I dont understand how justification of deja vu ties into the simulation theory
someone should conduct an experiment,
each dream dreamed by human test subject, should be documented and put into some database or wherever it can be easily found later
then each time a test subject having a deja vu feeling, researchers quickly search any matches in dreams database to find out if the feel of recurrence given by event the test subject is experiencing right now justified (was dream of before) or not (false sense)
thus deciding if the suspicions of some humans about the world surrounding us is a simulation are justified or not
>dreams
I couldn't remember a single dream since I graduated from elementary school until I started to write a dream diary, since then every few days I see some really cool or awkward dreams.
For the experiment mentioned by OP, such diaries will need to be written, and I advice Bernd to try writing one himself as well, as he can probably learn more about himself with it.
I personally believe I have dreams that "predict" future events.
I put predict into brackets because they don't have practical value, I don't know when they will happen or if it was a normal dream or a predictive dream. But I sometimes have dreams about certain situations and then weeks, months or years later these situations happen exactly the way I dreamt them, or they happen like that until a certain point where I make a conscious decision to do something differently from how I dreamt it.
>I dont understand how justification of deja vu ties into the simulation theory
it's don't actually,
but if humans can predict some tiny bits of their future in their dreams, there might be some explanation
and the explanation might also hint towards simulation theory or might not, i just like the idea of the world being a simulation
>I personally believe I have dreams that "predict" future events.
>I put predict into brackets because they don't have practical value
are those just brief "images" that doesn't give any context to them, and may appear randomly within a dream completely untied from a dream's plot?
like you see yourself doing something for a second or two,
and then, months will pass, and all of a sudden you do something and find what you see before you oddly familiar
???
Nah, it's not brief images in an unrelated dream. The whole dream is a certain situation. And when I realize months later that I had dreamt what is happening before, it's not just feeling kinda similar. It is the same situation with multiple identifyable factors. For example:
One summer break between switching schools I was dreaming about being in a classroom. I had never seen this classroom before. The tables were arranged a certain way, I was sitting in a certain place, I could see outside the window that is was next to a hillside and I remember sitting a hot blonde girl sitting in front of me. At the time I thought it was strange to dream about being in a classroom I had never seen instead of the classrooms I was used to. Months later, I realized I was in the exact same situation as in the dream.
Other times the dreams might have a piece of conversation in them. I dream someone saying certain things to me and then me responding. When I later on realize I had dreamt this situation, one time I consciously decided replying with something else and thereby changed the course of the conversation that I had experienced in a dream. It was now different.
You see, when I hear deja vus described it seems really simple to me. "Oh I saw this guy and he looked kinda familiar." or something like that. But with my dreams I sometimes notice "well that was an odd dream", but I obviously don't know it will be predictive. I forget about it for a while and then the situation happens and I immediately remember all the details that are the same.