Dreams that come true?

[Theweirdtophat]

I ask because lately I've had dreams that have come true. I remember dreaming about dancing with a girl I had a crush on and we were slow dancing together in a dark room It was just us really and a couple weeks later, I dance with this girl exactly the same way except her clothes were different and it was at a dance .
Are dreams really prophecies and not just "dreams" Is that life's way of telling people what they should do or what's going to happen. Please respond if you've had similar experiences.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

There are many different explanations for dreams that come true. I've had plenty, but nothing as detailed as your's. Just small things like; one of my dreams took place at my friend's house, and when I went to knock on his door, the outside door was cracked open and didn't latch. Sometime later in the week I go to his house and the door is cracked open. Once one of my dreams included the video game Halo in the background and that's what we ended up playing in real life.

1. Instead of the dreams predicting the future, perahps it is the future creating the dreams. If you have an experience relating to cups, and dream about it, it's because of your experience with cups. You might be asking; how could something that didn't happen yet influence my dreams like that? Well, the unconscious mind is very intelligent. If it notices a slight enough pattern and sees what might happen as a result in the future, it will dream about it.

2. Having the dream could have influenced actions leading up to something dreamed about. For you, your dream of dancing with her inspired you to act towards that goal. Even if you didn't notice it, it still could have.

 

[Theweirdtophat]

It's very strange and yet intriguing. I sometimes do things like if I'm talking to a specific person, I think in my head" Wait haven't I had a conversation like this before?" and then remembered that I dreamed of having that conversation even though it didn't happen until later, and when it happened later, I remember having a dream about. I might inspired to act towards the goal, but it happened exactly as I envisioned it which startled me as soon as I was dancing with her and all of a sudden I remembered the dream and it happened exactly as I dreamed it.

 

[Thief]

Yeah some incidents here and there.

Like an old movie I saw when I was young, was on my mind as I awoke.

Later....someone posted a video link of that same movie as retort to one of my posts.

What are the odds?!

 

[Thruve]

Oh, the irony.

We see what needs to be seen for reason.

 

[HonestJoe]

I ask because lately I've had dreams that have come true. I remember dreaming about dancing with a girl I had a crush on and we were slow dancing together in a dark room It was just us really and a couple weeks later, I dance with this girl exactly the same way except her clothes were different and it was at a dance.

So you had a dream about a fairly normal event with an individual you already knew and a similar event occurred at some point in the future? That hardly strikes me as amazing, even if it was accurate recollection.

Are dreams really prophecies and not just "dreams" Is that life's way of telling people what they should do or what's going to happen. Please respond if you've had similar experiences.

Like everyone else, I've had incidents where I think I recall dreaming what was happening but there are loads of key events in my life I recalled dreams about and loads of dreams that never come true (thankfully! ).

We don't entirely understand dreams but they seem to be some kind of organisational process for our memories. That would explain why many dreams involve events, places and people in our lives but not necessarily in the right contexts. It would be natural then, for those dreams to occasionally coincide to some extent with events that will happen, especially fairly mundane and predictable ones. We may even dream of things we want to or fear will happen in the future, some of which will do.

The other element is false memories. We often struggle to recall the details of dreams immediately after waking, let alone some time later and it's known that in general terms, our memories can be confused by subsequent events. So, it's perfectly possible that we never actually had the exact dreams we think we remember but we just combine incomplete memories of dreams with the current events. For example, it's possible you actually had a generic dream about dancing and only thought the dream was about that specific girl when you were actually dancing with her.

I always hold the principle of "never say never" but without any evidence of a mechanism for dreams to actually reflect future events or even evidence of details dreams recorded beforehand and then independently "coming true", I have to lean towards the explanation that actually has some concrete basis.

 

[Theweirdtophat]

Everything happens for a reason. But what is the reason? That is the question. What was the reason for me dreaming about dancing with her? That I should date her? What was the significance for dreaming about conversations that didn't happen yet? That I should talk to this person more and listen to what they say? So many questions.

Also to Honest Joe, it's not the fact that I dreamed about a normal event with her that was amazing. I didn't "know" her that well, I've talked to her a couple times, and honestly I didn't expect to get close to her or date her, and then all of a sudden, not only do we dance, but we dance exactly the same way depicted in my dream. I would think that's amazing to some degree, but that's just me, though.

 

[Frank Bunneh]

So you had a wet dream, try again when you start getting "hair down there"

 

[Theweirdtophat]

So you had a wet dream, try again when you start getting "hair down there"

Except it wasn't. And you're wrong and rude. Kind of makes me wonder how you're not banned but whatever

 

[mainliner]

I ask because lately I've had dreams that have come true. I remember dreaming about dancing with a girl I had a crush on and we were slow dancing together in a dark room It was just us really and a couple weeks later, I dance with this girl exactly the same way except her clothes were different and it was at a dance .
Are dreams really prophecies and not just "dreams" Is that life's way of telling people what they should do or what's going to happen. Please respond if you've had similar experiences.

peoples dreams don't come true as such ......we dream of things what are related to the wake would which give some sense of your dream coming true......there just coincidence.

ie....if you dream of a red car and wake up to a red car parked out side your house this can be perceived as dream coming true......there just coincidences


your dreams are simply your real life emotions , thoughts , feelings heightened to there fullest........... If your dream ever feels like a massive overload of " thought" you cant make sense of ,your subconscious shuts your body down into paralysis so it can work out what you cant


this works the opposite ( ish )

your thoughts through the wake day which you cant understand fully, can fully unravel in a dream ....... They can give you answers you cant give yourself .

emotional answers

 

[George-ananda]

peoples dreams don't come true as such ......we dream of things what are related to the wake would which give some sense of your dream coming true......there just coincidence.

ie....if you dream of a red car and wake up to a red car parked out side your house this can be perceived as dream coming true......there just coincidences


your dreams are simply your real life emotions , thoughts , feelings heightened to there fullest........... If your dream ever feels like a massive overload of " thought" you cant make sense of ,your subconscious shuts your body down into paralysis so it can work out what you cant


this works the opposite ( ish )

your thoughts through the wake day which you cant understand fully, can fully unravel in a dream ....... They can give you answers you cant give yourself .

emotional answers

I think you are describing normal dreaming but I believe sometimes (but not commonly) beyond the normal dreams do occur with psychic insight. I can't say much about the OP dream but I believe we are more open to psychic insight in the dream state. The quantity and quality of dream stories I've heard has made me believe psychic dreams likely occur. I am aware of all the skeptical arguments against psychic dreams (co-incidence, changing memories, etc., etc.) and I don't think materialistic explanations successfully explain the strong cases.

 

[mainliner]

I think you are describing normal dreaming but I believe sometimes (but not commonly) beyond the normal dreams do occur with psychic insight. I can't say much about the OP dream but I believe we are more open to psychic insight in the dream state. The quantity and quality of dream stories I've heard has made me believe psychic dreams likely occur. I am aware of all the skeptical arguments against psychic dreams (co-incidence, changing memories, etc., etc.) and I don't think materialistic explanations successfully explain the strong cases.

theres no psychic forces or futureistic preditions in a dream ....this is gypsy palm reading nonsense.

all dreams are .....are you and what you know

there just empty voids with your imagination running wild

 

[George-ananda]

theres no psychic forces or futureistic preditions in a dream ....this is gypsy palm reading nonsense.

all dreams are .....are you and what you know

there just empty voids with your imagination running wild

Well, we must disagree as neither of us can prove our point. My worldview consists of realms beyond the physical which consciousness can experience in transcendent states.

You can disagree but you shouldn't call it 'nonsense'.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Everything happens for a reason. But what is the reason? That is the question. What was the reason for me dreaming about dancing with her? That I should date her? What was the significance for dreaming about conversations that didn't happen yet? That I should talk to this person more and listen to what they say? So many questions.

In the backcountry where some of my ancestors came from, when you go talk to the person with the sight, the "weird" woman or man, they don't tell you what is going to happen. You might have a nice visit for half an hour, talking of various things, gossiping about people in the neighborhood, or recounting recent events, and then as you're preparing to leave, they say something like "you sure would look good in a red car."

A week later your car breaks down, and it can't be repaired. You look at what's available, and it comes down to two cars that you like--one's green and one's red. If you then remember what the weirding person said, you pick the red car.

He or she probably could not have told you at the time why they said that, nor tell you the sequence of events that would lead up to it. They just saw that it was best that you had a red car.

I think dreams are often the same way.

 

[froggerlover]

I ask because lately I've had dreams that have come true. I remember dreaming about dancing with a girl I had a crush on and we were slow dancing together in a dark room It was just us really and a couple weeks later, I dance with this girl exactly the same way except her clothes were different and it was at a dance .
Are dreams really prophecies and not just "dreams" Is that life's way of telling people what they should do or what's going to happen. Please respond if you've had similar experiences.

3 years ago I had a dream that, what i can only imagine was my pop pop's memories: Christmas at their house, different family dinners, his birthdays along with everybody's birthdays, camping trips that the whole family went on. at the end of the flash backs, was my pop pop in his truck, which is not unusual. He LOVED his truck, however it wasn't him who was driving it was somebody else. all 26 of my family members were running after this truck waiving good bye and saying i love you and all of that jazz. I woke from this dream trying to figure out what it meant. That morning my mom tells me that Pop pop is not doing well. He's been battling from lung cancer for part of my 22 years, within the last 10 his cancer went into remission. 1 week to the day later he passes. Was that his spirit saying good bye to me? Or was that just a crazy dream? Mind you he was fit as a fiddle for the past 10 years.

 

[Whiterain]

It's a coincidence or pre-cognitive phenomenon much like ESP, I've experienced it many times - may have even saved my life..

Deja vu, it can save your life. Being in a war zone, it rocked my world and a buddies.

It's not something I feel is right here or am comfortable with, I will not repeatedly mention. I predicted a mortar attack, not even a minute later mortars started dropping on us.

Other dreams, things that have happened in my immediate life, it's insane.

One for the funny papers, I don't like being made fun of.

 

[Augustus]

Yeah some incidents here and there.

Like an old movie I saw when I was young, was on my mind as I awoke.

Later....someone posted a video link of that same movie as retort to one of my posts.

What are the odds?!

Pretty low actually.

Something with a probability of 1 million to 1 happens to us on average once a week.

We confuse the odds of a specific coincidence happening to us (very improbable for that specific coincidence) with the odds of any coincidence happening to us (certain to happen on a reasonably frequent basis).

We don't pay attention to all of the times the coincidence doesn't happen after all, so for every 1 remarkable coincidence we notice, there are countless non-coincidences that we don't notice. These all add up to make that 1 million to 1 chance happen on a weekly basis (and most of these we don't even notice anyway).

 

[Mukkled]

its a high tech computer designed this way .. so easily it sends the thoughts to your dreams and then it send thought to your brain in while waking to take you to the same event in your dream , using your brain ability of imagining , it makes u feel special and unique , thats all !

 

[Mukkled]

its a high tech computer designed this way .. so easily it sends the thoughts to your dreams and then it send thought to your brain in while waking to take you to the same event in your dream , using your brain ability of imagining , it makes u feel special and unique , thats all !

 

[Wirey]

It's a coincidence or pre-cognitive phenomenon much like ESP, I've experienced it many times - may have even saved my life..

Deja vu, it can save your life. Being in a war zone, it rocked my world and a buddies.

It's not something I feel is right here or am comfortable with, I will not repeatedly mention. I predicted a mortar attack, not even a minute later mortars started dropping on us.

Other dreams, things that have happened in my immediate life, it's insane.

One for the funny papers, I don't like being made fun of.

Once, I called the next song on the radio. My sister still talks about how weird it was. But it was just coincidence, nothing more.