Thread: My Non-lucid dreams almost ALWAYS include what will happen during the day.

This may sound weird but I started a DJ three weeks ago. Before, I always kinda sorta remembered my dreams but not really. Every night before I go to sleep and am going over the previous night's dreams in my journal there is always something in there relating to events that happened during the day. The first week was creepy but now I'm wondering if I'm just going over my journal to connect dots that aren't there. It's not like telling the future or anything, just what I should expect during the day more or less.

I'm going to make a guess and say that you have a fairly predictable routine and you tend to be aware of the following day's schedule.
Additionally I'm going to guess that some of the activities you might engage in require some degree of fore-thought and planning.

If my guesses are remotely correct it would be easy to see why you would dream about the activities of the following day. It's actually a common occurrence for many people.

For examply, tomorrow I know I will do laundry and drive my son to Aikido. I am also expecting rain tomorrow. Because of these expectations I may dream about rain or driving somewhere familiar or my son and these images would be a product of my forethought of future events.

One need not be a great prognosticator to predict future events. Still, it can feel weird to see the patterns and find how much detail your mind can put into a dream that plays out in your future actions.

Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense! My schedule is more or less predictable around these parts lol. Actually, my days are blending into each other.

I know exactly what you mean, though I'm sure my daytime activities are less risky.


Keep reading over the dreams and see if you can find other patterns. You never know what insight you'll gain, and it might even help you become lucid!

It's weird because it happens to me too but what happens in my dreams are completely random for instance in my dream an old school friend was just standing there and the next night my friend mentioned her just randomly. Ever since I have been thinking of ways that the brain could have predicted but have concluded it a coincidence. However I have had dreams like shopping for a pen and the next day I was missing a pen.

There are times that my dreams will happen on that day but not exactly the same but it's somehow nearly related and it makes me feel so creepy because I think I have visions on what will happen. For example, I dreamed that there's an earthquake on that the same day an earthquake happened in our place. Is that a coincidence or I really have a vision. But these things only happen sometimes.

It was interest in this type of possibly predictive dreaming, rather than lucid dreaming, which got me keeping a dream journal originally. J.W. Dunne, in a once famous book An Experiment with Time, claimed that this sort of thing happened to most people if they could only remember their dreams. He devised an elaborate theory to account for it. See An Experiment with Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
From my own experiences I have found only a very few correspondences of this sort.