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Captain Pike
03-05-2008, 09:35 PM
When you think something that going to happen, and you just talk yourself into it and sure enough, it happens. What's the expression for that ?

I'm dying to know that expression. It was like Elvis Presley: he didn't want to die at 43 like his mother did, but he knew it was going to happen. He "knew" it was going to happen and, sure enough, at 43 the lights went out.
Captain Pike
03-05-2008, 09:37 PM
Self fulfilling prophecy -- that's what it's called! I had to type out all that, just to jog my mind. Any other expressions come to mind?
Il Penseroso
03-06-2008, 01:28 AM
I thought you might mean deja vu, until I finished the explanation, or maybe solipsism.
AuntShecky
03-06-2008, 11:25 AM
"Precognition" "Premonition"?
pinkgurl321
03-06-2008, 01:33 PM
I think in dreams, we can see the future. When you experince something you said, or did and you say "I thought I already did this or said that". I think its deja vu because as I said, our dreams tell us the future.
kelby_lake
04-10-2008, 09:22 AM
possibly 'psychokinesis' or a similar idea. The idea that by thinking something will happen so much it actually does happen, brought about by your thinking
lakeside_girl
04-17-2008, 12:41 PM
self fullfilling prophecy.....i set myself up for it daily; eudaemonist that i am...
have a great day!!!!!!!!!! alicia
Captain Pike
04-17-2008, 03:10 PM
The phrase I was trying to think of is, "self-fulfilling prophecy", but, gee, what a prodigious plethora of phrases!
Déjà vu, precognition, premonition and then finally psychokinesis...

This, psychokinesis really is used with liberal ambiguity. None of the dictionary definitions imply anything other than the present moment. Here's the one I liked best: the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.

This is the right place to ask a question such as this.

Thank you all
djy78usa
04-17-2008, 05:28 PM
The , what a prodigious plethora of phrases!
Déjà vu, precognition, premonition and then finally psychokinesis...


That's some impressive alliteration there Cap'n :)
Captain Pike
04-17-2008, 06:47 PM
The soldier sheaths his pen; the poet draws his sword!
Shya
06-29-2008, 09:08 AM
Premonition.