Dream about sound before it happens

Hi Guys. I came across this site after looking for a few answers and it looks like the place to be.

I had a dream last night where I was handing a guy a booklet over a counter but accidentally bumped another booklet off the counter and on to the ground. Now at that exact point of hitting the ground, a piece of A4 paper fell off my bed side table onto the ground and I woke up.

The problem is, it took a few seconds to bump the booklet off the counter before it made the sound of hitting the ground. How did my mind know that the external sound was coming or did my subconscious hold onto the sound and only let me physically hear it once it had decided to set up a scenario in the dream.

I've also had gunshots and explosions in dreams that have woken both me and my missus up (so it was an external noise) that also had a lead up to in a dream.

Cheers guys
I hope you can help me understand what happened.
I've always been interested in dreaming but never knew that there were sites dedicated to dreaming.

Maybe it was a pre-cognitive or future telling dream glimpse? I have not had this happen but I find it fascinating. Because the sound happened in your dream BEFORE the actual physical reality of the paper hit the floor...right? I have had the crashing, loud, machinery type noises that often accompany the vibrations when I am entering a lucid state and fully awake...but not something that directly complemented or foretold an actual awakened sound.

The sound happened in my dream at the same time the paper hit the floor but the lead up to the book falling off (me pushing it closer to the edge) in my dream happened before the paper made a sound.
I have had extrasensory perception experiences in the past, mainly with family members.

Its still baffling me.

I am though, having fun reading about lucid dreaming and trying to improve on it. Dream journal here we come

Heh, I have had that before, just your sense being heightened during a dream. I can pretty much locate my cat in waking by the sound of her walking from within a dream, obviously I fail to do this every time while awake <.<

I have this all the time aswell, I think its becuase when the sound is waking us up we are still in the dream state for a few seconds therefore allowing us to both witness the noise and the ending of the dream. Once you have fully woken up it seems like the dream ended before the noise but in reality they happened simultaneously. At least that seems like the only logical expanation without adding future telling mumbo jumbo

Once I have read an explanation to this. First you hear an external sound and then it gets incorporated into your dream. Since it happens so fast, if feels like it could have been the other way around, when in fact, it's pretty much simultaneous, as "dutchraptor" mentioned. Happy dreams:)

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Originally Posted by mjr350

Hi Guys. I came across this site after looking for a few answers and it looks like the place to be.

I had a dream last night where I was handing a guy a booklet over a counter but accidentally bumped another booklet off the counter and on to the ground. Now at that exact point of hitting the ground, a piece of A4 paper fell off my bed side table onto the ground and I woke up.

The problem is, it took a few seconds to bump the booklet off the counter before it made the sound of hitting the ground. How did my mind know that the external sound was coming or did my subconscious hold onto the sound and only let me physically hear it once it had decided to set up a scenario in the dream.

I've also had gunshots and explosions in dreams that have woken both me and my missus up (so it was an external noise) that also had a lead up to in a dream.

Cheers guys
I hope you can help me understand what happened.
I've always been interested in dreaming but never knew that there were sites dedicated to dreaming.

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This has happened to me! But the time delays for me have been greater. For example, in my dream i am waiting by the door for someone I'm expecting. All of the sudden i hear a loud bang and the door burst open because the person has knocked it open. The external sound was my bedroom window that sometimes slams shut in a heavy breeze. How did my brain retroactively create the dream scenario where i was waiting for someone to knock, if the actual sound came after that scenario was played out? I do think the brain hears the sound and then goes back and sets up a scenario and chain of events that leads to the sound-causing event in the dream. But rather then this being a function of the brain delaying my hearing until it has time to set up the scenario, I have wondered if this is just an example of dreams operating outside time. In other words, the dream is not really occurring real time; rather, you could have heard that window shut, and then an entire dream about all sorts of events could be created and "dreamed" right there on the spot. It feels as if it has occurred in real time, but it hasn't. It's just synaptic event that creates an timeline illusion.

Perhaps the brain-delays-the-hearing-then-retroactively-creates-a-scenario explanation is better, but just a thought.