We have two complementary law of attraction stories to share. Together, they help us distinguish between premonitions and manifestations.
None of this is medical advice. Always follow the advice of your doctors.
Correlation does not imply causation
Imagine a headline that reads, “Sharks prefer humans that eat ice cream.” The basis of the article might be a correlation showing whenever ice cream consumption increases among the population, so too do shark bites. People hypothesize that ice cream creates sweeter-tasting people.
A few articles later, “Short people live longer.” Same deal. Statisticians have noticed an evident correlation over the years that the longest-living survivors tend to be shorter than otherwise. Maybe tall people hit their heads more or get into other accidents. Shorter people somehow fit more snugly under their sun-protective hats. People’s hearts have to work extra hard to circulate blood over a larger elevation change. Speculation all around.
Cute, but no
Both examples are frequently mentioned in statistics classes to illustrate that correlation does not imply causation. Just because two things move together (or opposite each other), we cannot conclude that one causes the other.
People don’t swim in shark-infested water in the cold weather. They also shy away from ice cream. The hidden factor is summertime. Both ocean swimming and ice cream consumption increase and decrease together because of the seasons.
When we measure people’s height at death, then yes older folks will measure as shorter. We shrink a little in our later years. In this case, the correlation did identify causality but the opposite of what was stated and only because the “measurement” is misleading. Living longer makes you shorter at the time of (physical) death, not the other way around.
Hidden factors, also called latent variables, are often required to explain the underlying cause when things are correlated. In our earlier article, Cause, Mechanisms, and Effect, we explained how The Law of Attraction is the underlying hidden factor that’s often driving the correlations and coincidences we see in everyday life.
Road trip!
Our road trip this last weekend provided us with two law of attraction stories that will help us disentangle the notion of premonitions and manifestations. Let’s set the stage.
We took a weekend trip for a destination race and were out of town Friday through Sunday.
Friday evening, the nose pad broke off our eyeglasses. While they’re our newest glasses with the current prescription, they weren’t all we had for the weekend. We also brought contact lenses for the running event. However, without the nose piece preventing a shard of metal from poking our nose, we wore the contacts on Saturday much more than we would ordinarily prefer. Thus, we survived.
Saturday morning, while typing an early draft of this article, we briefly found the picture of the Yeti cap used in a previous manifestations article. The picture file was sitting next to the actual file we wanted in the Downloads folder. We glanced only long enough to see what the picture was but moved on before it occurred to us to delete the file. Next time.
A tale of premonitions and manifestations
Sunday morning, as the shard of metal got up close and personal with our nose, we began to change our attitude about going to the optometrist. We had been putting it off for literally years, but the current glasses were scratched up, out of date, and not looking so great. It was past time, and Sunday morning we (at first begrudgingly) began looking forward to getting updated glasses.
As our vibration improved on the subject that morning, we became solution oriented. It finally occurred to us that we had an extra pair of glasses in an emergency bag in the car trunk only a few steps away. We can’t safely (or legally) drive without corrective lenses, so this was a smart move we think. We took an old frame that aged well and had new lenses put in. A cheap fix from about 15 years ago paid off today.
We are happy to report they look almost like new. The lenses are new, but another surprising aspect is the prescription for the lenses (15 years old now) is a better match to our eyes now than our “current” prescription. But the best part of the story is yet to come!
The lid
On the drive home, we were waiting at a traffic light. For no apparent reason, we began looking at an unlikely awkward angle out the window. As we stared downward, also at an equally unlikely and awkward angle, we saw a lone Yeti lid in the median. Upside down but exactly as pictured above.
We did not focus on the lid for any amount of time the previous morning. That was not a deliberate or accidental new law of attraction moment. It was more akin to a premonition of something we had already set in motion as described in the earlier post. Finding the picture on Saturday was a premanifestation to seeing the lid on Sunday but it was more akin to a premonition. When you’re a vibrational match to something on its way, you’re also aligned to (seemingly random) thoughts about that same something.
The glasses
You know we’re nerds, so this won’t surprise you much. That evening, we were watching Battlestar Galactica because it’s awesome. Frequently, and by frequently we mean half the show, the camera zooms into the Commander‘s eyes as he’s thinking something through. We always notice his glasses as they have a couple of features that catch our attention. It’s an understatement to say that we had spent more than a few hours staring at his glasses over the last several weeks.
Today, something was different. We realized we were wearing essentially the same glasses! We’d have to stop the video and zoom in to find any differences. Amazing.
Furthermore, we realized we had bought these frames 24 years ago half a world away in Gaeta, Italy. The lenses were replaced in South Carolina, USA 15 years ago, and they lived in the trunk ever since. Is this a cosmic coincidence?
Did we notice the Commander’s glasses because they looked familiar from all those years ago?
Or did we attract ours after staring at his for so many scenes? Wouldn’t that require one small detail of our timeline to swap for another? This is actually how the law of attraction often works. Given the model we have in place from other articles, this explanation actually seems the simplest.
The only real question left is, how does this all tie into premonitions and manifestations?
Distinguishing premonitions and manifestations
The difference is somewhat artificial after all. Premonitions are premanifestations of something already on its way, caused by some hidden factor (your prior vibration). We generally want to think of manifestations as the main event, but every premanifestation is also a manifestation. The collection of mechanisms and effects can certainly blur into each other, and it’s often not useful to “go back in time” to locate the original thought that started everything. Sometimes, it’s helpful but usually unnecessary and difficult. Always, you’re in control and can steer in whatever direction suits you best now regardless of how you initially got rolling in the current direction.
We think the Yeti cap was a premonition since both sightings were caused by an earlier experience. The glasses were a manifestation since we had spent so much time staring and thinking about them before rediscovering them in the trunk.
Is it always so obvious to tell the difference between premonitions and manifestations? No, not really. Does it matter? No, not really. We introduced this nuance just to firm up yet another facet of understanding. The more angles we can approach from, the more likely we can bridge our collective understanding to a happy destination.
As always, share your law of attraction stories in the comments!
