Precognitive Dreams... Have you had one???

As ATS is a diverse community of individuals, with open minds and a wide variety of experiences, I was hoping to get a response to see if, or how many, people have had precognitive dreams.

A precognitive dream is one in which future events yet to happen appear in dream state, and later, those events do indeed come to pass. I am not talking about Déjà vu, where you get the feeling that you have been somewhere, or done something before, but rather, I refer to dream state occurrences, that accurately manifest at a future date.

Have you ever had a precognitive dream? More than once? Was the event foretold significant, or just ordinary? Did the dream have personal significance or was it more about someone else? What do you think is the cause or reason behind precognitive dreams?

You don't need to give specific details on what the dream was about. I am more interested in how many people have had this experience, and their thoughs about the experience.

I look forward to your responces.

YES. many times. But they are always of relatively insignificant things. At least to the world stage they'd be considered insignificant.

One example - I was married to one fella, but had a dream that I was married to someone I knew in childhood and that we lived in Massachussetts. Five years later ... I had divorced the fella I had married, had 'bumped into' the fella I knew from childhood, and we were married and living in Massachussetts.

I have dreams of things as they happen. For example - one night I woke up after having 'dreamed' that I was on an airplane, that there was a huge storm, that lightening hit the wing, that we were going down, and I could feel the fear and the panic coming from eveyrone on the flight. I remember a person about three rows up from me turning around in their seat and lookin directly at me .. into my eyes. I FELT everyones feelings. I woke up with a loud crack of thunder.

There was no storm where I was. However, when I turned the news on in the morning the top story was of a plane crash that happened during the night and that a storm had been raging and that lightening had hit the wing ....

I felt horrid. I had gone back to sleep instead of praying for the souls of those who had died. I knew the dream felt 'like one of those' that meant something .. yet I went back to sleep instead of praying for those who had just died in fear. I still feel guilty about that to this day and now when those things happen, I now do NOT go back to sleep but instead pray for the situation as I have seen it.

first time was in grade four, I was 10.
The whole dream played out infront of my eyes, exactly to a tee.
It was in class and involved Randell Beckstead and the Teacher.
I was just a watcher.
relatively insignificant but lasted a good 3 minutes

Right then and there I had a huge brain explosion.
What was the universe about if that could happen.
It was also around this time I decide to be a perpetual student.
Also around this time I asked myself how big was the universe and did it ever end?

Well in grade eight I had another one. This one I was also a participent.
My role was to throw a kick at Arthur Gogans burning branch.
I asked myself should I do what occured in the dream or should I not play my role?
Well we will never know the difference as I did play my role and the whole thing played out justs like before...relatively insignificant, but all the same a movie in motion. This one was only 2 minutes in length

As to significant ones.
well my story is weird and I am a medical professional and I cannot explain it. Sometimes I think I was a walk in. My first precognitive dream was in grade 2, I was 8. They were spaced apart by about six weeks, which was the first double dream I had ever had too.

It involved a red car, an accident, a near death experience and I had it twice.
when I awoke from the dream both times I felt like I was in a new body both times. I felt like my skin was 8 inches thick, and nothing "felt" right, every tactile sensation through the receptors of the body was "wrong"
so much so my parents looked it up in the encylopedia...and I would not leave my bed.
I hated the feeling of anything in contact with my body and the feel of the blanket was just sickening to me...so hard to explain...but like I had never been in a body before or it was a wrong body...
it only lasted 24 hours then it was gone.
I was not sick, no fever, no flu, no nothing except nothing felt right.
the best I could describe it now is a cross between spinal cord and being on mushrooms at the same time.


well that dream came true in 2003...broke my neck in three places, C2, C4 C5.
C2 fracture stats are 97% dead at the scene (C345 keep the diaphragm alive)
the other 2.9% are like chris reeves (God bless the man) and I am the incredible .1%...I even walk.
I am a invisible paraplegic...
and now I am a spinal cord survivor

Well the other thing that is odd is that the corner where the accident happened was the "dark corner" due to several other significant dreams that although not precognitive always made me dislike that place for no reason other then vivid dreams of it being an evil place.

its all true





[edit on 5-5-2007 by junglelord]

ive had this happen a couple of times...
three years ago I had a dream that I was going to have a son and his description was that exact of my bubs I just had.

I know dull..but he did ask for opinions and stuff

Yes. I have had dreams that have come true . They have all been just normal random experiences. Like meeting peolple at specific places or exact coversations with certain people and the dreams occur sometimes months before the event. But always, I might not remember the dream after a long time but when it comes true, I remember dreaming it.
The place, sounds, conversation all in detail and it's like...WHOA!~ major deja'vu....I've done this. I know where this is going.
Unfortunately it's only just snippets. No more than minute or two at most.

Also...it's not a constant thing. I've had perhaps 6 instances of dreams that have come to past in my lifetime. I'm 40 now so...not too often for me.

My wife has had it happened to her as well but she seems to be the opposite. Never had them as a child or young adult but as over the years she has had them happen more and more.
She seems to dream of deaths occuring and of relatives calling with specific conversations. My grandfather and her cousin passing were both experienced in dreams months before they occured.

I'm not certain how these kinda' things work...but I do believe that things are are meant to happen. No matter how mundain it might seem our interactions with each other have an effect which influences how other think and feel. We learn and grow from every experience good or bad.
I think that while we are here on this plane we can only access a small portion of our eternal spirit. Our waking consciousness. I believe though that through our dreams and through meditation we can touch more of our true consciousness and percieve happenings that are going to/meant to occur.

I've had many of these dreams as well, but they are also just random insignificant events. But even the fact that one could dream of random events that take place in the future was enough for me to realize that we know nothing about consciousness and how dreams/time work.

Yes, many times.

I used to chalk my experiences up to Deja Vu, but just recently became aware of the fact that a true Deja Vu experience doesn't involve "changing" the outcome of the experience as a result of knowledge acquired during the dream; as has been the result of many of my "precogs".

So far, all of my precognative dreams have concerned only my own life-course. None of my dreams have involved anything of "global" signifigance.

I have noticed that these precognative dreams have a different "feeling" to them. I can sense, as I am having the dream, that this particular dream will play itself out again, in my waking life, at some future time. But I have yet to be able to pin down when that future time might be.

I have also, on several occasions, experienced what, for lack of a better term, might be called a sort of "Spider-sense", a la "Spiderman". On those occasions, I've been "stopped in my tracks" by an immanent, impeding sense of danger.

On one occasion, this "danger-sense" caused me to completely stop at a green light, several seconds prior to having another car blow through the intersection against the red light.

Precognition, or a heightened awareness? Maybe a Guardian Angel?
I do not know, I do not care.

I DO pay attention!

I've had precognitive dreams many times. Nothing of real importance though...well not yet.

Tons.

Sometimes I dream that I am doing stuff with my friends, then later that day I'll go do stuff with my friends.

Sometimes in dreams I'm eating, then I wake up and I eat and it's like "dude, I totally predicted this."

Other times I see my mom in my dreams, then I go visit her during the weekend and it's just eerie that I predict that kind of stuff.

I remember one time I dreamed that I fell in love and about six months later I did, totally weird.

Amazingly enough, I've also had dreams about playing specific video-games, only to go on and actually play those video-games in real life. Paranormal? I think so.

Also, if you can believe it, I've had dreams about war, and wouldn't you know it that there are a lot of wars going on in the world! Strange.

I haven't yet decided if I should attribute my amazing powers to aliens or Jesus yet, maybe I'll go sleep on it.

Just an Update, of sorts.

I previously replied to this thread in general fashion. Now call it coincidence or merely the power of suggestion, but this morning I had a dream unlike any I have ever had before, and yes, it seemed to be of a prcognitive nature.

I was with a small (4-6) group of people. Oddly enough, I don't think I knew anyone I was with beyond having just met. We appeared to be hiking, or at least walking, in a scenic area. The landscape was rocky/mountainous on a bluff over-looking a "swimming-hole"-type lake/pond or river section. I recall pine trees and low shrubs, but the immediate area was rocky and somewhat arid.

The weather was spring-like; mild temperature (70-85 F) Clear, sunny sky, time was late morning to early afternoon 10:30AM-2:30PM. Hard to pin down the day of the week; felt like maybe a Saturday.

As we were walking, the ground starts shaking, knocking all of us off our feet, making it impossible to stand. The shaking continues, unlike any earthquake I have ever experienced; I'm from California.

Two of us, on our bellies now, catch a glimpse of the water 40-50FT below and note that it now bubbling and steaming, showing signs of significant geothermal activity. One of our party, a woman I think, noted, with alarm that we were seeing activity from "the Casacades fault (Casacadia fault?) down there". She urged us, in voice just barely controlling panic, to "get out of the area , go south", immediately. She then said that "This is just the start!"

Although this dream didn't "feel" like the precogative dreams I've had in the past, it certainly felt like a warning. And strangely for a Californian, I've never had dreams involving earthquakes before. These facts, and the details revealed by the dream made it seem like something I should get recorded.

"the strangest thing that has happenned to me recently was about 4 years ago, i was sitting in my apt with my girlfriend at night, talking, and her face appeared broken apart and bleeding, i said" Am i going to be involved too?"-she said "stop, your freaking me out", the next week we fell off of her balcony and she broke her face on the pavement...."
thats the last one i had. its quoted from my only topic on ats.

HI

Some good responses here, I thought I'd add mine...

When I was very young I had lots of Dejavu experiences, but I stopped having them as I got older. This is because I would stop them by doing something I knew didn't happen in my 'precognitive state' - like flapping my arms, or running in a circle!

I have also had vivid dreams, at a global level.

I once dreamt that huge ships, over a mile wide and 3miles long, were moving slowly over my house.

I had another dream where I was in a jungle environment, with oriental fighters, walking in a group. I was in some sort of guerilla war, and when I woke up, a few days on a war broke out in East Timor.

I also saw my son in a dream, about 10 years before I had my boy!

I dreamt of a triangular craft, around 1992 and I saw it in a show, in germany!

I think that significant dreams happen to all of us, when we are in a deep sleep state.

Did you now you have several dreams? like clips? its hard to remember all of them

Also I wanted to ask, does anyone ever see a very bright flash as they are drifting off to sleep?

I think that I had precognitive dreams, and I am me in the dreams, but I think I enter into another person's body, and I use their viewpoint, I believe, and see the event through their eyes, but witrh my sight.

I'm reading some dreams here and some of them don't seem precognitive at all, while some of you have had very vivid ones.

Anyway, let me give a few examples of my precognitive dreams. The last one was with an employer my father had for his business, she was a graphic artists. I dreamt that my father would be giving her a talk about something she did and she thought she was going to get fired. I dreamt this way before she was even hired...and about a month later, that all happened.

My last precognitive dream before that incident involved my ex girlfriend. About 2 to 3 months before I met my girlfriend, I had a dream about her. Not very romantic, I simply dreamed I snuck into this girls bedroom, whom I met the night before(in the dream) and we had sex. The dream ended as I was leaving the bedroom. About 2 or 3 months later I met my girlfriend, but didn't remember the dream until we got into an argument over something(can't remember what it was). Now, in reality, I never had sex with my ex girlfriend, but in the dream, guess who's face was on the girl I was having sex with? Bingo...my ex girlfriend.

I've had more dreams/events in the past, but can't remember most of them, only the recent ones. My precognitive dreams don't seem that way until it happens in real life and some of them seem very trivial though, lol. I've dreamt the world ended almost every year since 2004 coming to the end of the year, they're always very bad...believe me...if any of these do come through the way I dream about them...we're in very big trouble.

[edit on 9-5-2007 by sdrawkcab]

I had a dream the Queen died in a helicopter crash. The helicopter was coming into land and just stoped working and crashed into the floor in a big fireball.

Will it come true? I doubt it XD

The queen didnt die in the crash, the plane might have gone down but the queen won't

Only once i can remember. I had a dream that i hooked up with a girl that i hadn't seen for ages. The next night i bumped into her and we hooked up. Certainly not profound, but at the time i was rather impressed!

From the time I was in about 5th grade until I was about 19, I would have dreams that I would categorize as "unusual". They were very clear and emotional, but were irregular in interval and often mundane enough that the next morning I didn't pay any special attention to them. In many of the dreams, I was in scenarios that I did not understand, or at least didn't understand at the time.

Here is how it would play out-
I would have a dream, and it would be very distinct and vivid. Even if what was happening in the dream was mundane, everything would be very "bright" and lifelike. I could smell, hear, feel, everything. The thing that set these dreams apart is that it would feature a tremendous welling up of emotion. I could experience the emotions more so than anything else, even if it was just a minor anxiety, happiness, etc, the feeling of emotion was very distinct.

Now, mind you, they weren't long. These were relatively short dreams, maybe only playing out to 30 seconds or a minute in "real life" experience.

Then down the road, a month, 6 months, a year, 3 years, I would find myself living the experience that i had dreamt. As I began to remember it, the entire dream would play out in my mind, and then, in real life, the scenario would play out, often with me as the participant, sometimes with me as just observing something.

When I was young, it was very scary. I told no one about it, and to this day no one knows. Over time, as I realized that these dreams, and their recollections, never preceded anything particularly negative, I began to accept them. As they'd play out, I'd smirk and just go along with it, knowing that these didn't mean something bad was going to happen, they just seemed like a brief window into something to come.

In my late teens I began drinking very heavily and as I partied more and slept less, these dreams became more and more infrequent. At some point, they ceased altogether. Heavy drinking might not be the cause of the loss, but I have never been able to identify anything else that changed in that period of my life, so I have always felt that the two things were intertwined.

Originally posted by Terapin

........ Have you ever had a precognitive dream? More than once? Was the event foretold significant, or just ordinary? Did the dream have personal significance or was it more about someone else? What do you think is the cause or reason behind precognitive dreams?

You don't need to give specific details on what the dream was about. I am more interested in how many people have had this experience, and their thoughs about the experience.........

Have had several precognitive dreams.

Most were relatively insignificant with regard to the wider world, although I regard as significant the fact we are sometimes able to accurately foresee future events, regardless of their mudanity or otherwise.

Most of my precognitive dreams were about others although some have directly related to my own life. Many members of my family have experienced precognition.

What do you think is the cause or reason behind precognitive dreams?

Others may disagree, or may have different theories to offer, but to me, it seems the list of possibilities is quite small:

(1) the Future is preordained by something/someone and is generally inaccessible ........... although some people, some of the time, are able in ways not yet understood, to access this information in the form of dreams and/or visions/flashes, whatever.

or

(2) what we regard as 'the Future' is actually the Past --- in which case we are not 'alive' and progressing through linear Time at all, but are instead 'looking back' or 'remembering' our lives --- or perhaps 'a' life we once led.

Both are equally thought-provoking, imo.

I also have the very same 2 theories you do Dock6.

I sometimes think to myself, what if de ja vu is simply a memory of your past life.....and your past lives are simply this current life, being lived, over...and over...and over...and over again...maybe until you get something right?

this is a good thread, im very interested...

i have one question to all who reply...

when you start relizing that this is the dream and you know what is about to happen, have you ever changed it to make something diffrent?