--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_...@...> wrote: > > Your idea of statistically proving that dreams predict the > future is excellent.
John, just as an exercise in challenging previously- unchallenged assumptions, why would you *want* to predict the future? I mean, where's the fun in that? I've never been able to become the least bit interested in astrology or Jytoish or palmistry or reading tea leaves or any other predictive technology that can sup- posedly "predict the future." I simply do not see the fuckin' point. I want the future to be a *surprise*, man. I want it to fill me with awe and jumpstart my sense of mystery and make me go "Whoa! I never saw *that* coming." That is what the essence of life *IS* for me. Why would I ever want to *spoil* that by "seeing the future?" Big whoop. The best that can happen is that you've spoiled fuckin' Christmas, man, and X-rayed the packages to find out what they contain before opening them. Where's the fun in that? The worst that can happen is that you buy into a self-fulfilling prophecy such that you cause to happen what you've been told "will" happen. Again, big whoop. I fully agree with you that keeping a Dream Journal can be a very useful thing, but for a completely different reason. Dreams tend to be hard to remember when you wake up. Keeping a Journal of them that you write in immedi- ately after waking can help you to remember them. But digging through them for "symbols," and trying to "analyze" them to "discern the future?" Just not my idea of fun. If it's yours, I wish you well with that.
