Mario’s Return to Dreamwork: A Proof of Precognition
Super Mario is not just a plumber, circus trainer, and space explorer. '80s kids and super-fans may also recall his oneironautic exploits in the series oddball, Super Mario Brothers 2 (USA).
This week, Mario wall-jumped his way back into dreamwork to bring all of us a message:
Precognition is real. Dream precognition happens.
In the early morning of Saturday, March 28, 2020 — may this day be forever remembered as the day that precognition was proven once and for all, for all people and all future generations, without the possibility for doubt or argument, amen—I recalled three dreams.
The first and third appeared to be normal dreams, with the former being a pleasant bit of surreal nonsense and the latter commenting on a real-life event. The second also seemed normal, at first. At that time there was absolutely nothing about it that made me say, wow, this is special.
But the second dream, as pictured, had Nyiam, a waking-life person, delivering a message to me: Nintendo had unveiled a new remake of Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo Switch. It would feature level streaming technology. I could see Mario, more smoothly shaded than he had been in the original game, moving through clean, if simple, 3D environments.
Nyiam is a talented, enthusiastic remote viewer who freely shares instructions and his sessions on YouTube. (Remote viewing may be something you don’t believe in. That’s okay. This isn’t an article about remote viewing. It is about incontrovertible proof of precognition as brought to us by Super Mario’s cherubic visage.) As a recently-minted mod of the r/remoteviewing subreddit, I happen to virtually run into him from time to time.
Just for fun, I decided to let Nyiam (and everyone in the subreddit’s Discord channel) know about the dream. This ended up forming the critical basis for Mario’s proof, providing a date and time stamp.
It’s a me, synchronicity!
Two days later, on March 30th, the following came across my news feed. It seemed like a cute coincidence at the time, or some neat little synchronicity, and not like evidence that will surely rock the scientific world to its core.
A story on Kotaku mentioned that Nintendo was thought to be planning a special event to coincide with their mascot’s 35th anniversary. This was expected to include remakes or remasters of a number of older Mario games. I posted this to the Discord, jokingly calling it potential “feedback,” the word in this sense meaning evidence that a prediction was either right or wrong.
The news didn’t mention which games were slated for re-release.
The Ground-pound that reverberated throughout all time and space
One day later, on March 31st, I came across a follow-up article. VGC then specifically identified Super Mario 64 as one of the games that Nintendo would debut on Switch.
BOOM
Did you feel that? Did you feel everything change? Were all boundaries broken? Are all notions of sequence and consequence exploded?
Of course, they are.
Me? You choose me, saintly Mario? I am not worthy!
So, why did Mario Mario pick me? Let’s back up a year or so.
For a long time, I was uncomfortable staying within my own mind. I was always looking for external stimulation. (This is at least partially related to bonafide attention issues with a strong genetic component.) I’ve always wanted to do things like learn guitar or write a novel, but could hardly bear to just be in my own skin and put in the work
To break and rebuild a relationship with my oft-neglected creative and emotional self, I’ve spent a lot of time this year learning about meditation, dreaming, writing, and psychic ability (especially the discipline of remote viewing).
This has included dream journaling. Recommended by Tibetan yogis, diarists, psychics, shamans, lucid dreamers, and Latter-day Saint prophets alike, keeping a dream journal is supposed to improve recall of nightly adventures.
Keeping a dream journal tells your subconscious, “I’m listening, you’re important.”
Although writing about myself often feels like scratching fingernails on a chalkboard, I’ve given this it the old college try for just over a year, missing nights here and there, making an entry as much as I could, even if only to say, “I did dream, but I can’t recall what.”
Throughout the year I have enjoyed some brief episodes of lucidity and interesting experiences when half-awake. There have been a few patterns, none of which popped out at first. Dreams have become more vivid and easier to recall.
Adherents of many spiritual traditions claim that dreams may hold secret or sacred knowledge. This is technically part of my religious belief system, but it has always been partitioned off, as something that I’m supposed to agree with. It was dogma, not personal experience.
All joking and posturing aside, I now believe I have personal confirmation that dreams can hold signs and knowledge in advance of events happening during waking life. This actually didn’t come as a giant, booming revelation. It came as a natural consequence of doing the work, taking the time to journal, paying attention, and sharing with others.
Picking apart the details
Nyiam made sense as a dream symbol. As a remote viewer, he does amazing things, seeing and knowing what the usual playbook says he shouldn’t be able to.
At least one possible explanation for why remote viewing might work is via retrocausality. Knowing something in the future allows the past to be influenced. If the dream wanted to signal that the Mario news was related to a future event, Nyiam was, therefore, a good choice to be Mario’s emissary.
If I did not have a personal acquaintance with him, I probably wouldn’t have shared the dream. By showing me someone I know, the dream gave me the chance to give it a voice beyond the virtual borders of my electronic journal.
Mario, brave Mario, why him? I can’t say. The actual news of Super Mario 64 coming to Switch doesn’t thrill me. I love the guy, but I’ve always favored his two-dimensional adventures, playing and replaying the Super Nintendo series entries more than any others.
It may be that the only point of this series of events was to confirm to me personally what is really possible. The actual details or form taken may not matter.
For the record, Nyiam said that he was a big Ninty fan back in the day and a remake would be pretty cool. Also, it’s okay that I name-check him here.
Things yet to come
While I believe I already have had feedback and that Mario’s dream message was a true foretelling, there are still some dangling bits.
Nintendo has yet to make its own, official announcement. Will Super Mario 64 actually make its appearance on the remarkable and versatile Switch console? Will it indeed feature “level streaming technology,” as dream-Nyiam enthusiastically said?
Time will tell, and it won’t matter. My world has already changed, and the message received is comforting, like replaying any one of Nintendo’s classic Mario games.
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