dreams, deja vu, visions

[Vail]

Ok, here's the deal, I've been having dreams and visions of things to come for well over 15 years now. Most of them in all honesty are minor events (like just having a specific conversation with someone I don't know) and weeks or months later that exact convo will happen. The activities in these visions range from conversations, things I'm doing, sounds I'm listening too.

To add to this: when I wake up every morning I have a notebook I've kept for the last 7 years where I write down details of things I've seen (with the date of the dream) followed by the date/time it actually happens.

Now I know it sounds kinda silly but: my latest one happened just last night and actually had to do with ffxi. Doing a BC bad duo with a taru and having my computer/router DC me right as I die so I can't reraise when I logged back on. This dream happened feb 3rd 2008, at the time this dream happened I hadn't duo'd any BCs ever nor did I honestly know hardly any tarus, so it seemed really out of place.
August 9th, 2008 02:43 AM, I did a X knife's BC with my duo partner chlblsuke using a sleepga 2hour nuke the crap out of mithra strat, just prior to this happening my new roommate asked me to update some port accesses on our router so he could use his newly bought PS3 online. Because of these changes I ended up DCing appx 10seconds before I would have died from unslept Z/wyvern/rabbit. And ofcourse I log back on unable to reraise and my duo partner is blm/rdm so~ failed/fucked run.

I try to keep as many details as I can on all this, but it happens so often now that I'm having 20-40 things happening each month (dream or eventually happening of a past dream)

Like I said before more of the stuff that seems to happen is pretty random/common/fairly-unimportant stuff, I mean it's not like completely crazy knowning I was some how gonna get hired by Wal-mart the day I got fired as a tele-marketer 5 months in advance (and I really hate walmart as a whole, but took the job cause I needed work)

a few things have been major events in my life: including my enlistment in the Navy, my father's death, my step-brothers death (which I dreamed well before I even meet the him) have all happened after I've dreamt them, and the details of who's there, what's going on, have all been pretty spot on.

I did a search here on BG and only saw a few threads on dreams and such, usually not too many post, but I'd like to hear what other people think?

These visions I get are often scarying me, namely the reoccuring dream of my own death. The thing that mostly scares me is that: so far I've been completely unable to change what happens when an event accually comes to fruition. (at this time, I don't really want to share the details of my death)

Philosophically these continued dreams makes me question many things about how the world works.
If somehow I (or others) are able to see things that have yet to happen then can time be really a one way thing? moving only forward but never backwards?

and my inability to change what happens, it makes me question free-will and even the possibility of fate. (yes I'm a spiritual person of faith, but don't goto churchs. I believe in God, but I don't think everything in the bible should be taken literally or figuratively) I also wanna add that in general I don't believe in psychics, mind-reading, or other 6th sense ideas.

The other possibility is I'm so bat-shit crazy that I can't tell the difference of what's going on, and this has all just been random chance.

Do other people have similar experiences, or maybe someone here can help explain some ideas about why the mind dreams realistic probable events, or theories on time that aren't linear one way only? I'd really like to hear anyone's thoughts

[Zalius]

have deja vu every now and again, but im not in depth enough to record my dreams, i just remember the ones where i bang celebrities

my dad was really spooked a while back (he's over 50) and basically saw a pipe explosion that he was involved in (he remembered the exact words of an old lady behind him) and it scared him so he stopped doing it. basically the water that was coming out of the sink at one of his stores was coming out really really really hot, like unusually hot. he just stopped completely and hasnt done anything about the sink and doesnt want to call anyone for idk what reason

[Dylon]

This might be a little off from what your talking about, but you know when you say something like "dont get pulled over" to a friend and they end up getting pulled over? well i think it goes along with dreams with the shit that happens, but what if what we say to others actually tests our abilitys as humans, like trying to warn you of whats gonna happen in the future. I talked to my friends about it and they all agree with me. what do u guys think?

[TaruMortis]

I've had this happen plenty of times so I can relate on how it can frighten you. The line between reality/what could happen and what is just pure imagination becomes so thin after awhile. So while I'm sorry I have no advice to give I can tell you you're not in alone on this boat. Just out of curiosity..is there some reason why you're afraid of discussing your dreams of your death? Or is it one of those things you just don't like to think about?

[Vail]

Just out of curiosity..is there some reason why you're afraid of discussing your dreams of your death? Or is it one of those things you just don't like to think about?

I think about it alot accually, it's accually probably one of the biggest driving points in my life on deciding what to do with my life.

I have alot of details from this event writen down, including my looks, my profession at the time, what kills me, and details on the family I have.

I've only told 3 people about these details, in my writen will, I've included giving my notebook to my Aunt with the request she share it with anyone interested.

Two of those 3 people I shared the story with were generally freaked the hell out, the other was kinda confused and indifferent about it. I think I don't tell people mostly cause of the reactions I've already gotten from people.

This might be a little off from what your talking about, but you know when you say something like "dont get pulled over" to a friend and they end up getting pulled over?

never had that happen, exactly, but I've had a friend from my childhood confess to me his fear of dogs, only to have a scenario 30minutes later where we went to a market to get some snacks and soda from a late night gaming binge, and on the walk back we ended up coming upon a stray dog that was aggressive. He was absolutely terrified, I was forced to confront the dog (2 years earlier my younger brother had been attacked by a pitbull, and my parents had us taught self defense modeled specificly to defending yourself against a dog) I was able to subdue the dog and called animal control later on.

Now that you mention the whole "words challenging to make things happen" it really makes me re-think that whole night

[Flarega]

I've had dreams in which I die, but what comforts me is that usually my dreams are so off the wall and wacky that I give little thought to them. What's strange to me is that In my dreams I never actually confirm that I'm dead. Something happens to me, I wake up, and I know that I would have died. It's weird.

I have deja vu sometimes as well, but it usually occurs during meaningless conversation or an image flashes in my head that I think I've seen before. Nothing that gets me worked up, more like an "aha!" moment.

Anyway, just wanted to share some of my experience, and I'm kind of curious if people's death dreams follow the same pattern as mine.

[TaruMortis]

Everytime I've "died" in a dream I've woken up right away. A few of my death dreams are off the wall (e.g, zombies attacking) and some are very realistic (committing suicide.) I remember in one dream I committed suicide I put a gun to my temple, fired, felt (or I guess what my mind thinks a bullet would feel like) the bullet pass through my head, and my vision becoming very blurry, and having things leave trails of themselves as I fell to the ground (like seeing a person and as I fell to the ground everything slowed down and I was seeing outlines of their body in different spots as I was falling.) That's the point in which I wake up.

[Kaylia]

I mean it's not like completely crazy knowning I was some how gonna get hired by Wal-mart the day I got fired as a tele-marketer 5 months in advance (and I really hate walmart as a whole, but took the job cause I needed work)

Your brain most likely consider Walmart as the easiest alternative when need a job, and in both scenario (dream and real life), it's the solution you came up with.

There is no vision, it's just a coincidence favored by your belief.

[Titanss]

So.. how many kids am I gonna have?

[Vail]

Your brain most likely consider Walmart as the easiest alternative when need a job, and in both scenario (dream and real life), it's the solution you came up with.

if you told me I'd work at Walmart even 6 months ago, I would have laughed at you. I have a fairly large hatred level with walmart after some dealings with them in Chicago (when I was in the Navy)

long story short: first time shoping at any walmart in my life, I buy a PS2, go home and plug it in: the powersource on the PS2 is completely fried. So I figured I'll just return it and get a new one.

Well that night I got a phone call at 3AM to my barracks and they came and woke me up. It was the Red Cross, they called to inform me that my step brother and brother were in a serious car accident, and that my step brother had died.

after taking emergency leave to see my brother and be present at my step brothers funereal, I flew back to Chicago and took the PS2 back to walmart to exchange it, still within the 14 day return policy.

Now the receipt says the serial number for things like a PS2, and I showed them the receipt proving that the PS2 that was sold to me was broken on purchase. Instead of excepting it though, I get flat out told I'm lieing and the PS2 I have there in front of them is not the PS2 I was sold. On top of that I'm then asked why I didn't come in to return the PS2 until the 11th day of the 14 day policy. I tell him about how I had to fly home for my step brother's funereal. He (again) calls me a lier.

I left the store at this point, angry. My best friend at the time took me down the street to a garden store were we purchased several bricks. We returned to that Walmart and broke every one of the windows in the place.

I haven't shopped at a walmart since. Even know while being employed by a walmart I don't shop there for anything. Even with a 10% discount I refuse to buy anything from there. The day I got fired as a telemarketer I got called in to do an interview for my current job. Faced with the very real possibility of being homeless (would have been the second time being homeless mind you) since I was broke, and rent was due in 10 days, I had little chioce but take this job to make sure I didn't live on the street.

I don't know if people would call that the easy way out. Also keep in mind the dream of me working there happened way before I was even close to being in a possition of being faced with the possibility of being homeless, heck it happened before I even became a telemarketer

Everytime I've "died" in a dream I've woken up right away.

I don't always wake up after I "die" but sometimes I do, many times however it seems I have further dreams examining my "thoughts" as I die. It's from those further dreams that I know so much about what leads up to my death.

So.. how many kids am I gonna have?

1, and it'll be a girl

Spoiler: show

I have no idea, I don't control what I see, it's just "handed" to me if you will. I don't know you, and truthfully speaking I don't know what specifically is gonna happen in the future

[Gunitsoldier]

I've had the same exact dream for 4 months when I was young, it scared the living crap out of me.
Starts when I'm having breakfast. I go outside because my dad is coming home from work and I'm waiting for him. He parks his car across the street and is walking to our house when suddenly a red viper runs him over.
I had that dream at age 10 and 4 years later after those dreams my father died in a car accident. And before you ask, no it wasn't a red viper.

[Not Kuno]

Thats kind of creepy. I don't believe in a higher power, but maybe you were shown all this so you can change it? It seems you have a lot of details about it so.. maybe it's not out of reach? You said you never really saw alot of the other stuff coming, so I guess thats why that never got changed? It's tricky.

I find this kind of interesting. I like weird stuff like this. Lemme know if you find out any information about me. >.>

[Lockecole7]

Ok, here's the deal, I've been having dreams and visions of things to come for well over 15 years now. Most of them in all honesty are minor events (like just having a specific conversation with someone I don't know) and weeks or months later that exact convo will happen. The activities in these visions range from conversations, things I'm doing, sounds I'm listening too.

To add to this: when I wake up every morning I have a notebook I've kept for the last 7 years where I write down details of things I've seen (with the date of the dream) followed by the date/time it actually happens.

Now I know it sounds kinda silly but: my latest one happened just last night and actually had to do with ffxi. Doing a BC bad duo with a taru and having my computer/router DC me right as I die so I can't reraise when I logged back on. This dream happened feb 3rd 2008, at the time this dream happened I hadn't duo'd any BCs ever nor did I honestly know hardly any tarus, so it seemed really out of place.
August 9th, 2008 02:43 AM, I did a X knife's BC with my duo partner chlblsuke using a sleepga 2hour nuke the crap out of mithra strat, just prior to this happening my new roommate asked me to update some port accesses on our router so he could use his newly bought PS3 online. Because of these changes I ended up DCing appx 10seconds before I would have died from unslept Z/wyvern/rabbit. And ofcourse I log back on unable to reraise and my duo partner is blm/rdm so~ failed/fucked run.

I try to keep as many details as I can on all this, but it happens so often now that I'm having 20-40 things happening each month (dream or eventually happening of a past dream)

Like I said before more of the stuff that seems to happen is pretty random/common/fairly-unimportant stuff, I mean it's not like completely crazy knowning I was some how gonna get hired by Wal-mart the day I got fired as a tele-marketer 5 months in advance (and I really hate walmart as a whole, but took the job cause I needed work)

a few things have been major events in my life: including my enlistment in the Navy, my father's death, my step-brothers death (which I dreamed well before I even meet the him) have all happened after I've dreamt them, and the details of who's there, what's going on, have all been pretty spot on.

I did a search here on BG and only saw a few threads on dreams and such, usually not too many post, but I'd like to hear what other people think?

These visions I get are often scarying me, namely the reoccuring dream of my own death. The thing that mostly scares me is that: so far I've been completely unable to change what happens when an event accually comes to fruition. (at this time, I don't really want to share the details of my death)

Philosophically these continued dreams makes me question many things about how the world works.
If somehow I (or others) are able to see things that have yet to happen then can time be really a one way thing? moving only forward but never backwards?

and my inability to change what happens, it makes me question free-will and even the possibility of fate. (yes I'm a spiritual person of faith, but don't goto churchs. I believe in God, but I don't think everything in the bible should be taken literally or figuratively) I also wanna add that in general I don't believe in psychics, mind-reading, or other 6th sense ideas.

The other possibility is I'm so bat-shit crazy that I can't tell the difference of what's going on, and this has all just been random chance.

Do other people have similar experiences, or maybe someone here can help explain some ideas about why the mind dreams realistic probable events, or theories on time that aren't linear one way only? I'd really like to hear anyone's thoughts

In before the Bel Air.

[Wintermute]

You can actually rememeber the details like time/date?

Lucky you, only times it has happened to me I only remember I dreamt about it because of the deja vu feeling when it happens, which is immediately followed by the "I dreamt about this" thought.

Not happened to me in a while though.

Yes the questions it brings up are pretty fucked, but it's just one of those things you have to deal with.

At least if you remember the details it makes it easier to prepare for the event I suppose.

[Arrmani]

I've had dreams about places I can't remember, but in the weirdest scenarios. I'll recognize the place when I see it, but theres never any zombies or wars or whatnot going on.

If you can get enough details from a dream of whats going to happen, you should see if you can remember it when it starts to happen and try to change something.

[sb]

What you describe happens to me often. I never go through with writing down all the detail of my dreams, though if I did it might scare me how often and detailed the occurrences are. Its usually a tiny little detail that sets it off too.

For example, early yesterday morning it was a bit chilly setting up at work before the sun came up. As it got warmer, the girl who sets up next to me took off her jacket, and everything clicked into place from a dream I had a long time ago (well before ever having met her.) The thing that set it off was the green shirt she was wearing. Her outfit, what we were doing, even our conversation and the place we were in all came together in a moment and I can distinctly remember dreaming this.

Now not all of my dreams have this quality. Some can be taken as symbolically, others just make no sense and have imaginative qualities, and a few repeat (though oddly enough I often know they are repeating within the dream and can act accordingly).

It got to the point for me, after having some dreams that I woke up from really sad or scared, that I choose not to put too much emphasis into my dreams and approach them from a more happy go lucky frame of mind. If the dreams/situations are going to happen, then there's nothing you can really do about it. I do have to say though, this type of dreaming (or any dreaming at all) rarely happens if I have been smoking pot or drinking that day. So if you really plan on focusing on your dreams, stay sober.

[Penthesilea]

I had a friend who experienced everything the same as you, dreaming others deaths (his brothers which did happen) then his own, down to where, when, how. It never happened. Not sure if he still dwells on the dreams like he did before his own death didn't happen, but he seems much more connected to us than before.

[Dareus]

Talk with your parents/ grandparents about it. I don't get them nearly as much as you but I often have dreams that end up actually happening in the future. Its mostly conversations/big events but its weird none the less.

I brought it up with my mom one day (( The conversation we where having was very, very familiar )) and she actually told me that my Grandma has dreams like that all the time, such as her dream about being at my aunts house and walking into a freezer full of blood and rotten meat. She called her the next day and discovered that there outside refrigerator had shorted out during sometime the day before and all the meat had gone bad. They where actually scrubbing the blood out of the freezer when she called.

[Shuemue]

Crock of shit.

Why haven't you won the lottery yet if you're a fucking fortune teller?

[Moosey]

I experience deja vu quite often, i'd say at least 3-4 times a month. My dreams are very vivid most of the time, but in the past few years i've been able to "learn" to make them lucid, where I have a lot of control over them, or feel I do anyway. I don't choose where the dream takes place, but once i'm in a given scenario, there are usually some elements I have control over.

When I have deja vu though, it doesn't feel like I had a dream about it, but feels like i've actually been in that moment of time before. Though, with having lucidity in my dreams, like some of you have said, the line between dreams and memories is becoming increasingly more difficult to distinguish.

I've never really had deja vu about any major events, most of the time it's everyday stuff, and when it happens I usually recognize it every day and monitor how the situation plays out, and I can change what occurs.

For instance, I would be having a conversation with someone and I start to experience deja vu, on one occasion I remember I had been talking with a girl, asking her out or something(or working up to it) in my "deja vu memory" the outcome was unfavorable for me, but when it "actually" happened in the "present" I made sure that it worked out for me, and most of the time it does.


While my dreams are quite vivid, they are only like that in sight and sound, I don't remember time/date etc.. most of the time I don't even think it's known in the dream.