Yeah, I can see where your coming from. But I was thinking that you log the
whole event after you experience the event that replicated a dream.
Skeptics reading this now jump in feet first and proclaim "So your only logging the positives and not logging the hundreds of dreams that are not precog!"
Well yes and no.
See, although you only record the whole event if you get a hit, there are 2 factors that give more strength to your hit.
1)You have to put down the duration between dream and replicated event. The longer the duration the less relevant it becomes.For me, real life events trigger the dream I had the previous night(95% of the time if its a precog dream i get a real life match the next day), that is why i find this interesting and this is why I want to make a log and let others make their own logs on the same page. However If ,for instance, John Smith comes along and starts populating his log over the course of a year and seems to have a
long but constant dream/ event duration its worth something.
2) If you have a match between the themes in the dream and theme(s) in the reality.
Luckily for me I have an example that happened last night. At one point during my dream a situation occured where I was in a
UK terraced style street and had to
walk up hill as the street was on a hill. Now I have
never in my life dreamed of walking up hill in a street. I have not had a real life situation in the last 5 years(thats very very conservative) where a real event like that has occured. So im listening to the radio this morning in the car and one of the presenters explains that he had to get off the subway 1 stop early
and had to walk up hill.
Now, ok this isnt the greatest hit in the world but when I listen to people on the radio mental images appear as I listen to them tell different stories(Im sure im not alone here). What pops into my head when he tells this little story? You got it, the terrace style road and walking up hilll. Bang! last nights dream finds a link. Now im not saying the guy walked up hill in a terrace street, I dont know if he did or not
but my mental picture of the story matched with the dream i had
before I remembered the dream. Now skeptics can look at this story and feel like they have been give a shot gun in a coconut shy. However why should I dream about walking up hill in a street? , why should he mention this exactly the next day?,
Not life changing, but i would give it 1.5 out of 5 in the spooky rating.
And the event occured the next day after the dream.
Now if every one started making logs, wouldnt it be cool to see this post slowly become populated?
Obviously someone could come one here with pure fiction and give themselves 60 dreams with 5 out of 5. I cant stop them but if the log gets big enough it should neglect any deviations like that (like any results based on stats).
Im not planning to issue this log to JREF but I wouldnt mind doing some stat crunching if the log becomes big enough.