Ever had a dream that seemed to come true? Explore the science of precognitive dreaming and learn techniques on how to tap into your psychic abilities.
Prophetic dreams have been recorded throughout history, some by famous names such as Tuthmosis IV, an Egyptian Pharaoh; President Abraham Lincoln; and Edgar Cayce, "The Sleeping Prophet." Can dreams really predict the future? History and science have proved that the ability to sense or glimpse the future does exist, but they have yet to discover the how and why.
The Brain and Precognition
One of the problems science has encountered in trying to find proof that precognitive ability truly exists, is that in order to predict the future, one must somehow defy the concept of linear time. Albert Einstein theorized that the past, present, and future are all an illusion.
To understand this, one must also understand how the human brain works. The conscious mind seeks to compartmentalize information in a never-ending quest to have things in their nice, neat place. The subconscious mind, however, realizes that there are no boundaries, and reaches past the illusion of confinement and time.
Brain scans show that premonitions manifest from the portion of the brain that controls emotions. In someone more developed, the visual cortex may also become engaged and a person can receive more details of the vision. Recent studies have shown that creative individuals display higher accuracy rates in precognitive tests.
Frequency and Resonance
Some humans and animals are able to sense an earthquake before it happens. Scientists believe that the shifting of the Earth’s plates creates a frequency that the brain may sometimes be able to detect. The Earth normally resonates at a frequency of about 7.83 hertz. Someone in tune with the frequency could sense a disruption.
It’s the frequency theory that may hold the key. During sleep, the subconscious, now free of the clutter of an active mind, can harness the emotional and intuitive portions of the brain and "tune in" to other frequencies. Could time have a frequency as well?
According to an article in Time: Exploring the Unexplained, studies suggest that people who regularly participate in mental disciplines such as meditation and yoga, also score highly on precognitive tests, much like the creative group mentioned earlier. Learning to free the mind of ‘noise’ seems to be a large part of harmonizing the psychic frequencies.
Psychic Dreams
So why do precognitive dreams happen? Perhaps it is part of the survival mechanism that seeks to warn of events yet to occur. There are many accounts of people making last-minute travel changes due to a warning received in a dream, but there are also accounts of dreams foretelling unavoidable accidents as well.
Can precognitive dreams be triggered? Perhaps, through the practice of lucid dreaming, they can. Lucid dreaming is a technique where the dreamer is aware that they are in a dream. Once aware, it may be possible to control the direction of information within the dream.
So how can one tell if a dream is ordinary or extraordinary? Repetitive dreams, extremely detailed dreams, or sometimes the visualizations of a clock or calendar within the dream have been reported by persons who have had precognitive dreams.
How can you have one? Keep a dream journal and record vivid or startling dreams that you may have. Pay particular attention to your feelings as you go over the details. Try to pin down any clues that may determine when a dream is precognitive in nature. And get plenty of sleep.
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Hi my name is Leticia I just want to say that I have different kinds of
things that happen to me like the Los Angeles train crash on 9/13. I had a
dream that it was going to happen and it sure did just like it happened and
other things such as seeing spirits,hearing things and persiving things
before they happen and of course dreaming things before they actually
happen.I would like friends out there that understand what it is that I'm
going through. Please I would like it very much If anyone out there would
email me and let me know what they think about this and ways that I can
further develope my gift.
Nov 6, 2008 10:56 AM
Guest :
I dream dreams.......... I know that the dreams will happen, when I wake
up they are vivid and real... I can tell if the dream is just simply that,
or if it is real... I have been doing this since childhood....
Unfortuanltely, I only see the things taht will make my life more
difficult, rather that the happy things that are to come... Only once did
I see the good.... I wish I saw that more often, and not just the
troubling. I thought it was crazy, and did not tell anyone, but, finally I
started just telling hubby what I dreamed, then, pretty soon, he caught
on.... Didn't want him to think I was weird, so I let him find it
himself.... Also, my mom dreams too... Wonder if it is passed down??? My
5 year old daughter has been telling me about her dreams also.... She
dreams something, and low and behold, it is true... Just like when I was a
child...
Nov 21, 2008 12:32 AM
Richard Ackerman :
Good day,let's see.........where to begin? So my stepbrother taught myself
and his brother "how to fly in your dream" when we were kids. Of
course the instruction was quite simply to tell yourself, "I'm
dreaming!" during one's dream. That was a long time ago. Somewhere in
my mid 20's, I began to notice a direct correlation between real events,
objects, ideas and scenarios that crossed my path the morning/day after
having just previously dreamed of said. Well, just the year before a
co-worker had introduced me to horse track wagering.......naturally.....My
first preliminary "dry-fire" tests produced an amazing 6 out of 6
correct picks across the next several months. The 7th was completely wrong,
but I hadn't gone to the track yet. I was only checking the local newspaper
sports page race card line-up, and then circling my pick. I determined my
target to be : Winner at 10/1 odds or better. That was the pre-sleep
auto-suggestion that I gave after relaxing my body, quieting my mind, and
then just going to sleep. OF COURSE, dreaming with intent is greatly
facilitated by keeping a dream journal. Unfortunately, by the time that I
actually had cash to implement my evil plan, my beginner's luck and
newfound oneiromancy ability had run out of gas. However, about 1991 I had
the supreme good fortune to move to Chicago for half a year. I was living
15 minutes (curb to curb) from Arlington International Racecourse! Since I
did IN FACT cash several winning tickets (always aiming for trifectas and
exactas now), by technical definition that makes me a professional.
Unfortunately, I wasn't born with any inner discipline and quickly spent
the money. Mostly on beer, dinners, cabs, etc. though many wrong
interpretations of dreams, near misses and dead wrong wagers, and ran out
of stake. Churchill Downs was good for a few free rides when I lived in KY.
Thought I was completely unique (and consequently alone) until in 2003 when
I Googled up an article about a John Godley (British chap) who had an
amazing series of very accurate precognitive horse race dreams. Also found
a book by J.W. Dunne, An Experiment with Time , @ 1927. "What one man
can do, another man CAN do!" Too bad MO doesn"t have internet
wagering......cptslacker, out!
Nov 21, 2008 1:37 AM
Richard Ackerman :
Let's see, where was I? Oh yeah, recommended readings: An obscure book by
the Marquis de Herve de St. Denys (probably misspelled that) Dreams and How
to Guide Them. Not very lengthy, excellent analysis and instruction. Long
before the term - "Lucid Dreaming", the author called cognizant
awareness during a dream - "I was aware of my true situation".
Seems I recall mention that Sigmund Freud was "Unable to obtain a
copy". How suspiciously convenient for him to not have to defend his
own convoluted theories about the fundamental nature of dreams. I have
personally corroborated most of the author's extensive experience working
with dreams. Hard to find the book (out of print since @ 1980), more than
worth the effort! And again, so is the book by J.W. Dunne, An Experiment
With Time. Many parts are difficult to read when the author (an engineer)
spends pages on complex physics theories and Venn diagrams to explain what,
in his own experience he calls, "a regression in time". That is:
when one has a dream of an event BEFORE the event happens. However, he was
able to create a formal experiment wherein he showed that fairly anyone can
be trained to have at least some success at dreaming of something out of
time sequence. Especially, the author took care to disregard from test
scores what is now called "tolerance of ambiguity".
Jan 8, 2009 11:37 AM
DreamsIBecome :
Hi Leticia. I have had a few experiences similar to what you mentioned -
seeing a future event, but that came after consciously directing my
subjective mind for a specific dream (auto-suggestion). Clarevoyance and
clareaudience are faculties of the human mind. I would love to communicate
with you and share our knowledge. Please leave your email add. Thanks
Richard Ackerman, wow, i testify to everything you
said. Just last weekend i used pre-sleep auto suggestion, wanting to know
the results of 4 football matches being played (not scores, just
win-draw-lose for each team). I had a very vivid dream in which someone was
revealing the results to me, three of the teams won, and one drew. It
happened exactly like that last weekend, in the English Premier League.
Arsenal won, Liverpool won, Man United won, and Chelsea drew!! I used
to misinterpret many dreams too, but now i include in my suggestion that
when the answer comes i will know it undoubtably, as in the dream i
mentioned above. If it's not clear, then i don't take it as an answer. I
don't bet though, but it wouldn't hurt on one of those 80/1 scorecasts!! Thanks anyway for the recommended reading.....
Feb 1, 2009 7:00 AM
Guest :
My name is jessica and I am 19 years old. Over the past couple years I have
had weird experiences with dreams. The first one being when I was about 15
a good friend of mine ran away from home for about a month and I had been
really worried about him because no one knew where he was. Then one night I
had a dream he came to see me, and he gave me a hug and the hug felt real.
The next day he returned home. This has happened several times with him
since. Another time I had a dream that a couple friends of mine were
running around my school looking for something. The next day when I went to
school, one of my friends who had been in the dream came up to me and was
like "oh man, last night I had this weird dream that you were
in." Then proceeded to tell me about the same exact dream I had. The most recent one though, was about a week before I was planning on
going to a concert I was really excited for. In my dream my one friend
richie showed up at the concert with short hair, and we ended up going to
some persons house I had never met before to hang out. The next
morning I was telling my friend about the dream I had, and he said the
second he read what I had wrote he got chills. Apparently while I was
having my dream, in a city a couple hours away from where I was my friend
richie was telling my other friend that he wanted to cut his hair really
short for the concert[he had long hair at the time] and a friend of my
friend had told him that night that we could hang out at his apartment
until the train started running in the morning. For the most part I
shrug these off as funny coincidences, but I still can't help being weirded
out and wondering at what point does it stop just being a coincidence?
Feb 2, 2009 3:39 AM
Guest :
There is no such thing as coincidences my dear. I will leave out all
technical details as to how and why, besides you can find all that on the
net, but instead of wanting it to stop, why don't you revel in it!! Now you
should try directing your dreams and ask questions etc. Best wishes to
you....
Feb 6, 2009 5:18 PM
Guest :
Hi guys! My name is Mia and I'm 15. Yeah, I know that I'm a little on the
young side but I do have precognitive dreams... and sometimes I see things
even when I'm awake. I.E. I always seem to grab my cellphone right before
it rings or I get a text message. I've had quite a few dreams about the
future. It's always little things like someone I haven't seen in a while
showing up or a slight change in school plans or something like that. But I
want to know more about my abilities... can anyone help?
Feb 9, 2009 7:58 PM
Guest :
So, I've been interested in dream interpretation - symbolism and what not
for years. However, I never paid too much attention to my dreams regarding
premonitions. I recently became pregnant and my dreams became short and
distinct. I knew 100%, from my dreams, early on that I was having a boy.
I told all who would listen. I am having a boy. I was convinced that my
sister-in-law was having a girl (they wanted to be suprised). Last night I
had a dream that she had a boy. I called my brother, left a message.
Tonight, she gave birth to a boy. Now, I realize that I have a 50/50
chance on this, but I would have put money on it as the feelings left no
doubts in my mind. Both of my father's grandmothers claimed to be psychic.
Are premonitions psychic impressions of future events, or,
could they be the sum of our subconscious evaluations based on intuition
and stored information?
Feb 9, 2009 8:06 PM
Guest :
Well im 15 live in ohio. And i can see stuff as you would say early like i
seen me dating people i didn't know at the time next month i got a add on
myspace and it was that person saying hey we should hang out. Ive seen
death ive seen live i seen the usa future. And If my dreams come true lets
just say it will all be over in a instance.
Feb 13, 2009 6:51 AM
Guest :
I am currently trying to develop an accuracy scale for precognition and
attempting to locate a possible mechanism for the events recorded. The
scale runs from 1 to 5, with 1 being a 'feeling' about something, and 5
being 'like watching a video before it was shot'. Having had several level
5 events (for one of which I have documented evidence), I am naturally
interested in the subject, and would be very interested in a possible
mechanism for them. At present, the events are uncontrolled and random,
and there is no way to distinguish an event until the actual event occurs.
Remembering the future is a difficult subject to explain, let alone to find
a mechanism for. I would be very grateful if anyone who leaves a
future message would rank the accuracy of their predictions from 1 to 5 and
explain why they chose that rank. F Ivatt
Mar 7, 2009 5:31 PM
Guest :
I recently had what can only be described as a level 5 dream. As in like
watching a video. This has never happened to me before. The dream involved
a certain person performing certain unusual actions, details of a
conversation with that person and the location/venue. This wasn't anything
particularly important or life threatening to anyone, however it has
changed me from a highly sceptical person into someone a little freaked
out. Contact with some one such as F Ivatt, or anyone who is not a
fraud/weirdo would be welcome. Anon
Mar 21, 2009 8:21 PM
Guest :
On the morning of 03-09-09 I woke after a very vivid dream, not the first
time i have had one. My dream was that I had played a number on the ohio
lottery pick 4, And had won, but I knew that I had only won on a any-order
type ($400) instead of exact-order type ($5000). I told my wife and 4
co-workers about the dream and the number I won on:1215 , They all
listened and one of the 5 people played the number that night, I played the
number for the week, changing the order of the numbers each day. On the
evening of 03-12-09 the ohio winning number was 5211....I did win! not
exact-order. Is there a special type of Precognition dreams for numbers?
I have always loved working with numbers and statistics and have spent
many hours on lottery computer programs. Could my brain be extra receptive
to freq's with math involved? can I tune/prep myself for better numbers
reception?
Mar 24, 2009 9:40 AM
Guest :
Hello My name is daaniel and i am 14 years old I had a dream a few days ago
and it was so vivid and real. It was about three meteors or comets or
astriods about to collide with earth and there will be tiny showers hitting
earth and my family will die but i will be the only person to survive on my
street. I am afraid because i belive that this is tied to 12/21/2012. I am
not sure what to do or should i go to a psychic or tell my parents. I also
specifically remember a dream when i was in either the 1st or 2nd grade. My
dream was about me cutting out a picture of a Nutcracker soldier and it
happened 1 or 2 days later. I am only thinking of these dreams now an i
Dont know if i need help or what but can someone tell what to do.
Mar 26, 2009 11:45 AM
Guest :
i have the dreams for years since i was 5 years old and i am gaining cotrol
with stronger abilities i dont have to dream any more
Apr 19, 2009 9:52 PM
Guest :
Hey my Name is Cujo Hagen, i live in las vegas, I have dreams all the time,
always the same dream, its about my boyfriend, and my dog bear, who had
past, im getting a dog at the end of the school year, the dream always
happens at the same time on 06/06/09 at 8:03 pm. please email me
kittehfreak13@yahoo.com
May 9, 2009 10:51 AM
Guest :
I am new to this site but sometimes i have a dream that only last about
afew minutes but in that dream i see some things that happen then either a
month or maybe a week later that dream comes true i am 14 and i just want
to learn more about this.
May 19, 2009 8:57 PM
Richard Ackerman :
No, this isn't a trailer for HEROES. LOL. Go back and read the
instructions, i.e. the book by J.W. Dunne - An Experiment with Time. It's
kinda techy at times, but mostly accurate assessment. Oh, and to the
confused youngster, yeah, nobody likes to think of themselves as a freak.
Jul 16, 2009 12:41 AM
Guest :
hey i'm paul. i'm 14 and i can see the future in my dreams. usually there
is no volume but recently i have started hearing background noises. i don't
know when i relized my talent. i am trying to learn to control it but i
don't know how. also the dreams are usually in black and white. during the
dream its like im there, at that time but when i wake up i don't remember
the dream until it happens. when they happened i used to get a sense of
dejavu, but now that does not happen and i must remember the dream by
myself. the dreams are never anything important, just random moments in my
future. these dreams seem to happen randomly but i'm not sure if that is
truly the case. since i don't remember the dreams until they happen i have
not found a way to catalouge the dreams. i only dream things that happen to
me. i have nevr dreamt something that will happen to another. send your
questions about my ability to pgd5000@yahoo.com. i will do my best to
answer them.
Jul 25, 2009 12:33 AM
Guest :
i have been able to see the future by dreams since i was a kid but the only
problem is i dont pick what to see and when to see it. i would like to have
control of it. let me give an example i dream i am shopping for heels at a
strange store and two weeks later am at the exact store holding the same
heels , am like why cant i dream to see lottery numbers instead of random
stuff .
Jul 27, 2009 10:42 PM
Guest :
Hi im Dylan im 12 years old I need some help ive been having precognitive
dreams a little while after i turned 11 and they've been pretty useless,it
usually starts out as a regular dream but then a small clip forms in my
head that seems real then it ends and then i have a aregular dream again.My
Moms friends pyschic and says im a indigo child does that have anything to
do with it? Well anyway please help bye.
Aug 1, 2009 6:16 PM
jm2001pta :
Hi I just came accross this site. basically i have always found all of
these things very interesting; i'm very much open minded. I too, have know
what the sex of my babies were before confirmed by dr. I have dreamed about
1yr prior to my sister, brothers' wives getting pregnant i told them they
were having boys or girls. One time in a moment of crisis, I even called
my sister on a phone that was disconnected and when everyone in the room
looked at me wierd, they told me that there was no service on the phone. I
have a fairly amount of dajavu with certain situations. Sometimes i think
about a certain person and then the phone rings and it's them. i would like
to know how to enhance, and control jm2001pta@yahoo.com
Aug 20, 2009 1:35 PM
Guest :
Does anyone know how to tell the difference between a precognitive dream
and just a typical dream with your subconscious talking to you? I have had
3 dreams the last 3 months which did come true (or I was able to avoid
having them come true. They weren't exact like a deja vu but it was
definitely a tale of the future). A few nights ago I had a dream that was
extremely vivid.... I was honestly SHOCKED when I woke up because I didn't
think it was a dream (many times I just simple wake from a dream... its no
problem... but this seemed way too real). And then of course I was
depressed because it was a fantastic outcome to a situation I've been
struggling with. =P But has anyone found a way to tell the difference?
Aug 25, 2009 6:54 PM
Guest :
Ok here goes... my names Keith ive had so many different things iv seen and
experienced. I guess the earliest i can remember anything happening was
when i was 9. Though a lot of my child hood has blank spots. Though since i
was around 17 and 18 is when the strongest things started. Im now 29 so
been a good ten years going with everything. I have prerogative
abilities i know that. The way it seems to go with me is i dream things
then it could be 2 days or 10 years later till then pop back out. You see
then come i dreams but not in points where i can write them down when i
wake. Instead at about 3 minutes to 15 seconds before i remember the dream
and what day i had them. i see everything that is to happen what i am to
think before hand, and what others will do or say. The way i explain it is
like your reading a book and watching tv at the same time. to events going
on at once. I have no power over it, it comes a goes. Some times ill get
them all the time and others now for almost a year. Now here lately
ive been doing something i havent since i was a child, my mom said she us
to ketch me staring off into space for 2 to 10 minutes at a time. I didnt
remember them. Its a like a blank time in my memory, i dont ever realize
what is going on. Well ive been doing them again, havnt done them since i
was a child. I dont know if its related, and the things i see make me feel
like im going crazy. So i guess with all this im just trying to find
others like me, i normally go to my writings and stories i write to try and
deal with it but its not helping. So if there are others that might be able
to help or understand what i mean and maybe feel id love to know.
Sep 26, 2009 4:47 AM
Guest :
When I have a precognitive dream, it's a feeling I can't shake off after I
wake up. The feeling of foreboding trouble, warning me of impending dangers
coming my way. At one time these dreams only dealt with situations in my
life, until I dreamed on a national scale, as in my dream of 9-11, four
years before it happened. Then there was the dream of a chain of
explosions, turning it pitch black or the dream of the red sky on fire.
Could these events be in our near future or can we avert them with our
collective thoughts and choices we make or will they be a horror for us yet
to live?
Oct 10, 2009 1:43 PM
Guest :
hey my name is kate and i am 15 for a few years now ive been having dreams
and in a about 50% of them i rember doing or seeing somthing distictintive
happening and then in the next few days i happens its only something small
like pcking up something in a certain area but itsnormally something thats
never happened before. what is this and can i develop this further email me
plz. thankyou
Oct 20, 2009 8:43 AM
Guest :
I've been having precognitive dreams since I was about 6 or 7. They're
usually something silly, like my mom and I having a conversation about
nothing in particular, or getting ready to go somewhere, then months (or
even years) later the dream comes true. The biggest problem I've always
had is the time frame. Things never happen within a few weeks of the dream.
The shortest span I've seen is about 3 months. The longest was about 4
years. How can I become more attune with the time frame of my precognitive
dreams? If anyone has any suggestions or literature to suggest, please
e-mail me at blueblazingstar@hotmail.com with "Precognitive
Dreams" in the subject line. Thank you!
Oct 24, 2009 4:32 AM
Guest :
Hi I’m 37 years old. I had my first dream about a future event when I was
18 but not that I knew it at the time. It was my last night at home before
moving away to go to university. I was wondering before I went to sleep
where I'd be in ten years and who I'd be married to. That night I dreamt
about a Japanese girl with a white face. I remember waking up thinking it
was the wrong answer and thought nothing more as I was the typical racist
'japs' type of person (yes ashamedly young stupid and arrogant back then).
After uni I got offered a position in Japan and later married a Japanese
girl when I was 29. At first I used to think I had dejavu at times, it was
an unusual feeling, like 'im sure this has happened'. In my early thirty's
I had a dejavu situation again but on this occasion I also remembered the
dream Id had about it. I dismissed it at first because I’m quite a
science'y type of person but since then its happened too many times to
ignore. I was surprised when I searched the net to find people talking
about it. Really makes me wonder about the nature of the universe.
Oct 24, 2009 5:25 PM
Guest :
my name is monica, im 18 years old and have been having precognitive dreams
since i can remember. i tend to dream normal day to day things such as me
walking down the street, sitting in classes, talking to friends and even on
the bus. every now and then i dream about random things that i never
believed i would do and surly enough months later i was doing it. a couple
months ago i had such a funny and explict dream over on of my highschool
teachers that my friends constantly make fun of and now i cant even look at
him the same way. i also have other gifts such as picking up the
phone before it rings, and many times i think about the person before the
call me. and when it comes to people im really intune with in a
relationship i can tell what they are doing or where they are. an example
is when my exbf was attacked at 3 am and i knew it happened. very rarely i
can also tell the "future" such as when my mom was scared she
would lose her job and i told her that she wouldnt and not only that she
would get a raise.
