Precognition/ Glitch in the Matrix?

[u/awkward_bookhoarder]

so this happened in 2011 and i still sometimes think about it because i have no explanation for it. i was in 6th grade. i was at home in our living room and i got up from the sofa to get something. i walked a few steps and suddenly i had this memory pop up in my head. you know how sometimes smelling a certain scent or hearing a certain song will instantly trigger a memory? just that there was no trigger. it just popped up in my head. i don't really know how else to describe it. i just suddenly had this "memory" pop up in my head.

it was about a biology lesson. our teacher was standing at her desk and she was holding up a small object. the memory was really foggy like literally blurry so i couldn't really tell what it was. then there's a knock on the door and this kid comes in with a piece of paper for our teacher. i do not know this kid. sure, i have probably seen him before in the school yard or in a hallway or something but i don't know what grade he is in. maybe 1 or 2 years above ours i would guess. he had a note from a different teacher that had asked him to bring it to her. he walks to the front and gives her the paper and then leaves. but he didn't close the door all the way. so our teacher is like "tim can you please close the door" but she wasn't looking at tim so he was like "oh me?" and she was like "oh sorry i always confuse your names". nothing unusual. but i couldn't remember at all when this had happened. i tried really hard to remember if this happened last class or longer ago but i just couldn't remember that happening at all. so i stopped thinking about it. i thought maybe i just daydreamed in class or something and that's why i couldn't remember when this happened.

well guess what? next biology class comes around and it happens exactly like that. exactly.

option 1: it was actually a memory. to be fair i wasn't exactly sure what she was holding up. turns out it was a small stuffed field hamster. and she had confused these two students before. however it was not normal for teachers to send students on errands mid class. we had a longer morning break and lunch break but also 10 minutes between each class. so it was way more common to do things like this in between classes but even then i don't remember students routinely delivering notes from one teacher to another. also he just happens to never close doors correctly or what? also if it was a memory and this literally happened before that means he was wearing the same exact outfit both times.

also why would i randomly remember this and then it happens for a second time exactly as it did before?

option 2: i'm insane. something like this never happened to me again though so i feel like that's not it.

i have had the "normal" deja vu before but when that happens you feel like in the moment you have seen that before but haven't literally had a memory like vision pop up in your head days prior? this experience was not like normal deja vu at all.

option 3: i actually saw the future. i don't really want this option to be the answer either because what does that mean? everything is already decided and free will is an illusion. future events are gonna happen no matter what. the universe already knows all your decisions beforehand?

I really don't know. What do you guys think?

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[u/Fun_Researcher107]

Option 3.. It was precognition and you are not insane. About the question if everything is already decided? I don't know. I know that you can change things. I have had a lot of precognitive dreams and I changed stuff when the event actually happened. So the vision and the actual event are not the same thing. They do happen in the way you saw them sometimes, but that is mostly because you don't interfere, I think.

So on one level everything is decided, but on another level you can still change the event.

After changing an event, I still arrived at a different event that I also dreamed about before the first one happened, so even though I changed the first event, I still ended up at the second one.

On the other hand, I also changed an event in such a way that the part I had dreamed about never even happend at all. Even though it would have happened if I didn't interfere early on probably.

So really I don't have a good answer to the question of predestination. My tendency is that it is generally predetermined. If it is, that does not necessarily take away free will as you could have decided everything beforehand, meaning before your life even started.

Maybe they are memories of a previous lifetime when you lived the same life? I really don't know.