The Power of Dreaming the Future

[Angela]

So do you believe in dreaming the future or to dream or maybe even see dead people?

I'm not talking about DeJaVu, I'm talking about knowing what you were dreaming.

Do you believe in predicting the future with cards or tea leafs?

 

[BHwolfgang]

To me, all that tea-leafs and crystal ball stuff is all hocus pocus.

Even though dejaVu happens to me at some point, if they are even consider dejaVu, but that's on a different note.

 

[Azonic]

Well, it's happened too many times to doubt. The Mayan calendar, historical articles written about events nearly identical to the ones that have happened recently, etc. So I guess I believe its possible.

 

[Angela]

I dream of the future. I actually do, I just don't really pay attention enough to realize it most of the time. But I do. Do they happen? Not when I expect them to. Pretty much the whole point. You see what's going to happen, yet you never know when. So you have to try your best to be prepared for it.

Well the reason for this is that ones I woke up with a nightmare about my uncle being in a ship that was going down, and when I woke up it was 1 am, then 7:30 my dad's sister called and told my mom that my uncles ship had gone down at 2 am, and he was missing, when I came home from school they found him, he had been in the wreck, <<<< That was more then a year ago.

And the summer after that I had gotten a book from the library, I know me at a library, I went with my little brother, I mostly rent Donald Duck comics, but I saw a book about fortune telling, I took it with me to the summer cabin, I use the card one and told my mom's sisters husband his fortune, how he would be cheated on, someone would lose his money, and a bunch of things, and my nan that was listning she told me last week when I was staying with her that all I predicted had come true, she wants me to get that book and predict for her, and my "Aunt" her sister can tell fortune with tea leafs, my "Aunt" wants me to meat her.

I say "Aunt" because shes so distant related I don't know the English word.

 

[Percy Thrillington]

Meh, I pretty much answered this question a couple of months ago. You can find my post here. To summarise that post, I'll just say I don't think anyone can tell the future by dreaming, but that our subconscious mind can do a lot of awesome things.

Can dreams tell the future?

At the same time as many people feel that their dreams can tell the future, there is no scientific proof that dreams are foretelling. What a lot of people mistake for prediction may actually be the fact that the subconscious mind notices things that go totally unnoticed by the conscious mind. When you sleep and dream, the stuff noticed by the subconscious mind is included into the dream, and you may notice many things you missed during the day. These unnoticed clues may be misinterpreted as predictions of what is to come in the future, but in fact they were just missed clues to present events.

That's an extract from the article that's been linked to in my previous post about dreaming the future.

 

[Eucliffe]

Hmm...

Well, being someone who believes in fortune telling and the paranormal and whatnot... Of course I have to believe in using cards and such to predict the future, or even to predict what the day will be like (and believe me, there have been plenty of times where when I used tarot cards, they turned out to be quite accurate).

As for dreaming the future, I believe in it too. If it wasn't for my mom having that one dream of a car crash when I was little, I probably would've died when it did happen the next day.

Personally, I think that any of this stuff can be real, if you set your mind to it. Your mind influences what you believe. If you say in your mind that what the tarot cards said will happen, then it will. If you say in your mind that you're gonna have a bad day, it happens.

It's something having to do with your mentality and the liking. I've studied quite a bit on this, and even got some advice from my mother. And, this is my own opinion.

 

[Tanooki]

Most of my dreams are just weird. I doubt I'm dreaming the future, since the majority of them don't make a whole lot of sense. I do have some regular dreams (basically every day situations), if you call it that, but most of them don't actually happen to me in real life. So no, I don't dream the future.

As far as the subject overall, I've heard stories about how people have avoided disaster from dreams they've had, so I believe it is possible. It doesn't happen to me, though, so I don't have any personal experiences of it.

 

[Aether]

I get deja vu occasionally, it's a very odd occurrence... I don't even know why it happens.

 

[Gymnotide]

No.

Dreams are reflections of the past events that have been ingrained within the mind over the course of any given day. The mind takes the data observed and tunes it, analyzes many different probabilities and tries to solve a "problem" posed by that data in order to gain a further understanding of it. One example which you may have experienced is as follows: You are posed with a very difficult math problem which you are unable to solve. You nap for a few hours and wake up with the solution to the problem (or a roadmap leading to that solution).

So therefore, predictions in dreams are more or less like game theory. Some people are able to analyze data better than others, so it may seem that they are able to predict the future better.

- - - -

Fortune-telling is a hoax. You present the person with a general situation that could apply to any person. You analyze their reactions and any data they present. You use that to delve further into the person's mind until you are able to understand some of that person's subconscious thoughts. You tell them what they want to hear.

If by chance, any foretold things occur, the subconscious begins to believe that the prophecy was true - it begins to reason and distort the prophecy until it applies to what occurred or will occur in the future. Eventually, the mind will believe... And believing is half the battle, or something.

 

[Zennerick]

I've day-dreamed of future events twice. They happened and I can't remember what they where...

No.

Dreams are reflections of the past events that have been ingrained within the mind over the course of any given day. The mind takes the data observed and tunes it, analyzes many different probabilities and tries to solve a "problem" posed by that data in order to gain a further understanding of it. One example which you may have experienced is as follows: You are posed with a very difficult math problem which you are unable to solve. You nap for a few hours and wake up with the solution to the problem (or a roadmap leading to that solution).

So therefore, predictions in dreams are more or less like game theory. Some people are able to analyze data better than others, so it may seem that they are able to predict the future better.

Then why is it that I day-dreamed of an event that would occur and did?

 

[Gymnotide]

I've day-dreamed of future events twice. They happened and I can't remember what they where...

Then why is it that I day-dreamed of an event that would occur and did?

Because you are a very fortuitous individual.
If you were able to predict every single moment of that (those) events without any prior information, then you are very lucky.

If you had prior information relating to the event, then your subconscious engineered the data to formulate one of the possible outcomes.

More than likely, your mind, after having invented an idea of what the future would be like, modified the prediction as the event occurred, thereby causing you to believe that you had seen the future.

But, I don't know. It's your mind, not mine.

 

[Spinor]

Shun the nonbelievers! >:O


So, if I had a dream about a very big city with the exact Evergrande city music a year before Pokemon Ruby, does that mean I am Sofa King Lucky or Japanese descended? Neither of those at all.

It's up to you to believe me, I won't change that.

I actually think as the human race evolves more complex, our Noosphere starts to arise. Noosphere is the "sphere of human thought". I believe it may be starting to develop more since our intelligence arose. Of course, with ths development we could be subconsiouly telling ourselves what to do every day and causing dreams of future events.

I simply don't know how many people will believe in the Noosphere.

 

[Legobricks]

Do you believe in predicting the future with cards or tea leafs?

Well, tarrot cards are actually just everyday cards made for playing games, much like the more commonly seen four suit ones. I can't see how their use in divination has arrisen.

I don't know what to think about the subject at hand though; I simply don't dwell on such thoughts.

 

[parallelzero]

Until you can scientifically prove it, I will continue to find the concept of predicting the future in any sort of manner laughable. And when I say prove, I don't mean theorize, before someone tries to pull a theory off as proof. My opinion hasn't changed since that thread a few months ago.

 

[Eucliffe]

Until you can scientifically prove it, I will continue to find the concept of predicting the future in any sort of manner laughable. And when I say prove, I don't mean theorize, before someone tries to pull a theory off as proof. My opinion hasn't changed since that thread a few months ago.

Hmm... Well, predicting the future does seem more wild and sci-fi and the like. But like I said earlier, you can create your own future based on your outlook of the day. It may not always happen (sometimes the thoughts of others might interfere), but based on what my mother's taught me, it usually does. And you know what? She's right. I've tried it, and it's really worked. If you think that the day will be a great day for you, then it will. But if you complain too much about how horrible it will be or how horrible you feel and that you won't like going anywhere, then it'll happen.

And people might believe predicting the future is real, but only because they think what they were told will happen. And if they did think that enough, it would happen. But if they don't, then it won't happen, and they'll find it to be a bunch of boloney.

So really, it's just something to do with your mind. It's something I find to be quite intriguing. Just think to yourself in the morning, "This day is gonna be a great day! I'll make a new friend/help somebody out/do really well on a quiz/etc." and continue thinking this thought.

You can call me a liar, for all I care, but you won't know until you try, right?

 

[matt561]

Hmm... Well, predicting the future does seem more wild and sci-fi and the like. But like I said earlier, you can create your own future based on your outlook of the day. It may not always happen (sometimes the thoughts of others might interfere), but based on what my mother's taught me, it usually does. And you know what? She's right. I've tried it, and it's really worked. If you think that the day will be a great day for you, then it will. But if you complain too much about how horrible it will be or how horrible you feel and that you won't like going anywhere, then it'll happen.

And people might believe predicting the future is real, but only because they think what they were told will happen. And if they did think that enough, it would happen. But if they don't, then it won't happen, and they'll find it to be a bunch of boloney.

So really, it's just something to do with your mind. It's something I find to be quite intriguing. Just think to yourself in the morning, "This day is gonna be a great day! I'll make a new friend/help somebody out/do really well on a quiz/etc." and continue thinking this thought.

You can call me a liar, for all I care, but you won't know until you try, right?

Well this is basicly whaty I was going to say but with better spelling


the truth is only you can make your own destiny and make your own future

It all depends on YOU

 

[Gymnotide]

That's not predicting the future, though.
That's like a placebo medicine. All psychological.

 

[Angela]

Until you can scientifically prove it, I will continue to find the concept of predicting the future in any sort of manner laughable. And when I say prove, I don't mean theorize, before someone tries to pull a theory off as proof. My opinion hasn't changed since that thread a few months ago.

And it originally was what?

 

[the bitter end.]

I think it's a possibility, though certainly not one I've seen irl. I know about deja vu where you think you've seen something before. But I won't believe in it unless I see it.

 

[Angela]

I think it's a possibility, though certainly not one I've seen irl. I know about deja vu where you think you've seen something before. But I won't believe in it unless I see it.

De Ja Vu is suppose to be a lag in the memory, kinda like when your computer lags, and when it goes back back to normal it rewinds a bit, like a second back or so, so that's how one of my teachers explained it.