So true, Wendy, and the incredible fictional part that has been called scifi, has turned into truth, literally bringing sci-fi into the realm of parapsychology, or another way to describe metaphysics.
For instance, in the case of Mark Twain, considered by many to be one in eight of the greatest psychics who ever lived:
"Mark Twain predicted the Internet and social media
In an 1898 story, Mark Twain appears to have accurately predicted the Internet. The story called From The ‘London Times’ in 1904, is thoroughly set five years in the future (at the time).
It centers around a young inventor who develops a device called the telelectroscope. The device, as it turns out, sounds very familiar to us today indeed:
“As soon as the Paris contract released the telelectroscope, it was delivered to public use and was soon connected with the telephonic systems of the whole world. The improved ‘limitless-distance’ telephone was presently introduced and the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues.”
Well, I claim that humans are only semi-conscious with limited perception but that doesn’t mean we can’t accurately dream of the future.
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I’d add that while humans possess their physical bodies, they are limited(distracted) by their senses(scientifically accepted sensory apparatus).
Meditation leading to OBEs reveals that much to do with our “minds” remains unidentified.