Many years ago, my mother had a dream that the police were searching in the woods behind my grandmother's house for something. She didn't tell me about that dream until several years after my grandmother had been murdered in that house. Her dream happened a couple months before someone broke into my grandmother's house, stabbed her with a fireplace poker, and set fire to the house. No one was ever suspected or arrested.

I've had some weird dreams and nightmares, but never anything that stood out like that.

How about you? Have you ever had dreams that seemed connected to future events?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

OH, indeed yes.
A profound yes.
Most examples I cannot repeat here, but one simple example was this....
I had lost my car keys a few years ago.
Searched high and low for them, did not have a spare set.
This went on for days.

One night, as the saying goes, I had the strangest dream.
In the dream, I was picking up my keys under a pine tree in my front yard.
And ya know what? The next morning, there I found them.

I have special dreams many nights. Sometimes I am sure it's in response to things I have experienced right here on the boards.
Some times I am sure it is in response to my past lives.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Dreams can be funny things at times.

Cheers.

Hi Msattler and Gordon and Wiggo! How are you!?

My mother definitely used to have some sort of psychic ability which was really freaky... but that has gone now she has alzheimers. I would say fortunately. :) They started when she was four with the death of her two year old sister. The night before my brother died she dreamt she'd fallen on him and he'd been suffocated. Every death in our family has been "foretold to her" in dreams the night before. I am so glad I have no psychic ability, other than occasionally with my twin, and then it's usually fun stuff - like we've both run out of teabags and are both refusing to go to the shop to buy some more. :) There is one exception - but I won't go into it here.

For myself, most of my weird dreams are down probably to what I ate before going to bed. But I remember as a brand new mum having awful ones relating to my daughter's wellbeing. Things like her arms and legs falling off just before the health visitor was due and me trying to shove them back into her babygro before the nurse arrived. Or her shrinking because I'd put her in a flowerpot in the post office. :)

In dreams we often problem solve with lateral thinking... then can't make any sense of the answers our brains came up with once we wake up! It's lovely when they're clear and help you find your lost keys. I could do with some like that!!!!

Nice thread by the way :)

Best wishes, Anniet

Many years ago, my mother had a dream that the police were searching in the woods behind my grandmother's house for something. She didn't tell me about that dream until several years after my grandmother had been murdered in that house. Her dream happened a couple months before someone broke into my grandmother's house, stabbed her with a fireplace poker, and set fire to the house. No one was ever suspected or arrested.

I've had some weird dreams and nightmares, but never anything that stood out like that.

How about you? Have you ever had dreams that seemed connected to future events?

That is very strange, and truly tragic. I'm so sorry. I think often when we have bad sad dreams about those we love we tend to be so glad they were just "a dream" we generally don't tell the people involved in them about them. I hope they do find out who did such an awful thing to your grandmother. It won't make it better I know. Best wishes, Anniet

Anniet............
You are a very special gurl.
You seem to have insights into things I have talked about for many years to deaf ears.
These are not my lonely dreams. These are things that have evaded me for many years. Many years.
I have random dreams that have no connection with any reality at all.

But, most of them are based in my true life, and it's just damned scary at times how they mirror things that I have no control over.
Just scary true things.

Like what I just told you. Seemingly insignificant things that when you wake up, are in fact, reality.

Yes, dear, I have them all the time.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Anniet............
You are a very special gurl.
You seem to have insights into things I have talked about for many years to deaf ears.
These are not my lonely dreams. These are things that have evaded me for many years. Many years.
I have random dreams that have no connection with any reality at all.

But, most of them are based in my true life, and it's just damned scary at times how they mirror things that I have no control over.
Just scary true things.

Like what I just told you. Seemingly insignificant things that when you wake up, are in fact, reality.

Yes, dear, I have them all the time.

Oh you're so sweet, msattler! Thankyou! It must feel very isolating and awfully frightening. My son used to frequently suffer night terrors. Occasionally I was able to reach into his nightmare and take away the fear. The first time I knew I had done so was when he woke up and I asked him if he could remember what it was that had terrorised him in the dream, and he turned to my and said "it's very strange mummy, the man was coming to kill me, but when he caught me, he stroked my hair like you do, and told me everything was alright and that I was safe. I'm not going to be scared of him again." That was me!!

I frequently feel panic when something comes along and I realise just how little control I have over almost every aspect of my life. I utterly empathise with you. As a child I used to fly in my dreams - a lot. I wish I still could, and I've given up trying to do so when I wake up. :) I doubt very much that you're alone in what you experience. I think it's just that it is not commonplace, and so people suffer in silence, or near silence. I wish you all the best, I really really do. And I ADORE the truth of your signature! Cat's know a lot about this subject - they just think we should work it out for ourselves :)

Anniet............
You are a very special gurl.
You seem to have insights into things I have talked about for many years to deaf ears.
These are not my lonely dreams. These are things that have evaded me for many years. Many years.
I have random dreams that have no connection with any reality at all.

But, most of them are based in my true life, and it's just damned scary at times how they mirror things that I have no control over.
Just scary true things.

Like what I just told you. Seemingly insignificant things that when you wake up, are in fact, reality.

Yes, dear, I have them all the time.

Oh you're so sweet, msattler! Thankyou! It must feel very isolating and awfully frightening. My son used to frequently suffer night terrors. Occasionally I was able to reach into his nightmare and take away the fear. The first time I knew I had done so was when he woke up and I asked him if he could remember what it was that had terrorised him in the dream, and he turned to my and said "it's very strange mummy, the man was coming to kill me, but when he caught me, he stroked my hair like you do, and told me everything was alright and that I was safe. I'm not going to be scared of him again." That was me!!

I frequently feel panic when something comes along and I realise just how little control I have over almost every aspect of my life. I utterly empathise with you. As a child I used to fly in my dreams - a lot. I wish I still could, and I've given up trying to do so when I wake up. :) I doubt very much that you're alone in what you experience. I think it's just that it is not commonplace, and so people suffer in silence, or near silence. I wish you all the best, I really really do. And I ADORE the truth of your signature! Cat's know a lot about this subject - they just think we should work it out for ourselves :)

IT is and can be quite frightening, dear.
Most astoundingly so.
Cold hard sweats and panic in the middle of the night are not fun things.
I find that in my recent years, some fun can be had in them.........
But, the problem is one has no control over it. At least I do not.
They overrun and overtake me at any moment in my sleep. And that can be a bit troubling. You are not alone in this.
I for, example, have proposed that I am from kpax. Whilst I am quite assured this is not true, I find it very comforting to role play Prot. He is an unassuming git of humanity...or, if you will, kpaxian humanity.
I love his grounding. It is quite refreshing.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

And may I say something else here?

I think I should.

I love each and every one of my Seti brothers and sisters here.
So much more than I can put into words on this simple typewritten page.
You, all of you, have been sooooooooooo understanding of my at times simply incredible, intolerable rants and rages.

I do assure you that each and every word, at the time posted, came from my soul, however tormented by such demons possessing me at that point in time.

It is not easy being me, folks.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
He is at times the wizard of not.
And in his more lucid moments, can fail classically and undeniably.

Why do I say this?
Because in the morning, my brain chemicals may not be so aligned as to allow me to express myself in this manner. It happens seldom, I am afraid to admit.
All too seldom.

You are my friends, and I impose upon that fact all too often.
But, that is why I remain here.

Kitties are my truest friends, but you folks are not far down in the list, LOL.
Please, if you could, remember that the next time I do a digger and major fail.
It will happen. It is inevitable. Pre ordained. Written in stone. Unavoidable, and due any second...LOL.
Not this second of time slice though. Not now.

I love you all sooooooooooooooooo much.
Geez, is a man allowed to pretend he has PMS?
Now I am laughing and crying at the same time....there go the brain chemicals again...ROFLMAO.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

And may I say something else here?

I think I should.

I love each and every one of my Seti brothers and sisters here.
So much more than I can put into words on this simple typewritten page.
You, all of you, have been sooooooooooo understanding of my at times simply incredible, intolerable rants and rages.

I do assure you that each and every word, at the time posted, came from my soul, however tormented by such demons possessing me at that point in time.

It is not easy being me, folks.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
He is at times the wizard of not.
And in his more lucid moments, can fail classically and undeniably.

Why do I say this?
Because in the morning, my brain chemicals may not be so aligned as to allow me to express myself in this manner. It happens seldom, I am afraid to admit.
All too seldom.

You are my friends, and I impose upon that fact all too often.
But, that is why I remain here.

Kitties are my truest friends, but you folks are not far down in the list, LOL.
Please, if you could, remember that the next time I do a digger and major fail.
It will happen. It is inevitable. Pre ordained. Written in stone. Unavoidable, and due any second...LOL.
Not this second of time slice though. Not now.

I love you all sooooooooooooooooo much.
Geez, is a man allowed to pretend he has PMS?
Now I am laughing and crying at the same time....there go the brain chemicals again...ROFLMAO.

We all have rants and rages. I tend to find my hands are so busy yanking at my hair that they don't have time to attack the keyboard - that may be the only difference between you and I :) That doesn't mean I am suggesting you yank at your hair :) - far from it. If you did you would then have to do like me... and carry around several packets of fake emergency moustaches - for when a little patching up is necessary. :)

You are a stitch, anniet.
Thank you for making me laugh again.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

You are a stitch, anniet.
Thank you for making me laugh again.

There's nothing funny about emergency moustaches - particularly when you find them floating in your coffee. :)

You are a stitch, anniet.
Thank you for making me laugh again.

There's nothing funny about emergency moustaches - particularly when you find them floating in your coffee. :)

I guess that depends on just where you apply them in such emergencies.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Many years ago, my mother had a dream that the police were searching in the woods behind my grandmother's house for something. She didn't tell me about that dream until several years after my grandmother had been murdered in that house. Her dream happened a couple months before someone broke into my grandmother's house, stabbed her with a fireplace poker, and set fire to the house. No one was ever suspected or arrested.

I've had some weird dreams and nightmares, but never anything that stood out like that.

How about you? Have you ever had dreams that seemed connected to future events?

In 1977, my maternal grandfather suffered a stoke that left him paralyzed on his right side, unable to speak, and sometimes not able to focus on the people around him. Not quite two years later he died of pneumonia in a nursing home.

The night before he died, my boat was returning to Pearl Harbor from deployment. We were undergoing a periodic Operational Reactor Safety Exam. That night I slept poorly, and had several dreams. All were silent - no talking. A girl I dated in high school, who was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles, appeared, crying. Then I dreamt of the last time I saw my grandfather, in the hospital shortly after his stroke. Then I saw him again, walking and waving, as if saying goodbye.

When we docked the next day, I had the first Shutdown Reactor Operator watch. About an hour before I was due to be relieved, one of the guys came back to relieve me to go take a phone call up forward. It was my mother, telling me Grandpa had died the night before. I never told her about the dreams.

I've had several similar experiences over the years, although I have more "premonitions", where I get a funny tickle at the back of my neck just before I hear about someone I know who is sick or dying, and I go see them as soon as I can. On one occasion I was sitting with a dying shipmate, and felt another presence in the room, even though we were alone and the nurses were all on another part of the ward. I left when his wife came in that morning, he died an hour later.

I'm not a psychic. An empath maybe, but not a psychic. But I do get weird feelings, and strange dreams that seem to foretelll things that happen in the waking world.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

You are a stitch, anniet.
Thank you for making me laugh again.

There's nothing funny about emergency moustaches - particularly when you find them floating in your coffee. :)

I guess that depends on just where you apply them in such emergencies.

He he he he he he he he he! I'm NOT going to think about that too much :) :) :)

I'm going to slop off to bed now ms... ? actually I'm not... I'm going to SLOPE off to bed now and hopefully sleep! Night night - hope your dreams are sweet tonight when you do the same :)

You are a stitch, anniet.
Thank you for making me laugh again.

There's nothing funny about emergency moustaches - particularly when you find them floating in your coffee. :)

Yes, the stickum on those things usually needs a little more bare skin than is caused by a pulled-out clump of hair. Annie, do you have any trouble finding ones that match your hair color?

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

I'm not a psychic. An empath maybe, but not a psychic. But I do get weird feelings, and strange dreams that seem to foretelll things that happen in the waking world.

That must be such an eerie feeling. In some ways it does seem to have given you a chance to say goodbye - which is something so many people don't get the opportunity to do, but it can't be easy, and I imagine it can feel very lonely when you're experiencing those tingles you described, it's probably not easy to talk to others about it. :(

You are a stitch, anniet.
Thank you for making me laugh again.

There's nothing funny about emergency moustaches - particularly when you find them floating in your coffee. :)

Yes, the stickum on those things usually needs a little more bare skin than is caused by a pulled-out clump of hair. Annie, do you have any trouble finding ones that match your hair color?

Matching is a problem sometimes yes Donald. Thank you for asking. Not many people appreciate just how difficult it can be to blend in with the rest of humanity when you have a bright orange handlebar moustache adorning your head. :)

Donald.
I have had said experiences.

The difference is that I believe mine are from other worlds, not from within this one. That may be a stark difference from what you have experienced.

I did have a rather vivid nightmare the night my beloved Uncle Donald passed.
He and I had a very special bond that was rather indescribable.
He treated my in my youth to very special things, like the Gilbert and Sullivan opperettas and even such things as Puccini operas like Turandot.
Things most kids would never have been exposed to at that age.

On the night he passed, which I learned later, I had this amazingly vivid dream of him singing the lead in the Pirates of Penzance. And singing it directly to ME. It took me aback, even in my sleep stage at the time. Uncle Don WAS a stage player in New York back in his day.
But, even though most dreams cannot be remembered in the morning.........it stuck with me. It was only the following day that I learned of his passing.

My Uncle Don was with me that night, again sharing his love of the arts with me.
I have no doubt whatsoever about that fact.
And I have no doubt whatsoever that such things are indeed real.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

It sounds like a lot of us have had or know someone who has had these sort of weird premonition type dreams. It makes me wonder why? I hate to get too far out there, but I do think past time travel is possible, and I use my very limited knowledge of string theory/quantum mechanics to explain it. The problem lies in these premonitory dreams we have. I don't think future time travel makes sense, so how could we have these sorts of dreams? I think it happens too often for too many people to simply write it off as random chance coincidence.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place