Where do dreams go when we wake up? Psionics etc...

If you're lucky, your dreams go into your memory. Or into a dream book, written down to help you recall them.

Sometimes your dreams come from the future, and if you write them down you will be able to prove you dreamed the future.

Some people can read minds now, to one degree or another; or they can sense things about others without actually reading the thoughts. It may be developable with hard mental practice.

Teleportation? Quantum physics posits we're already everywhere and everywhen, so it's just a matter of where your consciousness is operating. And consciousness has yet to be adequately explained by science.

Impossible is illogical.
Lack of evidence is not proof.
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Sometimes your dreams come from the future, and if you write them down you will be able to prove you dreamed the future.
I'd really like to see the evidence for such an extraordinary claim. FWIW I've read a fair bit on psi research (including clairvoyance and precognition) and so far none of it has been at all impressive. Either the experiments are heavily flawed (with controls lacking, or protocols either very lax or not adhered to), or the results they come up with are either negative or completely underwhelming (i.e.: a tiny effect size), or cannot be reproduced by independent teams (not to mention cases of outright fraud). For an example of the types of problems that occur in psi research, look up James Randi's "Project Alpha", or read, for example, some of the skepdic pages on psi research, e.g.: http://skepdic.com/precog.html.

Some people can read minds now, to one degree or another; or they can sense things about others without actually reading the thoughts. It may be developable with hard mental practice.
Again, this is just asserted without evidence, and in the face of several decades of experiments finding no convincing evidence for any such skills. See, for example, "The Men Who Stare At Goats" (the book by Jon Ronson, not the movie) for an entertaining dig into the history and current state of some of that research conducted by, among others, the U.S. military.

Teleportation? Quantum physics posits we're already everywhere and everywhen, so it's just a matter of where your consciousness is operating.
Not sure where you got that idea from... It sounds a bit like a misreading of the many worlds interpretation, which holds that all possible alternate histories and futures are real and exist in parallel to our own. And I suppose there is the phenomenon of quantum tunneling, but such effects are relevant only on the subatomic scale. None of that means that you can switch between realities or teleport at will though.

In the 1970's I had a detailed dream that I wrote down. In the dream I met a person I had not known before: a Trinidadian man sitting on a sofa in his underwear reading a newspaper. The dream included several other specific details, like his name.

I still have the dream book in storage... somewhere, and you're welcome to come look for it - I have better things to do.
I'm no longer in touch with the people with whom this happened, so you can either take my word for it, or not, as you choose.

If you want a detailed description of the event, I can provide it, but it was not part of a rigorous scientific study; it was an isolated incident, therefore anecdotal and unprovable.

Impossible is illogical.
Lack of evidence is not proof.
 +  = 

Well, the human mind is quite unreliable, so anecdotes are kind of useless as scientific evidence. Which is not to say that your experience wasn't profound, but just that there may be many more mundane explanations for it. In my experience, and from what I've read in the scientific and skeptical literature, that is basically always the case. Memory is a very pliable thing, and it's not just the details that we misremember. For instance, perhaps you simply forgot having met the person in question, or you might have dreamed about a vaguely similar looking and named person and your memories of the dream then later morphed to match his appearance and name more closely. Or the name may be a common one in Trinidad and his face a bit generic looking, so you might have seen a character in a movie with a similar name and appearance and dreamed about him. Humans are notoriously bad at estimating the odds of events, so you might be underestimating how likely this event was, especially if you had a very wide time frame for your dream to "come true". Think of how many people you happen to meet on a daily basis. Could it be that you simply assigned meaning to meeting this person because you remembered your dream (taking into account all the caveats related to the malleability of memory)? Or maybe it really was just an amazing coincidence - paradoxically, it would be remarkable if no amazing coincidences ever occurred. And so on. The brain is very tricky that way.

It's hard to convince someone that a profound experience they had was probably not what they thought it was (especially without sounding like a dick), but I hope you at least understand why I feel that any such "ordinary" explanation is far more likely than one that goes against nearly everything we know about causality, time, and the human mind through hundreds of years of careful investigation by thousands of scientists.

Sure it may have been an amazing coincidence. Maybe like a quadrillion to one.

Naturally, I'm totally convinced it was real, because I recorded the details in writing three days in advance, and the details were so exact, after the fact, I can't explain it away.

Since it's anecdotal, with no accompanying video, just the dated written dream detail with footnotes 3 days later that said it happened in real life, there's no proof, and you can accept it or reject it.

Thank you for a thoughtful and civil post.
I don't wish to argue; it is what is was.

Impossible is illogical.
Lack of evidence is not proof.
 +  = 

Teleportation can be thought of as movement through time or space, or both.

It is generally accepted that we always move forward through time, and our consiousness appears to follow. At least as far as we are concerned.

Teleportation in science fiction is usually depicted as a movement through space which is faster than the speed of light, but that would break the law of general relativity. So let's consider any movement through space that is slower than the speed of light. Like taking a regular step in some direction. That is a "teleportation" through space. And really think about what every particle in your body has to do (down to their wave functions), in order to move along with that step.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this but I hope I at least gave you some things to consider. :)

Dreams go when you wake up, to the same place that your lap goes when you stand up.

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Thanks for the responses.


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