One of the things you highlight is the difference between Sam's psychic visions and Chuck's. I'd argue that part of the difference is also advance notice. For example, if you know some things an hour before they happen, you can do something about it. For others, it makes no difference, you'd have to have known about it for years. The other difference is being able to communicate that vision to the people who need to know it. For example, in Nightmares, Sam saved two people, but lost two others. Does that make some deaths more destined than others?
The key may not be advanced notice but rather a complete understanding of the situation. For example, in Simon Said, Sam and Dean focused their search on Andy the second they realized he was a psy-kid; because they didn't give serious thought to what else could be going on if it wasn't Andy two people were left vulnerable to Webber's attacks and died.
The Nightmare deaths were more about the wrong choices being made. Dean, despite past experience, tried to write off Sam's vision as just a dream; the boys could have also anonymously informed the police of the danger since they were so far away from the danger. With Max's uncle, they did try to save him but he made the choice not to listen. Had he chosen differently he would have lived.
Those are great examples, as I think they show the use of past experience to dictate actions. In the case of Max, they weren't expecting a human cause for the problems, so they came to investigate him too late in the game. In Andy's case, they assume they have a Max situation again and are only partially right. They do, but it doesn't happen to be Andy.
Plus, I'm not sure, but did Sam ever see himself in his visions? I know he saw Dean more than once, but it seems to me significant somehow that he could never get that perspective. For that matter, I'm still wondering what the purpose of Sam's visions were at all.
Honestly, what the heck with Sam's visions? Where exactly did they go? I sometimes wonder if they were a type of telepathy with other psychic kids. Maybe a way to bring them together. Maybe they would have grown into something stronger and more controlled if Sam embraced them and practiced....or maybe they were just destined to morph into demon control like Ava's did. Sam's powers are somewhat a type of demon control.
I sometimes wonder if they were a type of telepathy with other psychic kids.
I'd supposed that too, although that doesn't seem to explain Croatoan, unless perhaps a psychic kid was involved there. Supposedly these were all things connected to the YED, but then that makes me wonder why Sam didn't have visions of Meg. And now that his power has come on so strongly, shouldn't he be having them again? (I'm guessing that this was, perhaps, why Ava knew how to hide herself before Sam's arrival in AHBL1). It does rather seem like a dangling plot point.
The key may not be advanced notice but rather a complete understanding of the situation. For example, in Simon Said, Sam and Dean focused their search on Andy the second they realized he was a psy-kid; because they didn't give serious thought to what else could be going on if it wasn't Andy two people were left vulnerable to Webber's attacks and died.
The Nightmare deaths were more about the wrong choices being made. Dean, despite past experience, tried to write off Sam's vision as just a dream; the boys could have also anonymously informed the police of the danger since they were so far away from the danger. With Max's uncle, they did try to save him but he made the choice not to listen. Had he chosen differently he would have lived.
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Plus, I'm not sure, but did Sam ever see himself in his visions? I know he saw Dean more than once, but it seems to me significant somehow that he could never get that perspective. For that matter, I'm still wondering what the purpose of Sam's visions were at all.
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I'd supposed that too, although that doesn't seem to explain Croatoan, unless perhaps a psychic kid was involved there. Supposedly these were all things connected to the YED, but then that makes me wonder why Sam didn't have visions of Meg. And now that his power has come on so strongly, shouldn't he be having them again? (I'm guessing that this was, perhaps, why Ava knew how to hide herself before Sam's arrival in AHBL1). It does rather seem like a dangling plot point.
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