I have had a number of dreams in which I know about something I never knew before. One dream I had was one of my friends telling me about someone in my school being pregnant. Once I woke up I forgot about it until a few weeks later I saw the pregnant girl outside and I then remembered my dream. In another one of my dreams I was smoking some type of drug and I felt my lips go numb. The next morning I told my mother about it and just as I said "...then my lips started to feel" she interuppted and said "numb?". I have never read, heard, saw or experienced that feeling ever before but I somehow knew it in my dream. When I told my older brother about both of these dreams and my theory that everyone is born knowing everything in the world, he said that that actually is a theory by some philosophers. Has anyone else experienced this or believes that this may be true?
2007-08-27 11:48:54 · 16 answers · asked by Studz 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I believe that everyone has the potential to be a genius, but it depends on the upbringing as to whether or not that potential comes to fruition, and also, how that gift is utilized. Many madmen/women (have to be politically correct) have been geniuses who have used their talent for evil purposes. Perhaps you are more sensitive to others, and have the gift of empathy, which is wonderful. But I do not believe that dreams are made of any information you do not already know, you may not recall or have picked them up so quickly you were not conscious of your brain processing the information, but they mean nothing, they are just your thoughts, memories and chemical reactions going on while you sleep.
2007-08-27 12:04:03 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 10⤊ 1⤋
Of course, I have no actual knowledge of this. I have experienced this, though. I've had dreams where things happen to me that had never even crossed my mind or new anything about, but the results in the dream are what they would be in real life. I think that is a very interesting theory. There is the theory of past lives... maybe these are experiences you have knowledge of because of those! Who knows though... I wish I could help you know more about this because I would like to know more too!
2007-08-27 12:05:59 · answer #2 · answered by peacexlovexrocknroll 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only you and Plato, or neo-Platonists, believe we're born "with all knowledge." John Locke put the contrary point of view best when he argued we're a tabula rasa (blank slate) waiting to be written on by experience. While we may well be born with certain instinctual "knowledge" (for example, how to suckle at our mother's breast), the idea that we're born knowing the date of the French Revolution is patently absurd. What you dreamed reflected knowledge you acquired since birth, perhaps information forgotten by your conscious mind and lodged in your subconscious. The brain is truly a marvelous chunk of protoplasm, the most complex matter in the universe, and the mind is simply what the brain does...
2007-08-27 12:18:09 · answer #3 · answered by Hispanophile 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in the opposite...i.e a neutral state. Due to the fact that our brain/mind doesn't have the capacity to store an infinite(or close to it) amount of information. Dreams are usually vague, most of which are coincidence.
In my humble opinion, I believe that everyone is a "tabula rasa", we are born in a neutral state, our mind will only have what it had born with(instinct, emotions,etc). We would remain in this state unless we gain something through observation, understanding, and reason.
2007-08-27 11:58:01 · answer #4 · answered by 8theist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well in the culture that I live in some people are born like that. They know everything. But most people aren't born like that. As far as your dreams go I would probally just pay attition to them more.
2007-08-27 12:15:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anthony M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't, but Socrates and Plato believe something very close to that. They believe we know everything BEFORE we're born, and after birth we forget it. But sometimes we can be reminded of what we used to know.
(See Plato's "Meno", especially the part with the slave boy [82b-86d])
2007-08-27 14:43:51 · answer #6 · answered by Martin Evilmind 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never trust your brain and never underestimate its power to rationalize even the smallest thing in your life. It may lead you to believe that you experienced things you never did, or that you had dreams you never really did. Sounds crazy, but psychiatrists' offices are full of such stories.
2007-08-27 12:08:00 · answer #7 · answered by Belzetot 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i dont think so..maybe u had heard about the girl being pregnant but it was just in your subconcious because it wasnt very important to you. and maybe your mom knows the effects of drugs. i'm sure there's a reasonable explanation
2007-08-27 12:03:01 · answer #8 · answered by •◘☼GO○○PHILS☼◘• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is similar to what i believe is a Chippewa belief, which states that we are born knowing all, but mankind in all of it's "wisdom", teaches us the wrong way!
2007-08-27 12:48:57 · answer #9 · answered by Christopher A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that, but what I think you are trying to say is that you are dealing with "precognition." Knowledge of something in advance of its occurrence, especially by extrasensory perception; aka clairvoyance.
2007-08-27 19:22:22 · answer #10 · answered by Andy K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋