Premonition In Dreaming?

**DoubleUp** · 09-30-2010 09:43 AM

So, I don't want this to sound like the stereotypical, "Am I Psychic?" thread, but ever since I can remember I dream of events and places in my life and more often than not, these events come true. For example, I had a particular dream in which I was talking to two people but neither of them had faces (as in no matter how hard I tried to make out their features, it was impossible), however I could make out their clothing and the surroundings in near perfect clarity. There was bright lighting and quite a few people and the only person I could clearly see was my room mate who was in my periphery to my right.

Two weeks later my room mate and I went to a gaming tournament that was set up on campus in a massive room. We went to check it out and my room mate introduced me to two guys who had met earlier in the semester. The two in question turned out to be some buddies of his and the missing faces to the dream. The moment they stepped in front of me I had an intense feeling of Deja Vu. I looked directly at them and in comparison with the dream, their clothing matched, their heights matched, the lighting matched, the room was full of people because of the tournament, and more importantly, my room mate was in the right side of my peripheral view.

I have had numerous of these random and off the wall dreams with faceless people that have come true. I once asked a psychology professor about the events that I had foreseen and he simply stated that when one dreams of realistic events it is possible that our actions will "tip the odds" in our favor of completing certain actions that will lead us to the location and event we have foreseen. Therein lies the problem. None of the things I have seen are on a grand scale; they are not visions. None of the things I have seen are in any way the result of my actions. I find it hard to believe that I can sway things in my favor to meet those two faceless figures in real life when i have no idea how to.

Anyways, I guess my real question is, what do you guys think? Do I have an unusual and somewhat useless gift? Am I off my rocker? Or is there another answer to all this. Thanks!

**Philosopher8659** · 09-30-2010 10:40 AM

Well, questioning one's sanity is a start, because the truth of the matter is difficult.

Would you say that the function of sentience is to "turn the past into the future and bring the future to pass" ? Which is another way of saying that we learn by experience.

It is not useless, nor is it a gift. It is a question to you. The answer is important. What is the purpose of the human mind, and is it doing that job now?

How important is it to the survival of man that it does a particular job? Can man ever be free if the mind never attains to doing its job?

Visual metaphor, you have to learn to say what you see. Faceless people "They percieve not." And it is true. The two items are directly related, and so is 'opening the eyes of the blind.' or you can go back to Adam and Eve, which is a metaphor also, how were their eyes opened? And was it really a bad thing.

Oh, and visions happen when awake--you have no preperations, dealing with, I guess you could say, emergencies. It is explained somewhere in scripture. Lucid dreaming and visions are from the same source, but the one is while you sleep and the other when awake. If you have both, it is to fulfill Law. They are two witnesses to something which is also given in scripture. However, no one will probably believe you, which is really nothing to be concerned about.

**Zephyrus** · 09-30-2010 10:41 AM

Your just one of the millions of people who have a unusual and useless gift. it runs in my family, but i dont have it

**Picconepks182** · 08-20-2015 04:53 AM

I have been having similar things happen like that to me as well. For a long time I ignored them an didn't tell anyone. Then I realized that after I had these mundane deja vu dream into reality episodes something in life went wrong at first weeks after deja vu then progressively days after deja vu episodes. The more vivid an memorable the deja vu the bigger impact whatever went wrong had on my life. The most recent an really my breaking point into telling anyone who will listen about what I'm experiencing has altered my life forever. Although I consider myself a man of science an desire logical explainations an would not believe it unless it was happening to me. If anyone has experienced anything like this please let me know. I'm looking for answers

**LadyGalaxy** · 08-20-2015 03:12 PM

The same thing happens to me, except I don't think I get them in dreams. For example, I was walking somewhere, and I overheard two people talking about something. I was absolutely convinced I had heard this conversation before, and that I had seen it in this exact place with these exact people. Another one would be going to class and finding out that we would be learning something I thought we had already done and taken a test on. I asked my friend about it, and she said we hadn't even begun learning this, much less taken a test on it. It's happened to me a lot over the years, and it's really confusing. There's honestly no scientific explanation for this that I have found... but lots of people seem to experience the same thing, wether it's in dreams or just weird deja vu moments. My friend said she experiences them as well.

**EbbTide000** · 08-20-2015 04:56 PM

Picconepks182 and LadyGalaxy

I met Art Funkhouser in 2008 at his old PsiDreams Yahoogroup forum. His lifes work is in this field.

Check-out my thread called:

http://www.dreamviews.com/beyond-dre...nes-story.html

Here is post 2

Originally Posted by Chimpertainment

So, you had this dream before you got the email?

Sometimes, actually, a lot of times I will have dreams that coincide with events of the following day. Im not sure how to take it. I know its based on some kind of spiral pattern but the possibilities make me dizzy...spiral

Post 3

Originally Posted by EbbTide000

"Art" is the founder of the very first site I posted in, on Saturday 1-March-2008.

The site is called (PsiDreams) yahoogroups.

In the YouTube (below) Art is being interviewed.

Anthony Peake interviews Dr. Art Funkhouser

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJA9...e_gdata_player

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****(29:52) 637 views in 4 month to now Friday 27-Dec-2013.

Post 4

Originally Posted by EbbTide000

About the YouTube in last post:

The "Show more" of the Youtube reads:

ByAnthony Peake
Aug 12, 2013

Dr Art Funkhouser, MSE, DTSc, BS,

is American born and has lived in Switzerland since 1973.

An MIT physics graduate, his early work was in holography and then in metrology.

He earned his doctorate in the field of digital picture processing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1979 and worked as a physicist in the eye department in Bern, Switzerland.

He is also a trained psychotherapist from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich graduating in 1981 (thesis dissertation on déjà vu and dreaming).

Since then he has had a private practice as a therapist in Bern;

He has led workshops in dream work in Switzerland, Australia and the U.S., and been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
He has become one of leading authorities on deja vu and has contributed to déjà vu terminology and theory.

Art runs the "Deja Experience Research" website at*

Welcome to the Déjà Experience Research Website.

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I think I am going to (slowly) transcribe the half hour Youtube.

Post 5

Originally Posted by EbbTide000

(1:30)

Interviewer: Anthony Peake

What I'd like to do firstly is to have Doctor Arthur Funkhowser to explain a little about his background. Because, unusually, in this area, Art is a physicist as well. And what I'd like him to do is explain a little about his background. And then we'll get to talking about Déjà vu generally.

Art

Ok, my first degree was in physics, at the MIT Boston in 1962.

I worked for a time as a physicist at the Bureau of Standards in the United States.

But

I had, in the back of my mind, some outstanding Déjà vu experiences that I'd had as a teenager and these would not leave me alone.

Then I discovered that I was much better workkng with people than working with lasers. So I decided to do a training at the Jung Institute in Zurich that's what brought me to Switzerland. And since then I have been seeing clients and working with dreams.

In my Déjà vu experience, for me, they were very clearly connected to dreams.

(2:44) more later Dreamviewers.

Post 6

Originally Posted by EbbTide000

In my Déjà vu experiences, for me, they were very clearly connected to dreams.

(2:44) more later Dreamviewers. Continuing. ..

And maybe my working with dreams stems from my experienceses back then. I did my diploma work back then on Déjà vu and everything I've done since then is drawn from that.

What else do I need to tell you?

Interviewer: Anthony Peake

I think it would be interesting, because your papers are the ones that I actually read. One or two of the Déjà experiences you actually had when you were a young man I always found them fascinating.

Could you tell us a little about those experiences and (...)

Art

Ok

I've had two that have stayed in my mind ever since I had them.

The first one occurred when a bunch of boys from our neighborhood decided to invent a new game. And in this game we would play hid-and-go-seek on bicycles. And so one of us went of to hide on his bicycle. Then the rest of us went off through the niebourhood to find him.

It didn’t take long though before we discovered that this was not a good idea. The niebourhood was far too large. There were far too many places to hide. And so we gave up.

And a bunch of us were riding back to, towards were I lived at the time. And suddenly I knew this experience.

I knew I was on this bicycle with these others. And shortly we'd be taking a turn and there would be the house, were I lived.

And this fellow would be on the lawn of my house laying down

And I knew that was going to happen. And by George! It did.

(4:49) more later. ..

That's as far as I got in transcribing. But click the link to the Youtube in post 3 then visit Art's "Deja Experience Research" website in post 4.

**Intet** · 08-23-2015 01:45 AM

The most plausible explanation for this is that when you remember these dreams, your memories of waking events mix with the memories of the dreams to make you remember the dreams as being closer to the real events than they actually were. For example, in the dream where there were two people with your roommate standing to the side, it might be the case that the clothes the people were wearing didn't match the clothes your roommate's friends were wearing at the gaming tournament. Instead, once you saw the people at the tournament and they reminded you of the dream, aspects of the scene at the gaming tournament came to contaminate your memory of the dream. Memory isn't like replaying a video; it's more like retelling a story you've heard. Memories change when they are accessed, and new information can leak in and create false memories or parts of memories.