Learjet said:

Scenario 1, you see a plane crash, every feature in the vision is identical. Bingo.

Scenario 2, instead of the plane being red as in your vision it's blue, yet all the other features in the scene are the same.

Scenario 3, the colour and type of the plane are wrong yet other details are the same.

Scenario 4, the colour and type are wrong and it happened at another location.

Scenario 5, the only thing correct about it was a plane crash, everything else was different.

Etc etc with more and more errors.

At some point one begins not to trust the vision. At which point may differ from one person to another.

P.S. Skeptics wouldn't even trust Scenario 1.

Right, I understand. Yes, I agree. There are errors oftentimes, and this can be confusing. The assumption is that the most important features of the dream should be correct, but this is not always the case.

In the end, I have not found a good use for predictive dreams or premonitions. Even  if you DO know the future, there is nothing you can do about it except adjust your expectations. That is why I am not convinced that Nostradamus wrote his quatrains in order to tell people about the future, but maybe instead he was trying to show the right people, and only the right people, how to see it themselves.

Stephen –

I am not at all offended. I do not believe I have ever taken that test, and would really love to. I think I know the kind of person this test might be talking about (just from a glance). My guess would be that maybe an extremely fantasy prone person would match the Enneagram Type 4 personality. I am the Enneagram Type 7 personality (7 with an 8 wing to be exact). I would characterize myself as certainly imaginative, but probably not so much fantasy prone.

1. being an excellent hypnotic subject  — yes, I love to explore the mind, and can willingly become hypnotized by someone I trust, but a stage hypnotist could not do it, and I was rejected from his show.
2. having imaginary playmates as a child — no imaginary playmates for me, but I did play with dolls.
3. fantasizing frequently as a child — sure. I also wrote stories and drew nearly constantly.
4. adopting a fantasy identity — never have done this.
5. experiencing imagined sensations as real — not really sure what this means exactly
6. having vivid sensory perceptions — yes. I actually have synesthesia, I see sounds.
7. reliving past experiences — I can easily relive my past in my head.
8. claiming psychic powers — I am an astrologer, but astrology does not require psychic powers. I am a palmist, but it also does not involve psychic powers. I have been studying the tarot for 5 years in order to eventually give readings, but these will be based on the symbols on the cards… I don't see any psychic powers for that either. I do, however hear and see "spirits", which may be a part of my own psyche, or maybe a collective psyche, or maybe something else. I don't know.
9. having out-of-body or floating experiences — I have had many out of body experiences.
10. receiving poems, messages, etc., from spirits, higher intelligences, and the like — yep
11. being involved in “healing,” — no. This is one thing I don't involve myself in. I don't understand it, and am wary of those who claim to do it. Suprisingly, I also will not go to "psychics" as I think they are all just making stuff up.
12. encountering apparitions — yes, infrequently, but it has happened a few times.
13. experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations (waking dreams) — ya, so it seems
14. seeing classical hypnagogic imagery (such as spirits or monsters from outer space). — glad I haven't seen any monsters.

I will look into that test and the article.

Here's a tidbit you might find interesting. When I was just learning astrology, I would visit these american gypsies who would help me with my studies. They were a fascinating older couple. They were constantly investigating these occult mysteries, looking into and experimenting with everything. They decided one day to try to contact an entity that could prove to them that it was an individual, in that it could tell them something they didn't know that also could be verified. For a month these two people sat in the dark with tape recorders reaching out to anything that would respond. After about 3 weeks, the old lady said her throat would "click" during thier sessions, and her mouth would move, and a voice that was not hers would come out and talk to her husband. The husband then would ask the Voice a series of questions to try to determine if this Voice was part of his wife's psyche or if it knew things she did not know. After several more weeks of contacting this entity, which called itself "Ort Mort", they came to the conclusion that the entity was part of the old woman's psyche.

Creepy.

These people were my mentors when I began looking into these things. I tend to think along the same lines… I am much more skeptical than I am accepting, even when it comes to my own experiences. Anyhow, i just thought you would enjoy that.

Oh, and Stephen –

I am crazily creative, that is true. I majored in art in college with a minor in geography.  Here is a painting I made of a friend in college. http://yfrog.com/6xkylej

Kira said:

Even if you do not agree with Nostradamus's vision of the future, his quatrains are worthy of study if only because _The Centuries_ has been on the New York Times Best Seller list since 1558.

The New York Times has had a best seller list since 1558? Hmmm…I did not know that…

Learjet said:

1. experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations (waking dreams) – In the hundreds.
2.  seeing classical hypnagogic imagery (such as spirits or monsters from outer space). – Nope. I've often wondered about this and why I don't see spirits or monsters

There are a few questions on this little "test" that don't make alot of sense to me, but in particular #13 and #14 — how can you have had hundreds of waking dreams, but not experienced HH imagery?

Also, I have had hundreds of these dreams. Never about monsters though. I am a little baffled that monsters would be a classical HH image.

Learjet said:

I do like SciFi on TV. At least I used to before they turned it into soap drama Lol… 

SGU, perhaps?   I am feeling the same way