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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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What do you mean "documented and verified"? You mean someone dreamed about something that happened? Or someone consistently had dreams that could predict the future? The law of large numbers would suggest someone would eventually dream about something that ends up happening simply by coincidence. It would be a statistical anomaly if it never happened.
The case I am thinking of is the man who called the FBI with details of a plane crash that happened days later. The last half of your comment is why it isn't astonishing.
Kinda like how Tesla famously had seen the designs for... I forgot what invention it was; the motor? The AC converter? But he saw them in a dream. But, like... He was already researching this stuff. It's entirely possible his brain just finished the work he was already trying to accomplish while he slept. This is a common phenomena, too. Getting stuck on a problem, only to come to a solution after simply resting and not thinking about the problem for a bit.
I would assume it is all connected to the fact that your brain does the majority of processing while we sleep, hallucinates nonsense in the process, and then tries to pretend that isn't what it did.
Right, but did the person have a prophetic vision, or was it simply a coincidental dream?
It is obviously a coincidence, hence why "Prophetic dreams" is in quotes. At no point have I claimed it wasn't mere chance. Stop picking fights for no reason.
I'm not picking a fight, I asked you what you meant by documented and confirmed. A coincidence is not a documented or confirmed case of a prophetic dream, it's a coincidence.
Like if you said that there was a documented and confirmed case of a human that can fly, and then pointed to that one lady who fell out of an airplane and survived, I would have the same objection.
You asked what a meant and I told you. I then agreed with you. You are trying to pick a fight so you didn't get that. Stop doing that as none of this is that deep and you look like a fool.