Can dreams possibly show you the future?

No. If you type dreams into the top right search, you will find lots of dream Q&A’s.

By coincidence, sure. Sort of like if you thought to yourself, “I wonder if I’ll see a black cat today” and you do.

oh how i wish they did!

Dreams, randomly, will get some predictions correct. But no more so than making predictions while awake. At least, I think that’s how it would turn out, if anyone could test it.

it is just coincidence…..

Highly doubtful. Just coincidence, as said above.

Mine most certainly do. My dreams always come true, every time. It usually takes about a week to manifest. I noticed this about ten years ago. But keep in mind, not every dream is a prediction of things to come. And the ones that are don’t tell the story in exactly the same way as the future is experienced.

For instance, a simple example. I dreamed that I was wrestling with a friend, all in fun. But my friend turned into a monster and the fun ended. He hurt me badly, but I hurt him worse by forcing him to look into the mirror to see the monster he had become. I begged him to be normal again, but he just ran away.

About a week later I was out with my friend. He was my closest friend. We got into a friendly argument. The argument turned bad and he became very angry at me. I felt he was being unreasonable, making a big deal out of nothing. We grew apart and saw each other less and less. I suspected he had started doing cocaine and asked him about it. He said yes, but it was no big deal.

It was to me.

I’ve had many of these dreams. Too many. Far too many for coincidence.

My ex told me he has the ability to do that. I don’t doubt him. It really depends if you have the ability I guess.

Just the other night I dreamed was photographing a wonderful fashion model. This girl was unlike any I had seen before in front of my camera. A gorgeous otherworldly thing, large black afro, pale skin, dressed in sleek black. Her movements were astonishing. I’d never had such a natural in front of my camera before. She was so amazing that I had a difficult time keeping up with her. She moved so subtly, confident, and so quickly that I was incapable of capturing the best of her. Just before I would snap the shutter, she would move, almost taunting me that I missed the shot. Then she flipped upside down and began doing hand stands, and to my surprise, her legs became eight silver octopus tentacles.

She dared me to capture her. But I couldn’t keep pace. I never got one good shot of her, always out of focus without details.

A couple of days later, a new lens came in, and desiring to test it out, I had a little photo session with my cat, my black cat Leica. I’m a fan of critically sharp focus on the eye, letting everything else fall off into a soft focus blur. It’s a difficult technique to produce. But with my new lens in hand, and my beautiful Leica to test, I was ready for the challenge.

Not. She proved more elusive than I had imagined. Almost taunting me to get a great shot. I couldn’t do it. Her tail seemed to whip with delight when I’d miss the shot. And my mind couldn’t help but think of the dream a few nights before.

Maybe show you the way to your future, guide you, it depends what you’re going through & how you interoperate the dream… I’ve had many awkward moments in the past where I’ve been stumped as to how to resolve a particular problem, maybe because it was praying on my mind did a simple solution occur to me in a dream & I’ve been able to move on….. :-/

No, I don’t believe they do show the future; not at all. And I sure as hell hope mine never come true because I have a lot of really crazy ass dreams. If any of my dreams ever do come true, I’m going to be, we’re all going to be, in a boatload of trouble.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies It is very interesting that you say your dreams always come true. I have experienced this a few times but not recently. It would be nice if we could dream of next week’s lottery numbers or prevent some disaster from happening but dreams seem to foretell random inconsequential events of which your cat dream is typical. I like the name you have given your cat by the way. You might like to read An Experiment with Time by J W Dunne which investigates this phenomenon.

I had a dream that someone would ask a stupid question on here tonight.

No evidence.

But I think people can easily convince themselves that dreams do provide a window to the future by ignoring the regular (and often bizarre, nonsensical, etc…) inconsistencies between dreams and the future (ie misses) and counting as a hit anything that is even remotely overlapping between the dream and any seemingly related event that occurs in the future.

Abraham Lincoln Dreamt of His Assassination

“Who is dead in the White House?’ I demanded of one of the soldiers “The President” was his answer; “he was killed by an assassin!” Then came a loud burst of grief form the crowd, which awoke me from my dream.”

Kekulé – Dreams of Molecules & Benzene Structure

”...I had never been able to discern the nature of their motion. Now, however, I saw how, frequently, two smaller atoms united to form a pair; how a larger one embraced the two smaller ones; how still larger ones kept hold of three or even four of the smaller; whilst the whole kept whirling in a giddy dance. I saw how the larger ones formed a chain, dragging the smaller ones after them, but only at the ends of the chain. . . The cry of the conductor: “Clapham Road,” awakened me from my dreaming; but I spent part of the night in putting on paper at least sketches of these dream forms. This was the origin of the Structural Theory.”

Subliminal Clues From Fossil Perceived In Dream

Agassiz reports having a dream three nights in a row in which he saw the fish in perfect original condition. The first two nights—being unprepared—he did not record his image… By the third night he was ready with pen and paper, and when the fish appeared again in the dream he drew it in the dark, still half asleep. The next day he looked at his drawing which had remarkably different features from the ones he had been working out, hastened to his laboratory and extracting the fossil realized it corresponded exactly to his dream.
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Dreams are produced by DMT. It is the very same chemistry present in the Ayahuasca vine that Shaman ingest to get future insights on weather patterns and social matters in the tribe. Supposedly, the Ayahuasca allows a Shaman to see beyond the reality of the physical realm, beyond our man made concepts of time and space, and into the ISness of reality.

I do not claim that this is magic. I don’t believe in magic. And I have no doubt that science is capable of explaining every aspect of foretelling dream states. But I do not suppose that science is currently capable of fully explaining the expanse of reality, as it really is. I think we’re only beginning to scratch the surface of what reality is. And the more we scratch away at it, the more we will find unison with the ancient mystics of history.

All we need are dreamers who claim to have such prophetic capacity (under any hallucinogen they wish) make repeated specific prophecies about the occurrence of future events outside of their control, within a given time frame, and otherwise unpredictable, verifiably recorded a priori, that consistently come true within pre-determined boundaries of what are considered hits.

Until then, I remain unconvinced.

I’m not sure about dreams being prophecies. I think that most of the things we think of as powers are really explainable in other ways—usually by the use of mind and imagination and intelligence.

People are always attempting to predict the future. I think the imagery that comes from our dreams is based on the regular information and cognitions that we have. These are then run through our other, wordless minds, and out come visions of what could be or what might be. People who predict things they can not otherwise know are really good at understanding the world and how it works. It’s not magic. It just looks and feels like magic (especially to those who are doing it).

I think that if we learn to pay attention to the wordless mind, we can glean a lot of knowledge that we didn’t know we had. For me, that means being willing to entertain the idea that ideas that come out of nowhere might be accurate reflections of reality.

”...verifiably recorded a priori, that consistently come true…”

Agreed @AdamF. And I applaud your skepticism. As I stated earlier, science is capable of explaining every aspect of foretelling dream states, even if there is no such thing.

Though I am unaware of any such studies, I can study my personal experience. As I stated earlier, my foretelling dreams do not connect the dots in line item detail, objectively, for anyone, including myself, to claim this is objectively identifiable. There are subjective nuances that deserve consideration. And though it may indeed be coincidence, or begging the dream to fit a particular reality at hand, I still cannot deny that it occurs.

One consideration is the mathematical probabilities against the odds of coincidence.

Another consideration is that science doesn’t understand reality to the degree that it is qualified to make a statement one way or another. I suppose that reality is more expansive than what we suppose, or can suppose. The old “Do cows see cars” question.

I’m very confident that if there is such a phenomenon as foretelling dreams, that science will be capable of explaining it soon enough, with objective veracity. But until it does, I shall not deny my experience with it any more than I would deny the existence of brainwaves before the invention of the electroencephalogram.

I don’t believe in magic either @wundayatta. If foretelling dreams are real, then it is perfectly natural for them to be real. Nothing supernatural about it whatsoever. If, and only If.

There is no shortage of rogue theories out there that once were considered heretical to the establishment. There is also no shortage of proven rogue theories that now permeate our culture as objectively acceptable.

I’m unconvinced that a genuine scientific mind knows enough about this subject to speak upon it one way or another with any degree of assurance.

@lillycoyote “I have a lot of really crazy ass dreams…”

I know a lady who’s building a house. She told me it was a very stressful time in her life. I can imagine her having dreams of disarray, conflict, and possibly a mess so big that it seems destructive.

Some dreams, I’m told, are visions of worldly concern. I don’t have those. My dreams are definitely more personal, and connected to my life only. I would think there to be many dreams that seem prophetic for the planet as a whole, but in actuality they are more centered on the individual and the challenges they face.

I can’t tell you if it’s true or not, how would I know. What I can tell you though is that I have had plenty of dreams and daydreams that later down the road happened. I also know plenty of people who have had dreams that “told the future.” Maybe it’s a coincidence or maybe not, the world may never know.

The world may never know, but the world has encountered this phenomenon since the beginning of humanity. We would do well not to brush it off so easily as mere fanciful mysticism and psychosis.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Thanks sweetie, but I’m talking about things like dreaming about the earth being invaded by aliens whose space ships are tractor-trailers, the big rigs. I’m talking about cities reduced to burning rubble and a sky filled with flying semis. :-)

And I’ve always had crazy dreams. Though have been having a lot of recurring dreams that my parents are alive and undertaking massive, strange and complicated remodeling projects on the house I grew up in. :- )

I understand. If those were my dreams, I’d be tempted to read all sorts of things into them that related to my personal life. Perhaps I shouldn’t. Perhaps I can’t help myself.

It’s happend to me before, I could tell the dream but I don’t wanna waste anyones time.

I’ve honestly had 4–5 prophetic dreams. It’s also in the Bible all over the place. You have to use wisdom, discernment…and a wise impartial advisor, lol.

One involved our family car and an accident that would happen two weeks later. My entire family including parents were in the car…I took the dream seriously.
When it happened, I was driving, and the back tire suddenly blew. I turned and balmy said, ” I can make it to the side I’ve already seem this. ” lol
In that case it saved the incredible panic I would have had and more than likely hit someone around me
I had seen in the dream that we would end up on the side in the grass walking to the gas station.

Another involved seeing me an acquaintance at work and her husband in a large building walking room to room. I hardly knew the girl so I laughingly told her the details and she shared had in the very days prior told admitted to an affair and they were trying to work through it.

Another involved me seeing the private activities ~not horrible but not great~ of a very close friend’s husband, which would later be told to me by her.

The last one I had I can’t say what it will prove to mean but involved everyone in my immediate family and gave me a Tremendous sense of peace pouring over me.

If those are prophetic
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Thanks S, got the message