dreams, deja vu, visions

[Ashira]

About the best I can do... sometimes I get random stray thoughts that don't make a lot of sense. It's only been a few things really.

The most.. hm, recent, which wasn't that recent really, was 5 yrs ago, at age 26, when my father told me he and his new wife were going to have a baby girl. I remember getting this weird thought that I would somehow end up raising this kid, and of course that brought to mind the bad divorce and everything I went through when I was very very little, and all the fallout there.

Fast forward 3 years, when they have another baby just as my position as a nanny in NYC comes to a close and need someone to come be home during the day so they don't have to put her in daycare (when the older child was a baby, dad worked at home).

Here I am, raising their kids. Weirder was when I remembered I'd had that thought when Lauryn was born - and at that time wasn't a nanny, nor had I even considered going into childcare at all, ever. Mental double-take.

[Draggy]

i have this kind of thing happen now and again, with no real explanation. I have Deja-vu a lot, in regards to being in places / meeting people for the first time and having dreamt about them some time before. Like when i was 16 i had a few dreams about some weird class room full of printing equipment with a forest outside, and this weird bearded man, a year later it turns out it was my photography course class room and tutor lol.
I have dreamt about deaths too. When i was young (14ish) i kept dreaming about our cat dying on christmas day, i told my parents and they said is BS, which it is kinda. Then he did actually get run over and die on christmas day.
I had a dream about my uncle dying, the next morning my mum says to me over breakfast that she is going to visit my uncle, she didnt know why but she just woke up wanting to visit him, then like an hour later we got a phone call saying he had died after an accident

Anyways~ i dunno. I dont really beleive in "stuff" like this yet i cant explain it at all.

Also another thing, its quite annoying, the amount of times i have picked up the phone to call my mum or my nan and it is engaged because they are trying to call me at the exact same time... it is annoying lol

[Meian]

Good reads here, and I have to agree with most of the posters that nearly everyone can have the deja vu feeling.

I don't nearly have this happen as often as you do but I did very much as a child but lesser now after I entered High School. The most detailed one I had was when I felt myself floating in this girl's room (I had an etheral glow for some reason) in the middle of the night. I saw her shelf, her bed, her nightstand with a lamp beside it, and the girl asleep with her arm across the bed holding a pair of glasses. Turns out later I meet this girl and everything I had seen in that dream was true down to the glasses that I never knew she wore until even later.

These type of things have always interested me and I often tell my close friend about them. He laughs at some of the stranger ones thinking I am crazy but gets a kick out of a story like that. I went as far as writing a series of stories relating to a character having these "future" dreams where he attempts to stop; he doesn't believe in Destiny so he always tries to stop those future occurences from happening to prove his point. He often fails in this and later gets a dream his close friend will die to a new disease in two years. This leads to him embarking on a quest of sorts to find a way to defy Destiny just this once.

But anyway, it is good to know there is many people who've had this. It seems most of the people I've met irl are too simple minded...

[shukuffxi]

I've had things like this happen, though not in so much detail, where I swear i'm going to remember the dream, because it seemed so real, and completely forget a week later, but then something happens down the line that gives me that sureal deja-vu feel, for very common/every day events.

[Kaylia]

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


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.


1, and it'll be a girl

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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

W/e you think, there is no way to predict the future in your dream better than when you you're up. You're just tricking yourself into thinking some of those random dreams were visions of the future, when they simply are high odd probability. I've seen my family die in many differents way in my dreams...I'm not gonna call it a vision when one of them will die in a car accident or heart diseases...everyone die someday, and the odds it eventually come true are high. Those dreams are particularly common as well.

The fact that you hate Wal mart has nothing to do with it. You had a dream about working for them because you consider it likely in the event you lose your job and need to get money really fast. That's exactly what happened. Your brain doesnt work differently when you're dreaming, it will give you similar choice in your dream than it does in real life, and solution that pop up are the same.

Despite common belief, a dream is never as detailled as we remember. Because of this, it's generally a lot easier to embelish them after the fact, or next morning when you wake up. If you want to test your "power", write down every dream as you wake up, and read that again one year later. You will see how little actually translate to "vision".

[Vail]

Crock of shit.

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

I don't play the lottery ever, I actually have a thing against gambling

You can actually rememeber the details like time/date?

I don't know the time in my dreams, I accually have no way of knowing when an event will happen, the time and date I write down in my notebook is when a dream accually happens in real life. The time it takes from a dream to happen seems completely random (shortest was 19 days, longest so far was 4 years and 3 months)

some dreams that have yet to happen show me being older (not wringled old) but with grey hair, this seems to be a common thing on my mother's side of the family where our hair turns grey in our mid-30s early 40s, so these possibly won't happen for sometime (I'm 25 now, not one grey in my head)

So if you really plan on focusing on your dreams, stay sober.

I don't drink and I don't do drugs, so that won't be an issue

Despite common belief, a dream is never as detailled as we remember. Because of this, it's generally a lot easier to embelish them after the fact, or next morning when you wake up. If you want to test your "power", write down every dream as you wake up, and read that again one year later. You will see how little actually translate to "vision".

I have random and bizarre dreams like everyone else (like sex dreams, or shit with dinosaurs and hover cars) I don't record these down cause they're pretty much not happening

another odd thing to note: my unrealistic dreams are always black&white, the realistic ones are in color.

[Azuke]

Hmm, very interesting reading, especially seeing how serious people are for once.

I don't think my dreams have anything to do with what Vail is experiencing, but I thought I'd throw it out there anways.

As of a couple of years I've been having dreams every now and then, usually when I go to bed although I'm not really that tired.

It always starts off with a nightmare, and I always realize that it's a nightmare and I know that I can just snap out of it. So I snap out of them and wake up, the only problem is that I'm not really waking up, instead I enter another dream, now it's so real that I usually can't tell the difference between real-life and the dream.

In this dream I live my life just like normal, although I keep fast forwarding and "jumping" around in time and place, so I know it's a dream, however I can't snap out of it like I usually would, even tho I'm trying. So far all I can do is to "ride it out" till something wakes me up, like an alarm or someone calling etc.

Now, a couple of years later it's not that big of a deal anymore, I know when it happens, and I try to explore as much as I can whenever it happens, it's like a lucid dream where I don't really have any control, except for my own actions.

What's still bugging me tho is what would happen if nothing woke me up, and I stayed in "there" too long, I don't want to end in some kind of coma or something like that <.<;

EDIT:
Come to think about it, it sounds like the Matrix or something, lawl.

[Dmitry]

This is a topic that I've always been interested in. I guess it's hard to actually study this because there's no way to see what one person's dreaming. I wish I could contribute something to this thread other than vague recurring dreams that I haven't had in years.

[Suburbanelite]

If anyone's interested at all (fuck it I'm just going to type!)

I have conversation dreams. They're basically dialogue between me and someone else who knows way too much about something. If anything, that's at least 1 part of any given dream I have, however small that part may be.

It kinda relates to this topic, but I had a dream the other night in which i had a conversation with this obnoxious girl who was in my senior review math class last year.

The conversation was about time - she explained that time is a cube, and existence (our individual existences included) is in the center. So basically any point in the cube is within reach... I would guess that the past is the corners, though, and the closer in you get is the future... if that makes any sense.

Basically it's like RAM but it works in a way that you can access any point in all of time by some method she didn't bother explaining. However, my view during most of the dialogue was of an on-ramp to the freeway near my place of work, so maybe that's a clue. I don't fucking know. Paranormal discussions rock.

[deshende]

It amazes me how dreams/deja vu are as close to supernatural/unexplainable experience that a majority of the population experience but most people just kind of ignore it.

"Oh it was just a dream."

I had one of the dreams last week that I woke up and knew I was going to encounter the scenario sometime in the future. But I put off writing it down and already forgot it ; ;

[MisterBob]

I was going to make fun of the OP for this this, but it looks like Kaylia took care of shutting him down for me.


You are not special, you do not have magical powers, you cannot see the future. Sorry, you're just someone who works at Walmart.

[Vail]

I was going to make fun of the OP for this this, but it looks like Kaylia took care of shutting him down for me.


You are not special, you do not have magical powers, you cannot see the future. Sorry, you're just someone who works at Walmart.

considering how many people have things like deja vu, calling myself special is completely silly

magical powers...? honestly I don't think what I see is some "blessing" or "kiss of the divine" or what ever conclusion you're jumping to. How this happens is completely unknown to me and it is in no way under any consciouses control, so calling it "magic" is completely silly.

Seeing the future: well mostly you're only able to take my word, since I'm pretty sure it's impossible for anyone else to see my dreams. I didn't expect many people to willing believe me. In all honesty I'm actually surprised this thread hasn't been bombarded more by post similiar to yours.

Yeah I work at a walmart, cleaver you, cause we all started out with good jobs right? I'm saving to goto school to be a Nurse. Walmart is defiantly not the best job in the world but I could do alot worse.

Since your such an intellectual you could have atleast tried the explain the theory that Deja vu (in it's truest form, the feeling of seeing something before it happened, but not accually seeing it before it happened) has been explained as possibly where the brain while trying to record what you see into memory accually puts it in your long term memory and you "recall" it even though it's happening that moment. Or you could have even tried to explain how I'm possibly brain damaged (possible, you never know, I don't exactly get MRIs)

It amazes me how dreams/deja vu are as close to supernatural/unexplainable experience that a majority of the population experience but most people just kind of ignore it.

not much I can add to that, but it's very true

[kuronosan]

Boy I wish I had the time to analyze some of these.

[MisterBob]

I'm not making fun of the fact that you work at Walmart, I'm just saying you're just a person, not someone with the ability to predict the future.

You're simply experiencing a very common occurrence that is very well-documented. Memory is not 20/20, and it never was.

Take, for example, a witness in a trial. Five days ago the witness saw a red car drive up to the curb, and watched a man come out and approach another man. It turns out the guy driving the car is the defendant in the case, and the other man is the victim of a murder. According to the case details, the defendant was driving a maroon car, and he exited and stabbed the victim multiple times in the chest. When asked what color the car was, the witness will now claim he saw it as maroon.

Was the witness lying, at least from a moral standpoint? Probably not. He now genuinely remembers the events occurring differently due to outside influence and the newfound context.

The same thing occurs to people when they dream. Your dreams are incredibly vague, and lack detail nearly to the point of absurdity. (Don't believe me? Look at a clock or your hands the next time you dream if you can, watch what happens). Your mind takes these vague dreams and fills them in with the context of your real life, and you experience "deja vu", which in reality is just a retroactive improvement of detail.

Every single person experiences this, some more than others. However, you will notice that ANY time someone brings this topic up on a forum or in real life, a ton of people claim to have had "visions" as well.

In addition to all of this, you should also be aware of the fact that people have very selective memories, and also like to find patterns only when they affect them in ways they desire. Your dreams may have "failed" to predict the future 999 times out of 1000, but because they "succeeded" once or twice simply due to probability and vagueness (as Kaylia discussed), you choose only to remember/analyze the success, and not the failure.


tl;dr: Half of the morons in the world think they have prophetic dreams, however they couldn't be more wrong.

[Azalee]

I very rarely remember the dreams that I have, so when I am able to wake up and remember what my dream was it isn't something I easily forget.

I have had something sort of like this, like you said. More of a dream that I had where I was conversing with someone, then later on I will have almost the exact same conversation with said person.

[Kenshiin]

One of my favorite things to do when I or someone near me is having deja vu is to yell out jibberish. I think every time I've done it it's been part of the deja vu.

[Ryushii]

I've always found deja vu to be kind of strange. Like most others, it's usually just some random conversation or something, and I've been experiencing deja vu for as long as I can remember. What really bugs me is when I experience deja vu on something, and it seems like it's not the first time I've experienced deja vu on this same exact event. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense, but it's a feeling, ya know? Also something I've noticed: when I was younger and deja vu hit, I was always kinda on auto pilot. I'd just follow and do what I "remember," and not bother it, and just kinda think little of it. More recently, I've kinda ventured into observing it more closely and even perhaps changing it. There have actually been times when I predicted what happened next in my deja vu, like, I'll say to myself "okay, she moves over there next..." and she does. I'm not saying I'm psychic, but it is strange that people are able to suddenly have that feeling of omniscience, even for a few seconds. Also, my deja vu's aren't tied to dreams, not that I know of anyway. I generally give my dreams little notice though, so I suppose it could be subconcious.

[brisk]

I seem to recall reading that dreams are like your sub-consicous telling you something or that shit. Think it was in the same thread as where Wafik was in a room with a person and trying to kill that person and asked to bring the next person in.

[volcanicweather]

I love how MisterBob has taken the "I can't understand it therefore it doesn't happen" approach. Touche.

I've had these "dreams" for a few years now, similar to Vail, but I don't document them and scarcely remember them until the event occurs. But when I do remember them... they are incredibly vivid. I can remember small details such as conversational cues, sounds, or images which trigger the memories of the dream in my mind. It can be small or large events and I have no control of when / where it happens.

Sometimes, I can feel the event coming into fruition and I am able to change it based on my actions. For example, co-workers were talking about college basketball a few months ago... I felt the event coming due to location cues and as I was about to speak, I quickly retracted what I was going to say. I remained a silent on-looker for the entire conversation. It felt awkward and the conversation ended strangely and abruptly. After doing this, I didn't have another "dream" for approximately three months.

You should try to do this Vail, it's really difficult to do, but see how it impacts your future dreams. If you want to chat more about this without having to deal with forum trolls, send a PM.

[arus2001]

I've had a few precognitive dreams, but nothing that at the time of waking I've really told myself to remember. The only one that really stands out is a conversation I was having with my sister. We were talking about our older sister's boyfriend, making fun of his ears since they were big. I was sitting on the corner of the counter, making a peanut butter sandwich, wearing a neon green shirt I'd never seen at that point in time. I was making the sandwich with a cheap knife with a plastic handle, and while making one of the last swipes against the bread, the blade popped from the plastic and I was pretty much just holding a handle and started grumbling because I had to get my fingers all sticky to pry the metal off the bread.

I'm all for confusing the mundane with a dream, but when the entirety of above actually took place, I just wound up staring at my incomplete sandwich with a bit of a chill overcoming me. The dream was something I'd long put out of my mind. Back then, my sister didn't have the boyfriend, but you know it's bound to happen. Kitchen conversation? Sure. Me sitting on the corner? Why not. Wearing a flamboyantly obvious shirt? Eh, I was young and stupid. But, how many sandwiches have you made where the knife fell apart on you? I can't think of a book or movie that may've inspired such a happening.

On the whole, I've maybe had 3 or 4 of these experiences. Nothing dramatic like predicting deaths, but it's just kinda stuff that's too coincidental.