Thread: my dream predicted the future!

I've had dreams where the exact scenarios would happen later. lol

Originally Posted by That

I've had dreams where the exact scenarios would happen later. lol

Same here. About a year ago I dreamt about something which happened a few days later, exactly like how it went in the dream.

fish don't mean someone is pregnant, sorry.

I've had a precognitive dream or two before. Like one where i dreamt about buying peanut butter ice cream to make a sundae with, and my mom bringing some home later that day. See: My Dream Journal

They're interesting, sometimes, though you never know they were precognitive until after the event occurs

I once had a very strange dream that seemed to predict the future... very long range in fact.

This dream occurred when I was in my teens (many years ago, trust me!). I dreamt of a very short dead end street nearby where I was living at the time. This street was real, but I had never been on it before... and the way it's situated it's sort of in a little tunnel in the woods with a dead end sign next to it... hard to even see the 2 houses that exist back there. I dreamt that I walked down this street, into the yard of the 1st house, which was made of brick or stone (in reality I had no clue what it looked like). There was a very narrow sort of trench running around the house right up against the walls, paved with stones and the wall of the trench was made of stones too. I walked around the first corner, to the side of the house, and the trench was getting deeper as I went, now about up to mid-thigh depth and slanting down as I progressed. I rounded the next corner of the house into the back yard, where the trench was about waist level, and saw that where I expected to see a valley filled with woods was instead a vast ocean extending beyond the horizon, and the entire sky was filled with pinwheeling galaxies and giant planets, all glowing and rotating before my eyes. It was breathtaking!! I woke from that, filled with a sense of awe and feeling like somehow it was an "important" dream. After that I was a bit curious about that house and the street, and tried to get a good look at it, but never really did.

Many years later my mom actually bought the house I had dreamt of!! It being just up the road from her house and a duplex (which I didn't know), she used money she had inherited from my grandpa and bought it as the landlady and let my sister move into the vacant side. My sister lived there right up until my moms' passing last year, at which time she inherited my mom's house and I got the duplex.

... Meaning, in other words, I now LIVE in this house!! In the side I dreamt I walked next to. It does in a sense have a narrow trench exactly where I dreamed it did... it's a sidewalk that turns into stairs going down the steep hill that is the backyard, with a little wall next to the stairway (just about mid-thigh depth). One day shortly after I had moved in I was walking down these stairs and suddenly remembered that dream, and noticed how similar the stairs were to the trench I had dreamed. And it's a brick house that sort of looks like stone... actually it looks like the Alamo a bit.

Then a really weird thing happened, that blew my mind. The room I set up as my temporary bedroom while I re-painted the room I wanted for my permanent one, used to be my niece's bedroom, from the time she was just a kid. The first night I slept there, I shut off the light, lay down in bed, and freaked out... because over my head, glowing in the dark, were hundreds of stars!!! She had attached a lot of tiny glow-in-the-dark star stickers to the ceiling, ranging in a big circular pattern out from the ceiling fan. You can't even see them until you turn off the light!

Glowing stars over my head... trench running around the house... too weird to believe!! I now think of this as my dream house.

that is insanely awesome!! im speechless!!!!!

It IS insanely awesome!! I can't tell you how weird it was as everything clicked into place in my head... I was hearing the Twilight Zone music!!

i can't imagine. don't you luv it when u remember a dream you had when you were younger. im 13 and last year i remembered a nightmare i had when i was 5. it was scary back then, but now i laugh cuz it was soooooooo stupid.

Some of my favorite memories are of old dreams. But hey, don't laugh... stupid things can be amazingly scary in a nightmare!

ok. at 5 yrs old being attacked by the lucky charms guy, hamtaro, oswald and weenie, and the captain crunch guy is amazingly stupid. but now its freaking funny as hell.

Moved to beyond dreaming.

Huh... can't imagine why it would belong there...

Shaquisha, I actually had a dream not long ago where I was chased by Kool Aid (only he was a battered old steel pitcher rather than glass) and something like a bottle of soda... and trust me when I say, it was scary!! At first I didn't think so... in fact I picked up Kool-Aid and turned him upside-down and stuck him on top of the soda bottle dude, but then I felt immense power starting to emanate from them, and I knew I was done for if I didn't get away fast!! Funny after you wake up yeah, but not funny while you're dreaming it!

true, but i got something important to say to you



OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! U GOT IT. i used that on my friend steven [i talked about him in my DJ] he didn't get it. maybe cuz he doesn't watch tv.

beyond dreaming? It's still dreaming

true

Nice post, I sometimes get the feeling that dreams, how they're played out, are all made from segments of the past and future. Thought there's no proof to back this theory up, but it's just something to think about.

I really think that deju vu feeling is caused from dreams you are remembering, especially the ones you can't readily remember. This happens to me all the time where I get a feeling that something is all too familiar, then I sometimes can remember a dream that mimics what I got the deja vu feeling about. Weird but insanely intriguing.

Originally Posted by shaquisha

i had a dream about fish [see in my dream journal] and i told my nana and she said that if you dream about fish, somebody's pregnant. so all day im wondering who around me can possibly be pregnant. so, im outside [cloudy day] with my friends and my 8 yr old cousin,elisha, who's visiting from jamaica, comes rushing outside saying that she got a call from her dad telling her that her dog is gonna have puppies.

weird.

Shaquisha:

I hate to say it, but your dream in no way predicted the future, because the event you described already happened when you had the dream -- the dog had to have been pregnant before you went to sleep, after all. You simply did not find out about it until later, but it had already happened.

You might have had a flash of clairvoyance, which is also very cool, or this might have simply been a coincidence, which is likely, but not so cool. In any case, except for the fact that you hadn't yet learned about the puppies, the future never entered this dream.

Also, as Ninja9578 said up there somewhere, dreaming of fish does not mean that someone is pregnant. I'm not sure where your nana got that from.

Sorry for this unhappy note, but is it really a good thing to believe, and announce to the world, a thing that is simply not true? I don't think so. I didn't want to say anything -- that's why it took me a week, but it was bugging me...

Sageous,

Four points:

Suppose that I dreamed of orange slices, are concluded upon awaking that this predicted a train accident, and later that day there was a train accident in my city. Would you dismiss it as meaningless on the grounds that orange slices don't relate to train accidents? The key thing is that she had it in her mind that there was a pregnancy based on the dream, and then there was a pregnancy. The dream symbol itself is almost completely irrelevant.

The 'future event' that was predicted was hearing from her cousin about the pregnancy. You object that the dog was already pregnant. But she would have no way of knowing that through normal means. So if she wasn't seeing the future, she was instead aware of something remotely. So this objection amounts to dismissing a paranormal phenomena because there is a possible explanation involving an equally paranormal phenomena.

This leaves the question of whether or not it was a meaningless coincidence. From a strictly objective, sensate standpoint, it could easily have been. Consequently, it would be irrational for another person to conclude that it was clairvoyance based on the objective sensate evidence. But the person who experienced it has another kind of evidence also - they feel the connection between the dream and the event of hearing about the pregnancy. That feeling is not a kind of evidence that can convince another skeptical person, because a person could be lying about the feeling, or they could be fooling themselves, creating the feeling in reaction to hearing about the pregnancy. But such a feeling is a significant kind of evidence for the person who has the experience, and who has a degree of honest experience with interpreting their own feelings. In fact, the feeling is where the dream comes from to start with. All of my premonitions are like that. I don't "see" anything, I feel it, then I construct a dream image from the feeling.

If I had dreamed of the fish, then had that experience, I would not have considered the feeling to be sufficient evidence of forseeing the future. But if I had such experiences every night for a long period of time, and many of them were objectively were far, far less likely to be coincidences, then I would begin to trust the feeling and regard it as a premonition. I'm not in a good position to say how much evidence should be enough for someone else though. To me, "wrong" would be if the other person, in desiring to convince other people of the reality of their premonition, lied about the dream image to make it sound more convincing. As it is, I don't understand the harm in relating one's own interpretation of the experience, while providing an honest recounting of what happened so that another person can judge for themselves. Granted the emotional intemperance is 'wrong'. But the world is jam packed with wrongs a lot worse than that. Emotionally we're all wrong about something most of the time, but we still have to live and feel anyway.

Regards.

Here's a few of my own premonitions. Some of these have plausible 'rational explanations', some do not.

1. I dreamed of standing and watching a train derailing. A few hours later a train derailed north of L.A. after someone intentionally left their vehicle on the tracks, killing several passengers. I'd never been to L.A., but my sister typically commuted on that same train.

2. I dreamed of being in a western town near a 'Kobe Bryant' themed entertainment center of some sort, and being afraid to go to the place where I go for 'deep' dreams. A few hours later a train derailed north of L.A., further east than the first accident, but sort of on the same line. This time the conductor had made a mistake while texting, and several people were killed.

3. During a nap I dreamed of shotput sized metal blobs smacking against the side of a small building. I picked one up and tossed it though a large opening in the side of the building, striking a metal contraption which vibrated and flew apart. There was then a gong as if heralding a disaster, and I went to a long, thin adjacent building to rescue children. Upon awaking I e-mailed the dream to my brother. A few hours later a passenger jet's engines were wrecked by a bird strike, but it landed safely. There was more to that dream, which I'll post later. I've had other dreams of accidents besides these also.

4. I dreamed of a sky filled with balloons. After waking I turned on the TV and saw a sky filled with balloons. I give this an example of a trivial premonition such as I've had in very large numbers.

I've got many more, but I'm out of time. I'll add more later.

Shadowofwind:

Originally Posted by shadowofwind

Suppose that I dreamed of orange slices, are concluded upon awaking that this predicted a train accident, and later that day there was a train accident in my city. Would you dismiss it as meaningless on the grounds that orange slices don't relate to train accidents? The key thing is that she had it in her mind that there was a pregnancy based on the dream, and then there was a pregnancy. The dream symbol itself is almost completely irrelevant.

Agreed. But with that in mind, I would say that it was Shaquisha's nana who "predicted the future," given that the fish interpretation was hers, and not Shaquisha's... something to consider there. Otherwise, a fine point, and I'd go right along with an individual making their own interpretations, for just the reason you said (indeed, I believe that is the only way dream interpretation can work).

The 'future event' that was predicted was hearing from her cousin about the pregnancy. You object that the dog was already pregnant. But she would have no way of knowing that through normal means. So if she wasn't seeing the future, she was instead aware of something remotely. So this objection amounts to dismissing a paranormal phenomena because there is a possible explanation involving an equally paranormal phenomena.

I'll stick with my guns here, because the future event was literally that someone was going to be pregnant; not that someone is pregnant. Semantics, I suppose, so I won't defend my obviously weak stance, aside from repeating that it was nana who made the prediction, not Shaquisha.

This leaves the question of whether or not it was a meaningless coincidence. From a strictly objective, sensate standpoint, it could easily have been. Consequently, it would be irrational for another person to conclude that it was clairvoyance based on the objective sensate evidence. But the person who experienced it has another kind of evidence also - they feel the connection between the dream and the event of hearing about the pregnancy. That feeling is not a kind of evidence that can convince another skeptical person, because a person could be lying about the feeling, or they could be fooling themselves, creating the feeling in reaction to hearing about the pregnancy. But such a feeling is a significant kind of evidence for the person who has the experience, and who has a degree of honest experience with interpreting their own feelings. In fact, the feeling is where the dream comes from to start with. All of my premonitions are like that. I don't "see" anything, I feel it, then I construct a dream image from the feeling.

If I had dreamed of the fish, then had that experience, I would not have considered the feeling to be sufficient evidence of forseeing the future. But if I had such experiences every night for a long period of time, and many of them were objectively were far, far less likely to be coincidences, then I would begin to trust the feeling and regard it as a premonition. I'm not in a good position to say how much evidence should be enough for someone else though. To me, "wrong" would be if the other person, in desiring to convince other people of the reality of their premonition, lied about the dream image to make it sound more convincing. As it is, I don't understand the harm in relating one's own interpretation of the experience, while providing an honest recounting of what happened so that another person can judge for themselves. Granted the emotional intemperance is 'wrong'. But the world is jam packed with wrongs a lot worse than that. Emotionally we're all wrong about something most of the time, but we still have to live and feel anyway.

Fair enough, on all counts. Save one. Yes, if it happened all the time, with consistent results, then sure, the dreamer would believe in her ability. But that is if it happens all the time. If it happens once, with a questionable foundation (nana's fish interpretation), is that really enough to make it true, even if you heartily believe it? What if it was just a coincidence, and Shaquisha chooses to consider it real, and then justifies that decision by "remembering" other dreams that predicted the future, until she begins to have a real problem determining what's real and what isn't? Pretty extreme, I know, and I do understand that this sort of thing is probably just the sort of event a kid should be excited about -- as a standalone it's harmless and lets the person know there might be much more to the world. But to approach it with zero skepticism, and to eliminate other much simpler explanations (like coincidence) is not terribly responsible.

That said, I do need to mention that my dreaming adventure began with a very similar situation: When I was about 13, I had a dream about a girl I had a crush on during a vacation 6 months earlier. I had never dreamed of that girl once during the 6 months, and expected never to hear from or of her again (she lived on another coast). But that day, literally minutes after I woke from the dream, a letter arrived from her. I was very impressed!

P.S. Shaquisha: If you're reading this, please don't take my arguments too seriously. Be excited! Welcome dreams that might mean something, but be careful not to get carried away!

Nice coincidence. I'd like to hear from those though who have had visions of specific events. I mean by that, how many times have you dreamt about fish in your life? People come on here and say I dreamt about Pizza last night and then I had pizza that day!! I saw the future! We dream every night depending how old you are thats a lot of nights, a lot of things can happen by coincidence. How many times do we find people are pregnant in our life? Often, and when you expand the circle even further out of your immediate connections of people (to people who are not really connected to you, and even further animals) even more occurring. Let's calm down on saying we predicted the future, the most logical thing is it was a coincidence. Like when a man is skydiving and falls 10,000 feet without a parachute and somehow miraculously survived. Do we say Gods hand grabbed him and laid him to the ground safely, or do we say he got lucky? (hitting the right branches landing the right way) Just for example, the odds of that happening are probably minute, but millions of people skydive each year, so by odds 1 person would survive miraculously. We don't say God saved that person we say it was the odds.