Dreaming of real places you visit later in life

Hello,

I have had this happen to me three times in the past. I would have a reoccuring dream of a certain location that at the time I thought was just dreamt up. Then later in life, I would visit a location and it was the place in my reoccuring dream. "This is the place I dreamt of" i would think to myself. I know I have never been to those places before dreaming of them.

One of the reoccuring dream was where I was floating in the ocean just off shore of the beach of a tropical island. The beach was actually not a sandy beach, but rocky with volcanic rocks. The beach was actually at a trialngular point of the island where a mountain range came down to it that allowed you to island on both sides of the mountain. I live in Hawaii, so at the time, I attributed this locale as a dreamt up location from my beach experiences here.

Years later after having this reoccuring dream, I mountained biked to Kaena Point on Oahu. It's a remote area that you need to hike or bike a few miles to get to. I had never been there before. But when I got there, I had this strange relaxed, calm, and content feeling. Then when I got to the very point, I looked towards the island/mountain, and it was the exact view I had in my dream years earlier. ( those of you who are familiar with the place know that it is a very unique view)

I have had this happen to two other places as well. What amazes me is that I dreamt up these locales exatcly as they are in real life (not similarly, but exactly) .

Redshift

Nex thing this happens you may want to write a detailed description or create an image of the location. I've often wondered about this. Welcome btw redshift!

dude I think this is how we have dejavu. I have had this happen soo many times in my life. The scary part is when the same thing happens in ur dream, that is happening in reality. I have done this b4 and predicted what would happen next. Just by remembering what happened in my dream. Its very freaky!!

It is sort of like Deja vu, yes. But is it really? I think it is even more mysterious than dejavu. My experience with dejavu is you come across a situation that you is oddly to familar, someplace you have been before, or something that you swore happened before. But all the times I had deja vu, I was not able to single out when, where, and if the first situation really happened. I believe it's mostly physilogical -- a release of some brain chemical or firings of synapses in the temporal lobe.

But with dreaming of places before going there, that is a little different. Because they were reoccuring dreams, I can specifically remember dreaming about the place in the past.

Just a thought...

I do this a whole lot. I think it's really neat, especially since I keep a dream journol. I can look back and say, " That's really wierd...". Anyway, I don't think it is an uncommon experience. Be happy you have had the experience.

I've dreamt of a place and then visited something that eerily resembled it later on, which immediately would spark a reaction. Is this some psychic phenomenon or just psychology, I don't know. I sometimes realized, though, that the place resembled the dream simply because the dream was fairly basic, and it was just a matter of time before, statistically speaking, I'd find something like it. Then again, I've had some pretty coincidental experiences...