Blogpost 3: Click: Another Movie with Precognitive Dreaming?

Click is an American comedy drama film about a workaholic architect, Mike, who is married to his longtime sweetheart and blessed with two kids. Mike gives priority to his work to earn and he often sacrifice the time for his family just to be able to give them the stuff that he never had. One day, he went to a store where an employee gave him a universal remote that enables him to fast forward time especially the unpleasant or dull parts of his life. He soon realizes that those seemingly bad parts of his life contained vital or very important life lessons and wants to take back the time he missed. Luckily, after dying, he suddenly wakes up and finds out that everything he thought that happened was all a dream and he just fell asleep on the bed being sold at the store he went to. After that, he changed for the better and made sure that he won't do things wrong ever again.

Many people believe that the events that are seen in a precognitive dreams are going to happen and there is nothing that can be done to change what will happen. Others believe that the events are based on current circumstances. The events can change depending on choices that the people involved in the event make. I was able to talk about precognitive dreams where they served to be a warning for something that's about to happen that can't be changed on my previous post, If Only & Precognitive Dreaming, but for this movie Click, precognitive dreams became a way to show someone what might happen in the future and the give that person a chance to change it. 

I've found this article called The Anatomy of Precognitive Dreaming by Ian Wilson in the site called YouAreDreaming.org. In this article, as the title states, the anatomy of precognitive dreaming was discussed. The 4 types of precognitive dreams were also discussed. The first type is the Symbolic Precognitive Dream, it is where dream symbolism abstracts the precognitive information and generally is not realized up until the time it actually happens. The second type is the Literal Precognitive Dream, it's from a first-person view, this type is in literal detail. What you sense, think and feel in the dream can actualize in the future. This dream can bring about a Déjà Vu aura however linking the memory of the déjà to a dream is what classifies this type of dream as Déjà Rêvé. The third type is the 3rd Person Precognitive Dream, it is from a third-person vantage point, this type can take on both symbolic and literal similarities however it doesn't mean that the information being observed will happen from a first-person point of view. The last type is the Lucid Precognitive Dream and there are two kinds of this, Active & Ambient. In an active lucid dream, the dreamer actively tries to engage the precognitive dream, while in an ambient lucid dream, the dreamer passively observes the dream remaining within the usual dream flow.

"At the heart of dreaming, there is one observable fact:

Dreams are organized thought."

After reading this quote, I realized that dreams are really mind-generated thoughts organized into an experience unlike physical reality, there are no atoms, molecules or gravitational forces, it's just thoughts. It's really amazing how our mind works. There are really limitless possibilities of what our mind is capable of. 

I've also found this article called Precognitive Dreams by Manali Oak in the site called Buzzle. In the article, the author discussed who can have precognitive dreams. It has been observed that the precognition we experience are associated with the part of the brain which controls feelings. It has also been found that people with creative minds receive precognition clearer and also the rate of those precognition turning true is higher with them.

"They may turn true; sometimes for occult reasons, sometimes for reasons clearly seen and at times, it's sheer coincidence."

I guess this is why precognitive dreaming is commonly associated with psychic abilities because sometimes, they turn to be true and people tend to believe that the individual who experienced it would always have a correct assumption about things. They don't realize that it may just be a coincidence. It was mentioned in the article that an individual with a creative mind has a higher rate of having precognition that turns to be true. So, I guess, people with real psychic powers must probably have an amazingly creative mind.

I was amazed on how the movie, Click, used precognitive dreaming as a tool to make Mike realize what he had been missing and what he has been taking for granted for many years. If I ever experience precognitive dreaming, I'm sure I would also use it to change things for the better. The movie was really funny but it was also able to leave the viewers with a very nice lesson not to forget to spend quality time with their families and not just think about their career, job or ways to earn money.

Blogpost 2: If Only & Precognitive Dreaming

If Only is a romantic drama film that is about the life of Samantha (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a precocious American studying music in London, and her live-in partner Ian (Paul Nicholls), an ambitious Brit who loves his career more than anything. Ian takes Samantha for granted while Samantha on the other hand wants nothing more but to love Ian and be loved in return. As the day begins in the film, Ian is nonchalantly keeps on forgetting important dates and just generally acting like a tool toward his sympathetic girlfriend. At the end of the night, everything comes to a head, as the two abruptly calls it off and Samantha promptly enters a cab that gets in a car crash, killing her. It’s only then that Ian realizes what he had, but of course it’s too late to make amends. Luckily for the grieving boyfriend, when he wakes up the next morning, Samantha is alive again. Even stranger, he’s reliving that fateful day, and he’s the only one who remembers it.

I really like this movie If Only. For me, it's one of the best drama films I've watched. It's not your usual love story and the twist was just amazing, I never saw it coming. Just imagine having a chance to relive a day... Well, not actually relive since he was just really dreaming at first but who wouldn't want something like that? So, you would have the chance to do the things you want and wouldn't have regrets, right? A precognitive dream, that is what Ian had in the first part of the movie.

According to the article, Precognitive Dreams by Rebecca Turner in the site World of Lucid Dreaming: "Precognitive dreams are dreams that appear to predict the future through a sixth sense.".

In the movie, it was obvious that what Ian dreamed of is somewhat a warning to him to learn to appreciate Samantha and all because he might just lose her. So, it was a prediction of the things that will happen that day though the dream made him feel like it already happened before which may be also be called as Déjà vu, which literally means "already seen" in French according to Merriam-Webster's dictionary. Sadly, in the story, everything in his dream really happened. It was somehow in a different way but still, the result was the same. The only thing he prevented from happening is Samantha's death because instead of letting Samantha take the cab alone, he went with her to protect her, that's why he was the one who died instead.

Precognitive dreams are often related to premonition that's why many people confuse premonition and precognition as the same thing but according to the article Psychic Dreams in the site Dream Dictionary: "There is a slight difference between the two; though similar in nature they have the same end result. Premonitions are mixtures of sounds, random images or feelings that flash involuntary in your mind at any given time. Precognition on the other hand presents itself in dreams by using types of symbols, events or odd feelings."

After reading the quote, I realized that the people I know who claim or believe to have such predictions, just have precognition and not premonition because they just dream about it. I've never met a person who experiences premonition though, I mean experiencing random things that flash involuntary in his/her mind at any given time? I think that is just absurd but I would be glad to meet a person who's capable of having premonitions.

A lot of people say precognitive dreaming is true but I guess not unless I experience it myself, that will only be the time that I'll totally believe in it. I have nothing against it though. I mean I believe that the human mind is really way more powerful than what we know right now but after learning about precognitive dreams, it left me with these questions... What if you can really predict the future through your dreams? Would you use it to change the things from happening if you know the outcome will be bad? or would you just let it be and just make the most of it just like what Ian did in the last part of the story?