Poll: I dreamt the future.

[lokun489]

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.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Unless you have a third instance, I wouldn't get too excited.

Sometimes it really is deja vu even when you are positive of otherwise. Apologies for not believing you, but people think what they want to think.

 

[manythings]

Or two coincidences occured and you're really, really making way too much out of it.

You counted two times that you think you dreamed the future and ignored the thousands of times you never did.

 

[Hedonist]

Prove it.
Until you provide some evidence I won't believe shit.

 

[TheScientificIssole]

HA! I love how you put it together. I'm kind of stupid and expect myself to have predicted things too. I don't draw out the relations as much, but I expect it. But my dreams are weird a all crap. My dreams are like the video for " You Are What You Is." By Zappa. I

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Did you predict me scowling at this tomfoolery. They are so loosely related it is not even funny.

It's more likely you heard this shit and your memories of your dreams altered themselves. That happens a lot.

 

[smithy_2045]

That's not even remotely dreaming the future.

 

[LordOmnit]

Not infrequently I can guess the next song on shuffle (the first few seconds pop into my head during the last few of the previous song), but I doubt I have psychic abilities. I probably started to unconsciously get a handle on the algorithms for how it randomly chooses the next song and every once in a while can guess the next one.
In your case, unless thunderstorms are a near non-existent occurrence in your part of the world then dreaming of a cosmic thunderstorm and then there being one the next day doesn't sound like prophecy and more like your body and unconscious understanding some of the subtle weather signs that our conscious minds don't get.
The Bieber one is more convincing if you did indeed have it because that doesn't exactly have any signs that precipitate out beforehand.

 

[k-ossuburb]

To be honest, I don't give hallucinations any merit for predictive capabilities, I've dreamed of owning a talking rock before, among a lot of other very unlikely scenarios.

Secondly, the two examples you've given could've been predicted by anyone. Justin Bieber is a well-known hate figure in popular culture, it was just a matter of time before someone tried to kick his ass.

And thunderstorms, in summer? That's never happened anywhere before right?

 

[Zaik]

Dreams are usually excessively vague, allowing you to build specific meaning on top that never actually existed.

In other words, you just tricked yourself into thinking you were one of those psychic hotline bozos who make a few broad statements and say a few things everyone wants to hear or expects to happen.

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

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...

 

[kickassfrog]

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.

 

[theonewhois3]

Billions of people dream about events every night, usually about topical events. It is statistically unlikely to not have anyone dream about something that will happen.
Do you have reliable way of determine you have the ability dream the future? Any mechanisms? I'm not saying it's impossible, but is it more probable that you dreamt the future or that it was just a coincidence?
Think critically, not hopefully.

 

[Lilani]

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.

 

[Zac Smith]

Both your examples are so loosely connected, they could've been on the way wavelengh as "I had a dream about water and the next day, I saw water". Pure coincidence I say

 

[Smooth Operator]

Oh man you wouldn't believe this, I had a dream about eating food, and when I woke up I had breakfast!
It's mind boggling I tell you, how ever did I know?!

 

[Togs]

If I ever get into a position of authority I will change the education policy to hammer into peoples head the nature objective investigation and the scientific method.
2 dreams that vaguely fit into future events mean absolutely zero- if you refuse to believe that go and google "atributional disorder".

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

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 happens to me all the time. when i was moving house last week, i was sat in the van reading the silmarillion for the first time, and yet i already knew what the firt chater said because i had dreamt it weeks ago.