Mind Connected to Pooled Intellect?

Australia
November 9, 2010 1:26am CST
I think the mind is ay least not just connected to just our own bodies. I'm thinking along the lines of some sort of pooled intellect while we sleep. One archaelogist had the task of uncovering a fragile fossil from some rock. He had a dream one night of what the fossil looked like and which angles etc to uncover it without damaging the fossil. He forgot what it looked like soon after he woke up and went to work. He had the same dream for a few nights then finally thought of putting a pencil and some paper at his bedside and making a sketch of it as soon as he woke. The sketch turned out to resemble the fossil etc and uncovered it. Would also like to mention the times when things that appear in dreams come true. Happened to me a couple of times and heard reports of it on the news when some lady had a dream of her cousin dying in a car crash. 2 weeks later it actually happened. What are your thoughts?
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@foofermen (500)
9 Nov 10
The phenomena of dreams becoming reality are really quite common. I am not trying to disenchant the idea though. I think the term you may have been looking for in your discussion topic is "collective consciousness". The theory of collective consciousness has been explored by many very popular psychologists, however, I am not sure that comes even close to explaining dream state premonitions. I think just about everybody I have asked has had a dream come true. The most shocking dream state premonition stories came from my brother, whom I shared a room with growing up. I witnessed these premonitions first hand, premonitions so far fetched at their conception, one would never think them possible. My own experiences include kissing an ex girlfriend I hadn't seen in years. I even had one unexplained phenomena like that occur while I was awake. I was in my room with my brother, and he says, "Hey, do you remember..." and I just knew exactly what he was going to say. I responded, "Yes. I do." before he could even finish his sentence, and proceeded to tell him the obscure memory he was about to bring up. People often say it is because we had lived in the same room, and been around each other so much, or maybe we both picked up on some subconscious cue, but it just felt so surreal. We were both shocked. Keep searching soldier of truth! =)
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• Australia
9 Nov 10
Thanks for your reply. I didn't realise there was already a coined term of what I was vaguely describing in my original post. I'll make sure I look more into this subject. There seems to be so much about the brain we don't know about for sure yet and I find the obscure phenomenon that it creates rather interesting. A lot of the times when I get weird dreams and think to myself that it can't possibly happen and then I might forget about it but when it does happen though. Oh boy, I am usually baffled.
@Catana (735)
• United States
9 Nov 10
There's only one word necessary for those phenomena: coincidence. People aren't aware of the huge number of times when dreams result in absolutely nothing at all. The one when it does, stands out, and then the theories start up.