Precognition in dreams.

[LokiSuku]

Anything can happen.

Thats all I'm going to say.

[alainbryden]

You are a postwhore.

That's all I'm going to say.

[Matthew4444]

Here's what I think happens:

You see, during the day I sometimes imagine different situations I may get myself into. If there's some encounter I know will happen, I think about what I'm going to say, how others may respond, and how I may respond to them. I go into many practice conversations to make sure I'm prepared.

So, I probably do the same thing in my sleep without realizing it. When I plan things out and I'm awake, I'm distracted and can only go through a small number of possible occurances. Also, I only have what my concious brain thinks about. Thus, when I'm a sleep and the crazier subconcious takes over it goes through tons of possible situations and maps out tons of possible events. Of course, I don't remember all of them, and the vast majority will never happen. However, occasionally I'll dream a possible outcome that does in fact happen, and when it does it seems faintly familiar because it was in a dream that I had mostly forgotten. Some think it's precognition, but it's just that our brains get lucky sometimes in guessing at what may happen, and we remember our dreams when what is predicted turns out to be true.

Weird, since this is the exact same explanation I came up with. But to expand on that, I think that's also the root of "intuition"; your subconsious mind comes up with several possibilities, thinks about which ones are the most likely based on past experience, and the subconsious thought becomes more consious; the other possibilities are discarded and forgotten. Of course, there is not always one clear possibility your mind comes up with, confusing you on who to lynch.

[alainbryden]

or you could go with the explanation that science and psychology studies proved which I stated earlier

[mead1]

My theory is this:

Say you go to bed one night, and you dream about falling down the stairs. You wake up, and you think to yourself "It was just a dream, that's all." So you take a shower, get dressed, then before you go down the steps you remember your dream. When you go down the steps you fall down.

Now, I wouldn't call this precognition. I believe that virtually any realistic dream you remember can come true because it influences your subconcious mind. It's always there in your mind. Even if you're not thinking about it, you're almost expecting it. Thusly, it probably will occur.

[alainbryden]

see above, and don't revive dead topics. Other than that, it's an interesting theory, but don't apply it to déjà-vu, apply it those damn people who believe in psychics and horoscopes and stuff. The only reason the predictions are ever fulfilled is because you look to have the fulfilled.

ex: Your relationship will take a step forward today.

result: The girl hangs around her boyfriend all day, tring to get him to take this "step forward", he dumps her because he's annoyed and she decides that it was never meant to be, and that it was a good thing that this happened. OMg teh pridiction came true. Go back and get some more life-throttling advice.


Well, that's predictions affecting the consicous mind, subconcious is a different story, but still happens.

[navyseal101]

If you connect this with religion. Then it sorta would make sense that it's possible to dream about future events, because since God can tell the future, that means the future has already been written, therefor making it concievable that while your sleeping, God may give you a little taste of his power and you can see certiant events. But if you don't believe in God, then saying you believe in precognition isn't realistic, because humans alone don't hold that kind of power.

Precongnition has never happened to me personaly, but what I have experianced is far more fasinating to me. Sometimes I'm in a dream and another charecter in my dream with say or do something I've never seen before. So how is that possible if dreams come from your brain? Shouldn't it only be able to dream things you know?

has this happened to anyone else?

[CypherToorima]

Alright, although I don't like posting in dead topics, i'm going to post anyways. The only thing i can think of his that when your having a dream, whatever it may be and in that dream, there happens to be, i don't know...something loud. Well, I'll say a pair of cymbals. well, here comes the part in the music where the musician is supposed to crash. he rears back, brings his arms foward, and you wake up as your mom just dropped a bunch of pans. Since something similar has happened to me, this will probably be the only "precognition" I'll vouch for. i don't know if it's just pure coincedence or not. I'm actually willing to go out on a limb and say it's not a coincedence. Somtehing more. But I don't think that full fledged precognition is possible.