I just finished watching the film Premonition, with Sandra Bullock in it. I thought it was an interesting movie. Not groundbreaking, but interesting. The idea of premonitions is kind of cool, don’t you think? I sometimes have odd dreams, that turn real. Usually about really stupid things. Like, once, a few months before I started Katimavik, I had a dream about eating squash soup with a few people. I remember seeing a table, and someone’s jeans, and the small cup of soup in my hands. Sure enough, I saw those exact things when we went to pick our Xmas tree in Kelowna. (Obviously, I saw MORE than just that. I saw the rest of the scene as well. 
) Another time, I had a dream where I was waiting in line at Winners, and there were two ladies talking in front of me. One had a colourful sweater (it was black and RAINBOW) and they were discussing a broach that looked like a spider. I lived the actual event 3 months later. Usually, I only remember the dreams because they’re such pointless things to dream about!
In the film, Sandra Bullock’s character tries to warn her husband that he’s about to die. And everyone thinks she is crazy. I don’t really blame them, because even when I have stupid dreams that come true, which happens quite often, I think I’m crazy, and I think it’s stupid.
What I want to know is: do you believe in premonition? And if someone told you that something awful was going to happen to you, would you make an attempt to change it?
I think the thing about premonitions is they’re so damn vague. What if you took it seriously, tried to change something, and you ended up dying because you changed it? If you hadn’t taken any notice of it, you wouldn’t have died! Until it becomes more exact, I’m not going to set much store in it.
I like to think all things happen for a reason, whether we can see that reason or not. That being said, i do believe in instinct and types of premonition.. as to your question? would i use that knowledge to change it? i’m not sure, but either way i’d believe it was right since all choices are made for a reason.
I used to dream such stuff when I was in middle school and high school, not so much now. But it generally took me a while to remember why a certain event seemed so weirdly familiar, when it was clear I couldn’t have experienced it before.
But I generally tended to live said events much later than 3 months: like one or two years.
You should watch the original Asian version, Aisling. It’s better than the English one.
Anyway, I don’t really believe in premonitions so if someone told me something’s going to happen to me, I won’t really believe it.
I believe in them because I’ve had them before.
It’s prooven that people don’t try to change it. In the Holocaust, the had prisoners run the ovens. In one documentary of the story of one of the pven workers, he said that the new people would come in this room and they were told to undress, put their belongings on a numbered hook–dont forget your number, told they were going to take showers and then would get plenty of food and tea. When the truth was that they would be gassed.
He said that one worker told a women he knew who came in what was going to happen to her so that she could escape. She only believed him because she knew him well. She went crazy, yelling to everyone else to revolt and escape (which would work because of the low guard to prisoner ratio) but they didnt believe her and went to their death for it.
People have a strong belief in their immortality. It is so incomprehensible to think of yourself not being. If someone came up to you in the street, told you that you were going to die and this id how you could stop it, would you believe it? I wouldnt.
I love Sandra Bullock, so I’ll be checking that film out now, especially because of the content - it sounds great. Yeah, I’m a believer in “premonitions” - I have “feelings” when I just know something has to happen. My family’s got used to it so they’ve started to take notice, but I don’t like telling my friends much. It can be fun and all that - I know I’m going to be right when I take a bet with my friend, or when I win something, but it can be downright freaky too and scary too, like when I dreamed of Titanic and I woke up to the news that an Egyptian ship had actually sunk with loads of people drowned. I hate that part of it.
Everyone thinks I’m crazy, but I honestly do have premonitions that prove to be amazingly accurate. I am NOT a weirdo! (Well, okay. But only a little.)
I’ve never had premonitions myself — the only thing sort of like that that ever happens to me is that *after* I see a particular scene in life, I’m *sure* I’ve seen the exact scene before in a dream.
Anyways, it’s all quite interesting. But heeding the warning of a premonition and trying to change the outcome might be what results in the outcome in the first place. (Did that make any sense?)
Hmmm, I think I believe in some kind of premonition. I kind of believe that there is a certain path for everyone, but it’s up to that person to walk it out. So I guess I would probably just do what I would have done, and if it is supposed to happen, then it will (:
I think sometimes a premonition can just be a coincidince. I’ve often anticipated something happening, and then it did, but I’d just call it a coincidince.
If I knew something bad was going to happen to me, you bet I’d try to change it! That is, if it was something I could control.
I’ve had dreams that have turned out to be true, and I’ve also had moments where I’m sat there day-dreaming and imagined something that has then happened.. but I think a lot of the time this is dictated by things that have happened .. i.e. what I dream/think about is the logical next step.
Sometimes I think the more you think about something, the more likely you are to subconsciously do things that make that ‘premonition’ come true…
I don’t know, I could be talking bollocks
Haha… it’s very funky that you should write a post about this! I had something similar as well! Just only in dreams though. I think I would have thought that she’s crazy as well if she came to me and said something like that. I’ve yet to watch the movie.