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Since my childhood I would dream about a real life event which would happen exactly like I dreamed. I have these dreams frequently expect for holidays also when I realise that my dream is going to play out I can't do anything about it and act exactly like in my dream. These events happen when I am either bored or tired. Did you ever had a similar experience? Pic unrelated.

>>577 I have similar things, but it tends to be conversations or actions rather than a whole event. The only thing that proves to me that it isn't some kind of magical wizardry, is that I always realise after I have done the thing, not during or before. Like, say I'll be sat, pick up a drink and look some where. I realise that I have dreamed this then some one might walk out and say something, I'll again realise that I knew that was going to happen, it's how it did in my dream. I didn't know that the second thing was going to happen prior to it actually happening is my point. I'll feel very disconnected after this happens, as if I was separate from reality. Everything feel drowned out. Only lasts for a few seconds, then just turns in to general de ja vu feelings of astonishment.

Dreams often generate false memories, because it's more of an experience than a passive watch of images. So, when you look at something that brings you the same perceived feelings you had on a dream, you seem to have already experienced that (frequency illusion). And the idea that it has already happened is amplified by suggestibility, confirmation bias or, in other words, the "self-fulfilling prophecy" phenomena.

>>577 Thought I was the only one. I started keeping a dream journal a few years back just because I wanted to see if I was crazy or not. Unintended side effects occurred and I started lucid dreaming regularly, which was fun at first. Soon after it got weird. Normally in lucid dreams you have complete control over the dream, but it turns out that in some cases you can be fully lucid but not have full control. My last lucid dream ended with accidentally me melting a childhood friend alive with my mind while I was trying to banish them from the dream. I stopped keeping the dream journal at this point. A few months later I was practicing meditation and had a full OOBE where I'm fairly certain I saw a few hundred years into the future. It was intense and during the OOBE I had to choose between existing eternally in the ether or if I wanted to return to the mortal plane. I chose to return, but when I came back I couldn't properly use my body for a few hours - stumbled everywhere, had difficulty holding objects, etc. I still see events from my dreams happen in real life, but I have no idea what to do about them at thsi point.

>>579 This anon is right. This kind of Deja-vu is quite common. Your brain is playing tricks on you. It feels so real because it's basically your brain playing tricks on itself creating false memories.

>>1268 >>579 assuming that it is a basis of false memory generation (i.e. a misunderstanding of the malleable memory framework) there is still no explaining how I have flashbulb memory like dreams (i.e. specific frames) that leave me baffled at how real they were, followed by me being confused when exactly as the memories happened, i encounter a person or scenario exactly as I did the dreams months before. The interesting part is I am basically spectating myself in a situation, followed by experiencing the situation, on several occasions I have dreamt of places I have never been. each event only lasts a short time, 8-30 seconds. the part that I cannot describe is how firm the dream is in my memory that I can vividly recall the entire scenario, and then months later, match the event to my dream 100% (i.e. in the dream i identified the positions of people, clothing they were wearing, things as precise as eye color, hair, and statements made, movements). which is odd, because I can almost never recall dreams except for these specific ones. Although they appear as flashbulb memories, there is nothing traumatic associated with them, they are of the most mundane things (which is why i cannot understand their importance as dreams, nor why they are of people who will hardly impact my life in the future but i have never met yet).

>>766 an interesting theological philosophy that I have heard of is that when you sleep, you soul leaves your body, and if god decides to give it back, you will wake up. Another theory I have heard is that your mental being is a product of energy, not matter, which means that it is not bound to the same laws as matter

>>1269 Actually it does explain it. You falsely remember having that dream.

>>1271 example (not an actual experience) >have a dream about a man I have never seen wearing a red shirt and purple pants walking into my office building carrying a book on microbiology (all highly specific but mundane things), and wearing a lainchan hat over long hair >wake up and think it was an odd dream, but it sticks perfectly because it was so odd >3 weeks later I am sitting at my desk and a man in a red shirt, purple pants with a book and lainchan hat walks in either i dream of some crazy coincidental stuff, or I unironically have preemptive schizophrenia of some sort (if that is even a thing)

I got the same thing. Frankly this sort of thing is often reported by people, i even had one claim to be able to see the future. With me its a little odd, these episodes only last a few seconds, i had one that lasted about a minute however. The peculiar thing is that i recognized these things early and sort of trained myself in some way to try to force information extraction, but it doesnt work. So in effect i end up recursing, knowing that i will force myself trying to remember what happens next, its really annoying. >>1271 Sure that is a reasonable explaination but i cant shake the feeling that there is more to this, atleast you shouldnt write of the posability. >>766 Damn that sounds really interesting, i have been trying to attain these kind of states for no avail. >>1272 >lainchan hat Whaa?????

>>1276 >lainchan hat >Whaa????? I am thinking about making hats and patches, i might make a separate thread, it was merely an example of how specific the details of the dream can be

I think it's because your brain prepares a spray of future possibilities during rem sleep, most of which you dont remember. Usually none of the predicted futures come true and they disappear from your memory completely, but with the high volume of predictions being made and the repetitiveness of the average day you're bound to get it right sometimes. Example: I had a dream where i walked down a crowded hallway and turned right to avoid a woman on my left only to be bumped by a man on my right. Later this ended up happening and i recalled the dream.

>>1285 i like this theory the most

>>577 Can report the same thing op, all my life as well, but the events of the dreams will play out much later than the dream itself, sometimes weeks , have even had experience with dreams and events years apart. Strange soykaf

>>577 >>766 Man, stuff like this is incredibly fascinating, I've never had anything remotely close to anything like this happen to me before, It's crazy that there are humans that swear that they have experienced things like this.

I've never had an instance of this where I could have written down what was going to happen and observed it play out. It was always just the strong sensation of memory, of deja vu, of having been here before, and it was always retroactive. I'm convinced I never saw it coming, it's just a sensation of recall. When somebody can start calling things before they happen I'll be convinced, but until then I'll proceed with the model that it is a false memory-sensation and not a precognition.

>>577 I feel that op and I'm fairly certain I experience the same thing. Dreams that I had years ago suddenly come back to me after I did something or was in a place just like my dream. In fact back when I was a kid I dreamed that I went to a buffet with my dad and saw some asian lady I had never seen before in my life. Sometime later I went to that same exact buffet and saw her, the woman I had never seen in my life except for my dream.

>>1751 Thats just the tip of the iceberg. Telepathy and past life recollections have been validated in scientific context to the point where they can no longer be labeled as mere superstiosious beliefs. My take on things is that time is and illusion and that reality is a collective manifestation of information that can be accessed at will. Many spiritual teachings seem to support that.

>>1769 >validated in scientific context I'd like to read about this if you can link me to some articles.

>>577 Your memory is not reliable. It's not inconceivable that you might be storing current events as memories of dreams. Pencil and paper is reliable (mostly). Start keeping a dream journal with dated entries. When you have an episode, check the journal. If things start matching, then freak out, but only if they match closely.