Has anyone ever dreamt somthing then had it come true some day later? This happens to me sometimes and I was wondering if any of you know why?
Cheers,
Ian
I haven’t had that happen…would be cool though. What was your dream about?
Well, quite a few really, when I was a teenager, almost 20% of my dreams would come true, now that I am older, it has slowed down to a small few. It’s weird but I have met other people who have experience it too…
It’s like deja vu, but I remeber the actual dream, and it’s basically small moments, but they happen.
Cheers,
Ian
The classic skeptical answer is coincidence. After all, most dreams don’t come true. But there is a natural tendency to notice and remember the ones that do. What are the chances that you’ll dream about something, and have it actually “come true”, just by sheer coincidence? (You dream about a plane crashing, and one really crashes the next day; you dream about your Aunt Rose dying, and she really does; you dream about an old friend from high school, and he calls you that weekend.) It’s hard to calculate, but assign any arbitrarily high number you like–one in a million, one in a billion even. Studies show that all normal people dream when they sleep (although some people, like me, rarely remember their dreams). In very round numbers, and excluding babies and so on, we’re talking in excess of 200 million dreams in the U.S. every night, which means (using the lower figure for probability) more than 200 “precognitive” dreams every day somewhere in the U.S., just by coincidence; even with the higher probability figure, that would mean dozens of “precognitive” dreams in the U.S. every year, just by random chance.
Also factor in the vagueness and weirdness of many dreams–was that really your Aunt Rose? Wasn’t it also Mrs. Wormwood, your old elementary school teacher, at the same time? And did Aunt Rose really die, or was it just that later in the dream you were at a funeral (where you were, incidentally, buck naked)? If Mrs. Wormwood had died, that would have been a “hit” as well. Or if Aunt Rose had just called you the next day. Or if you’d attended a funeral. Or if you’d wound up naked in a public place. But people tend to selectively remember, and maybe even unconsciouly enhance, the juicy details that “fit” the actual events, so that a typically ambiguous weird dream you had becomes, in your fallible human memory, a strikingly detailed prediction of what really happened.
Try to dream about winning the lottery. 
I wish they would enable editing, I hit the submit button by mistake… ok good point factoring coincidence… but where do we draw the line…
I’ll give you a classic example from one of my expeirences with it. (One of the examples that has convinced me that I need to rule out coincidence in my arguments)
Dream One:- I am downstairs watching Evil Dead 2 with my sister and her friend. My sister’s friend is sitting on the couch with me, we have a blanked covering us, and she is playing footsies with me.
Reality:- 3 Weeks later I am downstairs watching Evil Dead 2 with my sister and her friend. My sister’s friend is sitting with my sister, and they have the blanket. I remeber clearly the dream that I had, so I think about how close the dream was to the actual real event. I refresh my memory and note that she was sitting on the couch with me… same blanket same movie. I was about to rule in coincidence, until she got scared, walked over with the blanket and sat with me (for security) then started to initate footsies. One example… I have had over hundred simular experiences like this in the last 14 years.
The accuracy has been to the point at certain rare times… I stress on rare, where I have told people what would happen next (because I remebered the dream) or told them a dream, and it happened… to even saying what they were going to say in advance, because I already knew.
But then, I always remeber my dreams, and I dream about 5-12 dreams a night. That could factor in some of the recall needed for the precogntive ones.
I am not going to say for sure that it is 100%, but I have had enough to say, coincidence may be the weaker arguement. I’ll have to research it more.
Cheers,
Ian
I have, and it was damn close too, I dreamt the numbers in huge clouds in the sky… woke up and remebered clearly 4 of them, and 2 I did not. Well, not being a gambler, I played 5 dollars on a ticket and won 5 times for 4 numbers, and never did recall the other two accuratly enough so I guessed at them… but that could be coincidence.
Duplicate post deleted and now I’m moving this to IMHO, where it belongs mo bettah.
Jill
Some things to consider which may or may not apply to your situation, but which may help you decide between coincidence and a spooky new age supernatural explanation.
[ul][li]Sometimes people remember things retroactively. What I mean by that is when I have deja vu or a dream comes true, I don’t remember the dream until the feeling of deja vu or the event occurs. It is possible my brain is simply misfiling the current event under ‘long term memory’ and then I suddenly think “Gee, I dreamt this last week” when in reality I’m just fabricating the memory. So, it is possible that you didn’t dream it at all. To test this, you need to keep a journal of your dreams in as much detail as possible, and stuff only counts if it was written down before it came true. Later if you read that you were watching Army of Darkness instead of Evil Dead 2, you know you were off by at least that much.[/li][li]Commonplace dreams are much more likely to come true. In your example, if you own the movie Evil Dead 2 it is not out of the question that you would be watching it. If you have noticed your sister’s friend making eyes at you, it is not out of the question that she’ll be playing footsies at some point. Now if you dreamt that you walked out the door and saw an elephant and that came true, that would be something else.[/li][/ul]
Again, this is not meant as a criticism of you, just as some food for thought.
I have always been good at remembering my dreams - I remember almost all of them, but this dream was more vivid in my memory than most, from the time I had the dream to even now.
I am a bit of a skeptic - so this rattles me even to this date because I am at a loss to explain it due to the exactness of the dream matching to the reality.
I have had other corelations between my dreams, and reality, but they have always been common enough events to explain away with reasons such as coincedence or chance - but this one, I can not.
I had a dream when I was about 8 years old that I was in the basement of a friend of mine. In reality I had never met this friend, at that time, but in the dream she was a friend. Now my friend and I were going through a desk in the basement in the dream looking at some old coins, when my friend pulls out a coin and says to me, this is very strange - the coin says the date is 6961 - and that the date is in the future - she wonders if it is from a country with a different date system.
I look at this silver coin, and I see the date the way she does but I also see it upside down, it is 1969.
Now fast forward to when I was 15, I was at a friends place, she & I go to her grandparents basements, and shows me some coins from her grandfather’s collection. Right there is the coin - the one from my dream so long ago. The same silver coin with the bust of a balding man - and she goes through the same speech that occured in my dream.
I remembered my dream completely from the moment I saw the coin and predicted her every word, and replyed in kind the same way I did in my dream.
Afterwards I rumminated and tryed to explain to myself how this dream and reality could match so well. I still do not have an answer.
Okay, more speculation.
I have two types of dreams. Ones that clearly will never come true, and the ones that do.
On the ones that do come true, there have been instances where I could not have known any details before hand.
That includes brand new buildings, locations I have never been to (different states) and whatnot.
But they don’t happen as much when you get older as they do when one is young. But then, I had dreams back then that came much later true much later in life.
I can’t explain it. It’s the one piece of life I can’t explain via logic or science. Oh well, keeps life from being dull.