Thread: Can lucid dreaming give one a better understanding of the future?

I have without attempting to, had dreams about the future, that did come true. On one instance it was as simple as going to a wal-mart when I was out of town to get a toothbrush. Another time I was in jail, and my best friend found out I had slept with his girlfriend.

So my only answer for you is that i have definetly seen the future in my regular dreams, and I am not that great at lucidity in my lucid dreams to seek out the future, but I have a guess that it is possibility

Dreaming about an event and then having it happen later at some point is not the same thing as seeing the future with dreams.

But it is the same thing as seeing a possible future

I'm going to have to ask... Think, did you write down those dreams that happened later or in any way record them? So that you could, after the event took place, look back at your journal and see that you indeed had dreamt that?

Otherwise, it was just a deja vu. I have them alot. At first I thought I had dreamt them before. Just today, while I was eating with my family, when I pulled the rice towards me, I got the feeling that I knew it had happened before.
I don't get it as much anymore, but back in the day, I got these long ones, where I could say while it happened "Wait, I've seen this before..." And before it would end, I would get the feeling I could say exactly what would happen next.

What I mean is, dreaming happens inside your head, uses information from inside your head, etc. (as far as we now :0) So how should it get, read, understand information from the future?

And actually, even though I don't believe in God, I do believe you can communicate with your God. Meaning that when you find him in your dream, you could get any answer about what you actually feel about something. Like what you think you should do in a future situation or anything like that, that you're uncertain of in waking life.

I read of a method to use dreams to catch glimpses of the future. I can't remember the name for it right now though. It basically was like dream incubation, suggesting to yourself that you will have a dream of some future event ... and just like that you have a prophetic dream.

Not sure about the God thing, of all the dreams I've had I've yet to come face to face with some god like being.

There are people out there who believe such things are possible, not only through lucid dreams but through regular dreams, or even meditation. Perhaps give the Beyond Dreaming section of the site a read. Maybe you'll find someone in there who has had the experiences you're wondering about.

One acting as a 'soothsayer' cannot be involved in the proposed future. Why? Simply because by proposing a potential future you may programme your subconsious to direct you toward that future. As this happens subconsciously, unaware to your conscious, you may then feel surprised when that future turns into the present.

I do wish to believe in such things, however.

I will answer with yes, on both reported occasions I did actually write them down.

The first one was just so ackward that when I woke up I had to write it down, becuase I had had deja vu so much in my life, and I have had past dreams that I thought were connected to it.

So yeah I did write them down, the one about wal-mart and a toothbrush, and the one about being in jail sitting on the step freaking out.

Now I can tell you that many regular dreams I have I think might come true haven't (yet). The second thing is that there is no good time frame for when the event could happen it is really random, and both times it snuck up on me, I wasn't waiting for it. To much time had passed and the dream wasn't on my mind anymore until it happend and I realized I had wrote it down to prove to myself.

Right now I'm waiting on a dream I had to come true, that I think has gone stale. It was a cop knocking on my door I had it about a month ago, it was really clear because I was standing in my bathroom looking from the window after I heard the doorbell ring.

**Weird Thing**

A week or two after the dream I found out the police came to my house looking for me on a warrent, but I wasn't home. I knew I had a warrent for not paying my fines since Feb. so it might have just been my sub-concious warning me. I don't know.

All I know is that I have affirmativly had dreams about the future, their significance and timeing is unknowable, and I did not attempt to see the future when going to sleep at all. Just like my natural lucid dreams, these were also natural.

As a side note, I posted a dream I had about my best friend getting shot the other day. That night he went to jail and we don't expect him back soon.

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