From: nick.argall@aplaceof.removedotcom.info.com   
      
   "Laura"  wrote in message   
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   > "ninthcommandment"  wrote in message   
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   > > I've had dreams that months later came true in exact detail but they   
   > > were mundane. For example the parking lot of a company I went to work   
   > > for 4 months later. I and many others have experienced time   
   > > compression where for example you are asleep for 8 hours but   
   > > experience a week.   
   >   
   > That isn't time compression. It's a dream that covers a week of events.   
   You   
   > remember a week, but do you recall what you had for breakfast on the third   
   > day of that dream? In other words, there is a vast difference between the   
   > memory of a week, and the week itself. Therefore, it is in no way   
   > supernatural to have a dream that seems to span a significant amount of   
   > time. Such a dream doesn't even take 8 hours to have; 30 minutes is   
   > sufficient.   
      
   That conflicts with the studies done by Susan Blackmore that show perceived   
   dream-time normally has a 1:1 relationship with perceived awake-time.   
      
   > > An author wrote a book about a 100 year dream once.   
   > >   
   > > Biblical prophets who wrote of their dreams and future events might be   
   > > considered a form of time travel while asleep.   
   >   
   > If, and only if, their prophecies are fulfilled. And even then, it will be   
   > largely a matter of interpretation, since the wording of biblical   
   prophecies   
   > is woefully nebulous.   
   > They have a habit of "being fulfilled" every few generations, actually,   
   when   
   > the faithful manage to interpret them to fit current events.   
      
   I remember having a very serious conversation about prophecies over on   
   alt.magick with a person of some considerable knowledge.  He said that a   
   prophecy was like a strategic plan, it is a combination of what someone   
   wants and their best calculations about what will happen.    Like strategic   
   plans, prophecies have a way of making themselves come true, but they are   
   not guaranteed to do so.   
      
   Seems like a pretty sensible viewpoint to me.   
      
      
      
      
   Nick   
      
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