Okay, well, I have a dream, and it's about normal life, so you usally just forget about those. Well, I usally have a dream about somthing completely normal right before I wake up. I have nothing of the dream I can recall when i wake up, except a brief glimpse, and it sinks further and further into the back of my mind, and I can't remember it. So, this all happens in a matter of seconds. Well, AFTER I have the normal dream, the REAL thing happens in every detail! I've just realized that I've seen the future! It's been happening since as long as I can remember. Anyone else have this happen to them?

I know what your talking about to a degree. I sometimes have dreams of things that will happen to me but thier only about 2-5 second glimpes of what will happen. Nothing important was ever shown either.

Dreams have nothing to do with future.

yeah! Exatly! lol nice avatar funi!! Anyone ever seen the movie dodgeball? Looks like the storm trooper's got the idea of the advice that patch the dodgeball coach said quote" When your in a competition, you gotta grab it by the haunches *make motions with his arms* and hump it into submission!" How do ya get an avvie anyway?

prophecies do not come in dreams. what? you thought my screen-name did not mean anything?

Ok, your obviously taking what I said as gospel. The extent of what has been shown to me is for example one time I had a dream of me and my friend running down a street and he was wearing a bright yellow soccer jersey and there was a loud slapping noise of his flip flops hitting off the road, this happened in reality a week later. I was around nine when this took place. I'm not saying these "visions" if you will, mean anything or know how they came to be or really care why they happen. They all mean nothing as far as I'm concerned but happen from time to time. They lose thier novelty quickly.

i've had a dream about a girl (keep reading this doesn't get explicit )who i went to school with for 7 years, but when i had the dream about here, i hadn't seen her for roughly 2 years. anyway in the dream, i saw her riding this small car, and i went up to her and talked and she told me to come over... i woke up a little while after that, and when i woke up it was like i missed her.. it was a strange feeling, i can't describe it. I got bored so i decided to rent movies, when i went to the video store a few hours later, wouldn't you no it, she was there...


any similar experiences?

yeah i have read alot about this subject. i remember that it mentioned everyone sees the future in there dreams. it just so happens that about 3/4 of us dont remember and the remaining 1/4 rfer to it as deja-vo

Do you have any links, sounds interesting....

There was actually a psychologist back in the 1930s (I think) who studied this phenomenon. Sorry I can't remember his name. Might have been Nandor Fodor, but I'm not at all sure.

Anyway, he started keeping track of his dreams and discovered that events from the future influenced them in the same way that events from the past did. For example, you can imagine seeing a really horrid dress in a shop window and then having a bad dream that you're wearing this awful dress and embarrassed by it. Nothing odd about that. The strange part is that, if you keep track, you might find you have the dream about wearing an awful dress one night and then see the dress in the shop window the next day.

The psychologist said, if I remember correctly, that it is a very subjective thing to research and the only real way to study it is to try it yourself. Keep a pen or pencil and a notebook by the bed and start recording your dreams as soon as you wake up, so that you remember as much as possible of them. Then go back and try to figure out where the different elements came from. If you experience deja-vu, go back and check your dream log to see if you've dreamed about whatever it was that triggered it.

I tried this myself. For what it's worth, I was convinced. Here's my own very odd "dreaming the future" story.

A couple of weeks after I started keeping a dream log I had a dream that I decided was too embarassing to write down (though now I tell everyone about it! ). I dreamed that a friend of mine, a very openly gay man whom I shall call "Nick", was standing in a parking lot. It was like he was on display. A long line of cars was driving through so that the people could look at him. He was annoyed and to express his displeasure he, um, waved his penis at them.

The next day Nick, whom I hadn't seen for some time, stopped in to where I worked. He was talking to another friend (and I was thinking, "gosh, I'm glad he doesn't know what I dreamed about him last night!") and I got involved in a conversation with another co-worker. Out of the blue he asked if he'd told me about the trip he and his girlfriend took to the wild animal park. I said no, and he started laughing and told me about a monkey that apparently didn't appreciate the long line of cars coming by to look at him.

He expressed his disdain by -- you guessed it -- waving his penis at them!

Nick. The monkey. My dream.

After that I stopped keeping track. I decided the future is too scary. Certainly offers intriguing possibilities about space and time and reality, though, doesn't it?

No joke?...i gotta try that!

lmao! That's so freakin funny!

Dear, person i know how you feel i have had the same things you have had i have a dream about the fututre but when i wake up i can't remember what is was until i experience it for my self
please if you how to control my gift please help me understand why i am doing this & why sometimes is so bad please help

thank you,

christopher

Oh, neat! I hope last night's dream comes true.

hey everybody,
this sobject is some thing that making me crazy when i had it.anyway i want to recommend a movie about this issue. irreversible
in this movie leading actress mobica bellucci having a dream that she sees herself in a damonred tunnel that spilted into to ways or something like that and then she got raped in a tunnellike passage brutally in real life. the film is very disturbing and linking this idea into a fatalistic fenomena at the end.if any one watched this movie wanna discuss on this.
byee

i've had this happen, but i don't really know anything about them

You've heard the line 'Follow your dreams,' right? That is really the opposite of what happens. The dreams make your future. The dreams disappear to the background to become your thoughts. That is why you cannot all the time remember your dreams because you become the dream trying to remember itself. It's like the mirror trying to remember itself.
The statement that 'dreams have nothing to do with the future' is really a non-thought. You're not thinking when you say that. We are what we are and have become what we have become because people become what they have dreamed. Henry Ford dreamed of a car and he became his dream; now look where we are. If he were alive now, he would probably be running up and down the road screaming, 'Wait, wait! That's not what I dreamed!'

I've often had dreams of people I haven't seen for some time. and the next day I would see them.kind of strange.

last week i had a dream that my granny fell on the stairs in my house and the next day i found out she had fallen in her nursing home, nothing too serious or anything but still ..bit weird

and once or twice i have been a kind of half sleep (you know when your just falling asleep) usually just after waking up in the morning.anyway one time i was dreaming playing golf and i was putting the ball..i would hit it and just as the ball hit the hole my alarm would go off.

I can't prove these things or anything and maybe theres a perfectly good explaination, but I can't help but think that there's a lot about dreams that we don't understand yet..Or possibly there are people out there who do understand dreams,but they just can't be scientifically explained as of yet.

I've had this a lot recently like a blue truck driving by or looking at something..

Hey, I came here to find some answers about the stuff I've been seeing in my dreams. Stuff that has eventually come true. There are certain instances when you see a certain event and you suddely remember it like you've already seen it happen. I believe this is reffered to as Deja Vu. Possibly, they are images that have been imbedded in your subconscious when you are dreaming, but we don't know.

Very little is known about dreams. Scientists have discovered the REM state, but that's about it... But when something happens that makes you remember enough to predict what happens after that, I believe that that goes a step further than Deja Vu. But here's something even stranger. In a dream, I was with this girl (in a nonsexual way, mind you) who I hardly know. In fact I've only seen her once or twice around my college, and while she is somewhat attractive, I don't even know her name.

Well it just so happens that I saw her today and she smiled at me for the first time...Am I losing my mind or does this sound rational to anybody out there??

Well the same exact thing happens to me......a fairly normal dream and toward the end it gets highly detailed and when i wake up i start to forget about everything within the first few minutes only leaving me with a vague glimpse of what i saw..........and then to my surprise the same thing i dreamed happened in stunning acuracy.........this happens to me very often usually more than 3 times a week...........i have grown used to it.....

Did you know that the percentage of Americans who watch baseball is the same percentage of Americans who believe in ESP (Extra Sensory Perception)?

Is it possible for the subconscious mind to see into the future? I mean, come on, is that totally unreasonable?

As the last post pointed out, some people are able to "see" more in their dreams, or "see" the future more often, just like some telepaths are able to do more than just read thoughts. Biblical, mythological, and historical references tell stories about people who could predict the future. Maybe they were told in their dreams.

Yep, it's happened to me, more than once. I wrote about one occasion on another thread. Here's the link if anyone hasn't read it yet,

My future dream

That strange thing.....Happens to me too...I dream....In early morning,at da "end" of my dream,when i wake up,i still remember little about da dream.After 15 mins there's nothing left.But the same day,at school,from anger i shout at classmate and throw at him,i remember,that it happened before,the same moment,same move.I then remember my dream for 2 secs,and lose it in my mind again.I always wanted to find an explanation for it,and i believe, dreams are something like prophecies of the future.

When I was a kid I had bought a video camera which was quite expensive then. My friends and I were making small home movies and then they decided to, how do you say it in English, moon the camera, with me behind the cam. I mean we were kids. We later watched the mooning tape on my TV. I then went to sleep and dreamt that I showed this to my more proper friend Tommy. Just when the tape ran it instead came news and then Tommy said "Did you really do that"? Weird dream I thought. Some days later i decided to record something over the tape, since I don't like to have anything weird like that at home. There were fun stuff we had made that I wanted to save for the future, so I just reorded whatever was on TV over the mooning sequence. OK, so my friend Tommy comes over one day, we watch what we have been filming with the camcorder and just when the mooning is about, the rec had button lagged a little, so Tommy sees what they are about to do, since their best sides are facing the cam, you know what I mean. Then suddenly the TV taping is there instead which happened to be the news and Tommy said in shock "Did you really do that?"

Heh heh pretty funny. It's amazing though how accurate our dreams can be when they predict a future event. IF this really is an ability that humans have, it's a shame we haven't learned to control it. Maybe we can someday. Does anyone know of any research on this?

does it count as de ja vu? I usually call it a flash forward, but i think its all de ja vu.

I had one of those dreams year's ago,you know the one 's where you wake up and it felt sooo real.Well this happened to me ,it was about my brother and his wife,they had no children at the time.I told my family i had a dream that was so real,that they had had twin's.They had a daughter 18month's later,then one year later again they gave birth to twin's.I was freaked out,that's for sure.

A guy called Art Funkhouser has written on the subject. He calls it the 'Dream Theory of Deja Vu'. Well worth checking out.

Many links to daja vu research (including one to my work on deja vu) can be found at University of Sheffield Deja Vu Research Unit. Another useful link is Bryn Mawr College

I hope that these may help explain this fascinating phenomenon.

The ability to see into the future through ones dreams is often called precognition, clairvoiyence, deja-vu, etc, etc. One of the best recorded precogs in history is the American psychic Edgar Cayce. Cayce would give readings for people by going into a trance and then a person would ask him a question and he would "see" the answer in his hypnotized state. Interestingly enough, Cayce was an adamit believer that anyone and everyone could be trained in this ability. Little was known about the actual mechanics of what Cayce did but all of predictions were remarkible accurate and people would often try to take advantage of Cayce and his ability by sneaking in quick question about the stock market and other such topics.

If you have any more questions I will try to answer them to the best of my ability.

Its my theory of 'deja vou', a glimpse from a dream that could be the future

It's strange, what I've been seeing and feeling from these "precognitive dreams" has been distinctly different from the way I feel during a deja vu. When I experience a deja vu, it's more like I've seen this event before. When an event from a precog dream occurs, it feels more like that event has already happened in my life and I am then able to "remember" every detail of the event, even before each detail happens.

It's hard to explain...but it just feels different. Oh, and thank you for that information about Cayce, but as you said he's a psychic, someone who's able to tap into supernatural abilities when he's fully conscious. I'm still curious about the subconscious mind.

I know what you mean about the precognitive dreams when you experience them, I get them so often I've come to more or less ignore them.

Cayce was a psychic, yes, but he discovered ability completely on accident. He was struck was severe laryngitis that paralyzed his voice. In an attempt to find a cure he went to a traveling hypnotist and through hynotic sessions he was able to cure himself. This led Cayce to try this approach on others, many of which had great success. When Cayce gave readings he was never conscious in the sense of the word as your thinking of it. While giving readings Cayce had no recollection of what was said during the reading by either party. In order to give readings Cayce had to go into a self induced trance which allowed him to tap into his subconscious.

An interesting note of fact, in all his readings Cayce spoke in the first person plural, saying "we" instead of "I". In one reading in particular he claimed to an entity called Ra and that the knowledge imparted during sesssions came directly from the Akashic Records.

If there are any other questions I'll do my best to answer them.

Back in 1999, a movie came out in the U.S. called "Stir of Echoes." It starred Kevin Bacon. Well, in the movie, there was this scene where Kevin Bacon's character experiences a string of events, then awakes to realize that everything he just saw was only a bizarre dream. However, as he starts to go about his day, the events of the dream become reality. In the end, his dream leads him to a young man who has just commited suicide (the rest of the plot explains why.)

Anyway, this is usually what my "pre-cog" dreams are like. I have no idea that they are more than dreams until I see them in reality, but I remember each event of the reality just before it happens, as if I'm watching a movie that I've already seen before. Does anyone else have something similar?

I only get these dreams like once every 2 to 3 months, but they're still really cool.

I have met several movies with characters in them that were able to see the future. IRL i have heard the claims of people with near-death experiences(NDE's). They said that they saw future events but also characters they did not know at the time of the NDE but, as they survived, came to know them later in time. There are many different NDE's though, this being one of them.
It could be related to OBE's, but I am no expert in this realm. People claiming to go out of their body. Or maybe out of their mind? (sorry for the offence if you cannot take a joke).
Who knows I don't believe in this unless it happens to me. Im not going to prove it wrong because i cannot. Like these claims cannot be proven right. Belief is belief. Personal experiences are personal experiences. Something personal cannot be made global.

Why this movie ?? Leaves you in a bad place not recommended !

It's really disturbing !!! If you get depressed easily or sensitive I wouldn't watch it. I think you have to be a sadistic voyer to enjoy it

Arthouse reviewers seem to love this movie because of it's 'unflinching', 'truthful', brutal depiction of the twin horrors of murder and rape. Well, I consider myself a kind, open-minded, relaxed person with a pretty 'alternative' lifestyle, and my big problem with this film is this:

If real-istic rape and savage murder on film is so praiseworthy, why not just film a REAL rape and murder? Wouldn't that, then, be the ultimate, the most 'praiseworthy'?

What is actually 'good' about this film, tell me? "Not only is "Irreversible" not shocking, but it also thinks you're stupid enough to think it's deep."

The ONLY single reason this film has attracted so much attention is because of those 2 horrendous scenes. Take them away and you have a dull, unimaginative, ordinary story. Include them, and you have a dull, unimaginative story with 2 scenes which go as far as they can to be brutally 'realistic'. Yeah, so?
Tell me, who out there needs a film to tell them that, duh, 'rape and murder are horrible, evil acts'? Are they really?! Never! I'm glad they told me that!

The more I think about this film, the more I find it inhuman, vacuous, patronising and pointless. And all these people using it as an argument for protecting free speech, anti-censorship etc... How about my very important fight; against crap films?
Just because of the ultraviolence, this film's artistic merits (or lack of) are overlooked. Fundamentally, IT'S NOT A GOOD FILM, PEOPLE!

Is anyone going to watch this in 20 years time and praise it? What makes a good film? Dialogue, acting, story? Or hyper-real scenes of murder and rape?

I'm not advocating censorship, never have done, I don't take issue with the film on some 'moral' grounds, > "I'm virtually impossible to offend, but you can irritate me".
I take issue with it on 'trying-to-attract-attention-to-a-story-by-going-all-out-to-offend-and-shock' grounds.
The filmakers say 'rape and murder are commonplace, so why shouldn't they be put truthfully in a film?' Well why not just go film bodies in a morgue, or crash victims or any horror on earth, because 'death is commonplace'?

I couldn't watch the worst parts through, but if 'realistic anal rape' is your bag, be my guest!

Conclusion:
This film stays with you for all the wrong reasons. Just like i'm sure watching the Iraq beheadings would stay with you. It's like snuff masquerading as art. Rubbish.

this bull!! so your telling me i'm following my dream of having a dead friend
i had this dream of a mutual friend who died 3yrs. ago
it took 4 years for that dream to came to pass
anyways here's the dream
so i was across the street and i saw ambulance lights
then i saw somebody on the stretcher being pulled in the ambulance
i remember clearly seeing my friends' best friend's face
then everything faded to black
then i saw a smear of blood
when i woke up from that dream the first thing that hit my mind is that is the scariest random dream i ever had
i actually ignored it coz i never had any kind of dream that graphic before and at that time i really wasn't a believer in dreams
when i had that dream i thought that it was about my friend's best friend
then 3yrs. ago summer of senior yr. after being in this country for 2 yrs. i was chatting with an ol clasmyt and she tol me about her death. she died of a lung complication. my clasmyt tol me that her death blew away everybody's mind from my highschool batch. well who wudn't when i left my country she looks like she's in perfect condition and she def. showed no signs at all.
at that time after lettin that info sink in..that's when i start remembering the dream i had back then..i was like OMG
since then i start paying more attention to my dreams
but sometimes its hard to tell which is from which
i always get random dreams
actually besides this dream i've had dreams before that happened in details, 3 to be exact
but the way i see it is since im getting all this dreams a few of them is bound to happen
i think this happens to everybody

My mum has a excellent book on interpreting dreams,i will see her on sunday,so i will ask her for it.Being the hippy mother that she is!

I've had these dreams so often, and in great detail ,so that I can be sure.

They really boggle the brain.

I just have no explanation how they happen and what it all means, sorry.

Either time & events repeat themselves or everything is planned ahead to happen and some part of your brain knows it, or remembers it ?

I wish there were some adequate scientific explanation , but there aren't any right now.

yea i get the same feeling of my brain knowing what's going to happen in the future..it be cool if someday somebody could figure out how to tap into it..i don't think its going to be a bad thing..since our dreams is mostly about us..maybe meditation could help...you get to get touch with ur innerself..but i always get sidetrack with the day's events

I've had this kind of dreams many times, but now they are less frecuent, maybe it is because I'm growing older, but I just don't understad the nature of this dreams, how can a dream tell you the future? The future is yet to come but our brain ( the one that makes the dreams) is in the present. Do you understand what I'm saying? Actually this kind of dreams are scientifically imposible, but they are happening.

You don't really see the future in your dreams. Instead, your brain takes bits and pieces of information that you experience in real life and puts them all together to create a representation of what might happen in the future. From my experience, some of them turn out to be true and others not so true.

My personal theory is that your emotions also affect what your brain pieces together. If you are a positive person, then what your brain predicts will mostly be happy things for the future (win the lottery, etc). If you are a pessimistic person, then your brain will predict some bad things (car crash, etc).

I too have experienced that!!! In one of my dreams I remember that I was saying a name of a person I didn't know, lying on the ground in pain... after several weeks it happened. in exactly the same detail, he died in my arms...

I have had dreams that I have described to others before they happened. It does not happen very often but it happens. Sorry to say those dreams are never about the lottery numbers. In any case because of my dreams I beleive it is possible to see and foretell the future.

Happened to me since I can remember. Sometimes in absolute detail. I never figured out the purpose since I cannot stop the event but I got to a point where I stopped telling people because it creeped them out. I was told my mother was the same way.

Well I do thing or sometimes hope that my dreams tell me EVERYTHING about the future only to be forgoten the next morning. At last that way you have a glimpse even if its for a second.

Ah, that happens to me a lot...But most of the time it's useless, like I'm walking out of my door, or talking to a friend.

I don't think anyone can change anything, otherwise how could someone see it before it happened. If that makes any sense?? In any case I've never been able to change anything so I'm glad the heart attacks and lost children are the rare dreams. The only benifit I've ever gotten out of them is to be able to brace myself for what is coming.

[font="Tahoma"][/font][size="2"][/size] Hi everybody!
I live in Afrika and english is not our national language here in Angola (we speak portuguese), so don't care about my mistakes ok.
I start 2 say that when I was a child I dreamed about the future almost all the time. And as soon as I wake up everything happens in that exact moment. The more I became older, less I remember it. I know that I still dream about the future. And that we can do nothing 2 change it, because I already try it many times. Usually I started remember my dreams when things in real life were about 2 happen, they come up like a flash right in my front.
I say YES, dreams can tell us a lot about our future. It's true. Many people say no, because they already dream about it, but they don't accept it. They don't face the reallity and they don't care about it, this is the worst choise 2 do, because you can save lifes and your own. Dreaming about the future, it's a gift.
I think that 70% or maybe 80% of human beings have this gift.
Don't waist it.

Hi!
It's me again. Well...this is what really happened 2 me. Today I have all the time 2 write.
About 10 years ago I was 18, I went 2 a swimming pool with my friends, it was a hot saturday morning.I swimed a lot on that day.
I never ever swimed like that in my intire life. A lot of fun with my fellaz.
On the way 2 home, I told my friends that I was very, very, very tired.
And as soon as I get home I'll sleep in the first good and confortable thing 2 rest, no matter what it is.
And I did it. I opened the door of my living room and the first thing that I saw was the sofa. I ly down and sleep...
I woke up with an action movie gun shots sound on the T.V, there was a lot of noise.
I got up, turned off the T.V, then I saw that the door was opened, and I tought 2 myself "Damn what kind of
person lets the door opened? There's a lot of mosquitos here." I closed the door very hard, very hungry.
Then comes the unbeliveble... as I turn around 2 go back 2 sleep, I see my own body on the sofa resting.
And I sayed; "Wow! Wait I minute, am I dead?" I tought 2 call my father and tell him about it. Them I realize
that if I'm dead how can I do it. I got in panic in few seconds and start 2 cray, but I couldn't fell the tears,
I was feeling colled and very light, I looked 2 myself and I was also like a hollow man, like a ghost.
It's kind hard 2 explain ok. Then at that same moment I sayed; "No! Let me check my body."
As I did it, something, some powerfull force, push me into my body, that was lying in the sofa. That force u can not imagine.
There's nothing on earth like it. I'm teeling u. No kidding. I never felt anything like that in my intire life.
Was a terrible experience.
Getting into my body was like getting alive again, like first born air breathing. At that same moment I woke up, very scared
and start 2 scream. To confirm if it was a dream or not.
I looked at the door and the door was closed. I looked at the T.V and was also off. Then, I turned it on
and for my suprise the same action movie was passing on the T.V and almost in the end.
"Damn!" I sayed. I Had plans 2 tell my family about what just happened. But my family wouldn't belive me.
When I was 5, I started 2 dream about the future, I told them about it and they laugh on me.
Some people told me that what happened 2 me was God's will. Only He can take and give us life. That was a little demostration.
Could be. That's ok 2 me. I'm a beliver. I can accept it. No problem.
Is there anybody out there that had this kind of experience?