Can Dreams be Premonitions of the Future?

I thought this conversation was really informative. I've written a report on Deja Vu and other similar psychic abilities.

I, too, have many dreams like Jon up above. Wow...I figured I couldn't be the only one, but so far he's the only person to write about experiences exactly like my own. I have one tip for him, and it may or may not apply but it does work for me. Examine the context of the dream carefully. I have found that most of my dreams center around a possible crossroads in my life. When I really think about what goes on in the dream I find that there is usually something I can say or do to change the outcome in real life, and that when I do I'm usually happier for it. In fact, ever since I changed in real life one scenario that I'd originally seen in a dream, I've had a lot LESS of those dreams. I'm not saying that those dreams were from God directly, even though I'm a Christian, but it seems to me that my life has improved dramatically spiritually, and therefor I'm much happier, since taking the dreams seriously and responding to what I think is a "head's up" notice that I'm being given the chance to exert my freewill over decisions in my life. Now if I could just figure out why I have such elaborate dreams in general...that would be interesting! --Pixie

I have had the same kind of experiences but not too many times and was just wondering if there is a way to further develop and fine tune this technique besides using shape cards.

Well, I actually have had similar experiences to what Jon here shared. While dreaming, I can see, smell, hear, and feel things while they occur during the dream. Later on, I can recall such feelings vividly as though they were memories from the past. Also during my childhood, I dreamed of people which I later described. According to my grandmother they were relatives whom have passed on before I was even born. Recently I've been having back to back dreams of events which have occurred at a later time, the next day, or even days before in another state or country. What can I really get from these dreams? Are there certain signs I should watch out for? Is there a way to help me rest without having these type of dreams as often?

Hi, Johanna. Thanks for your fascinating, at least to me, comment. I'll address your questions. Regarding what you can get from your dreams, I will ask you what you would like to receive. You're receiving this information for a purpose. Perhaps you would like to spend some quiet time thinking about how the information can be useful to yourself and others. Regarding signs to observe, my feeling is that only your intuition can answer that question. What do you sense inside? Regarding not having these dreams so you can rest more deeply, while you lay in bed before sleeping, ask your inner self for a break that evening. It would serve you greatly to learn self-hypnosis or another relaxation technique, like biofeedback, autogenics, etc. It would also serve you to build an even clearer communication with your "soul." Use "higher self" or whatever term works for you. It sounds like you're receiving lots of info, so from the perspective of your soul that information has value and purpose. I hope you enjoy your journey.

I've had exactly the same experience and have really pondered it lately, the problem is that when I have precognitive experiences they don't happen until years later. And they're not big events, except one which was totally different, but they're fairly big in my life. Like the smoking thing, I have a story almost exactly the same. I dreamed that I was driving with a football teammate in a car from one parking lot to another, and he was wearing a cops uniform, and I was not. We were following a car and it started doing donuts in the second parking lot and we followed. Then we pulled up alongside the other car, driver side to driver side, and it was another cop with mirror sun glasses smiling and offering us a cigarette. My father smoked, and I vowed I would never. Four years later, I was working as a security guard at a place where I had gotten a job for a friend of mine, who used to be a football teammate. We weren't friends back then, and we had a meeting after he was scheduled to work, but I wasn't scheduled that day. So I showed up out of uniform and he in, after the meeting he and a supervisor talked a little bit and we drove to the parking lot, next lot over, which had just been put up. It had been an open field. The supervisor did donuts and we followed, after which he pulled up to us, driver side to driver side, and he was wearing mirror sunglasses, smiling and offering us a smoke. Is there someone who can help me sort things out?

I really should have looked this all up before. I have never known what I was feeling. I have had so many experiences throughout my life. It is hard when the dreams coming true. Honestly I thought I was crazy, but now I know I am not the only one. one of my major things that I can't get out of my mind is when my sister was about three months pregnant with my niece I had a really bad day and was just in a crappy mood, I walked into my mom's room and we started talking. I had a feeling deep inside me that something was gonna happen to my sister's baby or that something would be wrong with her. Well I couldn't bring myself to tell my mom, so I said it was me grandpa whom I had a bad feeling about. We talked about it a little bit. My sister had a baby girl on a April 29th, 2005, and she was diagnosed with a very rare cancer on July 19th 2005. About a week later, we also found out that my grandfather was in the early stages of Alzheimer's. My niece passed away in Feb. of 2006 and my grandpa is doing good. Is there anyway I could have changed this? Why did I have this feeling? Why did my grandpa get sick when I had a feeling about the baby, but lied and said it was him? Is it my fault? Is there a way I could have saved my niece? Please if anyone has any answers I would greatly appreciate them.

Kristin, you cannot control what you see or feel of the future. It is what it is, a possible future that you have picked up on. You could not have changed it and you did not cause it. As far as why you picked up on what was to come, no one really would know that. But it would have given you more time to prepare yourself emotionally. You most definitely did not cause your grandfather to become ill.

I can remember a couple of dreams that were very disturbing, and 2 came true, two the next day, and the other 6 years later but not entirely, thank God. One was I saw my neighbors house on fire, it did that morning. The next, I saw my dad have a spell in his home, my mom told me he did that day. The one about my daughter was I was going up a ramp in a big city hospital and asked at the desk about my daughter Laura, he looked up at me and said she had expired, I woke up crying hysterically. Six years later my daughter was in a traffic accident, but didn't die but broke her back almost, serious accident. With what I have described, would you say I really do have premonition dreams?

This is my first time on this website and sharing this. I am 50 years old, while in the military in 1982, training in South Carolina, one day my orders came in and before the drill instructor could say where I would be stationed I already knew, Germany. And sure enough they called out my name in formation. I don't know how but I knew since I was very young, maybe 10 are so, that I would be in the military and going overseas to Germany. One day I was sitting in the office while overseas staring out the window when I suddenly went into a trace for a mere 40 seconds where I vividly saw that I would be employed in aerospace defense in St. Louis. Three years later I was hired by the largest aerospace defense employer in St. Louis, after about six months of working there, one night while working 2nd shift I realized that I envisioned this that day in Germany three years ago. That vision of a mere 40 seconds was very vivid and clear. Keep in mind when I applied for employment there and interviewed i had no memory whatsoever of the vision I had. I am not sure what you call this but it's kinda scary, because I saw these things years prior to them actually taking place, and it was always after the fact before I realized that I already knew it was going to happen.

I have been having these sort of premonition dreams ever since I was a young girl. I never paid them much mind, even though when something did happen it always made me go hmmmmm. Well early Thursday morning, I had a dream a real vivid dream. It was simply chaos, I dreamed there was a major accident on a bridge in the city that I live. I saw people had died. Major traffic backed up, I can't even really explain all I saw cause it was so chaotic. It looked also as though something had "blown up" of sorts, because there was debris everywhere, and it happened at night. On Thursday on my way back home around 9pm on the same highway where this took place in my dreams, on the same side of the highway as my dreams, there it was, an accident with lots of ambulances, tow trucks, fire trucks, cops, and lots of backed up traffic. I kinda looked on dumbfounded and could not believe what I was seeing. I knew this was going to happen. I saw it earlier in my dreams. I found out the next day that a little boy had died in that accident. Then I also found out on that Friday that a home in the neighboring town "blew up" and a woman and her dog died. It all happened on the same night, around the same time, hence describes what happened in my dreams. I cried cause I knew this was going to happen, and I could not do anything to stop it. I don't know why I see these things. Why am I being shown these catastrophic events. There have been other incidents that I have seen also. I saw the Tsunami happen before it happened. I don't understand why I am seeing these things.

I was just reading through some of the stories and comments and I found that most of them had something in common, that the premonitions or visions if you will were experienced during sleep as dreams. I myself have experienced these type of things. Certainly not to such degrees but would nonetheless like your opinion on it, are they true premonitions or simply coincidences? I guess the one way I could describe it is that it's almost like when you're looking for a radio station kind of skipping around static noise then just when you catch just a clear enough image it becomes blurry again then fades sometimes coming and going almost in pulses kind of. These come when I'm completely awake during my day to day things sometimes at work, doing chores at home or maybe even talking to someone. They are not so much full on visions but small phrases or sometimes they come to me as questions, sometimes a persons image or face will pop into my head. Some of the most recent were while at work the phrase, "its blue" popped into my head. That same day I struck up a conversation with a women at work whom I rarely speak with. She was telling me about a new car she had just gotten. I asked about the model and year, then convinced her to drive it to work the next day. I then asked her what color it was her answer was, 'its blue'. The other example was the face of my sisters mother in law who lives in Mexico and whom I never speak to popped into my head. I saw her lying down in a bed her head resting on a pillow, but I could not make out her surroundings her expression was a mixture of calm and pain. A few days later at a party my sister told me about her mother in law going through open heart surgery and not coming out of it too well. i had no idea of this but made no comment to her on what I had experienced. which is usually what i do, simply dismiss them as nothing. Yet I have been told that these images are more than mere coincidences. Recently while on the computer, I entered an online psychic reading which I considered silly. To my surprise she emailed my reading and I was surprised to read from her that she too had sensed this ability. The first person to tell me this was another psychic that had read my palm and the first thing she said to me was, "How do you deal with your psychic ability?" At the time I thought it was a trick question. But now I am not so sure. I would simply like to know what it means to get these smaller version of premonitions while completely awake in fact I rarely dream at all. I have never been overly concerned with the stranger things in life yet deep down I know that like the psychic told me it is something that which I will seek answers for. As a kid I always had a nack for simply knowing when big changes would come for me like when we moved to a different town. Which as I recall would be around the same time that these very strong hunches would appear. I am not a person prone to making things up or lying I believe I have a very happy and fulfilling life and could not ask for anything more. I only would like to know if anyone out there could help me out or maybe have an opinion.

I drove from home this morning, as I approached the highway a dove almost flew into my windscreen. I got to work and left again getting onto the highway and again a dove almost flew into my windscreen. As I went onto another high way, a third dove almost flew into my windscreen, this time almost knocking it. What could that mean?

I've read what people have written here, and I thought it was very interesting. I never really had any dreams where I can hear someone talking. I remember over the summer I had a dream of myself reading a book. I couldn't see the title or the cover all I saw were the words, while reading I had an image in my head but when I woke up I couldn't remember what the image was. The only thing I remembered was reading. After a few months my teacher assigned us certain books to read. That night I was reading for a very long time, and I got to a certain paragraph that was very familiar to me. I thought about where I had seen it before, and I remembered it was in my dream. As a child, I always had those deja vu feelings, but I wouldn't take it seriously because I thought everyone else had that too. When I turned 14 I began to have Deja vu dreams. Like hearing certain songs or seeing a stranger and then seeing them the next day. Also of things I've done that I had never done before that then happens the very next day. Also I get violent vibes. I would see a picture of a family or a person and see how they would die, well not exactly die but different ways for them to die. Then I would turn on the TV and see that this person died from this after what I just thought. For example, a man runs downstairs with a knife in his hand, then he ends up falling down the steps and stabs himself in the heart. The next day, I watch the news, and an anchor woman said he was a father that was trying to save his baby that he had accidentally locked in his car. He gets a knife to open the car and ends up killing himself by falling down the steps. As creepy and sad as that is, I thought it was a message. I don't really know. But I'm trying study this on my own. Does anyone have any input on this?

Over the past three years, I have been having these exact premonitions in that exact fashion. They started out years ago, then one of the dreams came true. Then they started happening more and more often, often enough until every single hour during my day I feel I dreamed this experience or that. The experience is so familiar I can literally finish people's sentences, but at the same time, I can't say exactly what they are going to say, like Jon, I often am too shocked and deep in thought that I can't react quickly enough to change a situation. Often I just recognize it as a premonition and let it end there. I know pursuing it never does any good. What can I do to understand this phenomenon more?

On July 4th I was having a terrible time sleeping, but I felt extremely tired. I was laying in bed when literally the thought that my Grandpa is dead raced through my head. I sat up scared to death, and I said no out loud. This bothered me a lot. I had a difficult time sleeping the next few days. Then on July 7 at approx. 2:20 pm my Grandpa pasted away. I felt so sick. I felt like I knew it was going to happen. I don't know what it is. How it happened or why. I would just like to get some sort of answers. I have seen, heard, smelled, and experienced many things I cannot explain. But not for quite a long time. My Grandmother pasted away five years ago in Feb. I was very close to both of them. Can someone help me understand this better?

I keep having the same dream that I'm dusting a table in front of a big picture window, and I look up and see a reddish orange mushroom cloud in the sky. Later I look in the room and outside and there's a lot of grayish white soot on everything and everything outside and inside is dead , it's the same dream every time I dream it. I've dreamed it probably for ten years now. I'd love to know what it means.

I have premonitions almost all the time, and when one comes up on me I can not sleep for nothing in the world. I just stay up all night and all day. People think I am crazy when I tell them something is gonna happen, and a couple days later or a week or so it happens. I felt something was going to happen before my brother was brutally murdered and four days later it happened.

My name is Cameron, I'm 16 years old, and I have premonitions in my dreams. I have never really known what to do about this, but the more I think about it the more I want to learn how to develop this skill. All I have ever done is disappoint people. If I could learn how to interpret and work with my premonitions, I would finally be able to help people, which is what I want more than anything. So if anyone has any feedback or ideas on how I can reach this goal, please write a comment. Thank you. I'm sorry to hear about your niece, Kristin.

Friends, I am also one of you, who is seeking for an answer. Those things that you are encountering now are just a part of our life that we must over come, learn, and try to understand. Just observe it by your own self. For me, it always happens all the time. It is just coming to my head, and when this things happens I am also trying it and it really works. Sometimes some other people might say that I am crazy. But what can I say this is the future and it is really happening to me. To tell you the truth so many times that these things are happening to me. And to remind you, when this things do happen to you, don't forget for the lord guidance and use it in a proper way.

Guy's, I am intrigued with all of your stories. I have had "ONE" dream over and over since I was eight years old. Take it as you will. Ever since I was a small child, and I am 41 now I have had the dream that we are mot living in the present but the past. Everything that we do on a daily bases we have already experienced and our minds are just now catching up to our actions. I am not saying that we all walk around like zombies, what I am saying is we are living prior to memory, or at least that is what dreams continue to point to. Thanks to all for your comment.

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