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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 420460" data-attributes="member: 1054">[PLAIN]Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [OT] Encounters with fate, consequence, destiny and general weird stuff.[/PLAIN]I might as well keep a journal of random numbers for all the useful information it will impart. If there are any 'verbatim' situations, they are trivially explained as follows:a)The purpose of dreaming is to sort and categorize experiences, attempting to find matches and place them properly. (This is why you have so many odd juxtapositions in dreams; the mind is basically trying out combinations to see if they fit, and tossing away those which don't.)b)Most of any one day for me is like any other day for me; get up, go to work, write code, go home. The odds of a past experience which showed up in a dream being so similair to a future experience that my mind decided they were the 'same' are pretty high.Occam's Razor r00lz, d00d.People see pictures in inkblots. I see pictures in the patterns of the acoustic tile in my office and in the stucco on the wall. (Really. Faces, animals, little scenes...all there if you look at just the right angle...) Humans will see patterns in almost anything. Insane humans are those who can't accept that the patterns aren't really there. (Anywhere. The universe is chaos from top to bottom. No pattern, no purpose, no direction. Deal.)As a neurobiologist, you might know more about this: I recently read of a study which showed that people likely to believe conspiracy theories were also more likely to see patterns in randomly generated images. It appears to be a linked to an excess of a specific neurotransmitter. Do you have any links to this?</blockquote>

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