Can anyone explain this?

Question

Abuot two weeks ago I had a dream about a friend from school, someone I used to care about a lot, but haven't seen for years. In the dream I was trying to get him to come with me but he kept saying he had somewhere else to be and in the end he waved and walked away. I have since found out that he died of a heroin overdose around the same time as my dream. Coincidence? Or did he come to say goodbye?

Answer 1

i would say he came to say goodbye, that's really sweet (and yet so sad).

Answer 2

Coincidence. If you look at Eccliastes 9:5-6 you find that when you die, your thoughts perish, also your love, hatred, envy, etc. Many other places state the same thing and that you have no more of anything to do under the sun. In essence, he could not have come to tell you anything. Satan and his angels can come to you disguised to be him and they are very good at what they do as they have had plenty of practice. To learn more, go to the site below and check out the studies that come direct from the bible and you will learn a lot from it about many things that are probably troubling to you now.

Answer 3

Would you like to discover what God's answer to your questions are?

Should You Be Afraid of Death? :
... What Is Your View of Death?
... A Closer Look at Some Myths About Death <<<
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/6/1/article_01.htm

Can Dreams Foretell the Future? :
... We Must Dream
... Can Dreams Foretell the Future? <<<
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1996/10/1/we_must_dream.htm

How Many Senses Do We Really Have? :
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2003/3/8/article_01.htm

I encourage you to look up the Scriptures referred to, so you can see for yourself what the Bible itself has to say on the subject ...

Sincerely,
"Make Sure of All things; Hold Fast to what is Fine!" 1 Th 5:21

Answer 4

My mother has had the same thing happen a few times where she has been asleep and she would get a strong image of a person she knew. Over the next few days she'd find out they'd died. Scared her at first cuz she thought it was her doing but it just alittle bit of a sixth sense we all have in us. Its nice that he came to you in a dream though.

Answer 5

That's probably something beyond scientific fact.

Every human has some limited psychic abilities or clairvoyance. It could just be coincidence, also.

The truth is our minds are so complex nobody can explain much of anything beyond the concious level. It could be part of the 90% we don't use kicked in for that night for you.

My best guess would be clairvoyance. Many people I know, including myself have experienced similar things at some point in their life.

Answer 6

sometimes we are given messages as to possibly help. I use to have this friend that moved far away and every now and then I'd dream of her. I would phone her mother to find out the number and she herself would pick up the phone.... The moral of the story... if you really care about someone, keep in touch. So if you ever dream of them you know to give them a call.

Answer 7

How sad about ur friend! U & ur friend had a strong bond. U deeply valued each other. No, it wasn't coincidence and no, he didn't come 2 say goodbye, but his thoughts of u and u of him were very strong.
Peace. Talk to the Lord about it. Pray about it.

Answer 8

Coincidence no doubt..."REM"
During the past twenty years scientists have devoted much study to the mysterious world of dreams. With the aid of volunteers in specially equipped “dream labs” some interesting facts have come to light.
Experiments have shown that dreaming is a necessary part of restful sleep. Calvin Hall, director of the Institute of Dream Research at the University of California, writes:
“If a person is deprived of dreaming for a number of nights, his waking behavior appears to be adversely affected. He manifests various aberrant ‘symptoms’ that border on being pathological . . . These results seem to indicate a ‘need to dream.’”

In view of all the factors involved in dreaming, it becomes increasingly clear why it is unwise to attach special significance to our dreams. Since everyone dreams nearly every night, should we feel that our dreams are unusual and have a special meaning? In one book, entitled “Sleep,” the writers declared: “The analysis of literally truckloads of dream stories, and the use of laboratory methods lend no hope that there will ever be a quick formula for understanding dreams.”

It is true that there are many who would interpret your dreams for you, but the differences of opinion among them are one of the strongest arguments against trying to attach certain meanings to your dreams. Dr. Rosalind Cartwright declared: “Probably the most impressive thing we’re finding out is the huge range of individual differences [among dream interpreters].” She also wrote: “Many psychotherapists still insist that they know the correct interpretation of your dream . . . apparently quite oblivious to the fact that their colleagues, on the basis of the same dream, may see quite different things for you.”
Rather than attempt to interpret dreams for others, the tendency among some investigators today is to teach persons how to interpret their own dreams. Since each person is acquainted with his own experiences and problems, it is felt that he is in the best position to deduce the meaning of his dreams. But have you ever tried to figure out what a surrealistic painter had in mind when he painted a certain picture? How many persons in a group would give the same meaning? That is just how varied dream interpretation can be, according to Dr. Calvin Hall.

One reason for this is, of course, that dream interpreters of different cultures give an entirely different meaning to symbols seen in a dream. For example, the Greeks believed that a snake seen in a dream meant disease, whereas the Egyptians felt it to be a beneficent sign of a settled dispute. So it is wise not to take too seriously any natural dreams you may have. But you can enjoy them. As one writer put it, dreams frequently are so funny that “I often wonder that people don’t wake themselves up laughing”!

On the other hand, if your sleep is often disturbed by nightmares, rather than looking for any meaning in them, it might be better to look for possible causes of them in your way of life. How true what the Bible says: “For because of abundance of occupation there are dreams”!—Eccl. 5:7.

Answer 9

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our minds while we sleep, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
... they have a meaning...each and everyone...if it will give you restatution( sorry if I spelt that wrong) then you should believe that was the purpose of that dream. ( i think it was) but if you don't want to them chalk it up as just creepy....

Answer 10

No ,many are in tune to the spirit of others and i myself will think of someone when doing something without a thought of so-and-so suddenly and shortly thereafter such-and-such and i meet suddenly sometimes after years of non communication....or if person is sick in the family or friend or our dog and cat i will be aware of this before i am told of this....and it is not always with persons but occurances and they happen shortly in the future....

Answer 11

Nobody comes to say anything in a dream. Dreams are meaningless. They just happen.
There is no supernatural, only superstition.