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Do your own "Experiment with time" and learn to predict the future!
~Inspired by D.W. Dunne~

Right now, I’m writing this article whilst Shadow Wolf makes a disturbing
nazi mouse sound. Not that it has anything to do with my article, it just
seemed like a good introduction. In a far away past I researched the
notorious film Irréversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002) and stumbled upon a reference
to the book called "An Experiment With Time". The book appeared in a shot of
maybe a few seconds, but the title caught my attention and I decided to start 
investigating this book that pushed the narrative into it’s highly
unpredictable development.

Irréversible claims that time is elliptical, not linear. This certain notion
is found also in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the foundation for this theory lies
in D.W. Dunne’s book. He claims that everything happens at the same time and
 that proof can be found in premonitory dreams.

In order to make things a little less dull and dry, I shall escort you through
the theory whilst showing you how you can do this experiment yourself. All
you need is a pen, paper, patience and an open mind. Within a few days, weeks,
months, or years, you will be able to predict the future yourself!

Let’s start by a little background information. Our consciousness forces our
 perception of time to flow in one direction. The past is behind us, the now
is now and the future lies ahead. If this were true, then how come people
 experience premonitory dreams? And with these dreams we don’t mean the ones
 charlatans claim to have (in the same line of Crystal therapy and aura reading)
- no, J.W. Dunne had spent his life dedicated to science in it’s purest form yet
 failed to explain why he sometimes saw into the future. The answer, he now
knows, is simple; there is no future.

Everything happens in the eternal now, we just fail to realise it! It’s one
big jumble mumble of moments and experiences happening at the same time but
we as human beings fail to grasp this. Then, why dreams? This is because Dunne
claims that during our moments of subconsciousness we are able to see slivers
of the future and the past. We just learned that all these ‘dreams’ are only
dreams, but Dunne says that some information in these dreams tell us about
the eternal now. See, the slivers are not really seeing into the future, it’s
being able to experience the now you will experience in the future.

So, how do you look into your future now?

The first step is to try and remember your dreams. Without remembering, there
is no way you’ll see your future! Everybody has dreams, most of us just fail to
recall them. Whenever you wake up, try and write down everything you remember
about your dreams straight away. Don’t wait, don’t pee: write! Doing this
constantly for a while will boost your ability to recall dream moments clearly.

After mastering this, you’ll need to filter the nonsense in your dreams from
the truly important elements. Start by writing down everything as detailed as
possible. How did you feel, what colours were there, smells, sounds, thoughts?
This step is essential because our ‘time travelling’ makes us live through
experiences, not just images. Here’s an example:

I dream about a man installing
three spider webs in my room and I feel a little paranoid about it. I’m hiding
behind a rock observing him an his daughter placing the webs. After the third
is installed, he burns them, causing his daughter to burst into flames.
He tells her: “it was all meant to trigger this reaction in you, I’m so proud
that you’ve erupted!”.

Weird huh? The goal is to write down everything and as you continue living,
pay great attention to whether you see links between your dreams and your
experiences. Maybe this dream is connected to a film I might watch in twenty
years. See, there’s no time rule about when these moments might happen in our
perception or whether they’ve already happened!

By Sierra Nobo III