can you have a dream about you doing something that you're going to do in the future?

many people say that happens to them
its mayby true.

Being a very sceptical person, who can easily identify all the stuff portrayed as parapsychology is actually rubbish.

I can admit that this does happen to me a lot.

I can’t explain it or try to pass it off as anything other than weird.

Some of the things I’ve dreamed have been in strange situations that I would not have normally found myself in. Told my wife about the dream, and a few months later experienced the situation.

All you have to do is time and date stamp any dreams that were not of past events, and log the esimated time of occurrence of the dreamed events. Then any that co-incide were predictions. A score rate of better than 50% and you are on to something. Otherwise Felix has it bang to rights.

Without actually documenting your dreams, it is very easy to be misled by your brain. Something that happens may feel familiar to you, and this may lead you to think you experienced it before in a dream. Such deja-vu feelings may well simply be mistaken. Apparently (I think I read this in a science magazine years ago), it is possible for the brain to misfire slightly so that part of the brain receives its information twice, and that this causes that feeling of familiarity even though it is definitely the first time.

Confirmation bias is also very powerful. People remember apparent coincidences/predictions, but not notice all the times no coincidence/prediction occurred. How often do you dream or think of a particular person that you haven't seen for a while? If you then happen to meet that person, would you think it strange that you'd dreamt of him/her recently, and consider those dreams to be predictions? If instead you hadn't met that person, would you then forget that you dreamt about him/her or actually remember them and mark them as failed predictions?

thank you for your expected long explanation, now heres what i think:

Your thinking of premonitions, sight into the future.
well, i cant understand what jaap here is saying bu, as you sleep your subconscious is still awake, as it thinks, you dream, possibly seeing into the future is actually just your mind thinking of what it would do in a future situation.

(dear lord i suck at spelling thank you one of you for telling me of firefox or you would have to deal with my dyslexic spellings and missclicks!)

Jaap,

You’re spot on mate; nobody ever remembers the thousand of times there is a non occurrence just the few occasions of coincidence.
With my usual incidences of Dueja-vue, I have been able to predict what people are about to say, but if you look at it logically, you can usually predict what someone is going to say just by following the conversation.

On this one situation however, I was in a meeting discussing a subject that although is in my area of expertise, it was not in my area of responsibility and I was only asked to be there for support of the guy it was. I rang my wife later that day and asked her about the dream. She remembered it. Spooky!

I’m I in touch with the spirit world…No.

I’m I the next Darren Brown…….No way.

Can I predict the next lottery numbers……..I wish.

Hang on…..idea forming…..

Look into my eyes! Not around the eyes but into my eyes…1 2 3 and you’re under.

Everybody readying this will send Felix £50.00

It was worth a try.

How much have you made so far?

must...

send...

felix...

money...


(please send me your bank details and home adress)

im not going to steal anything, honest

I had another dream last night that proves that I can see into the future……..

I was stood in front of a large group of people, who were all holding a £50.00 note in one hand and sticking two fingers up with the other….

If that doesn’t prove it nothing will.


Note,

For our international guests: in the UK displaying the forefinger and index finger, of the same hand, in a “V” sign with the back of the hand to someone is a big insult.