Predicted in dreams and in reality
During REM sleep, the brain is very active. He seems to continue to think. That is why sometimes in a dream people found answers to the questions that they dealt with during the waking period. There are many cases when mathematicians often solved problems in dreams, poets wrote poetry, composers wrote music. The famous French philosopher and mathematician A. Poincaré said that his most fruitful ideas appeared in a half-asleep state. Russian writer A. Griboyedov assured that the plot of the comedy "Woe from Wit" came to him in a dream. The German chemist F. Kekule saw in a dream the structural formula of benzene, which he had been thinking about for a long time, and the Russian chemist D. Mendeleev saw his Periodic Table of Elements.
In the article "How to Make Poems" V. Mayakovsky wrote:
“For two days I thought about the words about the tenderness of a lonely man to his only beloved, how will he cherish and love her? I went to bed on the third night with a headache, having thought of nothing. At night, the definition came: "… As a soldier chopped off by war … protects his only leg." I jumped up, half awake. In the dark, with a charred match, I wrote on the lid of a cigarette box - "the only leg" and fell asleep."
In a dream, they wrote poems by A. S. Pushkin and A. Fet, and F. Dostoevsky saw the plot of the novel "Teenager" in a dream. In a dream, G. Derzhavin saw the last, concluding stanza of the ode "God".
Prophetic dreams may be different. Sometimes events are predicted in the form of direct warnings. There are many stories about prophetic dreams. In the book "Mysterious Disappearances and Movements" Nikolai Nepomniachtchi quotes the classic trilogy of the English researcher J. Dunn "Experiments with Time", which tells about the prophetic nature of some dreams. The trilogy came out in 1927. Dunn analyzed many cases of prophetic dreams. The researcher himself often dreamed about the future. Dunn became interested in mysterious dreams after one incident. One day he dreamed that his wristwatch stopped at exactly half past four. Dunn woke up to see if the clock was ticking. The clock did not go, the hands showed exactly half past five. Dunn decided that the clock had stopped the day before, and he simply forgot about it until he had this dream. He wound the clock but didn't knowhow long, therefore, did not rearrange the arrows.
The next morning, he "immediately went to the nearest clock, with the goal of accurately setting his own." To his surprise, the clock was only two or three minutes late. From this, Dunn concluded that the clock stopped at four-thirty - exactly during sleep, and two or three minutes could take time when he woke up, lit a match and wound the clock. At first glance, such a case can be called insignificant. Nonetheless, Dunn found him curious.
Fall 1913 - Dunn dreamed that a northbound train had derailed at what he determined was north of the Fifth or Fourth Bridge in Scotland. Dunn sensed that the catastrophe would happen next spring. On April 14, 1914, the Flying Scotsman mail train fell down a slope 22 km north of the Fourth Bridge. Sister Dunn confirmed the fact that he told her about his dream in the morning, immediately after he saw it. There could be no mistake or deception.
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Dunn believed that many people have prophetic dreams, but they simply forget them. To test his hypothesis, he asked several friends and relatives to record their dreams. Analyzing their notes, Dunn came to the conclusion that dreams that predict a real future happen often. He also discovered that dreams can relate not only to the future, but also to the past, which, in principle, can be called natural.
But foresight of the future is not only in a dream. Everyone knows the story that the fortuneteller predicted the death of Pushkin. The famous Russian historian M. Pogodin wrote about this: “The rumor about Pushkin's death was confirmed. I remembered the prediction made to him by the famous St. Petersburg fortune teller Alexandra Kirchhoff, who prophesied to the great poet two exiles, fame and mortal danger from a tall blond man at the age of 37”. The poet's brother L. Pushkin wrote: “Pushkin's fame, both literary and personal, grew every day. The youth recited his poems by heart, repeated his witticisms and told anecdotes about him. All this, as usual, was partly fair, partly fictional. One circumstance left a strong impression on Pushkin. At that time an old German woman named Kirchhoff was in Petersburg.
Among her various occupations was fortune-telling. One morning Pushkin went to see her with several comrades. Mrs. Kirchhoff addressed him directly, saying that he was a wonderful person; told briefly his past and present life, then began to predict, first daily circumstances, and then important epochs of his future. She told him among other things: “Today you will have a conversation about the service and will receive a letter with money.” Pushkin never spoke or thought about the service; he had nowhere to get letters with money; he could only have money from his father, but living in his house, he would have received them, of course, without a letter. Pushkin did not pay much attention to the fortuneteller's predictions. In the evening of that day, leaving the theater before the end of the performance, he met General Orlov.
They got into conversation. Orlov touched upon the service and advised Pushkin to leave his ministry and put on epaulettes. Returning home, he found a letter with money: it was from a friend of the Lyceum, who went abroad the next day; he stopped by to say goodbye to Pushkin and pay him some card debt from their school pranks. Mrs. Kirchhoff predicted to Pushkin his exile to the South and North, told various circumstances that subsequently came true with him, predicted his marriage and, in the end, premature death, warning that he should expect her from the hand of a tall blond man. Pushkin, already somewhat superstitious, was amazed at the constant fulfillment of these predictions and often spoke about it."
S. Sobolevsky, who was well acquainted with Pushkin, recalled: “During my many years of friendship with Pushkin, I often heard from him about this incident, he liked to tell it in response to jokes aroused by his belief in various omens. Moreover, in my presence he spoke about this more than once in front of the faces that the fortuneteller had during the fortune-telling itself, while referring to them. To check and replenish the already published stories, I consider it necessary to add everything that I remember positively. The prediction was, first, that he would soon receive money; second, that they will make him an unexpected offer; third, that he will become famous and become the idol of his compatriots; fourth, that he will be exiled twice; finally that he will live long,if in the 37th year of life some trouble happens to him from a white head or a white man, which he should be afraid of.
The first prediction about a letter with money came true that evening; Alexander Sergeevich, returning home, found an absolutely unexpected letter from a lyceum comrade, who informed him about the expulsion of the card debt, forgotten by Pushkin. This comrade was Korsakov, who soon died in Italy. Such a quick execution of the first prediction struck Pushkin greatly; It was no less strange for him that a few days later, in the theater, A. F. Orlov called him over to him and began to dissuade him from entering the hussars, but offered to serve in the Horse Guards … Soon after that, Alexander Sergeevich was sent to South, and from there, after 4 years, to the Pskov village, which was a secondary exile.
How could he, an extremely impressionable person, not expect and not be afraid of the end of the prediction, which until then had been fulfilled with such literal accuracy ???
A. S. Pushkin actually died at the hands of a blond man - Dantes, who also wore a white uniform. The prediction came true 100%.
The famous fortuneteller of the 19th century was Maria Lenormand. Almost everything she predicted came true. At the age of 18, the future Decembrist S. Muravyov-Apostol turned to her. Lenormand predicted his execution by hanging. Muravyov-Apostol was outraged by this kind of prediction, because he was a nobleman, and execution by hanging was not applied to persons of this class. But after the uprising, this Decembrist was hanged.
To the Soviet politician, communist N. Bukharin in 1918, a Berlin fortuneteller predicted: "You will be executed in your country!" Bukharin was indignant: "Do you think that Soviet power will perish?" “Under what power you will be executed, I cannot say, - the fortune-teller answered, - but certainly in Russia.” And so it happened, Bukharin was shot in his native country, despite the fact that the Soviet government did not die.
The famous soothsayer of the 20th century was the Bulgarian Vangelia Pandeva-Gushcherova, who was known throughout the world as Vanga.
Many scientists have tried to unravel the mystery of Wanga's prophecies, but, as one would expect, no one succeeded. Almost all of Vanga's prophecies came true. Here are the most famous ones.
In 1940, a Bulgarian soothsayer predicted that a war would begin in a year. Exactly one year later, on April 8, 1941, the Nazis crossed the Yugoslav border.
1942, April 8 - Vanga told the Bulgarian Tsar Boris to remember the date "August 28", when he would have to "be ready to fit his possessions in a nut shell." Tsar Boris died on 28 August 1943.
1963, August - Vanga saw an attempt on the life of the American president. On November 22, 1963, J. Kennedy was assassinated.
Sometimes creative people, for example poets and writers, are able to predict the future in their works. The poet Andrei Bely once wrote: "I will die from the arrows of the sun." The poet died of sunstroke.
M. Sholokhov once saw off the actors who came to visit him. These actors took part in the filming of the film They Fought for the Motherland. Suddenly, for no reason at all, Mikhail Alexandrovich said: "But please, don't die …" Among the actors was V. Shukshin, who soon died.
The writer V. Nikolsky in his book "In a Thousand Years", which was published in 1927, said that the first atomic explosion would occur in 1945. At that time, no one even thought about creating an atomic bomb. But that's exactly what happened.
American science fiction writer R. Heinlein wrote about uranium-235 as an explosive for an atomic bomb. Because of this, the FBI took note of him, which wanted to find out where the writer got such information. But the writer was not a spy, it was a "normal" foresight.
The most famous seer of the past, Michel Nostradamus, in 1555 released a work containing the history of world events for the next 2,000 years. This book, entitled "Centuries" ("Centuries"), to this day surprises with the fidelity of the prophecies.
In the 18th century, a certain Count de Saint-Germain was very popular in Europe, preferring to hide under various names. He was a scientist, historian, poet, artist and musician, knew the history of the world well and could foresee the future. He predicted the fate of the French royal family long before the French Revolution.
1898 - a book by the writer M. Robertson was published, which spoke about the sinking of a luxury liner almost 300 meters in length, with a maximum speed of 25 knots and a capacity of more than 2,000 passengers. The book was titled "The Wreck of the Titan." the wreck of the Titanic There were too many coincidences between Robertson's novel and what actually happened.
Foresight is of a different kind. Often, scientists were so ahead of their time with their technical or scientific achievements that it looked more like a miracle. It is known that Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) made machines that significantly outstripped the technical thought of those times. For example, he invented a four-wheeled vehicle that scattered "small stones like hail" (in this machine you can see the prototype of a modern tank), and a bulldozer, powered by a large wheel, which was set in motion by people. The scientist aspired to create an aircraft: he designed and constructed it, but the flight was unsuccessful, so Leonardo stopped working on it. Until now, scientists are amazed at how much da Vinci was ahead of his contemporaries with his inventions. He seemed to know about those machines and devices that will be created through the centuries.
The scientist Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) is also considered a real visionary. Tesla discovered alternating current, invented fluorescent and neon lamps, developed high-frequency modulation and remote control. Tesla seemed to foresee the future, he predicted that the age of television would come, and "we will be able to watch the inauguration of the president or participate in the annual American baseball championship, as if we were there." They did not believe him, they laughed at him. Now it remains only to be surprised at his "guesses".
O. Larina, G. Moshenskaya