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Irrelevant information that does not support an argument or has nothing to do with the initial statement. Ideas and opinions are thrown everywhere without any actual proof or facts.
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This article shows how false information is implemented more and more in today's news and it is a good example of a Red Herring. This false information misleads people and causes them to believe facts that aren't necessarily true.

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The deliberate making up of news stories to fool or entertain is nothing new. But the arrival of social media has meant real and fictional stories are now presented in such a similar way that it can sometimes be difficult to tell the two apart.

While the internet has enabled the sharing of knowledge in ways that previous generations could only have dreamed of, it has also provided ample proof of the line, often attributed to Winston Churchill, that "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on".

So with research suggesting an increasing proportion of US adults are getting their news from social media, it's likely that more and more of us are seeing - and believing - information that is not just inaccurate, but totally made up.

There are hundreds of fake news websites out there, from those which deliberately imitate real life newspapers, to government propaganda sites, and even those which tread the line between satire and plain misinformation.

One of them is The National Report which advertises itself as "America's Number 1 Independent News Source", and which was set up by Allen Montgomery (not his real name).

"There are times when it feels like a drug," Montgomery told BBC Trending.

"There are highs that you get from watching traffic spikes and kind of baiting people into the story. I just find it to be a lot of fun."

One of The National Report's biggest ever stories was a scare about a US town being cordoned off with a deadly disease, and as Montgomery explains they've mastered the art of getting people to read and share their fake news offering.

"Obviously the headline is key, and the domain name itself is very much a part of the formula - you need to have a fake news site that looks legitimate as can be," Montgomery says.

"Beyond the headline and the first couple of paragraphs people totally stop reading, so as long as the first two or three paragraphs sound like legitimate news then you can do whatever you want at the end of the story and make it ridiculous."

But why go to such trouble? The answer is there is big money to be made from sites by The National Report which host web advertising, and these potentially huge rewards entice website owners to move away from funny satirical jokes and towards more believable content because it is likely to be more widely shared.

"We've had stories that have made $10,000 (about £8,100). When we really tap in to something and get it to go big then we're talking about in the thousands of dollars that are made per story," Montgomery says.

But how much should be worried by fooled by sites that set out to get fake news stories up and running?

Brooke Binkowski from Snopes, one of the largest fact checking websites which fights online misinformation, believes that while individual fake news stories may not be dangerous their potential to cause damage becomes more powerful over time and when considered in the aggregate.

"There's a lot of confirmation bias," she says. "A lot of people want proof that their world view is the accurate and appropriate one."

And that idea of reinforcing people's beliefs and falsely confirming their prejudices is something that Allen Montgomery says his fake news site actively tries to exploit.

"We're constantly trying to tune into feelings that we think that people already have or want to have," he says.

"Recently we did a story about Hillary Clinton being fed the answers prior to the debate. There was already some low level chatter about that having happened - it was all fake - but that sort of headline gets into the right wing bubble and they run with it."

Buzzfeed's Craig Silverman, who heads a team looking into the effects of fake news, explains just how easily fake news can end up being reported as true by the mainstream media.

"A fake news website might publish a hoax, then because it's getting social attention another site might pick it up, write that story as though it's true and may not link back to the original fake news website," Silverman says.

"From there it's a chain reaction until at some point a journalist at a largely credible outlet might see it and quickly write something up, because many journalists are trying to write as many stories as possible and write stories that get traffic and social attention. The incentive is towards producing more and checking less."

And as Anthony Adornato, assistant Professor of Journalism at Ithaca College in New York explains journalists are not only under increasing pressure but in many cases are also not being given sufficient guidance on how to properly verify stories.

"The policies in newsrooms haven't caught up with the practice," Adornato says.

"Its commonplace that news outlets are relying on content that folks have shared, but not every newsroom has a policy regarding how to verify and authenticate this information."

A recent study of local TV stations in the US conducted by Adornato revealed that that nearly 40% of their editorial policies did not include any guidelines on how to verify information from social media, yet news managers at the TV stations admitted that at least a third of their news bulletins had reported information from social media that later was revealed to be false or inaccurate.

So with the fake news floodgates now wide open, has the battle to contain it already been lost?

Allen Montgomery says Facebook has taken steps to reduce the impact of fake sites like his own.

"We were specifically targeted by the Facebook changes in their news feed algorithm. They've drowned out our stories from being shared and from being liked, and I have no doubt that they are doing the same to other fake news sites. Really though, if there's money to be made - and there is - you just have to get more creative."

Montgomery says he now has nine fake news sites around which he moves content to try to beat Facebook censoring.

So if fake news sites aren't going away, Buzzfeed's Craig Silverman says that more needs to be done to ensure that people aren't duped by them.

"Journalists need to get training so that they can quickly spot fakes, and people in school should learn how to read things critically online - they should learn how to research and check multiple sources online."

Listen to a special edition of BBC Trending on fake news on the BBC World Service.
You can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.

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Unexplained

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Events that even science cannot either fully prove or disprove of so they simply remain unexplained until further research or evidence comes forward to prove otherwise. This is why there is a lot of controversy with unexplained topics because there are many people who either believe or don't believe in the subject.
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This video is a good example of the unexplained as it gives a list of the many conspiracy theories of all time that still go on unexplained. Conspiracy theories are also a popular topic because many of them are still unexplained so there is a lot of controversy over what is the right solution.

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Another Top 10 Conspiracy Theories of All Time

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Government or other large organizations withholding information from the public. They believe this information is too secret or too valuable to be released to the general public so the information is kept secret for the benefit of society.
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This video is a good example of some of the information that the government has yet to release to society. It sows that there are still a lot of things that can't be explained and are better off kept secret. This is why this video is a good example of suppression by authorities.

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8 things the us government doesn't want you to know

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8 Things The US Government Doesn't Want You To Know

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Appeal to Authority is when a powerful person or company promotes a product or forces something to be taken into action. These forces are of huge influence so their actions are taken seriously even though they may be irrelevant.
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For example using Michael Jordan, one of the most famous basketball players in the World to sell Basketball shoes. People see Michael Jordan wearing the shoes so they immediately want them. If a regular person opened up a shoe company and called them Jordan's, without the celebrity endorsement, the company would most likely not make it very far.

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in 1985, Nike launched Air Jordans, a shoe that would forever change the level of play on the basketball court-and in equal measure create a frenzy among non-players around the world clamoring to soar street-side like Michael Jordan did on the boards. This article, and others about the life and legacy of Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time, are included in a new How and when did Jordan Heads start? Newsweek You coined "Jordan Head" in 2004 when you started making the movie, but do you think the subculture started immediately with the release of the Air Jordan 1 in 1985? Special Edition.
I started shooting in 2004. I got the idea while I was working at the Puma store in Manhattan. I noticed a lot of people wearing Jordans coming in. It was kind of odd that they were wearing brand new Jordans that were released in the '80s and '90s. I asked them, "How'd you get these sneakers because they haven't been out in so long?" I didn't know they were retroing all of these sneakers, putting them back out. Each person had a unique story-what they were wearing when they got arrested for the first time, what they were wearing when they got married. The myriad stories and randomness made me want to do this documentary. And given the history of Michael Jordan's shoes, I wanted to explore the consumer side, the historical side, the legacy side.

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Is it more than the fact that Jordans are a great looking shoe?
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See all of the best photos of the week in these slideshows What makes Michael resonate so much?
They had peaks and valleys, but they're at their highest right now.
Where and how did you find Jordan Heads?
It's a combination of the shoe and the design. Each is very different because it relies on MJ's lifestyle. Whether it's the type of cigar he likes to smoke [or something else he's into, like motorcycles], they infuse his lifestyle into the shoe.
How did Executive Producer Michael Rapaport get involved?
That "go hard or go home" mentality. He won six championships, two three-peats. He involved his team in winning; it wasn't just all one guy.
What do you see most of the serious Jordan Heads doing with their sneakers-keeping them safe in a box, or wearing them?
First, I posted a website asking people if they were Jordan Heads. They sent me pictures, they sent me videos-my mailbox was flooded. I couldn't believe the overwhelming response. People I interviewed would tell me about someone else they knew who was even more extreme, even more of a Jordan Head. I have two or three terabytes of footage. There's so many more people, but you have to stop somewhere. I had to stop. I've talked to hundreds, all across the world, various economic backgrounds. I traveled from the suburbs of Orange County to the hood in South Central. I hung out in the Best Buy in Beverly Hills. [Being a Jordan Head] crosses all different boundaries. And even given the fact that this man hasn't played in X amount of years, his sneaker is still the most popular sneaker out there. And the reason is because of what he did on the court. If MJ hadn't done what he did, his sneakers wouldn't be selling the way they are. People pass down this information to their kids. Some people are in it just for the hype, but the reality is he did the work on that court.
If people put them away and don't wear them, how does the brand continue to be so important?
My cousin knew him from back in the day. Grew up together.
You've heard a lot of Air Jordan stories. What are some of the most memorable?
They're sealing them up in airtight containers, with a special type of box to wrap that up in. And then cellophane. They're not holding back on preserving these shoes. And they're smart. There's value in these shoes, and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. If you have the sneaker, the OG models, they're going to hold value.
In a culture that's so obsessed with the newest and most hi-tech, why would people want to wear the classic, low-tech Jordans-either OGs or Retros?
Not everyone's doing that. One of the people I interviewed was Kadeem Hardison. He had these really special sneakers just sitting in his closet. Just sitting in his closet! Game-worn, signed by Michael Jordan. Any other Jordan Head would have put them in a vault somewhere sealed tight with guards in front. This guy had them in the bottom of his closet with every other shoe. That's the mentality that he has. I told him he could buy another house with those-and he lives in Malibu. It really depends on the person and how they feel about the shoe. They might feel so proud to be wearing it and want to be seen in the shoe. There are various extremes of being a Jordan Head, if you will. We have a Kadeem Hardison who really doesn't care. He loves what he has, but he's keeping them where he wants to keep them. He might wear the shoe. Parents are also starting to understand the value of these shoes. A lot of kids are staying out of trouble by going to [Air Jordan] swap events-and they're also making a profit. There's a cool synergy taking place.
What do you think wearing Jordans signifies? What makes wearing them so special?
A young lady ate ramen noodles for a week to get a pair of Jordans that came out that Saturday. She met her goal. She essentially starved herself but she had the sneakers. A lot of people think people'll rob and steal-do anything to get these shoes-but Jordan Heads are like everybody else. Really cool people who just have this obsession with Michael Jordan's sneakers. It's not just sneakers: It's a lifestyle at the end of the day.
Which one's your favorite?
It's a subculture within the subculture. They're attached to a Michael Jordan who did things on the court that no one will be able to replicate. I mean, the guy played with a full-blown flu. He couldn't walk off the court. That drive and that ambition transfers into the sneakers as something tangible that we can hold and touch.
Has sneaker culture changed since that shoe came out 30 years ago?
It's aspirational. It makes people feel special, like when they put these on they're a part of history. It's history that they're documenting. It's history that you can wear on your feet. No other footwear has been able to do that-not a sneaker, that is. Me, personally, I wasn't able to get them as a kid. A lot of people didn't have a whole lot when they were kids. Their parents didn't have the money to get these shoes. Now they have jobs, they're financially stable, and they can buy them, and they can relive their childhood. It's very nostalgic. In my store in Brooklyn, I have people tearing up when they walk in the door. They have very special, fond memories.
What do you hope this movie does?
The Air Jordan I. It's just a very simple silhouette, beautiful colorway-the red and black, with a little bit of white-you can wear them with anything. That's mainly the reason I love the shoe. There's no need to think about coordinating colors, or matching. It is a very distinct looking shoe. And on top of that it's Michael Jordan's introduction into the NBA, so it's the alpha.

Most definitely. Sneaker culture was created in the streets. It was in the hood. The Internet didn't dictate what was cool and what was hot. It's something kids in the city created. It goes hand in hand with hip-hop. As hip-hop grew, sneaker culture grew. As people saw the sneakers on rappers' feet, they wanted to emulate their favorite rapper-wherever they were: Idaho, Iowa, overseas. It grew out of New York, and now we are where we are. The sad thing about it is the corporations have gotten wise and dictate what's cool now. The inner city kids no longer have that kind of power. Now the sneakers are coming out, and you gotta get 'em because they're limited-and if you don't get 'em now, you're not going to be able to get 'em again. I really wish we could go back to a time when you could go to your mom and pop shop and pick out anything you like and you can make it cool. The great thing about Jordans, then, is there are so many retros. One through 18-you can pick and choose, each model is very unique and individual.

I hope it helps to enlighten people about the consumer side. You see a lot of documentaries on sneaker culture and you see a lot of celebrities in them, and that's not what this film is about. It's about the consumer and their struggle. And their appreciation for the sneaker in general. Celebrities talk about their sneakers, and it's not fair-a lot of them don't go through what the average consumer goes through to get their sneakers. It really shows the passion for the shoe and the love for Air Jordans.

Air Jordans are so much a part of the day-to-day culture of the world. Just like Coca-Cola, NBC or Dove Soap, they're something you hear about and see to the point that a lot of times you don't even realize it. The sneakers and the style of it all have been part of my life on a daily basis on one level or another since they came out.

-Michael Rapaport, executive producer, Jordan Heads

This article appears in Newsweek's Special Commemorative Edition, Jordan: 30 Years Since MJ Changed The Game.

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Post #7 Reason For Belief: Patternicity 

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Post #7 Reason For Belief: Patternicity 

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Seeing images or faces in everyday objects or recognizing patterns in normal objects that weren't meant to display any sort of pattern.
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This picture is a perfect example of patternicity as it shows how a face can be recognizied in an everyday object such as a sink. If you look at it quickly, you won't notice the pattern, but once you focus on it, you will be able to see the resemblance of the face in the sink.

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The use of ancient medicine and beliefs to hear incurable illnesses like HIV or Cancer. Some believe that these ancient methods are the only medicine needed in curing these types of diseases.
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This website is a great example of Ancient Wisdom as it states that all diseases come from the spine. It states that by using natural remedies to cure your spine, you can cure any illness in your body.

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One common feature of pseudoscience is that proponents of a specific belief tend to exaggerate its scope and implications over time. In the world of physics this can eventually lead to a so-called "theory of everything" - one unifying theory that explains wide-ranging phenomena and displaces many established theories.

In medicine this tendency to exaggerate leads in the direction of the panacea, the miracle cure for everything. Why does this happen?

There are numerous examples. Here is a video of Bruce McBurney trying to sell his Precious Metals Nano Water to investors in the Dragon's Den. The product is nothing but distilled water with a tiny amount of silver. McBurney claims that this magic water will essentially cure everything, all bacterial and viral infections, and even cancer.

The panacea is also not the sole domain of the lone crank. Straight chiropractors essentially believe that adjusting the spine can cure everything from bed wetting to asthma, and yes, even cancer.

What factors predispose to the panacea claim?

Theory of Everything

The cure for everything is partly related to the theory of everything. If all disease is caused by blockages in the flow of life energy through the spine, then all disease can be cured by adjusting the spine. In the case of Hulda Clark, all disease was allegedly caused by the liver fluke, and so treating that nasty scourge on humanity could therefore cure all disease.

In the era before science, when medical treatments were based on philosophy rather than an empirical understanding of the world, this approach was unavoidable. Galenic medicine believed that health and illness was a matter of the balance among the four humors, and so all conditions could be treated by bloodletting or purging. The Eastern version of this used acupuncture and cupping for bloodletting, which in the early 20th century was reworked as using needles to balance the life force.

Chiropractic and acupuncture have a similar history in that they began as healthcare theories of everything, but in the era of science are desperately clinging to legitimacy by claiming they improve subjective symptoms, those most amenable to placebo effects. Still, they retain their true believers, such as medical acupuncturists who will treat anything with acupuncture.

The scientific approach to health and disease has moved in the opposite direction from the theory of everything. The more we learn about the complexities of the human body, the more we discover all the many different ways that health can be affected. Every aspect of the biological machine can break down or not work optimally, causing illness. Causes may include genetic, traumatic, neoplastic, nutritional, degenerative, infectious, autoimmune, toxic, metabolic, environmental, biochemical, or physiological.

Modern medical theories of everything are maintained in two basic ways. The first is simply to deny modern science and everything that has been discovered about health and disease. This requires a profound level of scientific illiteracy, but this is unfortunately not uncommon.

The second method is to argue that, even though there may be many causes of disease, the body has an unlimited ability to heal itself. One thing keeps the body from perfectly healing itself, and so if you treat that one thing, self-healing will be restored - no matter what the problem. This is, for example, the subluxation theory of chiropractic. Subluxations block the flow of innate intelligence that, unhindered, would heal whatever ails you. This is precisely why alternative practitioners frequently tout that their treatments promote or enhance self healing.

Lack of scientific process

Even without the alternative philosophical underpinnings, there is a tendency for dubious treatments to undergo indication creep over time. A treatment that starts out being used for one specific indication has a growing list of conditions it can treat or cure, even conditions with very different real underlying causes.

This happens because the process that is being used to determine if the treatment works is flawed in the first place. Typically unscientific treatments are based upon anecdotal evidence, which is susceptible to placebo effects. Proponents are not being skeptical, nor are they conducting the kinds of studies that are capable of showing that the treatment does not work.

In fact the process they use is designed to show that the treatment does work. Therefore, no matter what they try it for, it will seem to work. They may naively come to believe that it works for everything. In some cases they may then backfill an explanation for why it works for everything, leading again to the theory of everything.

Essentially, if your beliefs and claims are disconnected from reality by the absence of a skeptical scientific process of investigation, then those beliefs will tend to drift off further and further into fantasy land.

Marketing

The final major factor is the simplest - marketing. If you have a product to sell, you want that product to have as wide a market as possible. In medicine this means as many indications for your treatment as possible. In fact, why limit your market at all? If your treatment works for every indication in every population, then you have maximized your potential customer base.

This does not necessarily mean that those selling panaceas are always knowingly lying, although in some cases that certainly seems to be true. Rather, there is a spectrum. There is a powerful motivation to believe that your treatment has wide-ranging implications. If you discover a treatment that is effective for some cases of athletes foot, that is an achievement and might even be highly profitable. But if you discover the treatment for all infections, or all cancers, or all human disease, then you should become world famous and fabulously wealthy. This is a powerful motivation to believe.

Even legitimate scientists fall prey to the allure of believing their discovery is bigger than it actually was. They have the rest of the scientific community to give them a reality check.

Companies also are highly motivated to exaggerate the indications and effectiveness of their products, and they need effective regulations that require scientific evidence to keep that trend in check.

In the world of alternative medicine and supplements, there is no reality check. The tendency to exaggerate claims is therefore unimpeded.

Conclusion

We have warned often on Science-Based Medicine to beware the "one cure for all disease." The greater the claims for any treatment, the more improbable those claims become, and the greater should be the level of skepticism.

Biology is complex, and diseases have many causes. It is highly improbable that any one treatment will address a significant portion of human illness. Skepticism should also be high for any intervention that is claimed to address diseases or disorders that seem to have very different causes.

The "self-healing" gambit, while appealing, is also not realistic. Our bodies do have some ability to heal themselves. This ability to fight off infection, heal wounds, and compensate for illness can keep us going for many decades. The various systems of the body, however, break down in many ways, may be overwhelmed by an infection, can suffer trauma, or may have been suboptimal in the first place (such as with a genetic mutation). Entropy always wins out in the end.

We do not have an infinite ability to keep ourselves forever in perfect health. This is a religious belief that runs contrary to overwhelming scientific evidence. It's a seductive belief, however.

The reality check of science may be disappointing to our emotional desires, but at the same time it has given us the actual ability to prolong life and improve quality of life significantly. I personally would never trade the hard-won knowledge of science for the comforting fictions of the cure-all.

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Simplicity

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Scientific answers are hard to explain and pseudoscience is not. People would rather believe the more simple explanation than the complicated one. For example, Having a dream about an event and then having it actually happen not long after.
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This article explains how some people believe that their dreams do come true and this is an example of simplicity. Instead of them believing in a more scientific explanation like a coincidence or a rare moment in time, they would rather believe that dreams really do come true.

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Dreams can and DO come true. But it is a bit more complex than you may think, and many who have not experienced dreams like this can find it confusing. How is it possible for dreams to come true? Iv'e never had a premonition, do they really exist?

Well, the answer is, yes. Having my own psychic dream experience was full of revalations, which I will now share with you and how it changed my ideas about dreaming forever.

My Dream Come True...Well, Not Exactly...

It happened a couple years back, when I was working through school at a local restaurant. Dreaming about losing my job was never my ideal prediction, I would have much preffered winning the lottery. Nonetheless, this is what happened.

The Dream:

I dreamt I was at work, standing in a distinct location of the restaurant. This strange feeling swept over me, and I was hit with an intuitive understanding that I was going to be fired.

A coworker of mine approached me and we engaged in conversation about my job status. I then asked her why I was fired. She replied, explaining that the boss's wife was jealous of me and did not want me working there. I woke up, this dream vivid in my mind. It was so realistic and detailed, it lingered in my mind days afterwards.

(This may be a good time to note that my boss's wife did bar tend at the restaurant in real life, so that being the reason I was fired is not a far fetched theory.) I was scheduled to work again a couple days after this dream. I went in that day not vaguely prepared for what would happen next.

In Reality:
For whatever reason it was, I went to the distinctive location in the restaurant that I went to in my dream. All of the sudden I felt like a piece of a puzzle that was put in its place. Every detail, every sensation, every inch of my surroundings, perfectly mimicked my dream. This brought on the most intense and overwhelming rush of Deja Vu that I have yet to experience in my life. I must have looked like I was seeing a ghost or maybe even losing my mind, because at that point in time everything for me froze as my feeble brain scrambled to make sense of it. This was it, I was to be fired!

Remembering how I had spoken to my coworker in my dream, I approached her, as she just so happened to be scheduled to work with me that night. I was so shocked by my recent revelation that I needed to reach out to someone. Who better than the coworker from my dream, maybe she could give me some more answers. I told her with grave seriousness that I was going to get fired that night. She looked puzzled, but started rattling off jobs that she could help me find "if" I were to be fired.

Sure enough, what was inevitable had played out. I left that night for the last time, jobless. Having absolutely no doubt that this dream was a precise prediction of the future, I also have no doubt that the boss's wife being jealous of me was the reason it happened. But the most important thing to be learned from this story is how Deja Vu and dream premonitions are interlinked.

That "Been There, Done That" Feeling

So many people have different opinions about what Deja Vu is. Most of us experience it from time to time. For those unfamiliar with this sensation, it is the feeling that you have been somewhere before or done something before, but you cannot recall where or when. And no, it is not the same thing as waking up every morning and brushing your teeth, then remembering that. It is much more intensified.

Deja Vu is the feeling described earlier, like matching the piece of a "puzzle" to its rightful position, in the sense that every sight, sound, smell, taste, touch,thought, feeling, and sensation of existence is completely identical to the lost memory, even if just for a second. It can be quite eerie to mirror a past event so perfectly and not be able to recall it.

Some people reason this away as a glitch of the mind: subconscious memories that were trapped and are now resurfacing. And that may very well be true, in a sense. If we knew where these memories were originating from, we could discover exactly what Deja Vu is. This is exactly what I have found out.

Deja Vu is A Lost Prediction

As stated, one theory about Deja Vu is that it is simply a manifestation of the subconscious mind. That being said, take into consideration that while sleeping and dreaming, the subconscious mind runs rampant. This is what dreams are made of.

Sometimes we remember our dreams, and sometimes in great detail, like the dream I had about being fired. That was a special kind of dream, a premonition. For whatever reason, it came true.

When I had Deja Vu about the dream later, that was simply my mind remembering the dream. I was aware of the dream because I remembered it when I woke up. But we do not remember all of our dreams. Since dreams can be predictions and come true, wouldn't it be reasonable to suggest that we can have these "predictions", or dreams, and then wake up the next morning without recalling them?
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Deja Vu is the subconscious mind recalling a dream that our conscious minds did not recall. It seems highly possible that Deja Vu could be a prediction from a dream that you don't remember having, or a lost prediction.

Life Is But A Dream

I never in a million years would have been able to come up with this theory that links dreams and Deja Vu, if not for experiencing it firsthand. The fact that it happened to me is the only real evidence I have to prove this, and too bad it is not tangible. But it makes alot of sense if you think about it enough. And what's amazing is that it proves dreams can be predictions!

Imagine the thousands of things you could be predicting every night, and just forgetting about, since we can't remember all of our dreams!

Next time you have Deja Vu, embrace the fact that you have psychic powers, because you predicted something in a dream. We all have amazing abilities, sometimes we just forget them (In this case, literally). We can't remember every dream, but practicing dream recall is a great way to harness our powers of prediction.

The power of the mind is astonishing, and I hope to provide more insights into it. I have a premonition that I will.

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Confirmation bias is when a group or individual believes in a certain theory because they strongly support it and will not consider any other theories or ideas even though they might be equally as possible. They try to convince everyone that they are right when they may be providing false information simply because they support their theory so strongly.
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This video is an example of how the government tries to make people believe certain ideas where many people are sceptical of these ideas and have there own opinion on these theories.

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Top 10 Secrets People Think The US Government Is Hiding

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Government officials say a lot of things, but sometimes we just don't quite believe them. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Secrets People Think the U.S. Government is Hiding. Subscribe►►http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=watchmojo Facebook►►http://www.Facebook.com/WatchMojo.