Dreams Telling The Future?
 

I haven't really thought about this much, but reading the paranoia section got me thinking.
Does anyone believe that dreams can tell future events?


I've had a VERY weird experience with this. It was when I was really young. I had this dream where I was going over to my friends house. Anyways, after a little while in the dream, I'm climbing my friends fence(one of those tall wood ones) and I fall off and land straight on my back.
I thought nothing of it, I didnt take dreams too seriously when I was that young

But that day, I was over playing at my friends house, and we lost a ball over his fence. So I climb up the fence, and when I'm at the top I lose my footing and sure enough fall flat on my back, knocking the wind out of me, and giving me the worst case of Deja Vu in my life.

...I don't know... thats a wicked bad story maybe you just have mutant powers... lol (just kiddin') ;)

I have once thought that too. I had lost the ring that my mother had given me... It was the only piece of jewelry that I wore... So after not having the ring for about a week I was worried that my mother was going to KILL ME!!! I went to sleep and I was dreaming that I had found my ring in a pair of my pants... I woke up at that instant and look for the pants that I saw in my dream. I found them and inside the same pocket was the ring.... I have often had weird things like that happen to me...

I recently dreamed that I was in a building during an earthquake, and there was a meteorite hit as well.

The next morning on the news was both a meteorite, and an earthquake. It was kind of weird.

I believe that dreams can be very powerful, depending on one's personal outlook on life and such. Personally, I like the theory that dreams are what happen to you in alternate dimensions. I don't remember the name of that particular theory right now, but it seems *right* to me. I don't really know though; I guess that dreams are what you make of them.

Damn, I've had some hella cool dreams. I hope that alternate me is having fun. :lol:

Cool :) Howcome I never thought of this? My alternate self must be really having a great time; I envy that bastard! :)

Just think about the you in the other dimension... What do they dream about? Do they dream about going to work every day, doing chores, going to school? Are our lives dreams and fantasy to the us in alternate realities?

Dude, my alternate self is a pimp! Seriously, though, I tend to have very realistic dreams every couple weeks or so, and some of them have come to pass. The weird thing is, you never really think about it happening until you're right in the middle of it, then you get that weird tingly feeling all over your body, and you think, "Hey, I've seen this episode before........."

i believe dreams can tell the future in a metaphorical sense a lot. it all has to do with the subconscious and your feelings. dreams can pick up these feelings you aren't even aware of and days.. weeks.. maybe months later these feelings start to surface in the conscious realm and you might look back to your dream and thing "ah! so that's what it was..." i've had dreams often 'foresee' breakups and such, in this way.

When I was training to be a teacher and I was a student teacher I found that due to nerves about my lessons I used to dream that they were taking place before they had. I found this very useful because things that didn't go to well in my dream I would change so when the lesson actually took place it would run smoother.

I found this experience totally bizare however. It was as if I did my lessons twice. One being a rehersal and the other the real thing.

Strange... So I surpose i think that they can tell the future sometimes. Depends on the situation though.

I dream about you.

I prefer when my dreams are connected with people in my life, but its pretty rare. Usually my dreams are really abstract.

I've had dreams the demonstrate my feelings and what I think might happen, that's as close to predicting the future as they come. So watch out, anti fishstick, we're going to the supermarket in the near future!

ooooh are we buying fishsticks on aisle 5? putting it in my cart, eh?

:lol:

Well, actually... we bought a big package of beef, something to drink (can't remember what, Sprite maybe), and I'm pretty sure a yard rake. I think we were about ready to have a real party!

well anyway, i think Will has a good point with dreams depicting feelings and what you think *might* happen... that's kind of what i was getting at.

i also dream about things i'm anxious about and it will help 'remind' me to wake up in time to do it and things like that..

I have similar things happen occasionally. I think its just that once the memory is ingrained, you subconsciously may make the dream come true.

You all obviously have interest in dreams so you should look up lucid dreaming on the web and try to do it.

Basicly (if you didnt learn this from vanilla sky) a lucid dream is when you know you are dreaming and can control it. It's kinda hard to do but not that hard I guess. I'm no expert but I can give a few pointers. You need to understand some of the basics of dreams.

First thing, and I know this part sucks (and may seem impossible), you have to not smoke any weed for two full days. THC makes your mind stay in the alpha state and thus prevents it from moving into the beta state (where you dream).

Second, you should know that generally the first 4-5 hours of sleep is alpha sleep (before beta) so you have to get more sleep than that. Actually what I find works best is to pick a night when you dont have anything to do the next day and sleep for about 12-15 hours. This may seem crazy to some of you, or normal for others, if you cant fathom sleeping that long just do it. When you wake up just go back to sleep, its not that hard. You will find that the longer you sleep the more intense your dreams get. To the point that you might wake up sweating with your heart pounding stunned by the realism of the dream (and it doesnt have to be a nightmare). This intensity will help tremendously.

As far as chemicals go, you should get a bottle of the 3mg melatonin and take two before you go to sleep (ignore the 3mg per day warning label--those things are always WAY conservative) (but dont take more than three unless youve worked yourself up to there and dont kill yourself being stupid). Also if you can find some 'opium lettuce' which doesnt have any opium in it its just called that. Its sold in head shops and on the internet as a legal weed substitute (why would anyone need a substitute?). Unfortunatly smoking it wont get you high (false advertising), but it will make your dreams go crazy.

Anyway get on google and search for a big long lucid dream FAQ it is a better resource than me. Now go out there and fly to the moon to screw some three headed pandas with wooden legs.

I never really have very clear dreams. But whenever I can remember anything, it usually ends with a wicked case of deja vu. I don't know if I simply seem to remember a dream which i had when the incident occurs, or if I truly had the dream.

I wonder if that makes any sense.

I had one that ended in a prediction type thing...It was when I was a child, 11 or 12. My family was set to move to California, from Long Island. I was really upset about it a week after the bomb had been dropped my Mom and brother were in Cali looking at houses. They found one and sent us an email with pictures, the house was about half a mil. it was a giant white house, you could literally get lost in this thing. All the house was painted white on the inside. That night I had a dream, I was running through a giant white house, boxes such as those that are used when packing stuff were all around me. I was holding someones hand running, as if for my life away, from something.

I was searching for an exit. I couldn't find one, I pulled the person whose hand I was holding, it was a random girl, behind a bunch of boxes, a giant stack to the cieling, at least twenty feet high. Then the thing we were running away from stomped into the room. It was a gaint beast, a behemoth, fear itself perhaps. I left the girl hiding and climbed the boxes to the top where I kicked them down onto the monster, ending the dream/nightmare.

A few weeks later, we had not decided not to move in the summer like we had planned. The reason, our stock had crashed from the CEO coming out to being a corrupt crook.

Dreams, hmm.. I do believe what xim says about lucid dreaming :) Interesting experiment.

Regarding dreams predicting the future, I think it has a lot to do with selective memory. What about the realistic dreams that don't predict future events or are wrong? It also depends a lot on metaphors and stretching things to make them fit (because you want them to).

You can take an abstract dream and apply parallels so that it matches an even in your life, such as how people take Nostradamus' "predictions" and "prove" that they foretold future events. Another example (I can't remember the word that describes this) is finding patterns among randomness. A common example is the "demon faces" people saw in the smoke rising from the WTC bombing. On a lighter side, this would happen if you take something else random like a towel and stare at it long enough. The random array of fibers will produce "patterns" and you will see pictures.

That said, I love dreaming. I get to see and feel things that I may never get to experience in my daily life. It's like a movie, but it's more fun because you get to be in it.

Honestly, I never thought much of this thread until last night I had a dream that me and 5 of my friends were in a car late at night and we all got in a car crash and 3 of them died (im not sure which, dumb dreams are all confusing but I remember crashing into a pole)

Now, thanks to you guys thread Im all freaked out thanks >< Ill just hope it dont come true :/

The only dream that I can really hard link to reality happened a couple years ago. It was the scariest thing I've ever experienced while dreaming.

It was about 3 am, I'd been asleep for about 3 hours. I opened my eyes, laying on my side in my bed. Everything was normal for a couple seconds, then suddenly the walls started vibrating and an overwelming terror came over me. I could not move, I could not understand why reality was breaking up before me. This continued, and I saw a short demon like creature appear in the corner, about four feet from the bed. There were various other unexplainables in the bedroom with me. It was incredibly vivid, and the feeling of having no control of my life and my surroundings was overwhelming. I managed to start screaming and started pounding the wall above me for my roommates to come save me. I woke myself up screaming, in the same position I was dreaming in. It was the _most_ terrifying dream I had ever experienced. The feeling of my reality falling apart and not having any control over it was and is still powerful.

I got up and stayed up for about 2 hours, too afraid to sleep again.

About two weeks later, I found out someone that I loved very dearly (who should have been sleeping next to me that night) was out flushing our trust down the toilet, and then my true reality fell to pieces. The exact timing of the dream and the remote "event" was pretty damn close too. I've yet to gather it all back. It sucks even writing this, I'm done.

my girlfriend broke up with me a couple weeks ago, and I still like her.
but, last night I had a dream that we had sex, so I hope they tell the future

I've had several occasions over the years when I "dream" something, and in the course of the next several days or weeks, that precise thing happens.

I'm not talking like a close event, or something tied into a dream, but the moments I saw in my dream happen precisely as I dreamt them.

And every time it (the dream part) happens, it's like watching an old reel film, or seeing an old snapshot, and I wake up immediately. I mean, from dead asleep to wide awake.

I can't explain it, but I always know when they happen.....

Man I've heard about that, been thinking about it, and I sure hope that's not the case, coz if so, my other dimension is completely and utterly wacked out :)

i never remember my dreams unless they're intense to the point of being able to wake my deadhead-ass up. i like the alternate universe theory, but it's also disturbing because i've watched the deaths/suicides of a bunch of pseudo-me's.

Dreams can tell you alot of things
 

From my own experiences with dreams I know dreams do a number of different things. On one hand at times you often dream about things you were thinking about or watching before you went to sleep.


Another thing is that dreams can help you deal with or figgure out problems youre having in your life. Many different peoples believe your dreams hold all the awnsers you seek in your life you just need to be able to interpret them.


Of course dreams can also tell you the future. Some people dream about big future events or about small things that happen in their lives, or about bad things that may happen to them or others. For me alot of my dreams have tol me about things in my life months and sometimes years in advance. and when they happen I always get that odd feeling like ive been there before and then the dream comes back to me.

Hmmm a while back I had a dream that one of my friends was gonna break up with his gf of a year, and then it happened that day. It was pretty crazy...

Dreams are pretty fun, but they can be sad as you have to go back to reality. :P And its not like theres a pause and resume button for dreams..

I hope not. I have some fucked up dreams, like michael myers chasing me and trying to kill me (on more than several occasions). Other dreams that i know was messed up, but cant remember. Hopefully, dreams are just a way of having crazy adventures without getting hurt.

My friend swears her dreams do this. Last year she had a dream about a nose bleed (weird enough, I know) and then the next day she had one, and she'd never had one before!
Things like that keep happening to her this year too...

I don't know, my dreams are never realistic enough to actually come true. At least, I hope not....

Yes Yes dreams are an interpretation of reality, they are ways of illustrating our perception (emotions, ideas, etc...) on a higher level then concious thought. Done metaphorically, of course. In dreams we are all artists.

I have dreams of getting marired all the time one night i had one
to where I was wearing a pink wedding dress, then one night i had one where ther was a naked man runing around at the wedding.
To me dreams are what you think of during the day.
But I dont think of getting married so thats weird!?!
I have daysah Voo alot so I probably dreamed what
would happen and it did.

i've experienced it many times over. the hardest part, though, is distinguishing the true vivid dreams from the false. i've remembered as many eventually true (within 2 weeks) vivid dreams as I remembered false.

we should also consider the concept of self-fulfilling prophecies. if you dream something like falling off of a fence, your subconscious might simply "make it happen" when you actually try to climb a fence...indeed, your subconscious might have driven you to create a chain of events (hit a ball over a fence) to make the dream come true. just a thought

I used to think that dreams tells me the abouts of the future too, then over the years, I grow up and left that idea behind. (Sorry if offended any one, it is not my intention to offend, I really did think like that when I was in Middle School, but not any more)

Now I think dreams happens when we think too much during the day, that it effected our subconsious making us dream what we think.

Hmm, last night I had a wonderful dream. :)

I only wish it could come true though.

Dreams... so full of emotion, they show our real selves, what we truly feel deep down inside. There are a lot of theories and questions about our dreams, and our subconcious. I think that our dreams show what we really want in life.

Semi-often I'll have a dream of just a normal everyday occurance or a normal conversation or something, and then a while later I'll be having the exact conversation and I'll know exactly what everyone will say/do next. It's a really, really unsettling feeling. It's almost as if I'm just following along in a scripted scene.

I have had a few dreams that later happened, but they are all stupid things like driving down the street and seeing something, or knowing I have seen a movie before that was brand new, and no it's not deja vu.

yes i have had dreams of future events
 

same type situation... going to a friends house and then i saw the friend get his hand caught in a tick tack toe machine wich i had never seen before... then the next day i went to the play ground with that friend and there was a tick tak toe machien there... and sure enough he got his hands caught in it and i was standing in the exact same place watching then as i was in my dream just observing it and having no emotion as in the dream... like i was dreaming it agian.. but it was real agian... there manny strange things about the mind that happen for no explainable reason.. some times i just like you may think some times think i am ensane... but think, what is insane. it is just a thaught proces away from the norm. and we are luck to be able to see the world in a deeper way.. we have the power of deeeeeeep thaught. i am excited to here from you in a reply maby.

I don't have a medical background to concrete this, but does stress make you have really stressful dreams, thus causing you to wake up in the morning stressed, and get worse through the day. Rewind, repeat. Rewind Repeat. Or is this just me? It's killing me.

Does that now mean that fate exists? I mean deja vu means seen again. Does that mean that our lives are predestined? That no matter which direction we choose, that it will inevitably end the same? Or does it mean that we cannot choose another direction, that even this conversation is supposed to happen and instead of taking path A, changing it now to path B or C because of this? If we've already seen some aspects of our life thru our dreams, which is the reality? Are our dreams real? Life? Maybe there's a glitch in the Matrix.

Maybe it's all a previous life. Maybe we go thru this life many times-like Groundhog Day (movie with Bill Murray) until we get something right.

All I know is that I have a lot of questions for God

Isn't it funny too, that we never remember the dreams that we have deja vu about? We always remember stupid stuff about how we peed ourselves, etc.

I used to go swimming at a friends house (now my roomate) when I was younger. He had a cheapie volleyball net that we used to put near the diving board and jump over. One night he had a dream that my toe got stuck in the net and I drowned. After that we were both so skeptical about it, that we moved the net.