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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Or it could be simple coincidence.

Or the second women may have lied when she claimed to have had the same dream.

Or both women could have felt a minor temblor in their sleep which caused the dream.

Which is why anecdotes are not evidence.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
Here's another example of the "magical thinking" you mention, Got. Unless you are sitting right on top of the fault, earthquakes start with a fast moving jolt, followed by the slower-moving shaking, moments later. People can easily be awakened by the jolt without being aware of what happened, then find significance in waking right before the shaking starts. Nothing there.

This in no way negates the experience of the woman who wakes up from an intense dream that she is picking up the shards of her heirloom china and crying, tells her best friend about the dream that morning, gets a call from her sister, who dreamed about the china as well, and the new china hutch dumps the contents in a temblor that afternoon, leaving exactly the scene of destruction she saw in her dream.

Now, if we use the criteria of the attempted debunking paper I posted earlier in the thread, we have to rule out the sister's dream as potentially telepathic, rather than precognitive, but otherwise and as noted at the beginning of Kirata's link, there is something going on here.

I'm not bothered that science cannot explain this. It is bothersome that science prefers a position of aggressive denial before admitting that.