Thread: Dreaming the future. Is it lucid?

I have 3 things to address in the post, hopefully someone can help me out with any of it. Thanks for talking your time to view this also.

1. Ever since I can remember I've been having dreams of 5-15 second clips of the future (I am 20 years old now). It is very different from the feeling of "deju vu" where you feel like you've been somewhere or have done something before. So, if you believe you were witnessing future events, but the dream was not controllable, would it still be considered a lucid dream, or something different?

2. On the next note, I've been having odd lucid dreams (My first really lucid dreams, I should add.) I trigger myself into them by concentrating extremely hard on the thought "When I wake up, I will be dreaming". Surely enough, when I am in the dream I realize it by wondering how I got there. The one thing I always want to do is fly, and I try flying, and I can, but as the dream goes on I seem to lose the power and my flying ability goes from full control, to less, to minimal, to not being able to fly at all anymore. The same thing applies if I do anything else, It's like I am losing control over the dream but I still know I am in it and I know I should be able to control it. Does anyone have tips on how to stay in control, or does it need to just come with the practice and time? I've had 2 lucid dreams like this now...

3. I've seen people on here mentioning an "Above Essence" technique on how to find your guides in a dream, but couldn't find any information on it. Could someone point me in the right direction to see what exactly that is all about? I am very curious as to find my "spiritual guide" or an inter-dimensional spirit or animal in my dream, but I don't know where to start. Unrelated to this, around 8 months ago, I randomly get overwhelmed and my eyes water like I'm crying, usually when I am driving somewhere. Seems to be less than 2 weeks later that a horrible event happens, like hurricane Katrina, and the gulf oil spill. Could this mean anything? I understand there's a great possibility it's just coincidence, it just is so bizarre.

Thanks for your time and help everyone. I will continue my journey for answers as I have been. I hope the best to you in all your journeys. I just kinda realized the title I put kinda doesn't fit as a topic to this post in a way, sorry about that. I wish not to discuss the validity of my posts, I know what I believe and what I don't. If what I am saying offends you or you do not believe in this sort of thing, please click off the page.