what i was asking for!

[Bobby Light]

no problem dave

[Bobby Light]

have a great weekend BTW

[dave]

I didnt mean for this to get into a pissing contest again spencer. i was trying to be a nice guy and offer up some of my knowledge to shed light on your situation.
but since information and knowledge are apparently not what you are after i will continue to let you be willingly ignorant about things.
what i mean by that is: instead of telling you the science behind things like dreaming, i will let you continue to think that supernatural events are occurring, like predicting the future.

i will no longer impede your ability to live in your make believe world, enjoy.

[Bobby Light]

I really do apologize dave if you were really trying to add some insight, guess im not used to that from you...my bad.

[MadmaX]

I've never had a premonition.
:(

[Bobby Light]

I dont even think i have dreams...i cant recall the last one ive had...or any for that matter...

[MadmaX]

set your brain to 'defragment' before you go to sleep tonight and see what happens.

[schovil69]

I had a wierd dream experience to share. It was shortly after I returned from Saudi. I once dreamed that my wife was holding a gun to my face, like pointed right at my forehead. When I woke up, I was on top of her holding her "gun" hand down with my left hand and was choking her with the right. And yeah, if you were wondering, I'm single. :)

[dave]

if any of you are smokers or dont mind getting addicted to nicotine i highly suggest getting some nicotine patches and wearing them at night.

it is the best experience i have ever had while being on any kind of drug, illegal drugs included. the dreams are so vivid. people usually think im crazy when i tell them this but at least 1 time your life i suggest you try it. it is an experience that i can not describe well enough on the internets.

[Bobby Light]

that explains alot

[MadmaX]

For some odd reason when I take Claritin I dream way WAY more. More obscure and more vivid too.

I noticed it a year or two ago and at first I didn't figure that could be the reason. Tested it repeatedly by taking the pill or not and the difference was always obvious.

[Nickels]

My mom has problems breathing sometimes at night, and she told me once that in her dream everything was white, then her grandma (who is dead) told her to wake up and not to come yet. She was like but nana, i am awake then my nana said, no karen, WAKE UP! then my mom said she woke up and was barely breathing and felt like passing out... thats about all i got. I dont think ive ever had a preminision (sp?)

[JesterMX6]

:turbin:

[TurboB18C1DC2]

im not superstitious or believe in BS, but common now, since we have been together this is about the 5th or 6th time some **** like this has happened...

can she get the powerball numbers?


this in the end is all that really matters.

on a more serious note, yeah its kind of weird. a cool article about random event generators and our general conscious. their was a pretty weird event that happened the night before or the morning of 9/11 before the planes hit. i saw it on nova, here is an article. http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=252 and if your really bored an in depth article http://noosphere.princeton.edu/terror.html. and lastly for the sofa king we todd ded www.grandmabuukake.com or meatspin.com will help you understand.

[Bobby Light]

HOLY ****IN NWS BEN

[TurboB18C1DC2]

HOLY ****IN NWS BEN

just dont click on meatspin or grandma bukkake and youll be fine. the first two i put up are real links though. the idea or theory is cool though. if you read the article, essentially they run random number generators or like coin flippers and the night before or the morning of 9/11 there was an anomaly in the randomness. its an interesting read. but yes meatspin and grandmabukkake DO NOT CLICK LINK IF AT WORK, these are things you should only enjoy at home.

[dunnster76]

Did she have the dream where I become a billionaire yet?

[dave]

if youre dumb enough to click on a website called grandma bukkake while at work you do not deserve a job.

[MadmaX]

lol

[Bobby Light]

if youre dumb enough to click on a website called grandma bukkake while at work you do not deserve a job.

and the bigger issue would be clicking on a website called grandma bukkake anytime.

[TurboB18C1DC2]

and the bigger issue would be clicking on a website called grandma bukkake anytime.

i love it