OddDragon13 [2015-02-26 03:50:10 +0000 UTC]

I have had a few dreams that tell the future. The clearest dream I've ever had happened in a real place. I was being chased and got a knife thrown at me and it hit me in the middle of the back. The scary part was, instead of waking up before I died, I felt the very real pain and literally died in the dream and didn't wake up for a few minutes. Needless to say, I hop pre this is not a telling of the future.

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MidnightExigent [2015-02-25 01:33:50 +0000 UTC]

1. I know that has happened, but I can't remember what it was. I remember when it happened I couldn't get my mind off of that strange feeling that day. 'How the hell can that be?'. I entertained the thought that it might have just been a feeling, rather than an actual occurrence of a dream becoming reality, kinda like a deja vu. It felt pleasantly odd either way!

2. More or less. Sometimes I write down dreams that I remember particularly well, especially when they were seriously messed up or had to do with actual people I know.

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Heidi [2015-02-24 20:27:08 +0000 UTC]

This journal triggered some sleep-related thoughts I've had recently.  The concept below doesn't have to do with dreaming, but I hope that John William Dunne would appreciate my mental exercise. 

I've started contemplating the idea that every person has a "sleep tank" -- a maximum period of time that their body can sleep.  For comparison purposes, kind of like a gas tank in a car.  Pretend that my sleep tank can hold 12 hours of sleep.  As soon as I hit 12 hours, I wake up and can't accrue more sleep hours until I've burned off awake hours.  But it's not 1:1 ratio of sleep vs. awake hours.  Well, it could be (for some poor soul), but generally it's not.  Each person has their own ratio.  Basically, you can't get another good string of sleep until your tank isn't full.  

~Heidi

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EtoAno [2015-02-17 13:36:23 +0000 UTC]

1. Few times, for example when I was kid, I got warning 2 days before unannounced exam, and it happened exactly as I dreamed. Thanks to that I got A.

2. Tried, but it takes too much time and it is hard to write the exact "shape" of the dream.

Btw it sometimes happens to me, that in a dream, I come back to the same place as I dreamed about before. Sometimes I don't remember that place before I dream about it again, but sometimes I do. And it makes sence, for example I couldn't go through one pipe I could go when I was smaller.
I used to have very clear dreams, I could learn to come from it (by imagining snoopy dog flying to the space on a racquet), I could speak with creatures - well I had lucid dreams. My horror was, when I couldn't go back when I wanted, I thought somebody is holding me from that and I was travelling between some dimensions instead.

Great times

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a1zombieslayer1 [2015-02-11 13:46:29 +0000 UTC]

This one time in my dream I said I've seen this before in a dream two years later I said that in the exact same spot and everything everyone thought I was the weird guy for the rest of the year

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a1zombieslayer1 [2015-02-11 13:42:08 +0000 UTC]

But I have them in a wired fashion

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a1zombieslayer1 [2015-02-11 13:40:55 +0000 UTC]

Yes I do have future dreams this one time I had three dreams in a row and they all happened the day that I woke up to

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astro-shark [2015-02-06 04:14:36 +0000 UTC]

1. Surprisingly yes, and very accurate down to details.
- basically I had a weird dream where I put something on the top part of my desk and it fell into my tea below, made right a mess... The splashes were precisely where I had dreamed of them to be earlier that day. It freaked me out for a while.

2. No. I don't really write down things like this, usually I attempt to draw ideas I get from experiences and sometimes dreams.

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JACAC [2015-02-05 14:34:34 +0000 UTC]

g r e a t .
1.y e s . i . d i d
2. i . t r y . b u t . i . d o n ' t . r e m e n b e r ...

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10thdoctorisme [2015-02-05 03:32:39 +0000 UTC]

Ok...now THIS explains why i can see the future...

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Josh-Toons [2015-02-04 01:23:50 +0000 UTC]

O-O WOW

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ToughAqua777 [2015-02-01 14:24:03 +0000 UTC]

1. Many times, actually...

2. No, but I really should!

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whaleofatale2012 [2015-01-31 05:48:58 +0000 UTC]

I keep a dream journal. I'm up to volume seven. It helps that I think in story anyway. No matter how strange the event, I write it down, and I don't attempt to rationalize it against my waking thoughts.
There are definitely recurring symbols and places. Most notably from childhood, and that was a long time ago. Dreams have provided the gems for writing stories, so I always treat them with respect. If you listen to your dreams, you will be more in tune with creative inspiration when it comes whispering.

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Tammydy [2015-01-31 05:44:29 +0000 UTC]

This happens to me all the time! In my dream I see fuzzy images or scenes and then in the future I'm like," I've seen this before!" Even though it has never happened/ I've never been there

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ConfusedState [2015-01-31 01:48:34 +0000 UTC]

I think it's cool how our minds can create whole new images and ideas without us trying. Our dreams are a 100% original. Sometimes ideas can be based off of others, but your mind still had to put it together. Sort of like creating art, that's all you. So yes i keep a journal. Its cool re-reading what my mind brought up at the time and how i can relate my thoughts to what was going on in my life.

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charleseddiehill [2015-01-31 01:47:38 +0000 UTC]

   the dream journal is very important,you need a record of your future dreams,otherwise you will absolutely refuse to believe that you dreamed a vision of the future. also  fasting can enhance your dream visions. dreaming with a purpose is also very helpful. 

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AndreaMorrow [2015-01-29 23:27:54 +0000 UTC]

Yes I do. In one of my dream, I was walking with a large group of people in a city. At one point, I stop walking and rested on a small stone or concrete bench contented to a building. I remember talking to someone and watching the people go by. Suddenly, all the people began screaming at something. One of the building ahead began to fall almost like 9/11 or the Boston Marathon bombing. That's when I woke up. A few months later, my boyfriend and I were marching at the People Climate March in New York City. At one point we took a rest on a very small stone ledge contented to a building. That when I realize how familiar this all looks and remember my dream but minus the falling buildings. 

And no I do not keep a dream diary

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AngellTear [2015-01-29 21:11:05 +0000 UTC]

You should watch Nightwish's Imaginearum, is has the same theme.

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IronBrony1981 [2015-01-29 20:40:33 +0000 UTC]

Time-travel through sleep can be really great. If I can travel back in time, I'll visit myself back in 1990 to help him out becoming famous just by rapping and selling albums across the country and later, they'll go all around the world in more than 40 foreign markets, even in Japan and all the countries in Latin America. I'll train him to rap and he'll be on MTV before you even know it, Mr. Techgnotic, sir.

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Odikay [2015-01-29 00:52:18 +0000 UTC]

My theory from an evolutionary point of view is that the brain tries to prepare itself for different possible situations. It simulates a possible future so it can react properly then the time is eventually come. This would explain nightmares that expand by the content we see in (horror) movies for example because our brain may not be able to differ in sleep and mixes everything up. Til I stopped watching such movies years ago I nearly have no nightmares and a more peacefully sleep. It would also make sense that the brain learns from past events by reliving them.
But I have to say that from a philosophic view it's a fantastically inspiring vision

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DanteRodriguez [2015-01-28 20:33:13 +0000 UTC]

1- Every time that I remember what I dream, comes to reality 2 o 3 days later, obviously not exactly, but is a really deja-vu when happens

2- nha, even when I'm a dreamer, i don't have a registry

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mizalrajesh [2015-01-28 11:07:00 +0000 UTC]

I dont keep a dream diary but i did experience this many time

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Aleks-Wulfe [2015-01-28 03:22:07 +0000 UTC]

At some points in my dreams, there is a way that I manipulate my dream to my liking. This manipulation is probably the result of yourself slowly being stimulated in your brain. I also see that I can make the dream so vivid and make other people or things come into the picture. I once had a dream that I was in the ocean by a wrecked boat, but could still breathe even though I was underwater.
I feel that you only remember the dreams that are vivid the most, and unmanipulated dreams are forgotten quickly. If that makes sense.

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charansritej [2015-01-28 03:21:21 +0000 UTC]

Once, I got a weird dream. I am dreaming that I am sleeping and dreaming! A dream in a dream. After that night, I again try to get like that one but could not get one like that.

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XervandisUlcron [2015-01-27 23:58:15 +0000 UTC]

No wonder i get de ja vu monents in my dreams

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Sims9287 [2015-01-27 23:02:22 +0000 UTC]

I can't say I've ever exactly dreamt something that came true. But I have experienced foreboding in a dream. It's hard to explain but it's more a feeling than an image or premonition and I believe it falls to the brain being able to analyze cues and hints that it's too busy to closely examine during waking hours. It stands to reason that the brain is able to dedicate more resources to analyzing and organizing memory during sleep when it has fewer functions to regulate.
People who work with computers know just how similar the mechanical mind of a hard drive is to the biological brain and just like a computer it becomes cluttered and needs 'cleaning' so each night it organizes the information it's recieved during it's last waking phase, almost like a defrag running int he background.
As it's organizing this information, it's removing bits it doesn't need, which is why dreams can seem so disjointed and illogical when re-analyzed and it's categorizing the bits it does, so they're easier to read, recall and re-examine.

Now that I've said my nerd bit, I'll get back to my original thread of thought.
The sense of foreboding I have felt has been more like an emotion that I skipped during the waking hours, something I noticed but didn't have time to pay close attention to. The night my cat died I recall having a very distressing dream. I know he featured in it but I couldn't tell you what it was about, the dream itself was nonsense. But the emotion in it was very real and intense, I know I was crying in my sleep, feeling helpless and knowing he needed help, knowing he was in distress but being unable to do anything and I remember the pure icy chill and overwhelming fist-to-the-gut feeling of loss, emptiness, fear and pain.
The next morning we found him dead in the driveway, he'd gone out prowling as usual and his heart gave out before he made it home.
Looking back, I think I had picked up that his behaviour wasn't normal the day before and subconsciously I registered that something was wrong. But it wasn't until I fell asleep and my brain could analyze that subconscious cue, that I made the connection and by then it was too late. It was already happening (or had happened)

I had a similar experience recently but under happier circumstances. I had a very pleasant dream about a friend of mine and I recall the very positive and happy emotions in it along with the feeling of gain and protective love. It felt like something very big and wonderful was about to happen and it all revolved around her.
A few weeks later she announced that she was pregnant with her first child.
Subconsciously I think I picked up on that and knew it long before she said it. There was no physical sign of change and she hadn't acted in a noticably different way. But something obviously alerted me to it and in my dreams I could see what it was more clearly than when I was awake.

So in that sense it does feel like a dream coming true. Only it's not an exact event, as I said, it's more the feelings associated with an event and how the mind interprets those feelings. So even if the dream itself doesn't make much sense, the sentiment behind it is very close to the mark; enough to seem freakishly foreshadowing when it actually comes to pass.

As for past events. I definitely think that past experience shape dreams and sometimes the brain recycles and references past dreams and informationt o analyze something new that it's taken in. Like a search on a computer. It picks out the reference it's looking for to see if there's a match to what it currently has.
The computer pulls bits of memory clusters to function quicker and more efficiently, the mind does exactly the same thing in dreams and memories but it's functioning on a chemical and biological process instead.
Repressed memories are like compressed files, pushed to the back to save space, which is why they're harder and take longer to access.
New memories are most recently written and easiest to access, but may be fragmented and unorganized.
Older memories that we recall frequently would be equivilant to files and links that have been indexed and bookmarked for quick access on computers.

And when we dream, the brain is shuffling all this information into something useful and understandable. When we interpret those dreams they may not make much sense, because that organization is not complete. But just because the information is incomplete, that doesn't mean it isn't useful and insightful in it's unprocessed state. Sometimes offering premonitions or retrospection we didn't expect.

I find the idea of the mind being able to subconsciously function on such a level to be fasinating, the idea that it can interpret past, present and future cues from the information it collects is frankly astounding and it does it all on a lower functioning level. Like a background program or low-level function on a computer hierarchy. Everything is going on without us even registering it and at the same time our brains are allowing us to 'drive' and control ourselves on a higher level during waking hours. When all that connects the messages from the lower level functions leak through to the higher level functions and we're given understandable glimpses of what the brain has managed to process and work out. Understandably if there's less going on (when you're sleeping for example) then it's easier for this to happen as the brain can dedicate more ot those lower level functions.
When it relates to future events we've subconsciously picked up on, it can seem quite eerie.

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RadioactiveWolf36 [2015-01-27 21:35:11 +0000 UTC]

I can believe this. I have dreams of the past but sometimes I wake up and after a certain event happens I remember it then I remember it happened in a dream. It's weird

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Ex0rtus [2015-01-27 15:52:55 +0000 UTC]

My dreams are full of murder, gore, torture, kidnappings and all kinds of horror movie scenarios. I have nightmares almost everyday, but I try to ignore them.
Either that or normal dreams about normal situations that eventually turn for the worst. Always about a fear I don't have in real life but gets me terrified in dreams, like spiders, heights, closed spaces etc. None of them have come true though.

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akchan19 [2015-01-27 13:44:57 +0000 UTC]

I've had dreams like that many times, exspecailly when I was younger it felt so real then it later came true! Talk about freaky!! I have never kept a dream journal but I have thought about it because my dreams give me some wonderful ideas..sometimes at least. But other than that I don't know if I should start one or not :/

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TheAlbinoBat49 [2015-01-27 04:30:03 +0000 UTC]

I've had this happen many times! One I dreamed I would solve a problem with my friend, and I did in the next day! Dreams fascinate me! Often,I have crazy dreams, one where I was going to Hogwarts, and Voldemort broke in and told us to take care of his HAMSTERS.
My friend also said that my dreams are predicting the future, but I think that happens to everyone at least twice. Yes, I have kinda gone back in time while I slept: once I went all the way back into World War 2, and I actually was a character named Raina (I'm pretty sure) and I was trying to help other kids WHILE outrun a German base. It was fascinating. Also, this journal was great!

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lesurej [2015-01-27 04:25:02 +0000 UTC]

I've had many experiences with deja vu both in dreams and in real life. I've also found that, in dreams, no matter what I'm doing I periodically look down at my hands.
Lately, I've been having issues with remembering my dreams. This bothers me. Some one once told me that if you look down at your hands frequently throughout the day it will help with memorizing dreams before going to bed.

I've also noticed that (when I do remember them)my dreams involve me looking at inanimate objects and visualizing human characteristics within that object. I'm curious as to what this means.

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Gothgirl378 [2015-01-27 01:42:44 +0000 UTC]

1) I had a dream where I went to Comic Con with my friends, and I actually went there yesterday!
2) Tried it once, and it failed miserably. It was hard trying to process what happened in my dream once I woke up, but I do least remember the people there.

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xandraclay [2015-01-27 01:00:26 +0000 UTC]

This is a very interesting journal.
2. I like writing down my dreams

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CrystalStar202 [2015-01-26 23:52:16 +0000 UTC]

1) Yeh, like when my friend moved, i got a concussion from a bike fall, and i experienced the world of minecraft.
2) Totally! I have a dream journal because im trying to learn how to lucid sleep. Ive lucid slept before i had ever known about the topic and i want to try it again, even if the original lucid dream was a tad bit creepy.

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Tre01bal [2015-01-26 21:12:58 +0000 UTC]

I've experienced this phenomenon many times. Just last week I dreamt of a failed test and 2 days later, I failed a test

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xanti98 [2015-01-26 13:25:03 +0000 UTC]

I never had a dream dairy but i do know that this is true. The seeing future in dreams and what not. One time I had a dream i would befriend an african american boy names charlie at school except the school wasn't my normal one so i didn't believe it. Then the next year I moved to my fathers and went to a new school and met a kid name charles and I befriended him. I have other examples but screw typing all those.

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missatomicbombs [2015-01-26 06:32:47 +0000 UTC]

i type my dreams out of habit since i started at the age of 12. it's routine for me now. but yeah, some of the things i've had in my dreams (very few, as dreams can be really weird) have come true in some way.

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PancakeMaster1024 [2015-01-26 05:45:13 +0000 UTC]

I had a dream diary I don't write I it offend but now I'm going to

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lazystars [2015-01-26 05:19:41 +0000 UTC]

I kept a dream diary once. I lost it but then I found it again and I went through it.

I remember in a dream I was skating with a friend. That was it; just skating freely. I never skated before in my life but I always thought it'd be fun.

In the end, I was invited to skate with a friend. Dreams. They're really weird. owò

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mania-mutt [2015-01-26 04:45:57 +0000 UTC]

I had a dream where it was nighttime and I was standing on a curb and holding hands with a boy. We then crossed the road to the other side but when we reached the end we were back at the start again but this time we had a child in-between us holding our hands.

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s4muraipak [2015-01-26 04:43:47 +0000 UTC]

This makes me think of George R.R. Martin's presentation of the way trees experience time according to the children of the forest in A Dance with Dragons.  That humans experience time as a river, flowing from one end to the other, but trees see time as a whole, being rooted in one place.  Very interesting.

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MitchellBratton [2015-01-26 04:20:11 +0000 UTC]

I Actually Dreamt Of Scoring a 75 on a History Test During Middle School And I Really Scored 75 On the Same History Test I Dreamt About

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WDWParksGal [2015-01-26 04:19:41 +0000 UTC]

I don't need to write dreams down. I remember them all, even the freakishly scary ones.

I downloaded the essay on to my Kindle and am doing my best to get through it.

I believe I've dreamed about the future, as well as dreaming about current happenings I'm unaware of until I see them on the news. The details are so fine I could swear that I was there. Dreams can awaken the personality to delve deeper into life.

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