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Chris Robinson claims to see the future but can he? |
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 Can Chris Robinson see the future? He says he has been predicting events for 20 years with clues that come to him in dreams.
If
true – and he has many supporters – then he undoubtedly deserves
inclusion in the UK’s Five TV documentary series “Extraordinary
People”, screened on last week, six years after an American
professor witnessed Robinson predict the US terrorist attacks in New
York.
But did the TV investigation, titled The Man Who Dreams The Future, corroborate the dream detective’s claims? Not as far as the Guardian’s TV reviewer Sam Wollaston was concerned. He argued that the documentary’s title was wrong: it should have been “Ordinary People: The Man Who Doesn’t Dream The Future or, more snappily, just Liar Liar, Pants On Fire”.
That,
of course, ignores the fact that – unlike many who claim paranormal
powers – Robinson, who lives just north of London, willingly cooperates
with investigators, attempts to identify randomly-chosen targets by
recording his dream impressions throughout the night, and then
discusses them with those who are testing him, well in advance of the
predicted event or being taken to a target location.
Where’s the lie in that?
The
problem we have in evaluating Chris Robinson’s intriguing claims is
that much of the evidence depends on interpretation -– his own and that
of others – because his dreams are frequently symbolic. He has come to
understand the meaning of many of these symbols over the years. Dogs,
snow and ice, and meat, for example, indicate that something awful is
going to happen.
Rarely
does he see an event exactly as it will occur, but that’s what
apparenetly happened in 2001, whilst being tested by Prof Gary Schwartz
(left) at the University of Arizona. At breakfast he told Schwartz and
other witnesses that he had just had a terrible dream in which aircraft
were crashing into tall buildings.
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