As often happens, we do not trust ourselves. And then we regret that we did not listen to the "inner voice".
Intuition can be called "the gift of foresight", and it can be called the "sixth sense." The mystery lies in the fact that sometimes it is impossible to determine whether the information that the subconscious wants to convey to us is true, or is it just a wild imagination.
Of course, some phenomena can be explained by the characteristics of our brain. It will be right … and at the same time wrong. Because it is simply impossible to explain many phenomena that occur with a person solely by physiological reasons.
At the end of the 19th century, the rector of the Kiev Theological Seminary, Archimandrite Boris, wrote an essay "On the impossibility of a purely physiological explanation of the mental life of a person." He agreed that mental life is the brain's work. But at the same time he assured that mental phenomena have their true existence outside the brain.
Where? We do not know this, because it is "God's revelation." Some of the scholars shared similar views. The English neurophysiologist of the last century C. Sherrington believed that thought has its own special source, which is outside matter, but for some reason dwells in the brain. The mental, he said, is not physical and therefore is inaccessible for scientific research. And the intuitions of mystics of all times and peoples have always assigned and still retain a special place.
Intuition is quite possible to explain as unconscious, subconscious brain activity. Thought processes in the brain run on two levels. The first level is rational thinking. A person, reflecting on something, can trace the course of reasoning, their consistency and consistency.
However, there is also subconscious brain work. She is the second level of thinking. Here a person cannot recreate a picture of the thought process, the brain gives out only the final result of thinking. It looks like an inspiration, a person makes the only correct decision in a moment. And if after asking a person why he chose this, it will be extremely difficult for him to give an answer. After all, the decision was made intuitively.
This is how the authors of the book “Secrets of Foresight” V. Lisichkin and A. Belyavsky defined intuition: “Intuition, or, as it is sometimes called, the sixth sense, is an amazing property of a person. Our psychologists have recently, in the end, seriously engaged in the study of this phenomenon. Perhaps this is the highest stage of human thinking, an alloy of all the knowledge we have received in life, both meaningful and imperceptibly penetrated into our subconscious, all the genetic information of generations transmitted to the brain, all human feelings …"
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A. Einstein wrote: “For me there is no doubt that our thinking proceeds, mainly bypassing symbols (words), and, moreover, unconsciously. If it were otherwise, then why do we sometimes "wonder", moreover, quite spontaneously, to this or that perception …"
Intuition from time to time manifests itself as an inspiration, it can "send" a person a dream with encrypted signals of danger. The fact that prophetic dreams exist has long been known.
Once a museum commissioned the American paleontologist Sternberg to find and send the leaves of ancient plants. Sternberg spent the whole day wondering where to get them. When he fell asleep, he dreamed that the necessary plants were growing at the foot of the mountain, several kilometers from the city where he lived. Sternberg went to this mountain and found leaves.
The explanation turned out to be quite simple. The scientist recalled that not long before this incident he had hunted in those places. He involuntarily looked at his feet, although he did not pay attention to the plants. At the same time, the brain noted all the details. And then in the dream appeared what was imprinted in the brain during the hunt.
Mezentsev gave such an interesting example: “A man saw in a dream that he was bitten by a dog. He clearly felt pain from the bite. Waking up, he soon forgot about the "prophetic" dream. But after two weeks - and an ulcer appeared on the site of the "bite"! " This can be explained as follows: “When a person had a dream, there was no ulcer on his leg. Not yet! And the painful process has already begun to proceed. And this is the whole secret of the "prophetic" dream.
The disease sent its pain signals to the human brain during the day, but in the daytime, these signals drowned out stronger impressions, events, sensations that the human brain perceived. Therefore, he did not notice, did not feel weak pain signals. And during sleep, strong stimuli were eliminated, weaker ones made themselves felt. The dream did not prompt, but only reflected what already existed in reality."
Doctors know that there is a connection between dreams and illness. 1935 - Professor M. Astvatsaturov wrote: “One can, for example, admit that if disturbing dreams with elements of fear of death are combined with unexpected awakenings, accompanied by an unaccountable fear of death, then this may arouse suspicion of heart disease in such a period when there are no subjective there are no complaints that indicated such a disease”.
Dr. V. Kasatkin, MD, in his research "The theory of dreams, some patterns of occurrence and structure" analyzes thousands of dreams and hypothesizes that dreams can predict many diseases: Botkin's disease (jaundice) - about a week; neuroses - from a week to several months; chronic gastritis - about a month; pulmonary tuberculosis - in one to two months; hypertension - in two to three months; brain tumors - sometimes a year. Such diseases as influenza, tonsillitis, gastrointestinal poisoning, acute appendicitis, catarrh of the respiratory tract develop rapidly. And they are reflected in the dream only on the eve of an obvious illness.
Suppose a person has a dream in which he wants to emerge from the carriage, or that a weight falls on his chest, or that he climbs into a narrow gap and gets stuck in it, or climbs a mountain, or his chest is squeezed by narrow clothes - such a dream can be dreamed of lung disease. Once a woman turned to Dr. Kasatkin, who for a month had the same dream: that she herself or someone from her acquaintances was eating raw or spoiled fish. The doctor advised to examine the gastrointestinal tract. The suspicion was confirmed - the woman was diagnosed with an acute form of gastritis.
Of course, it is not always possible to make a diagnosis based on dreams. This only applies to obsessive and similar dreams. For example, various heart diseases often cause nightmarish visions, accompanied by a strong sense of fear of death. With heart disease, sometimes you dream of falling into an abyss or off a cliff.
Kasatkin wrote: “There is no mysticism in the fact that the foresight of diseases can be reflected in dreams long before being recognized by the attending physician. And this is confirmed at least by the fact that the timing of the foresight of the “sleep-diagnostician” almost completely coincides with the duration of the latent or incubation period of diseases.”Many physiologists believe that the human brain has a kind of“foresight apparatus”.
Research in this direction was carried out by the Russian neurophysiologist Academician P. Anokhin. He expressed the point of view that the brain can not only feel the subtlest processes in the human body, but also evaluate the environment, simulate the possible, most likely outcome of the situation.
During REM sleep, the brain is very active. He seems to continue his reflections. That is why, at times, in a dream, a person found the answer to the questions that he was engaged in during the waking period. It is known that in dreams mathematicians often solve problems, poets write poetry, composers write music.
The famous French philosopher and mathematician A. Poincaré said that the most fruitful ideas came to him in a half-asleep state. The Russian writer A. Griboyedov said that the plot of the comedy "Woe from Wit" came to him during his sleep. 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 writes: “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, never having come up with anything. In a dream, the definition came: "… Like 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, A. S. Pushkin and A. Fet wrote poems, and F. Dostoevsky dreamed of the plot of the novel "Teenager". In a dream, G. Derzhavin saw the last, final stanza of the ode "God".
Everyone knows the Bible story about a prophetic dream. Here the foresight of the future was symbolized. The Bible tells how one Pharaoh first dreamed that 7 emaciated skinny cows were devouring 7 fat healthy cows grazing on the banks of the Nile. Then he dreamed that 7 thin spikelets of bread were eating 7 thick, juicy spikelets. No one could solve dreams, except Joseph. He explained that Egypt will have 7 years of abundance, followed by 7 years of famine. Joseph gave wise advice to Pharaoh to stockpile food during the time of abundance to survive famine. Pharaoh followed his advice. And everything happened as Joseph said.
Prophetic dreams may be different. Sometimes events are predicted as direct warnings. There are many stories of prophetic dreams. In the book "Mysterious Disappearances and Movements" N. Nepomnyashchy cites the classic trilogy of the English researcher J. Dunn "Experiments with Time", which says about the prophetic nature of some dreams. The trilogy came out in 1927. Dunn analyzed many cases of prophetic dreams.
The researcher himself very 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 started the clock, but did not know what time it was, so he did not move the hands.
The next day, 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, this case can be called insignificant. Nonetheless, Dunn found him curious.
Fall 1913 - Dunn dreamed that a northbound train was derailed at what he determined was north of the Fifth or Fourth Bridge in Scotland. Dunn sensed that the catastrophe would happen next spring. 1914, April 14 - 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.
Dunn assumed that many people have prophetic dreams, but they simply forget about them. To test his hypothesis, he asked several friends and relatives to record their dreams. Analyzing their records, Dunn came to the conclusion that dreams that predict the real future are often dreamed.
However, predictions of the future are not only in dreams. The story that a fortune teller predicted the death of Pushkin is known to everyone. The famous Russian historian M. Pogodin wrote about this: “The rumor about the death of Pushkin was confirmed. I remembered the prediction made to him by the famous St. Petersburg fortune teller Alexandra Kirchhoff, who predicted two exiles for the poet, fame and mortal danger from a tall blond man at the age of 37”. The poet's brother 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 invented.
One circumstance left a strong impression on Pushkin. At that time, an old German woman named Kirchhoff was in Petersburg. Fortune-telling was one of her various occupations. 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 at the beginning of daily circumstances, and after important epochs of his future.
She told him among other things: “Today you will have a conversation about the service and you will receive a letter with money.” Pushkin never spoke or thought about the service; he had nowhere to get a letter 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 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 old card debt from their school pranks.
Mrs. Kirchhoff predicted to Pushkin his exile to the South and North, told various circumstances that later came true with him, predicted his marriage and, in the end, an untimely 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 loved to tell it in response to jokes aroused by his belief in various omens. Moreover, in my presence, he repeatedly spoke about this in front of those 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 an unexpected offer will be made to him; thirdly, that he will become famous and will be the idol of his compatriots; fourth, that he will be in exile twice; finally, that he will live a long time, if at the 37th year of his life some misfortune does not happen to him from a white head or a white man, which he should beware of.
The first prediction about a letter with money came true that evening; Pushkin, 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.
This quick execution of the first prediction made a strong impression on Pushkin; It was no less strange for him that a few days later, in the theater, A. F. Orlov called him over and began to dissuade him from joining the hussars, but offered to serve in the Horse Guards … Soon after that, Pushkin was sent to the 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 had previously been fulfilled with such literal accuracy ???
I will add the following: I somehow expressed my surprise to Pushkin that he had withdrawn from Freemasonry, into which he was accepted, and that he did not belong to any other secret society. “This is still a consequence of the prediction about the white head,” Pushkin answered me. - Don't you know that all philanthropic and humanitarian societies, even Freemasonry itself, received from Adam Weishaupt a direction suspicious and hostile to the existing state order? How was I to pester them? Weisskopf, Weisshaupt - one and the same.
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 all of her predictions came true. At the age of 18, the future Decembrist S. Muravyov-Apostol turned to her. Lenormand said he would be hanged. Muravyov-Apostol was outraged by such a prediction, because he was a nobleman, and execution by hanging was not applied to persons of this class. However, after the uprising of the Decembrists, he was hanged.
In 1918 a Berlin fortuneteller prophesied to the Soviet politician, communist N. Bukharin: "You will be executed in your country!" Bukharin was indignant: "Do you think that Soviet power will perish?" "Under what power you will perish, I cannot say," answered the fortune-teller, "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.
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.
The writer V. Nikolsky in his book "In a Thousand Years", published in 1927, said that the first atomic explosion would occur in 1945. Then 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 was trying to find out where the writer got such information. But the writer was not a spy, it was "ordinary" foresight.
The most famous seer of the past Michel Nostradamus in 1555 published a work containing the history of world events for the next 2,000 years. This book, called "Centuries" ("Centuries"), to this day surprises with the accuracy of predictions.
In the 18th century, a certain Comte de Saint-Germain was very popular in Europe, who preferred 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.
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 threw "small stones like hail" (in this car 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 sought to create an aircraft: he designed and constructed it, but the flight was unsuccessful, so Leonardo stopped working on it. To this day, scientists never cease to be amazed at how far da Vinci was ahead of his contemporaries with his inventions. He seemed to know about those machines and devices that would be created much later.
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 US 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