Future Dreaming

I've been keeping a dream journal for years now and noticing that too many of my dreams have been slowly coming true. I usually have a sense of deja vu, then a rememberance that I dreamed that scene before. (which is the reading of the dream journal....and yup...its there) but its mostly in symbolism.

I'm curious to know who else has had dreams that eventually come to pass. Some are past life dreams, some are events that will happen very soon, and some are very far off. Most of them I still remember vividly and have reoccured.

What has everyone else had experiences with?

I think thats terrific that you keep a journal..I wish I was that disciplined to do that. I went to a psychic back in May and she told me to always keep a journal beside my bed, because dreams sometimes have messages, sometimes from your inner psyche, sometimes from passed love ones.
Ive never had a dream come true, but then, I usually forget a dream after a day!

Hey redsilas, I'm glad you brought this subject up. I have more or less the exact same thing. It happens in varying degrees -
Sometimes, It'll be just one dream that I remember, a big one, that comes true. Like when I dreamt about a plane crash thath happened, but a lot of the time I'll be going through the day seeing/hearing/thinking things and immediately realising that I had a dream about it. It feels, like you said, a bit like deja vu, but it amazes me sometimes, when I see/hear/think about 30 things I have dreamed about.

The funniest time this happened was when I woke up and watched "Family Fortunes", and almost every answer that came up, I had had a dream about earlier. Sily things like biscuits and hats......

I think i may start to keep a dream journal also. I dream a heap. Usually every night and i remember most of it (sometimes) else just half of it or bits here and there. But it would nice to look back on all the dream in my life.

Originally posted by Redsilas
I've been keeping a dream journal for years now and noticing that too many of my dreams have been slowly coming true. I usually have a sense of deja vu, then a rememberance that I dreamed that scene before. (which is the reading of the dream journal....and yup...its there) but its mostly in symbolism.

I'm curious to know who else has had dreams that eventually come to pass. Some are past life dreams, some are events that will happen very soon, and some are very far off. Most of them I still remember vividly and have reoccured.

What has everyone else had experiences with?

I once had a dream that was very apocolopytic (sp?) and it had in it a very strange guy dressed in a blue type arabic outfit-- now that I think about it he resembled that Matryaia guy. Anyway- in the dream, the antichrist has established his rule on Earth through a global television network... the sky was red and on fire and you could see satan's visage in the clouds... a very disturbing dream to say the least.

Whenever I've bothered to keep a detailed journal, I've been amazed at how much seems to come true. I also seem to go through stages of seeing things in my dreams exactly how they appear some time in the near future. Usually, the dream will be about trivial things, objects etc, which will appear the next day. I recognise them exactly as I saw them in my dream even if they are new or obscure things.

I've been doing a lot of lucid dreaming lately and am practicing concentration and manipulation of specific elements in the dreams. I can only manage the most simple tasks, but its definitely progressing.

Originally posted by Sian
Whenever I've bothered to keep a detailed journal, I've been amazed at how much seems to come true. I also seem to go through stages of seeing things in my dreams exactly how they appear some time in the near future. Usually, the dream will be about trivial things, objects etc, which will appear the next day. I recognise them exactly as I saw them in my dream even if they are new or obscure things.

I've been doing a lot of lucid dreaming lately and am practicing concentration and manipulation of specific elements in the dreams. I can only manage the most simple tasks, but its definitely progressing.

Ah, that happens to me too, seeing things exactly as your going to see them, things like pictures or walls or anything really.

I have been trying to Lucid Dream for ages......the last time it happened the first thing I did was climb a lampost........and then it stopped. I felt pretty stupid in the morning, wasting a lucid dream

I hate deja vu with a passion.

Originally posted by chebob Ah, that happens to me too, seeing things exactly as your going to see them, things like pictures or walls or anything really.

That's interesting, I've never heard of anyone having the same thing. Then again I haven't asked many people. I know it can get confused with deja vu when trying to explain, but its definitely different.

Originally posted by chebob I have been trying to Lucid Dream for ages......the last time it happened the first thing I did was climb a lampost........and then it stopped. I felt pretty stupid in the morning, wasting a lucid dream

I know what you mean! I just don't think in an opportunistic way when I'm lucid dreaming yet. Which makes me think that I haven't grasped it yet, because who wouldn't want to do all the neat stuff? I can make myself fly though, I really love that. Took me years to perfect it.

Sian



[Edited on 11-8-2003 by Sian]

I'm pretty good at remembering dreams, though I don't keep a journal. I remember dreams that occured years ago. Well, I guess I have futuristic dreams, sometimes, but only because I've spent time contemplating things I've read. Like not long ago I dreamed martial law already occured and I was to be executed, with my mom and other people, and it was weird. We would be randomly chosen torture devices and I was to be drawn and quartered (must be from history class... it doesn't really fit into the dream sequence). For some reason I was able to be crucified instead, so I'd rather that than to be split apart. Then there were guillotines, so being a whimp, I chose to be beheaded since it would be much quicker...
Yeah, my dreams never make any sense. Oh well.
I also get deja vu a lot, like even today I think.

Well I have very few dreams, but when I do have a dream they are sometimes abstract, but some are very real and have some form of psychic undertone. The two most promininent dreams was before the 2000 presidental elections (about two days before it). The first dream was wierd, and I didnt get it, but a year later I did. I saw in my dream people running and screaming, most coming out of clouds of smoke, ash, and paper. pieces of paper were all around, the most prominent was a shard of calender which had "September" on it. It was a city landscape, and when I looked up I saw a large building on fire, it looked familiar but had not real shape then a cliche extremely large building.
The second dream I hope does not come true. President Bush (mind you this dream was before the election, so its kindof two future dreams in one) is in the oval office doing a speech, I cant hear what hes saying, but hes talking, and all of a sudden a bullet busts through the window and into his head, blood smearing onto the camera and the desk. There was a sniper all the way acrossed the street on a rooftop.

Oh yes. And the journal is an excellant way of keeping track. I use to do the same. I'd take a thick spiral notebook and start each dream with the date I drempt it. After logging the jist of the dream I would enter a symbol (only I knew it's significance) to tell me weather or not I felt something with it, if it was very vivid or had smells and sounds with it, if I woke up feeling sick or emotional with vivid memories of it and most importantly, what my initial thoughts were BEFORE I tried to figure it out.
Then I'd leave a blank line.
From the back of the notebook (had to turn it upside down to do it of course) I would date and give the jist of everything that happened that I remembered dreaming about. Then I'd go back and find that dream and in that blank line I left open I'd add in the date it happened.
Pretty neat when you get alot of notebooks full and start comparing data.