Poll: I dreamt the future.

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Sunrider

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Things like these happens to me often. If you're willing to see connections, you'll find them. Doesn't mean they are real.
When I was 13 or so, I thought like you. "Wow, maybe I'm a clairvoyant!"

No. Just no.
 

Technicolor

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First off, obligatory video reference

Anyway, I've had those kind of dreams, although they were more immediate, giving a sense of deja vu. I don't believe them, but I can clearly recall these visions. But in my opinion I find them nonsensical.
 

Distorted Stu

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I had a dream my favourite futurama episode was playing when i went downstairs.

It happend the day after.. dun dun duuuun
 

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Lilani said:
I never realize what's going on until it's already happened.
This. I've had these so-called future experiences myself numerous times, but I actually went ahead and researched the phenomenon.

It's pretty common and is generally caused by your brain misinterpreting new information and believing that it has been experienced before.
Because the sensation of that small flash of 'realisation' is so similar to the feeling of being in a dream, and because there is no other logical place to put that 'past experience' in your history, many people become convinced that they must have dreamt the new information, or even seen it in a 'past life'.

Of course, whether or not you believe that this imbalance in the brain is just a part of some wider 'psychic' phenomenon is up to you. But it definitely exists.

As far as I'm concerned, the idea of having actually experienced the 'dream' is made a bit invalid by the fact that you NEVER experience the 'deja vu' until it actually happens.
 

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lokun489 said:
...I dream a cosimc tornado thing swallowed up the earth and every was freaking out and it was creating thunder and lightning in multiple colors. It looked really cool too but I'm not good enough at details to tell you how cool it was...
are you sure you haven't just been playing too much InFamous 2???


on a more serious note. Have you ever considered that the dreams are affecting your subconscious and making you do stuff?

Lets say you drempt you were riding a mountain bike through a track in the woods and you live in a city. you wake up and forget about you dream. months later you go on holiday to somewhere with forests and have a huge urge to go on a bike ride through the forest. whilst your doing so you remember your dream and get a strong sence of deja vu from it.

My theory is that stuff like this happenes becasue events you dream are lodged into your subconscious, and becasue of this your actions lead you to such events becasue it's floating around in your brain where you can't see it.

Humans are naturally curious, we like to explore stuff we don't know, it's why we play video games, watch films, read books etc. so deja vu is us experiencing something that is hidden in our subconscious that we have secretly been trying to discover.
 

EHKOS

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I dreamt of the future. As a kid I had this dream I was playing Crash Team Racing but it was an entirerly new level. Next year Nitro Kart comes out, THE SAME LEVEL WAS THERE.
 

WolfThomas

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I had a dream last night that my body turned into a living star in the shape of person. I was accidentally destroying the earth with my immense gravity and scorching heat. I did managed to reverse the transformation. But then I was pursued by some elder-god-esque monster that I had unwittingly unleashed and who wanted to consume the earth. So I powered up and again and destroyed him, becoming a superhero once I worked out how to only use a fraction of my power.

So I'm hoping I dreamt the future...
 

binvjoh

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I dreamt that Bear Grylls was swallowed by a gigantic snake.

Obviously not the future since he's invinsible.
 

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kickassfrog said:
I've had dreams where months down the line the things actually happened. But they were perfectly accurate, whereas your examples are just arbitrary dreams which you have attempted to assign meaning to.
This. I've dreamt things that have actually occurred with 100% accuracy, so I believe it's possible. But I don't believe that what you have experienced is an example of this.
 

Jonluw

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Sorry, but in my humble opinion you're talking out your ass.

If you had woke up, remembered your dream about the world going under, and said to yourself "this means there's going to be a thunderstorm tonight", and then turned on the weather forecast and seen that there will indeed be a thunderstorm, I'd acknowledge it as a wacky coincidence.
As it is now, however, you're talking out your ass.

You could have inferred a million different "profecies" from each of those dreams, so unless you pick one interpretation at the start of the day and stick with it, you've got no ground to stand on. What you did was go through the day and happen to catch a glance of something that matched one of the millions of interpretations. That's not how telling the future works.
 

Kenko

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lokun489 said:
Now I know what you're all thinking and no it isn't Deja vu. I'll provide the examples I have as proof.

1)Ok so two nights ago I dream a cosimc tornado thing swallowed up the earth and every was freaking out and it was creating thunder and lightning in multiple colors. It looked really cool too but I'm not good enough at details to tell you how cool it was. So I wake up and the dream was really freaky so I remember it. Later that day we have a thunderstorm warning. I didn't see the weather once the day before, but I shrug it off as a coincidence.

2) Last night I dreamt Justin Beiber was a playable character in brawl. Not my wierdest dream ever but ok. Not complicated either. So I open my internet and I have news bookmarked so that way if something happens that day i'll see when I turn my internet on. The main story? Justin Beiber was attacked.

So yeah, admit it. I dreamt the freakin future.
Itts'a koinkidink man. Get over yourself. Unless the dream gives you the exact numbers, and an exact re-enactment, its a koinkidink.
 

daemon37

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Dreams are meaningless, except for the fact that it is a side-effect of your brain consolidating everything you remember from the previous day. But don't take my word for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Functions
 

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Well, once, I dreamt of my teacher drawing an apple on the board. The next day, the exact same thing happened. Literally. It was the same apple, drawn on the same part of the board, drawn by the same substitute teacher.

Thank God that this shit never happened again, lest the love of my teenage life be run-over by a ten-wheeler truck in the middle of the campus main road.

OT: Humans have a thing where they always try to find a vague pattern in nature, which is useful in tasks life facial recognition, but quite disappointing in terms of connecting two unrelated events to each other.
 

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Lilani said:
Life_Is_A_Mess said:
I believe, because this happens to me. Sometimes, very rare though, I get a sort of screenshot in my sleep of something I was doing. For example, I dreamt I had built a huge structure in Minecraft, but I hadn't even started it in real life, nor even had any intention of doing so. I didn't know how or with whom I would build it. The day after I told my friend about that "dream" and he said it happens from time to time. Some days later I started a new project, not remembering the dream. Halfway through I noticed I was building the exact same building and was in the exact same stage of development as the structure in my dream! I was baffled since I didn't even think of that while thinking about my project, but my subconscious managed to find out what I was going to build...

...The wonders of the human brain...
Yeah, same thing happens to me from time to time. I once had a dream I was making a small blue basket in art class, which I figured was silly because as far as I knew we had no intention of making baskets. A couple of months later, we were working on coil baskets, and I had a strong feeling of deja vu. I looked down, and realized I was weaving a blue basket just like I was in the dream.

Another time, I dreamt I was in some back part of Disney's Hollywood Studios by myself, which was weird because I would never have gone to Disney without my family. Then last year, I did the Disney College Program (which I had never even heard of at the time I had the dream) and I found myself in the exact situation that was laid out in the dream.

I don't really think much of it, though. It's always just weird random things that are never helpful, and I never realize what's going on until it's already happened.
I too have had this happen to me, quite a few times. I dream something very viedly then later find myself in that sitution, performing that action or whatever.

I recall though this is a recognized psychological thing. I can't remember exactly but its your brain tricking you. Something to with you dream a very vague situation or what not and then when that event occurs your brain recalls that dream but fills it in with al the specific details of the real situation causing a feeling of deja vu and making you think your really dreamed and foresaw it.
 

Vykrel

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probably the biggest instance of weird deja-vu for me was when i had been playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the first time, and remembering one of the cutscenes and what was going to happen during it, even though i remembered it from years before the game was even released. i believe it was the second or third cutscene in the game, where Starkiller and Proxy first meet Juno. when i was watching it, i was like "holy shit, thats weird..." and imagined in my head the next thing that was going to happen, before it actually did lol

i also often experience conversations with friends that i had imagined long before, sometimes even before ive met them. the human brain is a weird thing, i guess...

also, does this happen to anyone else?: several times i have experienced a sort of double deja vu. i will sometimes have a scenario play out in my head twice, timed randomly apart, before i finally experience it in reality.
 

Hristo Tzonkov

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I'm inclined to believe since I've had similiar things happen although I'd attribute it to deja vu.

What's weird is my dad dreamed of a plane crash 1 week ago.He dreamed the plane hit some cables because of bad weather.That thing genuinely happened a few days ago in Russia.

You can't explain everything.
 

silversnake4133

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That's not really dreaming of the future because the occurrences are too common. Bieber is constantly "attacked" by screaming fangirls, and the guy didn't "attack" him, the guy was a police officer who was trying to help keep the pop singer safe from the somewhat rabid crowd and Bieber's security guards panicked. It's nothing really new.

And thunderstorms happen all the time, it's nothing new either. You should probably check dreammoods.com to see what your dreams are really telling you. Dreams are just leftover bits of memory from the day or your memory bank that are put together in your subconscious. The only time you ever see these concoctions is in a deep sleep. I have deja vu all the time, and it's an event that doesn't happen until way in the future, but you're not really predicting the future, it's just coincidence from common occurrences. Now if you can predict the future of foreign politics or when the next Pope is going to be ordained, you could probably get people to believe you.
 

lokun489

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XHolySmokesX said:
lokun489 said:
...I dream a cosimc tornado thing swallowed up the earth and every was freaking out and it was creating thunder and lightning in multiple colors. It looked really cool too but I'm not good enough at details to tell you how cool it was...
are you sure you haven't just been playing too much InFamous 2???
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I don't own Infamous 2 or Infamous 1.
 

lokun489

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kman123 said:
Maybe you should take up palm reading.

So you dreamt about two events and by a thin connection you automatically think you're predicting the future?

Keep dreaming. Literally.
Actually I do tarot cards.
 

The Funslinger

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kickassfrog said:
I've had dreams where months down the line the things actually happened. But they were perfectly accurate, whereas your examples are just arbitrary dreams which you have attempted to assign meaning to.
This, basically. I also seem to occasionally predict things while awake, too.