I have had way to many things happen in my life, I question everything all the time. When in doubt, knock on wood.
All of your thoughts are seen all the time by minds they try to figure out thoughts about thoughts , your thoughts. If the mind wants to figure it out more it can find more time then you can imagine to figure something out especially if it does not make sense to it. The larger the mind you have the more minds you have to figure things out and these thoughts can act as inception, providing information or ideas you would not get other wise. IF the mind finds too much time it can find itself with time remaining this can give incite into future information or thoughts, seeing forward.
As for the man and the series of unfortunate and fortunate events, who knows he may have already knew the outcome he just did not know he knew it.
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