onion wrote (edited )
I’m sorry to hear that. It’s great that you were there for them near the end. I’ve heard of stories like this. My old friend said that he got a sign when someone in his family passed. I think he saw some animal or something which he took as a sign and then it turned out that the person had died.
I’ve always hoped that some unusual experience would happen to me so I could experience it firsthand. When hearing about paranormal experiences second hand, even from trusted friends and family, I always have to acknowledge the possibility that it’s a delusion or lie or that there is more to the story. Or of course that it’s a coincidence. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and all. People die and have accidents regularly. When no one predicts it, no one notices that no one predicted it. Also, when people get a feeling that something bad happened or will happen and then it turns out to be nothing, people don’t take note of that either. Only when someone has an unusual feeling AND something happens does the story get passed around. But it’s great that you thought to jot down the time. Most people don't think to do that. Now you have stronger evidence that it wasn’t a coincidence. It must have been really interesting to the doctor you showed as well.
I think it could be a combination of coincidence and science. If you saw this person earlier in the day, or the previous day, you could have subconsciously picked up on cues that they were doing worse than before. The subconscious mind can be much better at figuring things out than the conscious mind. Many victims of violent crime describe having had a bad feeling about the perpetrator prior to being attacked or prior to getting in a romantic relationship which later turns out to be abusive. Often the feeling is brushed off because it seems unfounded and irrational.
You could have picked up body language or something about how they were breathing, or something about their voice. Maybe even a smell. So lets say your subconscious picks up on the fact that they are going to die in the next 24 hours (just throwing a number out there since I don’t know how accurate the subconscious mind is). 24 x 60 = 1440. 1/1440. So you’re probably going to get the feeling that they died at some point since your subconscious picked up on the likelihood earlier. Then you have a 1/1440 chance of getting it on the exact minute. Even if you didn’t get it on the exact minute, it probably would have registered as a remarkable event.
That is the most likely naturalistic explanation I can think of. But if you feel like what you experienced was more spiritual or paranormal in nature, then that is very understandable. If I had that experience, I would probably become more interested in exploring spirituality and religion. The mainstream scientific view is that psychic abilities are pseudoscience, but scientists do not fully understand how consciousness works or what it is, so they can’t claim to know everything about how one consciousness can interact with another consciousness. Some philosophies say that everything is one consciousness. I’m guessing Buddhist monks understand more about the nature of consciousness than most scientists who study it.
You may be interested to read about Operation Stargate and Grill Flame. The CIA was studying psychic abilities for years- mainly remote viewing. Apparently the results in the lab were statistically significant but the program was still not useful enough for them to continue. What you are describing, where two people have an emotional connection and one dies… that is a harder thing to study and there is not the same national security incentive that would encourage lots of research on it.
The foregoing observations provide a compelling argument against continuation of the program within the intelligence community. Even though a statistically significant effect has been observed in the laboratory, it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated. The laboratory studies do not provide evidence regarding the origins or nature of the phenomenon, assuming it exists, nor do they address an important methodological issue of inter-judge reliability. Further, even if it could be demonstrated unequivocally that a paranormal phenomenon occurs under the conditions present in the laboratory paradigm, these conditions have limited Executive Summary American Institutes for Research E-5 applicability and utility for intelligence gathering operations. For example, the nature of the remote viewing targets are vastly dissimilar, as are the specific tasks required of the remote viewers. Most importantly, the information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult, if not impossible, for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy of information for actionable intelligence. Thus, we conclude that continued use of remote viewing in intelligence gathering operations is not warranted.
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