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What Pseudoscience do you Believe? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by allo@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Came across a list of pseudosciences and was fun seeing where im woo woo.

Lunar effect – the belief that the full Moon influences human and animal behavior.

Ley Lines

Accupressure/puncture

Ayurveda

Body Memory

Faith healing

Anyway, list too long to read. I guess Im quite the nonscientific woowoomancer. How about you? What pseudoscience do you believe? Also I believe nearly every stone i find was an ancient indian stone. Also manifesting and or prayer to manipulate via subconscious aligning the future. oh and the ability to subconsciously deeply understand animals, know the future, etc

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Oh I believe in precognitive dreams, because I used to write down my dreams and had some that happened later. And I don't mean big things like deaths or pregnancies. I mean piddly details that meant nothing and can't have been foreseen. Once dreamed that I was at the local bank, three people were in line, I got on the scale they had there to weigh myself but the dial went backwards then I turned around and saw this girl Joann that I'd not seen since middle school. Wrote all this in the dream journal.

Couple of weeks later went to the bank. 3 people in line. I got on the scale but it was broken and said I weighed 30lb. I got off the scale and turned around, and yep, Joann from middle school, turns out she'd moved away but had moved back to town.

That's the one I remember and I would have just thought I had dejavu if I'd not written that dream down.

And honestly it pissed me off pretty bad. I want to believe in free will, that we can choose, that the future has not happened yet. The dreams kind of broke that.