Has anyone had a weird dream? Or one that came true?

Question

I had a weird one where I remember only a few things:
1. There was a phone call.
2. The was going to be something different about the first lesson at school.
3. I needed to take something to school.

When I woke up and I remembered it, I ignored it cos it was just a dream. But it turned out:
1. I needed to phone my friend to ask about some homework.
2. I have a 'room change' for my first leeson at school.
3. I needed to remember to take my trainers!
!!!!!!! Spooky, eh?!!!!!!!!!!

I had this other one, where I was in a car with someone I didn't know (but recognised as a fictional character-don't know who) and we drove so fast up this road (in my town), we went up in the air and then came down heading for a big bunch of trees. Like in cartoons and films, woke up just as we were about to hit the trees.
Could it have been that I didn't know what would happen if we hit? (eg. would the car explode or just bump?)
Or was it because in the dream I would have blinked, and I did it in real life as well and then opened my eyes?
YOU be the judge.

Answer 1

Dreams happen this way sometimes. Other times, it's just a random mess of events. Sometimes your subconsious leads your dreams in a certain direction. For example, this could have happened to you the day before you had your dream:

You knew you needed to ask someone about the homework before school the next day, and you wanted to take your trainers, and wanted to remember to do that, so it got tied up in your dream. Someone mentioned the day before there'd be a room change, but you didn't consciously acknowledge it.

not to say it happened exactly like htat, but that's how these things sometimes work.

Answer 2

Just about everyone experiences dreams that come true in some way or another. The ones that don't are the ones that can't remember their dreams upon waking.

Dreaming is a subconscious state in which your mind tries to reoganize your short-term memory into something it can interpret later. It uses all the day's events and stores them. When you dream, it has been shown that you are accessing the part of your brain that stores short-term memory. So if you watch a scary horror movie before bed, you will dream about monsters. If you are worrying about a talk you have to give tomorrow, you will dream you are giving the talk without clothes and people are laughing at you. So as another responder said, if you have a dream about giving a talk and something bad happens, and then you give a talk the next day and something bad happens, the correspondence is probably just because you were so worried about giving the talk that you dreamt it went poorly AND you messed up the actual talk from sheer nerves.

The REM dreaming state occurs in the early morning hours, long after you went to sleep. In this state, you can have literally hundreds of dreams, something like 200. They are short, even though when you're dreaming they seem to take forever. You will only remember the very few you had before waking. So when a dream comes true, it can partly be explained by sheer probability. If you have 200 dreams, there is a good chance that some aspect of one of those dreams will seem to come true.

Lastly, dreams are very vague. When you're dreaming, it's not at all unusual to see things that would NEVER happen in real life. So suppose you dream that you saw a bus crash on the moon. Of course, in real life, you wouldn't actually be on the moon. But if you do actually see a bus crash the next day, you'll forget all about the moon part and remember only that there was a bus crashing in your dream. Human beings are very susceptible to selective memory.

You shouldn't be surprised by the fact that you may see an aspect of your dreams in the real world, for the reasons of probability given above. But most people forget that -- they think only that their dreams coming true is a strange event. Everyone seems to forget about the dreams that DON'T come true.

Think about the dreams you have described. The events you have listed that occurred in your dream are VERY vague. A phone rings. Something happens at school. You need to bring something to school. These are all common occurrences, and explainable from what I listed above. Note that you didn't dream that you needed to take your trainers to school -- just that you needed to take something. But don't you always need to take something to school, even if it's just your homework? These vague aspects of dreams are not enough to suggest prescience.

Answer 3

Cool you have a Canadian accent, so do I. Long story, my dad is a Canadian citizen and lived there for a few years, anyway about your question...

I too have had strange obscure dreams that came true. Like once I had a dream of sitting at a table in math class with my friend and one other person, and like 2 weeks later, It happened. I'm glad to know that others have dreams like this, that way I know that I am not psychotic! I had at least 2 more dreams of this nature that I can recall. In short, pretty freaky, eh?

Answer 4

Um, a few years ago I dreamt that someone had pounded on the door to our apartment at like 3 AM and then they broke in, and then the next morning our neighbors knocked on the door and said some1 had broken into their apartment aroung 2:45 the night before(when I had the dream)
that freaked me out (lol)

Answer 5

ESP..often comes about in dreams. Be aware also that if a person falls asleep with the T.V. on...it will mix your dream focus. Some of the most brilliant minds take cat naps to figure out a solution.

Answer 6

I had a dream that I was driving on the freeway and flipped my car over and got thrown out of the car and messed my hip up real bad. Then about 3 days later, my girlfriend's best friend was driving on the highway, flipped her car over, got thrown out the window, and she broke her hip. That sh!t had me trippin' forever

Answer 7

My cousin had a dream that her cousin was on a airplane then the airplane crashed then its really happend and she had another dream that she was grading papers at school and that really happend.

Answer 8

I once had a dream that my mom was chopping up my cat for dinner...................... It scared me