Best HFY Reddit Stories: A History Of Human Precognition

[@Adiscretefirm]

Humans don't sense movement so much as changes in velocity, we don't sense a difference in sitting down on the ground and sitting on a plane going 600 mph, we just sense the changes from 0 to 600, and then back to 0

[@icantcomeupwithagoodusername24]

Prefrontal cortex not lobe btw

[@Jszar]

Yup. The inability to distinguish between gravity and other sources of acceleration has been a factor in a number of aircraft accidents over the years.

[@piedpiper1185]

10:35 - I have never considered Hide-and-Seek in that context before.

[@SuperFanFiction]

"My spidey senses are tingling" but human sense fits here.

[@sparking023]

Scientists are legit researching the "gut feeling". There's some legitimate reasoning to that and the weird vibes you get from certain people. Basically, it involves a special way the brain process information subconsciously, and also mirror neurons that are able to detect subtle changes in facial expressions and other behavioral hints. Not as supernatural as a precognitive seventh sense, but very interesting anyway. Also, humanity wins again by knowing how to lead a target

[@baldbastardo]

Pretty cool and thanks for sharing and fueling my curiousity. There's definitely something to walking away from a problem for a bit or sleeping on it then approaching it afresh. I approach it a different way - putting the problem on the back burner and letting it perculate, so to speak. Our subconscious (or whatever the appropriate term is in this case) is an (a semi?) autonomous system that regulates breathing, brain function, etc, so why not actively try to harness it by making it search the latent ifo we have filed away in some dusty seldom accessed area of our brains? Could be I'm just talking out of my rear end but there seems to be something to it in my experience. Cheers

[@johnnyrotten3175]

People may laugh at this, but the hair standing up have warned me numerous times..💯

[@galenjones9529]

Your endemic nervous system be working overtime.

[@taitano12]

Nothing to laugh about. It's a proven phenomenon. Sensing real danger without quantifiable and readily identifiable indicators is a real and documented thing that has been studied for a long time. Not everyone is good at it, and it can be trained, but The unconscious mind can instantly pick up on clues and patterns the conscious mind would take days to pick out and describe. It's weird, and most science that claims to be able to quantify and manipulate the ability is pseudoscience. 🤷

[@micahscott3895]

For some reason when ever something bad is about to happen I either have to take a piss at the perfect moment, I get nauseous or I get a preemptive fight or flight.

[@user-sq5mr8ut1o]

"next you're going to say, 'how did you ever manage to get so far so quickly?'" - joseph joestar human historian

[@clarkb1900]

"How did you ever manage to get so far so damned quickly? -Wha..what the f-?!!"

[@norneaernourn8240]

"Something smells funky..." - Human engineer moments before the reactor went critical.

[@scotthinger6397]

A good story. Thank to the author and to the narrator.

[@brianbarber5401]

Reminiscent of the puppeteer’s manipulation of humanity in Rimworld.

[@jacobdraper5275]

I guess humans are the ultimate vibe check

[@month32]

So... Paranoia is now a super power.

[@rewmangeorge5957]

Just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not comming to get you

[@SvensktTroll]

Always was😊

[@BeeKisses]

“Place” because he could t remember the word for proprioception

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

Or pronounce it. I actually like calling it "place".

[@Celeste__ch.]

sight because he couldnt remember the words "visual perception"

[@russellperry9902]

and the stone that was rejected become the cornerstone.

[@timobrien2813]

Like that. UKUK

[@9LiveEmpire]

Hmmm precognition vs anticipation Supernatural power vs natural ability Yet i would say that anticipation if push to the max is more of a superpower than precog With a reasonable number of data and experiance you can kind of predict the futur

[@koathekid8255]

And if your a savant of the correct kind You literally can! Its quite fun to predict a conversation with my mother and have her say word for word what I predicted her to say Of course my prediction took almost half an hour and the conversation was just 1-3 minutes long.. but still!

[@kdmbigpig]

For the predicted algorithm

[@solidestturnip3720]

firstly, awesome content love the channel. second, i need help finding a video and i only remember a snippet. It was some form of adventure story i think and one of the male characters walked into one of the female characters rooms (on a ship i think?) and he asked if she wanted to see a movie or some other date prompt and she must have had some form of symbiote or another person in the room bc she said im not in the mood to mate (not exactly the line) and there was a pause before she realized the universal cringe and i want die laughing at it again. many thanks for ze help.

[@cameronknox7567]

Could’ve been death worlder’s? I remember something like that happening, although the reason that she did that was because she was majorly out of touch with humanity, for like a decade. Net, it hasn’t gotten that far yet, although Ren, who also does death worlders, has.

[@davethompson3326]

I knew you were going to post this one. However, if precog was effective, I suspect about thirty to fifty people would have been inhumed with a brick in a sock as pre-emptive defence, if people could see the current state of the world coming.

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

Well that's the thing about precog. We're all using it against each other, which is why it doesn't seem effective. Unless you're really good, most of our efforts to implement the future we want cancel each other out.

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

we did we warned you and you called us crackpots, lunatics, conspiracy nuts. and the list goes on

[@davethompson3326]

@@lupaswolfshead9971 Quite a lot are, it's a part of some people needing "simple" solutions to complex problems, but it's a great shame the brick in the sock wasn't a thing!

[@davethompson3326]

@@noppornwongrassamee8941 I increasingly suspect that many actually have "anti precog" - a complete inability to see the utterly fucking obvious results to their stupid or short term thinking. As a History Nerd, I accept it has always been a thing, but OMG the numbers nowadays! Time to take all the safety labels off things, cancel all lawsuits for moronic injuries, and thin the herd.😹

[@donanthebarbarian5177]

In a fight between 2 forces with precognition abilities it's only useful if one side has significantly stronger precognition than the other as 2 equals will cancel each other out either by both checking the same spot in spacetime and trying to nudge the outcome in opposite directions or by each kicking onto 2 equally important battles and bringing about victory for their side. Whereas if there's a significant difference in precognition ability one side sees how it goes without interference and judges that in their favor while the other side sees how it goes with the first sides planned interference and can nudge things in their favor.

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank you for the reading

[@anathardayaldar]

I thought the extinction level meteor happened before humans even existed.

[@KaiHenningsen]

... and the supervolcano.

[@SergeyWaytov]

Such an amusing Story it is!

[@taitano12]

So wait... They're responsible for "crippling" our adorable little psycho brats and crotch goblins?? THANK YOU!! Not only did you give us time to pass on what we learn, but we get a good couple of decades of bonding time as we tend to the helpless little poop factories. It's also the time that we develop the imagination and pattern recognition you call precognition - which it is, technically. It does explain teenagers. 🤔 Considering that, without being "crippled", they would be as independent as they think they should be. The slower development of the prefrontal lobe allows understanding of what they learn in that time to sink deeper, in my opinion... Provided they listen, to both the teachers and the lesson.😅 So, yeah. Thanks. 😊

[@gibthegrey2214]

As an une I second this, she's only 2 and has decided she's the one that should be in charge

[@acrisaevum195]

great job NN, though the story was lackluster, my have 2 main problems one of which is that place is not a a sense, or at least not a main sense, and in the story it is quasi-linked with movement, which again is not a sense... place and movement has more to do with memory than anything else (maybe memory should be made into a sense?) which brings me to the 2nd problem, the example of precognition less psychic future telling and more of recognizing patterns; an example of precognition would be of someone knocking on the door and someone precognizant opens withen 2 seconds, or you need ask some important question and they suddenly show up

[@seanellwood301]

If your dog doesn't like someone. Listen to them. They are picking up on things you cannot sense.

[@Rawkit_Surgeon]

Unfortunately, common is no longer available for most.

[@VooshSpokesman]

Love from a SoundWitch and Vaush fan!

[@haunteddestiny312]

sweet

[@UmarWazir]

I always regret not listening to my gut.

[@denifnaf5874]

6th sense: electroreception Platapusses have it

[@VeryUnderstandabledude]

we can literally sense gravity and temperature so thats 8 or 7? senses

[@anathardayaldar]

And then there is me who is horrible at all of that. :(

[@74wf]

Wasnt this uploaded already?

[@arakheno4051]

This is re-read under “best” catagory.

[@ETOILEPHANTOME]

That’s not precognition, that’s just cognition and pattern recognition…😑😑😑

[@zefellowbud5970]

the idea is that within the setting its not something so common to other beings that it may as well be precognition. with enough understanding and information you can make predictions. the concepts is basically similar to the idea of comparing technology to magic.

[@ETOILEPHANTOME]

@@zefellowbud5970 not really, precognition is predictions without prior knowledge of what you’re predicting, just like magic is sort of the bending of reality. Cognition is « I know this, therefore I’ll do that » and science is just using the rules of reality as they are. Misunderstanding something doesn’t make it something else🤷🏾‍♀️

[@zefellowbud5970]

​@@ETOILEPHANTOME im not saying they are the same thing. im saying that within the story they are comparable. the aliens within this story seems incapable of prediction, subconscious guess, and pattern recognition based prediction. that to them we basically have precognition. if it were in any other story that explores other concepts you would have robots called golems guns referred to as staves or staffs head phones as long distance telepathy chemistry referred to as alchemy drone cameras as far sight vehicles referred to as metal beasts. just like as you say pattern recognition is not precogntion, a car is no metalic animal. but thats the description that would often come about in these sorts of stories. never said they were equal only that they are comparable, and these sorts of stories especially within HFY often have that as a writing trope. heck even dune does this prescience [knowing an event before it has occured without prior knowledge] which it replaces what within the setting computers would have done for their interstellar travel. so its assumable that the story is implying that prescience is probably mathematical. even if the definition of the word itself is not mathematical. word use in stories are not as rigid as it is in dictionaries especially not in stories like these. if something is comparable it will be compared. like metaphors and analogies. water certainly ain't money but i sure do often hear them compared. excuse me if this response was rather long. either had alot of thoughts on the topic. or its just adhd.

[@timobrien2813]

Interesting. UKUK

[@poppy63765]

Place is not sense

[@Maeshalanadae]

I guess they mean spatial awareness.

[@BeeKisses]

Propreoception

[@autisticwitch7581]

I think they mean your place in space in relation to the rest of your body, which is a sense. It's hard to explain, but I had the flu once, and it completely messed with my senses. If I didn't have my eyes open, I felt like I was spaghettifying. That's not very pleasant. Your sense of space keeps you from feeling that. Try putting your arm behind your back but don't touch your back. You still know it's there. That's your sense of space.

[@ReptillianStrike]

@@autisticwitch7581 Interestingly, there are some people that don't have this sense. They have poor dexterity because of it.

[@jacobdraper5275]

I guess humans are the ultimate vibe check