--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" <shukra69@> wrote: > > > > > > so then thats why some consider it a good test of a new gem to judge by > > > the dreams you get when you put it on , that is telling you how it > > > affects the 9th (also luck > > > > > > > This is true. Dreams are good indicators of things to come. If the dreams > > are enjoyable then the near future should be good as well. For example, if > > you dream of someone just before you wake up, there's a good chance you > > will meet this person during the same day. > > I think this is an example of one of our mind's cognitive pitfalls called > "shaping." We tend to remember things that fit patterns and forget those > that do not. Since statistics are not intuitive to our minds we are really > poor judges of the truthfulness of this sort of claim. We are constantly > imposing order on randomness as a reflex, you can't avoid it. But knowing > that our mind has this tendency can help avoid being sure of things that > don't hold up to a more rigorous test. Glilovich's Book How We Know What > Isn't So, the Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life, studies these > cognitive errors. > > http://www.amazon.com/How-Know-What-Isnt-Fallibility/dp/0029117062/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266784011&sr=8-1 > > > We have all had thousands of dreams that predicted nothing. When there seems > to be a connection our mind goes eureka! The world makes sense because we are > overlaying our pattern on the randomness. We dreamt about a person and they > called us, or we passed them on the street, or wrote to us, or someone > mentioned them to us. We remember our dream and overvalue it as proof of our > belief about the trans-personal nature of our minds. But we haven't kept s > journal of dreams and connections in our daily life for months to really test > it. And when we do our mind's shaping tendency is right there to interpret > the day as good after a pleasant dream. Even bad things that turn out as a > good thing in the end are counted in evidence for our minds magical ability > to predict the future. > > Dream contents may have creative uses, but I don't believe predicting the > future is one of them. >
You are entitled to your opinion. But I am merely paraphrasing what is available in the jyotish shastras. Personally, I have kept a diary of my dreams for several months to determine what these dreams mean to my life. In one of the dreams, there was a sequence where I was taking a bus ride to visit my old alma mater for one reason or the the other. I met some people whom I did not know before. After a few days of this dream, I found out that my neighbor next door to me also graduated from my university through an alumni brochure that was incorrectly delivered into my mail box. To test this theory out yourself, you should keep a diary of your dreams to see if any of them "preplays" any of the actual occurences in your life.
