Does anyone else here dream about something ,and then it happens in real life

[UndertheOcean]

exactly the same way it happened in the dream .

It happens to me once every few months , I just can't explain it. It is always an insignificant life moment rather than something major.

[nuxvomica]

1. Can you give an example?

This phenomenon doesn't happen to me ever. But if that's what's happening to you fairly regularly, you need to train yourself to control or at least inspire your dreams so that you always dream about opening the paper and reading stock prices and lottery numbers.

[NightWatcher]

2. are you friend's with any surviving members of a Creedish death cult

[Xithras]

3. No, and neither have you.

What you're describing is believed to be a memory disorder, and it's related to deja vu. Your brain files an event, and for reasons that aren't totally understood, it occasionally "mis-dates" a memory. Even though the information was just written moments before, you're left with the impression that you saw or experienced the same thing at another point previously. Since other parts of your brain KNOW that you JUST experienced that for the first time, the conscious part of your brain tries to rectify the conflict by trying to figure out how the "bad" data fits into its understanding of reality. Many people assume it was a dream, others proclaim visions, and most simply chalk it up to deja vu.

It's a mental glitch, and there are known links between it and electrical disorders of the brain such as epilepsy.

BTW, people have seriously tried to test for this sort of thing. Researchers have had people write all of their dream data down, for months on end, so there wouldn't be any question about what was seen each night. When people prone to these "flashbacks" had one, they invariably discovered that they could find no mention of it in their recorded dreams.

It's your mind playing tricks on you. Human memory is very fallible and glitch prone.

[omega minimo]

9. You cannot state that so definitively. You have no idea

the range of experiences possible. Referring to that particular research does not make it true, for all, for ever.

It's a mistake to discourage people from paying attention to, recording and/or studying dreams.

They are much more than brain farts.

Amd yes, people dream of events before they occur. It's happened to me and others. Writing dreams down can help facilitate -- not disprove as you insist -- this process.

Google Harriet Tubman and dreams. See what you get. I've posted about it here on DU before. Fascinating.

http://www.mossdreams.com/

[knowbody0]

13. I dreamt that I miscarried

and was bleeding badly, needed to go to hospital. woke my son who said, "I can't go with you, I'll be late for school."

the next night, I miscarried, needed to go to hospital, woke my son who said "I can't go with you, I'll be late for school"


and yes, it happened before this particular dream and many times since.
and yes, I love it when it happens to me.

[omega minimo]

14. Oh. My. Dear.

:hug: :pals: yes we see these big moments, when loved ones enter and exit our lives................. :loveya:

[NJCher]

15. actually

It's been proven that dreams are mildly precognitive. I know because I attended the researcher's presentation at the ASD when it met in NYC about a decade ago.

Yes, proven.


Cher

[omega minimo]

16. and is this connected

to theories that we early Humans used sleep awareness as a (pre) scranning tool for nighttime protection and subsequent events?

[NJCher]

17. no, I don't think the researcher went that far

It was a study where people's dreams were recorded. Then the dreams were compared to what happened in the following days. There was enough to say there was a correlation between what was dreamed and what actually happened in the following days.

I might even be able to put my hands on the study--I'll check in the bookcase on my way to bed shortly. I know I kept most of that material.


Cher

[Xithras]

21. Sure I do. I believe in science, not religion

No peer reviewed scientific study has ever shown anything even mildly precognitive about dreams. Quite the opposite actually.

The belief that dreams can fortell the future is essentially a religious one. I'm a scientist (and have both the degree and college classroom to prove it). This is an instance where religion and science don't co-exist well.

And I never said they're "brain farts". The brain is a complex electrical and chemical device that occasionally experiences errors. Part of our memory storage is temporal...we not only remember past events, but we remember WHEN they happened. On the rare occasions when a memory gets written with an "incorrect date", the brain can do all sorts of interesting things to justify a memory that is otherwise nonsensical. When you walk into a room for the first time, and you KNOW that you've never been here before, but your brain is telling you that you were here last week, the "it must have been a dream" fallback is a really easy leap to make, and it's one that we make without even realizing it. The brain doesn't like logical errors, so it fills in the gaps to make the false memory make sense. That's all "deja vu" and "sleeping precognition" really are.

People, for thousands of years, have talked about waking up paralyzed with "demons" sitting on their chests. It's now widely accepted that a neurological disorder called Sleep Paralysis is the cause, and that "sleep demons" were simply a primitive fairy tale. Precognition is largely the same thing...it's a neurological issue that commonly gets attributed to "woo woo" superstition because most people can't explain it. It can feel extremely real to the person going through it, but 150 years of scientific research has pretty conclusively proven that it's NOT.

[omega minimo]

23. Your claims about research and "proof" are false. Plenty of valid dream research available for those

interested in the subject, beyond mere debunking.

:thumbsup:




btw
Did you google "Harriet Tubman dreams"?

[Xithras]

24. I'm not going to debunk Harriet Tubman.

Merely out of my respect for what she achieved. Do I believe that she had "visions"? Not for a moment.

Oh, and "valid research" means published and reviewed articles. Most "research" validating precognition is carried out by amateurs or biased solo researchers who publish claims without releasing supporting data or permitting independent review. There is no peer reviewed published research that supports the allegation that humans can view events across time and space while they sleep. The research that DOES suggest it is performed with the same level of unbiased research and reasoned analysis as we see in Intelligent Design theory, or UFO abduction "research". It's false science.

[omega minimo]

26. Your generic speech on what is and isn't research indicates you know nothing about dream research

Are you on a mission to debunk? "I'm not going to debunk Harriet Tubman." Have you read about her dreams at all?

Harriet Tubman didn't have "visions." She had dreams that directed her on her many missions guiding slaves to freedom.

[Flying Dream Blues]

32. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read.

I've had many precognitive dreams and I didn't "misremember" that I dreamt it before the event happened.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

20. mis-dates...that sounds like something the other day

I went somewhere the other day and at the time I thought it was a past dream, but I just knew it wasn't. I concluded it must have been what you call "mis-dates". I sat their and thought about how memories get jumbled up some times...

Mabybe I need to Defrag my brain? :silly:

[_dynamicdems]

4. A few weeks I had a dream I'd like to happen in real life.

It was so REAL. And I woke up too soon.



So far no such luck though. One can always hope dreams do come true.

:blush:

[HopeHoops]

5. Mostly sex.

But then my wife is a hot little thing and we've been together 24 years, so that's bound to happen.

[NNadir]

6. Last night I dreamt about responding to a "do your dreams come true" post on DU...

...for what it's worth.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. My grandfather had a very strange dream

He used to talk about it on occasion when he was alive. He was a railroad engineer in the early 1900s. He always worked in the same rail yard, switching the train engines from one track to another. One night he dreamt about his friend at the rail yard who was a nightwatchman. In the dream, he came upon his friend lying in the tracks on his stomach, saying 'turn me over, I can't breathe'. Early the next morning he went to work and was told that his friend had accidentally shot himself in the throat with his own gun and they had found him lying on his stomach on the tracks in a pool of blood.

[LynzM]

8. My husband and I have both experienced this.

The first time I remember it, I was about 12. Memory glitch as discussed above? Maybe, but feels damn real.

[GReedDiamond]

10. No...but I sometimes get problem solving ideas from dreams...

...which I am able to implement in "real life."

These dreams, however, are not "premonitions," or anything like that.

I work in various forms of visual art, and music.

[RagAss]

11. Life is a sequentially organized dream. Night dreaming is just a part of it.

[ZombieHorde]

12. I have had this experience, but it was so mundane that the dream was bound to come true.

I thought it was weird at the time, but now I think nothing of it.

[MilesColtrane]

18. I've only had one precog dream that I remember.

1 accurate prediction out of a potential 17,000 dreams is not going to convince me that it wasn't a random coincidence.

Maybe someone should be studying you.

[RebelOne]

19. Quite often or sometimes something relating to the dream. n/t

[Hell Hath No Fury]

22. Yes, I do that.

Sometimes it is something very insignificant, sometimes it is something major -- I had a whole year and a half when I was dreaming about airplane/helicopter crashes that would happen within the next two weeks. :scared: I also had a dream that a former boyfriend had been harmed in some way -- it was strong enough I even tried to track him down to see if he was OK. Many months later, we managed to connect and I found out that during the time I had the dream he had been on a covert SEAL mission and his camp had been bombed, with is taken injuries.

I find it usually happens when I am emotionally "high", the crash dreams happened when I was very much in love with a new boyfriend.

It can be a bit disturbing, but mostly it is just kind of interesting.

[BanzaiBonnie]

25. Started when I was in high school

I realized during my first art class of my senior year that I had a dream that summer of exactly the scene. Same room, same people, etc. Kind of freaked me out.

Now I'm used to it.

[Strong Atheist]

27. Yes, the same. nt.

[Inchworm]

28. All the time, but my dreams are more like playgrounds

Fortunately/Unfortunately, I have vivid recollection of my dreams and usually am in full control within them.

I also think dreams are us figuring shit out in our minds.

I am so glad that of the umpteen million things that happen in my dreams only like 2% (total guess) really happen. My dreams can be pretty gruesome and fantastic.

:scared:

[arbusto_baboso]

29. I KNEW you were going to post this.

I had a dream about it last night. ;-)

[omega minimo]

30. I KNEW you were gonna SAY that!!

:wow: :spray:

[snailly]

31. Many times

There have been so many mornings I wake up and can't shake a dream. Two hours later it's on the news. I don't have radios or a TV in my bedroom. It's just odd.