{Dreams and Prophecies [continued]}[7th September 1986]

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Logical problems occur with the validity of dreams when conclusions (or information) are presented by the dream but derived from information not available to the dreamer's normal waking mind. The borderline* is often more difficult to define in practice than one might expect. From my own experience (supported by the recounted experiences of others) I am inclined to think that this does happen (with validity in terms of the waking world order) but I cannot show evidence of any particular mechanism to make it possible.

What I can do is to offer a solution to two problems over 'prophetic' dreams, the predestination objection and the false prophecy problem. The first objection is that a prophetic dream implies a fixed future. It is quite possible that the future is fixed from a viewpoint outside Time but fluid from a viewpoint within Time; but apart from this, it is possible that prophetic dreams are warnings of a future that may happen rather than one that will. This would also account for false prophecies, and the two problems would cancel each other out.

*(i.e. between information available to the dreamer's waking mind, and information not so available)

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