Can dreams predict the future?
Okay so this isn't about my dreams it's about my friend's dream, when she was 4 years old, she remembers having a dream about meeting a girl that was telling her jokes and comforting her, and many years later, she noticed that I was the girl, and when I asked her for a description of the girl, she described a 4 year old me spot on. Can these type of dreams predict the future? Because I know that dream characters are made of random people's faces mixed together, and she has never seen me in her life until about a year ago.
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It can just as easily be false memory, if someone wants that dream character to have been you, their memory may deceit them. Dream memory is already fuzzy enough. I believe dreams can have some connection to the paranormal though, as there is a lot stories that surround them. The short answer is, I don't know, I do not think anybody knows for sure.
Time is irrelevant in the dream world- past, present, future: it's all connected, it's all the same. Chaos. And I think in that pool of timelessness, we can experience things that haven't occurred in our waking timeline yet. So, yeah, we can be clairvoyant in our dreams, in a sense.
I've had a few dreams before that had eerie coincidences with my waking life. For example, in a dream I was talking to someone who I hardly knew and the next day I was talking to them. That might sound stupid but it wasn't until after I talked to them that I realized I had dreamt about talking to them the night before. I've had a few other times where some uncommon object or someone I don't see often appears in a dream and I later see it/them. Whether it's all coincidence or connected, I obviously have no idea.
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Ive had several experiences/dreams in which I saw the future but it was in a dream like way intermiggled with the dream eg talking about a future event to a DC and at the same time seeing the event like separately to the dream. So yeah I do believe in that kind of thing.
As far as your friends experience thou.. I'd have to wonder how well would of 4 year old remember a DC a few years later from a dream? and why would someone simply remember talking to a certain DC years later .. people talk to DCs all the time in their dreams.. it would of had to have been a very special reason for a person to remember that one dream! Descriptions of people, one can give a description and it will match lots of people. I'd have my doubts.
This is always a question that I've had myself. I do believe that it could be possible though. I've had dreams that have been almost warnings of things that may happen, and I've had a few of them come true. It never happens the way it did in my dream, but the context is almost always spot on. It's really weird to think that our dreams predict certain things that actually end up happening, but I feel like it's somehow true. More research should be done on this topic!
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Dreams can predict the future as much as you can guess what the future holds based on what's happened so far insofar as you're aware.
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Of course dreams can predict the future. This fact has been documented repeatedly since the advent of writing things down.
What is really annoying when you precognitate and then realize "Hey, I dreamed this!" is that you try to change the sequence and you cant. Like conversations. You want to modify the dialog from what you dreamed, but it comes out exactly how you dreamed it.
Not that it really matters since (speaking for own experiences) the dreams were always trivialities and never dealt with important issues. They were just snippets of unimportant situations to come.
But dreams of the future probably dont happen to everyone. Or they happen and people rationalize them away as coincidences.
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nawick wrote: Of course dreams can predict the future. This fact has been documented repeatedly since the advent of writing things down.
Just because it has been documented does not make it fact.
This is what deja vu is, at least for me--a moment in time and space revealed in a dream. I experience deja vu all the time, and I can often remember the original dream, which could have occurred years earlier.
I had a very brief dream blog last year, and one dream I detailed was of a plane crash. Unfortunately I've experienced many plane crashes in dreams--the terror, the hopelessness, the feel of the plane falling. The dream I had occurred a couple years ago. The plane just dropped out of the sky--the pilots were caught completely by surprise--into a open field. After the crash the deceased, including me, were milling about in the field. I entered a large building, and as I approached a tv with coverage of the crash, I went lucid. The newslady mentioned '298' which I assumed was the flight number. We all know now that that was the number of victims in the Malaysia flight shot down over the Ukraine. I wrote the blog about a year before the actual incident.
jlb1956 wrote: This is what deja vu is, at least for me--a moment in time and space revealed in a dream. I experience deja vu all the time, and I can often remember the original dream, which could have occurred years earlier.
I had a very brief dream blog last year, and one dream I detailed was of a plane crash. Unfortunately I've experienced many plane crashes in dreams--the terror, the hopelessness, the feel of the plane falling. The dream I had occurred a couple years ago. The plane just dropped out of the sky--the pilots were caught completely by surprise--into a open field. After the crash the deceased, including me, were milling about in the field. I entered a large building, and as I approached a tv with coverage of the crash, I went lucid. The newslady mentioned '298' which I assumed was the flight number. We all know now that that was the number of victims in the Malaysia flight shot down over the Ukraine. I wrote the blog about a year before the actual incident.
Yes, it happens to me a bit. Sometimes I get a little lost in the moment and people ask if i'm ok... i just say, deja vu
You guys have some really interesting opinions, and I enjoyed reading all of them. I have still not come to any conclusions myself, though. But it did happen again. A few months ago, I clearly remember dreaming about driving by a car dealer in front of a strip mall in the rain. And guess what I did today? I drove past that same car dealer in front of a strip mall. And it was raining. And note that I'm currently on vacation, so I'm far away from home. But still, what the heck? Any more thoughts on this?
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May be you could see in the future through your dreams. I have this experience that that certain scenario was in my dreams, it is called deja vu.
Déjà vus are not glimpses into the future, my friend. A déjà vu is the sensation that you've already experienced some novelty before. But just because you feel something to be a certain way, it doesn't make it so in reality. Knowing the brain's reputation for generating numerous delusions recorded in the annals of neuroscience, it is reasonable to infer that the phenomenon is most likely cerebral rather than paranormal.
When one feels that one's met a stranger before or has already witnessed a particular present event, given that there is such a thing as false memory syndrome and taking such into consideration, it isn't hard to imagine that déjà vus are illusions generated by a repetitive relay of information in the brain - a cerebral glitch, as it were - experienced by the majority. (One certainly doesn't need to be mentally ill to experience them.) Once that subsequent second relay is experienced, the first perceptual relay is erroneously interpreted to be the memory of something that happened long ago; speculative self-delusions may even follow - such as the belief in past lives or that the soul time-travels.
I would also extend the same logic to so-called precognitive dreams. It is nothing otherworldly when dreams happen to coincide with reality. I have experienced one such dream which uncannily resembled an accident that took place in reality two weeks later. But given that gazillions of insignificant dreams are experienced by billions of human beings on this planet, every night, there is bound to be a handful of 'jackpots'. (If these never happened, then it would really be weird!)
Until those who claim that people have psychic powers can demonstrate that there is a real mechanism behind it - and yes, the onus is on them to provide empirical evidence if they make claims from certainty - the purported paranormality of such experiences will remain moot. [ Post made via Android ] Image