Thread: met someone in a dream before you met them in RL?

No. And if anyone said they did it is likely just someone who looks similar or they had met before briefly and forgotten about or an explanation like that if you ask me.

I just watched Disney's Sleeping Beauty the other night, so you don't want to hear my sappy, romantic answer.

This is a true story as told by someone else.

An Aboriginal dream interpreter told the story of how he dreamed about a bank teller who was planning on going on a vacation to a tropical paradise. From his dream, he remembered where she worked, her name, and what she looked like. But his dream also told him that she would be in trouble if she went on this vacation. When he awoke, he sought her out. Sure enough, a woman with that name worked at the bank he dreamed of, and she was indeed planning a vacation to the tropics somewhere. He explained to her that he dreamed about her and that if she took this trip, she would regret it. After careful thought, she took the man's advice and cancelled the trip. As it turned out, not taking the trip actually led her to her future husband, another man she met as a result of not taking the trip.

Interesting story. Like I said, it's a true story as told by someone else. I personally have not had one of these experiences, but I have had dreams where something in the dream, such as an event, comes to pass.

Originally Posted by Paradox-db3

An Aboriginal dream interpreter told the story of how he dreamed about a bank teller who was planning on going on a vacation to a tropical paradise. From his dream, he remembered where she worked, her name, and what she looked like. But his dream also told him that she would be in trouble if she went on this vacation. When he awoke, he sought her out. Sure enough, a woman with that name worked at the bank he dreamed of, and she was indeed planning a vacation to the tropics somewhere. He explained to her that he dreamed about her and that if she took this trip, she would regret it. After careful thought, she took the man's advice and cancelled the trip. As it turned out, not taking the trip actually led her to her future husband, another man she met as a result of not taking the trip.

That sounds like a flashback from the TV show LOST

Then I guess the TV show Lost, got their idea from this man, because this was about 6 years ago that this man told his story. How long has Lost been on the air?

Never had that happen with a person, but with a place. There are a large area of rental housing I work in regularly, and I had a dream I lived there with my family. The areas I work all pretty much look identical, but in this dream it had a very different layout, which I chalked up to the erratic nature of dreams.

But a couple of months later, I worked in a different area I'd never been before that had the exact layout that was in my dream. I knew the place from the dream, right down to the house where I lived, which I went to. Everything was the same, and I'm quite sure I've never been there before.

Well, almost everything. I didn't have to fight any skinheads in the parking lot, and there were no banshees trying to kill me, but other than that, it was the same.

I have a friend that claims he went AirSofting with a group of people he had never met (in a dream).

Apparently, the next week, he went to a big AirSoft event hosted by a very big organization, and the people from his dream ended up in his fireteam. He said they didn't just look the same though, but they had the same guns, said the same things, and had the same voices.

well who knows....I wont hold my breath to find her...but i have looked through my DJ and I had a dream where I was married...and that woman had a similar written description, but I cant recall if she really looked like that same girl. either way, thanks for the input guys.

Never happened to me.
But I nearly never know the people in my dreams by the way they look or names or anything. I identify them all by the emotions I feel when meeting them in my dreams, and then categorize them as friend or foe.

maybe-ish. so this girl ive seen like 1 time and dont know her at all or anything. but like i saw here like 4 months ago and like 1 month ago i had a dream i had a new art class and she was in it and i helped her with somthing but i cant remember what. and then like a few days ago i got a art class with her.

no there was a project once named Shared Dreaming Project - FAIL idea was that we would do something to a eiffel tower so that others would see it and recognize the person who did it but as i wrote it failed so go check it out http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=68037

I have had dreams like this before, but it was only of people id known about beforehand.
I have been having a load of dreams recently about a girl, ive never seen, heard or talked with before, yet I seem to know her really well and in all the dreams I'm in love with her and we're dating. It's weird stuff to say the least, but hell I'm enjoying it even if it does seem a little loser-ish haha

I saw something like this on an episode of House. I think what happens is you see a generic face in a dream, and when you see someone similar in real life your brain matches the two together and you "remember" dreaming about this person.

Could be wrong though. I don't really believe in psychic powers or precognition.

Well I know it's not the same but there will be people that I meet in my dreams that are people I've met online and have never seen a picture of, most of the time my idea of them in the dream will be wrong lol but once or twice it's been close. As for meeting someone that I've dreamt of, well I reckon all the people in my dreams are probably people that I have seen in my waking life, the thousands of people you see walking down the street, of course I won't remember but there will be some of them that I have thought about for a while, so then it's more likely that i'll meet someone i've dreamt of.

It is very strange, but a couple months ago i had a dream that this girl and i, were living in the islands. I work at a grocier store, and the next day i saw her and i could not take my eyes off of her. I wanted to say something, but i couldnt get the words out. At first i was stunned that this had actually happend to me. Well a couple weeks after that, i saw her at the store, and she had gotten a job there. after i clocked in i didnt see her, so i was a little sad, but then one of the managers told me to go stock this one shelf, normally im a bagger, so i go and start to stock, and she is right across from me stocking! i dont know what this means, but today was the 3rd time i saw her, she is a cashier, and i bagged for her for 3 hours, we didnt talk that much, but im hoping to get to know her, there is just something inside me that when i first saw her it was like love at first sight, i dont know how to explain it.

No I haven't but I have had dreams where people I knew said something, and then the next day they said that exact phrase.

yes that happends

Yes, but it's highly likely that I've probably just seen him before hand like just walking or something, not paying much attention to eachother in general. You can see someone before you've met them so...

12g951ad the shared dreaming thing is a bit different from what I'm talking about. That was based on forced attempts to meet people. The girl i've seen twice is just a natural occurance.

blahaha, I don't belive in all that psychic either, but I do think that a small percentage of dreams are visions. I've had a dream where the weather man on tv was talking about bad weather and tornadoes, and I went into the living room and asked my pops was that happening now...he said no. The next day there were storms everywhere and we had a couple of tornadoes.

In general, I think dreams are just dreams, but there are those rare occasions where they actually mean something.

I've had a dream like that, not too long ago either. Since in my dreams emotions are very dulled or I theres no sound etc, it's hard to describe. I knew that she loved me and I loved her, but something was holding me back. (I do have a girlfriend in RL, so thats what I would put my money on..). However, I DID feel like I'd known her since forever, and whenever I look back on the dream, like now, I still like feel like that.

I had. I meant a fortuneteller in a dream and saw him in real life weeks later.

Very wierd ...

it happened to me last month i had a dream much of it was vague but for some reason all i remembered was a face. A guy in a white coat. two weeks later at school i see this person...and it didn't hit me until a week later he looked so familiar and then that's when i remembered he was the same person from my dream...the thing is i don't know what it means. can someone help?

Ok so I know this is a little late, but I had this happen awhile back and I was hoping to find someone else who had this happen. And as I was searching I came across this and decided to check it out.

Ok so a few years back I had an extremely vivid dream of a girl around my age 17 at the time, whom I had never met. We hit it off in my dream and had a good little chat, mind you this was not a lucid dream. She was wearing a white, and red polka dotted bow, in her light brown hair that went down past her shoulders a few inches, wearing dark blue wranglers, and a pink blouse.

I never thought anything of it after I awoke other than it was an amazing dream full of plenty of emotion that I felt throughout the rest of the day.

About a week later I was at the San Antonio Stock Show with a few friends, just walking around and I noticed a bow that same color through a small crowd. So I went to check it out and there she was! she was showing a steer and was wearing the exact same thing, right down to the wranglers, and the blouse.

Now I have never ever met her before, ever, and never had I been to a stock show before. I stood there and stared in disbelief for almost 30 mins.

So just throwing that out there and thought it might be helpful.

This guy I used to work with told me a story about how he got his cooking job. He said he really needed a job bad, he had a dream of someone/something telling him to call such-and-such, at a specific time, and what to say, on a specific day. He followed the instructions and the place had just started hiring. They gave him the job.

I DO believe in psychic abilities and precognitive dreaming. This is why I said that all our minds are connected. It's just not so apparent right now.

I also think dreamscape...or the place where dreams take place, is possibly shared by humans as a whole, and taking place outside of time and space....infinity. I know this is a hard idea to grasp, most don't understand what infinity means, because it's not logical. We always think something has a beginning and an end. It's linear thinking, which is what we're taught in schools and such. Quantum physics is rapidly proving that this isn't the big picture.

I think shared dreaming may be possible, but both dreamers won't necessarily see the same things. But if what that guy says in that video has truth in it, and the dreamscape is really an ocean of dreamers thoughts, then that means certain thoughts attract to other thoughts. Law of attraction, here in waking life and in dreams. Maybe the dreamscape IS the astral realm?? As unbelievable as it sounds, it makes a lot of sense.

These are some interesting links you might like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDhoFt7tKoQ
http://www.robertpeterson.org/chap10.html
http://psipog.net/art-communicating-with-subc.html