Can Dreams Tell The Future
 

I sometimes belive that dreams can tell the future. Sometimes I just get this feeling of deja-vu and seem to remember it happening in a dream. Does this ever happen to anybody else? Am I going crazy?

Don't get me started on this one.

I was once told that what happens is our subconcious moves us down a line of events to where our dreams become reality.

No you're not. I get that ALOT. Of corse, i also have like, 5 min. deja-vu, so im not so sure if its all the same thing. But every once in a while i remember one of my dreams, and then something from it happens, although not exactly the same way. But still, im a firm believer of dreams telling the future, for me though, they only give me warnings. Which is kinda creepy.

I was doing drug-ed in health class, the teacher started putting us into groups. I had a dream about her putting me with three boys in my class and, lo and behold, I was put with those people. It's eerie, but kinda cool in its' own way.

Sometimes I think of Deja Vu as a kind of instantaneous memory. For me, the dreams are a general frame work, and when deja vu happens, your mind instantly alters the memory to match current events without doing you the courtesy of telling you. It just acts like thats the way it always was.

I had a friend that would have seizures. He'd tell me he'd be walking down a street then blink and be in the hospital. He actually experienced 20 minutes where he was normal and continued walking....but the seizure erased the memories completely.

The human mind is a complex thing, and we are far away from understanding it.

Oh and I'm a firm believer that time can be altered, and that there is no future, only the ever moving present. But I'm open minded. And I've dipped my hands into temporal theory every now and again. So, this should be an interesting debate.

If you 'see the future' in a dream, it's usually just something that either happens often, or what you dreamed of was hinted at you/told to you the day before, just you don't remember, but subconsciously you do and it comes out in your dream.

Like for that group thing, the day before your teacher probably mentioned you were going into groups, or it was on the board, just you weren't really paying attention.

I agree, an interesting debate it will be, all about dreams and the plyability of time. I think about this stuff all the time, it always ends in my head hurting really badly though. Because the whole thing is so confusing. Anyone actually wanna start talkin about it? I wonder if the Mods would even allow it.

Something that I do believe in is the collective subconcious though. I mean how come, miles away from each other people tend to get the same idea at around the same time (like Bows and Arrows). Why, after something is invented, and however no one has seen one scientists plans...it becomes easier to make for the next person. (ok that one can be explained by technology level). How about why do we have common elements in mythology and stories across cultures? Could it be a human thing...or are all our minds joined on the subconcious level??

It's a human thing. It doesn't take a genius to accidentally have a string tied between two things then accidentally launch something out of it when trying to do something else, then realize it can be used to shot arrows faster then you can throw them.

Your dreams come true? You lucky punk.