I always thought deja vu as sensing something just before it happens. When it does happen, it seems familiar, and you have no way of knowing that it was because moments before you sensed what was about to take place.

That presupposes that precognition does exist which hasn't been proven to my knowledge. If it does, perhaps it is a glimpse of a possible future but not necessarily the only future.

The likelihood is that what passes for precognition is a combination of two things. First, there is the human tendency to remember coincidences (when a premonition does come to pass) but ignore all the times a hunch doesn't pan out. Second, there are some future events which are quite predictable based on current knowledge. For instance, if you know your neighbor is prone to drunkenness and domestic violence, and he just got laid off, you aren't a fortune teller when you predict things will go poorly for his family.

How many times do you feel that something is going to happen, and it doesn't? Every time I look at an airplane in the sky, I feel and visualise it blowing up mid air - but it has never happened yet (probably because I am a little strange, and believe that if I keep looking at it, it will not explode - makes life difficult when driving, especially as one of the roads I drive along is under a light path to the nearest airport) But - if it DID explode in mid air, would that be precognition? I don't think so. Of all the people who have seen the future - how many of the things they have seen have not happened? So - does precognition exist? Can it be proven? I am not a big fan of the idea of predestination either - that idea just gives us an excuse for things going wrong - (it was not my fault, it was predestined), and turns us into puppets rather than free thinking individuals.

Phyllis, if I'm reading my Bible correctly, it isn't so much that the future is predestined, its that God has the power to be everywhere in time and space at the same time. So even though we have free will, He KNOWS what we are going to do because He is THERE. We are limited by space and time, but God is outside of space and time. He existed before there was space and time and He will continue to exist after space and time pass away. He is here witnessing the present and there witnessing the future at the same time. And since He can see that at the same time, He knows what we are going to do. Now, God has a plan for humankind. And when it falls within that plan, He will intervene in space and time to change something. That doesn't always mean some miraculous healing, but He will tell us what is going to happen in the future so that we can effect the future, or sometimes He does it knowing we will ignore Him or misunderstand Him but He does it so that when it comes to pass, we will recognize it and know that He is God. For instance, He told Jonah to go and prophesy to Nineveh about a coming destruction as a consequence of sin. Nineveh was a Gentile town. They weren't even part of Israel. However, God showed His love for ALL mankind by giving Nineveh a chance to change their ways. I think Nineveh is the only case I can think of in the Bible where the people actually listened. They repented, put on sackcloth and ashes to show their guilt and were spared. That was a case of Him intervening to change the future. In another case, God showed a very specific prophecy or precognition to Jeremiah (I believe)that came complete with names and dates and came to pass within his lifetime. The nation and ruler that God gave him didn't even exist when it was shown to him, but within his lifetime that man was born, that nation was formed and Israel was carried off as his prisoner to serve EXACTLY seventy years in exile. That was a case where He knew we'd ignore it, but we'd recognize it and know He was God. In other cases, God showed the future to men like Isaiah, Daniel and John and the future was so changed that they didn't even know how to describe it, but they did the best they could. I mean, if you lived in 500 or 600 BC, how would you describe helicopters, cars and telephones? And we don't know if those prophecies were about our times or times even more technologically advanced in OUR future. This is a case where He knows we can't understand but again, when it comes we'll recognize it and know His hand. I hope that makes sense. He does all this on the personal level too. My history isn't far different than yours, except it was my father, not my mother. I grew up hating men and wouldn't even be alone in the same room with a man. So when God told me that a particular man was the man I would marry, my response was "Oh HECK NO! But we just celebrated our 11th anniversary of very happy and contented marriage. So I think God really does give individuals the chance to know the future.

maybe its just a strong intuition,common sense

I drempt that the Teacher, in a class I was working in ,was writting on the chalk board and she wrote the date wrong and several of the kids freaked out and kept saying it was wrong and she said "Just let it go.I do make mistakes" SO then I was in her class yesterday and the exact event happened.How can I explain this away?Precog?Been there done that?I freak myself out sometimes!

Cognitive Reasoning in the subconscience mind and Genetic Memory calling upon a finite number of situations in and infinite universe, the human brain is after all the most advanced biological computer on the planet and posssibly in the Solar System but I doubt in the Galaxy and certainly not in the Universe but it is still an amazing work of the evolutionary process .. ~Nemo~

My daughter and I were discussing something like this the other night. She told me her theory of the cause of De-javu, and it kinda makes sense to me, tell me what you think... According to one theory of the Quantum Universe, there is more than one reality, timeline, existance, whatever you want to call it. There are coutless worlds, with countless versions of you going through countless versions of your life. Now, here is the cool part. Each version of me, for example, is connected to every other version of me, through a quantum string. Now, these different versions are similar, but not identical. Some have very minor differences, others are completely opposite. Now, according to my daughters theory, the differences are not just physical and environmental, by temporal as well. Meaning that some of my alters could be still in 1995, and others could be in 2025. Now, where de-javu comes in, we came to the conclusion that this is possibly the memories of past events from future me filtering through the quantum string that ties us all together, ending up in my mind as vague impressions. Maybe this could also explain precognition? Just the thoughts of a man and his all-too-bright teenage daughter.

nobody's future is written, if it were then there would be no need to look after our children as they would not be injured or die untill their designated time. which is very obviously not true.If you ever read the bible then you will see that spiritism, psycic's , fortune tellers are associated with Demons. and Demons being spirit creatures can help people see bits of the future. its definatly true that some people have premonitions, but they are helped( without knowing it) :)

Based on what people have decided to do, that is how you figure it out...if they change their minds...well, yeah.

Assuming that precognition is real, the answer is that you need to add an additional dimension to your thinking. Let's say you're a two dimensional person living in "Flatland." All you know are the various kinds of sideways...up and down are things you can't perceive. Somebody who can perceive 3 dimensions throws a ball in your direction. From your perspective, you don't see a ball (a three dimensional object). You see something that, as it falls through your world right in front of you, starts out as a point, gradually widens into a larger and larger circle, and then the circle starts shrinking until it's just a point again and then disappears. The Universe we live in (theoretically) has either 11 or 19 dimensions according to current theories. But we can only perceive 4. The first three are spatial dimensions, while the 4th is time (or duration) which we can only perceive in slices (and we can remember the slices we've seen before). Now, think back to the ball passing through a two-dimensional world. The fact that you can only perceive one slice at a time doesn't change the fact that the whole ball is there, you just can't see it all at once. The thing is that, if we could bump our perceptions up by an extra dimension, we'd see the whole duration or life of a phenomenon. If we were to assume precognition works, it's not that you'd be seeing what is going to happen. It's that you would be perceiving everything from the beginning to end as a unified whole. The fact that you might perceive the entirety of a phenomenon from beginning to end does not negate all of the things that happen between the beginning and the end. It's not that the shape is pre-destined, it's that you're perceiving all the decisions that have been made and the actions that have been taken and all the actions that will be taken as a unitary whole. After you've read a book, you know the whole story. The fact that you know the whole story does not override the fact that every action that took place during the story was voluntary -- it's just that you see all of those decisions and actions no matter whether they happened, or are happening, or will happen.