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

I have three questions. They all basically continue eachother.

So I've always been told that dreams have been known to hint people about their future and sometimes even explicitly show a person an event in their life [usually a significant one] that hasn't happened yet. Would this be possible to intentionally find in a lucid dream? Like lets say I wanted to know what my family is going to be like when I am older or if I'll even have one at all, would I be able to obtain this information through a lucid dream or do these previews of our lives have to come on their own?
And secondly, I think my fear of dying would be a lot smaller if I knew what to expect. So lets say that you're one of the people who tell me that my dreams WILL be able to give me information about what's going to happen in my life, would it be able to answer the questions I have about death also?
I was also wondering if anybody believes that you can use lucid dreams to communicate with God, if you believe in him of course. I personally do but sometimes I wonder if he's listening to my prayers. I would love the chance to literally talk to him and listen to what he has to say instead of waiting for some mysterious sign to appear and especially recognizing it. I don't think a person like me would be able to tell the difference between God subliminally answering my prayers or a random event happening in my life. If you believe in him, do you think communicating to him through a lucid dream would be possible?

haha I know, I want to do some pretty out there things with my dreams, possibly even some unrealistic things. but I thought I would ask anyways.

Dreams are mainly the orchestra of one's internal stimuli and subconscious. So if you are in tune with your dreaming you can open pathways to understanding your subconscious or baser self better.

Time does not exist outside observers, so any future is entirely from your perspective anyway. Time certainly is a messy subject from our limited understanding, but if premonition was possible we would have evidence, not hearsay, and it would affect our understanding of time.

With changes in your mental state you can overcome your fear of death, however there is no magic answer in your dreams about life and death. Dreams are internal so I wouldn't count on being able to get external answers with them. This applies to getting answers from whatever your view of 'god' is. If your god is an internal, personal god then perhaps it is possible. Assuming of course that your god is reality.

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.