https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/japan-issues-first-ever-megaquake-alertNumber of times it has happened to me: 24
Number of times it correlated with a major event happening no more than ten days later: 18.
I'll become obsessed with a topic, or end up watching a movie and events will occur afterward that have an eerie resemblance to what I was hyperfocused on.
Thought I was going crazy so I started keeping track of the incidences.
It's like premonitions or some shit.
Of course the reasonable explanation is a hyperfocused mind will look for events that match the subjects it focuses on, ignoring the plethora of unrelated events that also occur on a daily basis. Hyperfocusing on one topic such as earthquakes, when the example event merely appears unusual (they're not, they're a pretty regular occurrence across the globe), may mislead someone to believe they saw it coming.
On the otherhand to pick any one event out of a basket, which by itself, given the level of its impact or seriousness, is
not common--and then to do that on a regular basis, is to say unusual.
Oh, and the other movie I seriously considered watching was red dawn, kek.
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Or maybe I'm talking out my ass, who knows.
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why you riding a bike and living in the zoo anyway?
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Unfortunately that answer is too easy. One of the jobs I worked in the past required a psych exam for hiring, clean bill of mental health.
It's more probable that I happen to be a statistical outlier where topics I focus on, by coincidence have happened more frequently than not.
Somewhere out there someone has accidentally flipped heads on a coin 40 times in a row.
I'm just wondering how long the "pure-chance coincidence detector" effect will last.
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You aren't crazy, you are just stupid.
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9-10 magnitude earthquakes in first-world major population zones?
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So now your surprised when you find that the predictive programming works a little too well.
Nikola Tesla had an earthquake machine that fit inside his pocket.
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Premonitions can get so bad that you're accurately predicting things beyond all reasonability. At which point the line between it being a lucky guess and you willing it into existence starts to blur.
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I'm not sure if thats an amazing possibility or a horrifying one.
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Have you ever experienced premonitions? I didn't believe in them till I had several specific incidents.
For example I had a dream the place I worked was robbed and I was shot in the face. Called my boss 20 minutes before I was due in and told him adamantly I couldn't come up to work. He was pissed, but I couldn't shake the dream.
That night the place I was working was robbed as gunpoint. They came back after the robbery and chased my replacement into the back security room and kept trying the door. You don't come back to a robbery after you got the money, unless you intend to kill witnesses.
That wasn't the first incident of premonitions either but it's one of the most clear to me.
What about you? Any experiences?
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I didn’t have a premonition. I just think almost everyone is incompetent at their jobs. They’re all hacks. I imagined who probably was in charge of securing that load and I landed on a Mexican with no education that can’t read. So I chose not to pull to the side. My pessimism and racism saved me, once again.