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.

It's not really a dream, but I remember the night of September 10, 2001. I was sweating in my bed, feeling that something bad would happen. The next morning, I felt fine, but when I was going to school, I heard on the radio that the Two Towers had collapsed. Wierd, huh?

well last night i had a dream that i was screwing my ex gf, im talking about an ex from 5 years ago, anyways maybe this belongs in sexuality but i think its damn funny!!! okay it was in my work lockerroom and she was there! and she was in the little cheerleader outfit and all sexy as hell, then i was facing her and she was facing the lockers and she mounted me like this, so there we were doing in, (me sitting down facing her back and her riding on top) and she got this banana and started eating it, im like okay whatever if you want to eat a banana go ahead! then she turns around and looks at me and was gonna try feeding it to me (we are still doing it by the way) and then instead of putting it in my mouth she slams it into my face and i got bannana all over the place! and im like what the fuck! then i woke up, crazy eh!

I've had a few completely differant dreams that take place in the same enviorment. It's like some futuristic train station. It's like I keep comming back to visit this train station, and whats even weirder is that I remember my way around and what happened "last time I was there" but i've never before been to any place like this in real life. Only like 3 times in 3 differant dreams.

The day before 9/11, my cousin (4 years old) was over and had some toy building and airplanes, and he was crashing the airplanes into the building.

I think that dreams are what connects us to our conscience. It's strange how much our dreams can predict. But maybe our subconscienceness plants the dreams in our memory and that it never happened at all. Hmm. I need some coffee.

I've had dreams like that. I can have a dream and then years down the road It hits me like "I've seen this before!!" It's so strange, but so exciting at the same time. They're usually dreams of people i haven't met yet, and i seem to remember the tiniest details.

I get 'visions of the future' in my dreams, but they're never useful as usually aren't things that could fall under the self fulfilling prophecy catagory. The utterly useless dreams of tommorow and the number of other odd things I experience are why I believe in more than what can be physically interacted with or explained in terms of the physically interactable. I swear my subconcious is trying to tell me something and I can't see the trees between the forest and all those damned pine cones, leaves, shrubs, squirrels, flowers, dirt, roots, Lumber Jacks, ma....

thats different, you probably had that dream because you subconciously knew where the ring was (you didn't totally forget, it just slipped your concious cognition).
The dream-trance combined with anxiety brought back the memory and since you were worried about finding your ring, your mind pieced it together....

My alternate me was making out with my girlfriend one week before I got to.

Seriously, I have some very vaugue dreams, and thats why we might sometimes feel as though they predict the future. But I had a dream about a girl, and when I was with my girlfriend yesterday that dream seemed to play itself out all over again...

weird

i've had dreams where i was not alive, where i was a robot or where i just was not. if they are a look into another dimension how come?

I had a dream once where i walked down the stairs of a house i'd never been to, and i walked out to a screened in porch.. i look to my right, and theres a big ass wooden armoire, and an impish, animal demonlike thing on it, with these massive black eyes..

fuggin thing looks at me, and says "Autumn and the fall of man." Or some such crap... then what got me is it started talking this really messed up garbled speech.. i shot straight up, like the stereotypical "cold sweat nightmare thing"... practically scared the piss outta my fiance.

anyways uh.. maybe the world will end sometime in autumn. Heh.

aw fuck no, i've got too much shit going on this fall for the world to end.... i want to talk to tech support!

my mom had a dream about me b4 i was born

i ran into the house because my friends were playing hide and seek and i was like 6-7 in this dream and my mom said i looked just like my dad


this was 3-4 months b4 i was born

some people are able to direct their dreams. try saying to yourself before you fall asleep that you will dream one of those dreams and actually have a conversation in the dream. you can ask the dream what it is trying to say to you.

the problem withthat is... wlel have oyu ever had a really weird dream where .. in the dream you understood everything and it all made sense to you, but looking back on it, reflecting, it makes NO sense?

If you ask your dream what it's trying to say, you're already thinking of answers in your head, you you will invent something that makes no sense but sounds deep and meaningful like "to show you the way'

you have the conversation while dreaming.

dream language is language on an unconscious level. people, events and things in the dream appear to be one thing but looking at them in a conscious state they may mean something totally different. what they are in the dream are just a representation of what they are in reality.

eating an apple in a dream may really mean that we need comfort or sustinance (?) in our waking reality.

or running around trying to find a bathroom means that you're gonna wake up in a second, pee for 60 seconds, then suffer from extreme penile discomfort for the next hour :-p

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i've done what you describe a few times... one time i had a dream that i turned into a short story.

I used to play a game called Everquest 24/7. I was a cleric and my job was to watch people's health bar and cast spells to keep them alive. Staring at a bar while your playing a game isn't the most fun thing to do but there are other factors which made the game worth playing. Anyway the point of all this is, is that I went through a period where I would be playing Everquest in my dreams and trying to keep people alive. It was one of those stressful dreams that would leave me feeling unrested when I woke up. I have long since quit Everquest and I don't have those dreams anymore =)

I fell asleep in a writing workshop/class once. It was a little strange because we were given this assignment where u had to make sure u followed the rules exactly (first sentence had to start with a day of the week, last paragraph could only be 1 sentence long, etc). i fell asleep right after the assignment was given out and then i jerked awake. felt like i had been asleep a while but it was only a few min when i looked at the clock. then i started to write and i knew everything that i was going to write, as if the whole assignment was complete in my head. it followed all the rules to a T.

AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER I HAVE HAD DREAM'S ABOUT THINGS THAT HAPPION A COUPLE OF MONTH'S AFTER I DRAM ABOUT IT AND IT IS ALWAY'S LITTLE THING'S LIKE PLAYING A DRINKING GAME WITH MY FRIEND'S THE COOLIST ONES R WHEN I HAVE A DREAM ABOUT THE PAOPLE I MAT IT IS WIERD I WILL HAVE A DREAM ABOUT HANGIN OUT WITH SOME ONE BEFOR I MEET THEM AMD WHEN I MEET THEM SOMETIMES IT SLIP'S OUT AND I GO I HAD A DREAM ABOUT THIS AND THEAY JUST LOOK AT ME LIKE I AM CRAZY SO WHEN I HAVE DREAMS ABOUT STUFF THAT IS GUNNA HAPPIN I HAVE LERND TO ZIP MY LIP LOL

HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER HAD DREAM'S WHERE EVOREY THING IS KINDE OF A FUNKY BLUE ISH GRAY KINDE OF COLER. AND SAY YOUR IN YOUR ROOM AND EVORY THING LOOK'S LIKE IT IS A SHADOW OF IT SELF. AND WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND YOU NOTICE THER IS AN EXTRA DOOR IN THE ROOM THAT IS (NOT!) SUPPOSED TO B THERE THOSE ONES KREEP ME OUT !

please punctuate and spell properly, i have no idea what you just said.. something about drinking games.

I've had several dreams which have later transpired into actual events. Nothing major, just that I've seen places or been in situations that i've later physically been at, sometimes years apart but they really stand out in memory

When I was a little kid, I used to have this recurrent dream that I was lying in a dark place and there was this suffocating, smothering feeling, and all I could hear was my mother's voice saying, "Terrible bad news. Terrible bad news." She sounded totally heartbroken in the dream and when I woke up I'd always want to climb into bed with my parents and make sure everything was okay.

When I was 13, I was sharing a bedroom with my little sister. I woke up one night and the covers were over my head, it was dark and I heard my sister ask what happened, then my mother's voice saying "Terrible bad news, just terrible bad news," sounding like she was going to cry. For a while that's all she could say, just repeating that phrase, then she told us that the police had come to our house in the middle of the night to tell her my father had been killed in a car accident.

After that we all used to have the same dream a few times, we would be sitting at the table eating breakfast and everyone would be quiet and have this weird look on their faces, then finally one of us would say they had a dream about him the night before and it would turn out we all had similar dreams. The dreams as I remember them were that I walked into a room with a window in one wall and two chairs. My father would be sitting in one chair and I sat in the other, and we had a conversation. He would say that he was okay, that's the main thing I remember. My mother and sister had basically the same dream, down to the chairs.

that's horribly intriguing...

This same exact thing happens to me. Sometimes it freaks me out a little because the dreams are so vivid.

my dream happened between 1:00am and 2:00am on 9/11 before the attacks. i cant remember the very beginning of it but in the dream i was at a local fair and some guy was going to jump a row of cars on his dirt bike kinda like evel knievel. but he fucked up and crashed into the crowd and stuff just started exploding. lots of people died
and the rest were panicking. for some reason i had to find this lady in the crowd but i didn't know exactly who i was supposed to find. when i finally found her i knew it was her because she had a low cut shirt on and on her chest were written these strange
symbols. when i talked to her i was speaking in arabic wich is a langauge i dont know.
it was strange because i didn't understand what we were talking about like when you
have conversation with a friend. it was more like the words were feelings. sort of like
what people describe speaking in tongues is like.
the next thing im walking down a hallway at someones house and i come into this bedroom. when i closed the door on the backside of it there was a black tshirt hanging
on it. right on top of the shirt were these strange looking dolls. they were 3 inches tall
and hanging on strings like puppets. the dolls were dressed in what looked like something a women from biblical times would wear. each doll had 1 eye and when i would stare at them they would start to sing this demonic hymn. the song hypnotised
me and they commanded me to draw draw the devil on the tshirt with my own blood.
this freaked the shit out of me and i imedialtly woke up. i knew something bad was going to happen but at he time i didn't know what. i stayed up for about an hour
and got back to sleep around 4:00am. iawoke around 9 in the morning turned on the tv
and saw that the first building had been hit. at first i had thought it was the aniversary of the first trade center bombings in the 1990's but the second plane hit
and that was the instant i understood my dream.

Honestly. I had one dream that made me realize, dreams can tell the future. It was the night before the 9/11 attacks. I was walking up this big hill in some random field, and I heard trumpets from far away. i wasn't quite sure what they were doing here, but they were playing Amazing Grace. I then saw a group of soldiers marching and playing. I asked them what they were doing, and they all replied, Americas at war! I didn't know what they were talking about, but I pressed on up the hill. I then got put into this big business building in New York, and I was told to go to the top floor. to watch something. I obeyed and went up there, but when I did, the lights were off and no one was there. I then looked out the window, and saw the Twin towers fall. Nothing had hit them, I just saw them fall. I was scared, and ran down the building, then to find me in a ladies bedroom. She had a wooden plaque that said, "Amazing Grace, how sweet thy sound. God Bless America! Support Our troops!" I looked at it with a confused look, and then woke up. Can someone explain this to me?

I don't necessarily think that they predict the future as in what will happen exactly, but I think they caution us. A bunch of people have talked about dreaming about bad things happening and then having them actually happen; I think dreams are trying to warn us sometimes. It's pretty freaky sometimes, but it is amazing how that happens.

Dreams are just fucked up. There is no meaning to them. Get a job and move out of your parents house. :thumbsup:

i think i've talked about some of my dreams on here before--but i do think it is possible to dream an event before it really happens. the problem with the theory though, is that it is easy to attatch meaning to things when there really wasn't anything there. that goes for dreams and waking life both.

i've had dreams that looking back, i could say "oh, now i see what it meant" and maybe it did, or maybe i'm just attatching understanding because i want it to be there. then again, i've had dreams that were crystal clear--and then happened. in high school i dreamed i was on a school bus and the bus caught fire, no flames but smoke was everywhere and no one was hurt. thought it was a freaky dream and told friends about this weird dream i'd had--but i certainly didn't expect it to be true. a few days later, i went on a trip for school and something went wrong with the bus--no flames, smoke everywhere, and no one was hurt. there's no way i caused that to happen, but it was a dream that came true.

i've also had dreams where something happened and then happened in real life--but it was an expected event. someone dying who's been sick for a long time. not exactly shocking when that dream came true. i think this is just a way for me to further prepare myself for an event i'm not looking forward to.

if the actual event has to take place in order for me to understand my dream--then i think it is more me trying to make sense of weird dreams. if the dream is about something i'm expecting to happen, again, not exactly a dream that fortells the future. i do believe it happens, but i think most of the time, people want their dreams to make sense and so they use real events to explain them.

My brother died very suddenly when I was was in highschool. My Grandma, Mom, and Myself all had dreams about his passing a few days before.

It wasn't an identified person in my dream, just someone I was close with, and it was VERY disturbing. I have friends who remember me telling them about the dream the day after I had it.

In the dream, he was drowning and I was screaming for help, but no one would save him. When he was finally pulled out of the water, he had a large red spot on his nose/face.

In reality, he was shot in the face at a party, and no one called the police for three hours (a fact that still royally pisses me off).

ever since i can remember, ive had dreams that tell meabout the future, or give me a deja vu feeling. I dont remember the first ones, but i do remember the most recent ones. I also remember that when i woke up, i was terrified of the dreams i had just had. They weren't anything big like dreaming of loosing a loved one or anything like that, they were just about me meeting a guy and being in an exact place at an exact time, doing the exact same thing i dreamt about. I know that not once have i ever been to the city i curently live in, until i moved down here to be with my bf, and i dreamt *months before* that i was in the city with my bf. Im just wondering why we dream things of the future...its starting to happen more and more and im getting a tad freaked out...

xX, Don't freak out...just try to remember your dreams more clearly, as soon as you wake up each morning. You're one of the few who has a gift that will help you & maybe keep you safe. Nothing to worry about. Once you embrace this vibe, you will feel more safe and protected.

Take it from someone who knows how this goes.

Be glad that you've been chosen to be aware.

My uncle Brian had a dream, and he was standing in his garden at the home they had grown up un, and he saw a gravestone with his name on it and a date. When he went in to work, he joked with his mates that he might not be in the next week, as he was due to die on monday. On the monday, his brother died.

I have had precog dreams - I can tell the difference when having them.

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Todd - maybe past life memories? or maybe you are sharing a dream based on the memory of someone you have a closeness to?

Without fail, everytime I have a pleasant dream with a pet, the pet soon dies thereafter. Had a hermit crab, dog, duckies, and a fish go this way. Which is why it freaks me out whenever I have a pleasant dream about family members.