Dreams and Deja Vu: Dreams Really Do Come True
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Dreams can and DO come true. But it is a bit more complex than you may think, and many who have not experienced dreams like this can find it confusing. How is it possible for dreams to come true? Iv'e never had a premonition, do they really exist?
Well, the answer is, yes. Having my own psychic dream experience was full of revalations, which I will now share with you and how it changed my ideas about dreaming forever.
My Dream Come True...Well, Not Exactly...
It happened a couple years back, when I was working through school at a local restaurant. Dreaming about losing my job was never my ideal prediction, I would have much preffered winning the lottery. Nonetheless, this is what happened.
The Dream:
I dreamt I was at work, standing in a distinct location of the restaurant. This strange feeling swept over me, and I was hit with an intuitive understanding that I was going to be fired.
A coworker of mine approached me and we engaged in conversation about my job status. I then asked her why I was fired. She replied, explaining that the boss's wife was jealous of me and did not want me working there. I woke up, this dream vivid in my mind. It was so realistic and detailed, it lingered in my mind days afterwards.
(This may be a good time to note that my boss's wife did bar tend at the restaurant in real life, so that being the reason I was fired is not a far fetched theory.) I was scheduled to work again a couple days after this dream. I went in that day not vaguely prepared for what would happen next.
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In Reality:
For whatever reason it was, I went to the distinctive location in the restaurant that I went to in my dream. All of the sudden I felt like a piece of a puzzle that was put in its place. Every detail, every sensation, every inch of my surroundings, perfectly mimicked my dream. This brought on the most intense and overwhelming rush of Deja Vu that I have yet to experience in my life. I must have looked like I was seeing a ghost or maybe even losing my mind, because at that point in time everything for me froze as my feeble brain scrambled to make sense of it. This was it, I was to be fired!
Remembering how I had spoken to my coworker in my dream, I approached her, as she just so happened to be scheduled to work with me that night. I was so shocked by my recent revelation that I needed to reach out to someone. Who better than the coworker from my dream, maybe she could give me some more answers. I told her with grave seriousness that I was going to get fired that night. She looked puzzled, but started rattling off jobs that she could help me find "if" I were to be fired.
Sure enough, what was inevitable had played out. I left that night for the last time, jobless. Having absolutely no doubt that this dream was a precise prediction of the future, I also have no doubt that the boss's wife being jealous of me was the reason it happened. But the most important thing to be learned from this story is how Deja Vu and dream premonitions are interlinked.
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That "Been There, Done That" Feeling
So many people have different opinions about what Deja Vu is. Most of us experience it from time to time. For those unfamiliar with this sensation, it is the feeling that you have been somewhere before or done something before, but you cannot recall where or when. And no, it is not the same thing as waking up every morning and brushing your teeth, then remembering that. It is much more intensified.
Deja Vu is the feeling described earlier, like matching the piece of a "puzzle" to its rightful position, in the sense that every sight, sound, smell, taste, touch,thought, feeling, and sensation of existance is completely identical to the lost memory, even if just for a second. It can be quite eerie to mirror a past event so perfectly and not be able to recall it.
Some people reason this away as a glitch of the mind: subconscious memories that were trapped and are now resurfacing. And that may very well be true, in a sense. If we knew where these memories were originating from, we could discover exactly what Deja Vu is. This is exactly what I have found out.
Deja Vu is A Lost Prediction
As stated, one theory about Deja Vu is that it is simply a manifestation of the subconscious mind. That being said, take into consideration that while sleeping and dreaming, the subconscious mind runs rampant. This is what dreams are made of.
Sometimes we remember our dreams, and sometimes in great detail, like the dream I had about being fired. That was a special kind of dream, a premonition. For whatever reason, it came true.
When I had Deja Vu about the dream later, that was simply my mind remembering the dream. I was aware of the dream because I remembered it when I woke up. But we do not remember all of our dreams. Since dreams can be predictions and come true, wouldn't it be reasonable to suggest that we can have these "predictions", or dreams, and then wake up the next morning without recalling them?
This leads me to my theory:
Deja Vu is the subconscious mind recalling a dream that our conscious minds did not recall. It seems highly possible that Deja Vu could be a prediction from a dream that you don't remember having, or a lost prediction.
Life Is But A Dream
I never in a million years would have been able to come up with this theory that links dreams and Deja Vu, if not for experiencing it firsthand. The fact that it happened to me is the only real evidence I have to prove this, and too bad it is not tangible. But it makes alot of sense if you think about it enough. And what's amazing is that it proves dreams can be predictions!
Imagine the thousands of things you could be predicting every night, and just forgetting about, since we can't remember all of our dreams!
Next time you have Deja Vu, embrace the fact that you have psychic powers, because you predicted something in a dream. We all have amazing abilities, sometimes we just forget them (In this case, literally). We can't remember every dream, but practicing dream recall is a great way to harness our powers of prediction.
The power of the mind is astonishing, and I hope to provide more insights into it. I have a premonition that I will.
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@ De Greek:
Oh, i'm very sure it does. The subconscious mind provides very powerful insights. But this is not to say that every single dream we have is a premonition. Some dreams are just nonsense.....
Still, even those nonsense dreams can tell us something. Objects and actions in our dreams are symbolic representations of our deepest thoughts and feelings. Interpreting these symbols allows us to better understand ourselves and what truly drives us.
I will be writing a hub to better explain dream symbolism, so look out for it! :)
I had a very strange, extremely realistic, dream a few weeks ago. I wouldn't mind it coming true.
it is a very strange.
Do you have any idea what exactly the last picture in this hub is suppose to be about?
Ivorwen-
I recognize the symbols dispersed about the human body as the Chakras- that's my interpretation of it, at least. As for the rest, who knows...some odd dream symbols? Besides that, he appears to be swimming...through water, or fire, or from one astral plane to the next,who knows..but yeah, that's what I'm making of it.
Interesting! I do problem solving as I sleep. Rarely remember dreams these days, the ones I do are very illustrated and vivid.
Dreams are GREAT for problem solving... our subconscious minds decipher stored information while we sleep, so things that were too intimidating or stressful to deal with throughout the day are handled in a less threatening environment, where we have more control over the outcome of scenarios..aka dreams. Thanks for the comment! Stop by anytime. =)
Very enlightening hub - excellent topic and well written. The photos are beautiful and rated you up and awesome (because you are) :-)
I believe in premonition dreams with every fiber of my being i have experienced the phenomenon myself i had a premonition dream 6 months ago that my father in law died he came to me in the dream to tell me it will be ok and to take care of his son two months later he died of colon cancer he didnt even know he had We were at a loss for words when we went to say goodbye to him before hand and on the way home i had a very bad feeling of deja vu, like i had came home from the hospital the day he died, before It was the strangest thing i have ever encountered for a few seconds in the car time stopped and i doubled over having a panic attack (i was very close to his dad) and the dream came rushing back in a flood of flashes and feelings i could not stop the emotions and i was totally heart broken when we got home there was a message that he had died while we were on our way home from the hospital i am at the moment getting goose bumps because it was the strangest thing that has ever happened to me
Good hub. I agree with you, every "sensation" often the thoughts in your head, the sight, smell, location, and you can be doing one thing while worrying about another, perfectly matching your dream!!!
Vocalcoach- Thank you so much, that's so nice of you to say and to vote me up! Glad you enjoyed the hub.
Camolevi- Yes, it can be a very eerie feeling when deja vu occurs, especially surrounding such dramatic events. Our instincts are so powerful, and often misunderstood, but too many times go overlooked or undervalued in importance. I am sorry for your loss. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience!
Angel115707- Yes, thanks for talking on that point! It's one of the key aspects that makes Deja Vu so different from simply remembering something, and it is hard to explained to those who have yet to experience it on that intensity level. But yes, its quite the strange feeling. Thanks for stopping by!
TA,
I believe the human body is capable of receiving electricsignals and input like a higher form of radiowaves that we can only process subconsciously- for most folks- while others have or developed their ability to receive these signals AND be able to interpret those signals. It is latent in all people of the world just better developed in select people. great hub again
TH
The first picture is from the book DMT: The Spirit Molecule. Excellent book by Rick Strassman. Go pick it up if you want to have a scientific basis for "other dimensions..other beings"
Yes, I've heard of that/the book. It's on my long list of books that I need to read. =)
:D Well get too it, grrrrl!
on 4 different occasions or shall i say dreams. i dreamed of someone i know personally and they would die. well all 4 dreams came true about a week or two after i had them. strange.
i also had a very close friend that died from a freak accident. i was very upset. this person was also a close friend to my brother. well a few weeks after he passed away he came to me in a dream (that was very real) and told me that it was his time, and that he is ok, he is were he is suppose to be and put his hand on my shoulder. i was awoken from this dream with the presence and a hand on my shoulder. no one was there and my door was shut. needless to say i freaked out for a second, but my heart was calm and have been a peace with this persons death every since.
deja vu happens alot.
i also have these strong feeling that i get. example driving down the road and i stop for no reason, or go a different way and a major accident happens.
just trying to figure it all out.
I'm deeply interested in Deja Vu. On random occasions I experience a second glimpse of what is to happen next, although not greatly interesting, I pulled out my bag, opened a six-pack of diet coke and passed it to my mate Charlie. this occurred over a minuscule period of time but I knew it would occur. This happens to me a lot randomly and I am wondering, is it possible to harness this sense of Deja Vu, thus training your Psyche to almost predict deja vu and experience it minutes of hours before it occurs? If its possible to, if what you go on to explain is true, then could we place time lines of our dreams, determine when it can happen, remember vastly detailed dreams such as exactly what time it is or what the temperature is? I would greatly appreciate talking further into this and establishing a theory to explain the Dream/Deja Vu concordance!
Callum.
I have been having one to several dreams every night for more than 15 years. De ja vu precedes moment we have already seen - in a dream, or via some other subconscious vehicle. After recalling dreams each morning for a little more than two years, de ja vu ceased to happen.
Instead, a "spontaneous full dream recall" occurs. The preamble, like an infinitely thin barrier or veil, still occurs. This is part of the de ja vu experience. A sense like hitting that barrier arrives. But, in place of the weak sense of "I've seen this before," you see again the scene from a dream.
Man from Modesto
@ Man from Modesto:
Sounds as if you are experiencing full-blown clairvoyant visions through dreams and I'm impressed at your ability to have held onto that skill for such a length of time. I find that making a point to recall our dreams upon waking increases the rate at which dream recall occurs as well as perception of detail. I've gotten better and better at that aspect...any suggestions for advancing towards the "spontaneous dream recall" which you are experiencing, or do you find these to be random occurrences?
@ Callum:
Great question! Man from Modesto has presented us with a connection to dreaming and psychic visions...albeit they are random occurrences, perhaps there is a way to achieve such a level of intense Deja Vu?...I am curious myself as to whether or not the practice of dream prediction can be honed to such a level. I don't see why not, anything is possible...the subconscious mind is still greatly misunderstood. Modern science cannot substantiate many of these findings, and stranger things have happened.
@jillbilly:
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that dreams are the subconscious's way of warning us or relaying important messages to our brains that would otherwise go overlooked. These predictions are nothing to fear, they are our instincts and the process by which messages are intercepted by our brains. I look at it as radio waves...ever get a song that pops into your head, turn on the radio and there it is playing? In a sense we are "tuning in" to that information, just like a radio produces waves...same principle with dreams...just a less-threatening level that our brains can handle.
I think you may have already read my hubs, Dreams, the real work of the brain and Heaven or Hell, who decides? If you have then you will understand why, I think, dreams do not have time to think of the future, they are too busy with the past.
However, dreams are like VooDoo or Astrology. If you believe they may come true, your subcontious,will make them come true.
Dream well and thanks for following.
I have experienced many times Deja vu, my first one was when I was quite young, the younger I was the more I got them, now I get them less but still have an experience from time to time.
There is one occasion that I will never forget, I grew up in Spain and now leave in the Uk. Three months before I came to the Uk I would have never imagined that I would find myself here, I dreamt that I was standing looking at a building kids playing around me speaking a language I didn't recognize, I never recalled this deja vu until three months later I find myself in the Uk looking at the same building which was my secondary school with the same kids playing around wearing the same unifors I saw saying the same things I was hearing in the dream, I only remembered when I was there in the same position. Then I knew that I had been there before.
It was an amazing experience.
Welcome to the club! I have too much deja vu!! At times it feels like a curse, until one really sees the glory in it :)
Hi Im 13 years old I have been having this for a long time now I am not sure why but I have, I am deciding to write about my dreams every time I now wake up and do you think there is any connection with space and time , as I can have shorter and longer visions in my sleep that I will remember then later maybe 2 months will see.I often have deja Vu when standing still or day dreaming or sleeping do you know what causes this and Thank you for this Article :)
@ Rafken:
I do see that many dreams are an accumulation of garbled memories from our past. This is how the brain solves problems that occur in our daily lives. We work out how to deal with these issues in our sleep and it better equips us to handle similar events in the future.
I see the logic behind you stating that what we want to be true often does manifest itself. This is called projection- when we subconsciously influence our views or outcome of certain events because we already believe it to be fact. I still have to disagree with you about dreams only being about the past, however. Some minds have room to dream of the future after working out the past. The dream I had was no projection- at one point I stood in the exact location, saw the same objects and had the same feeling I had in my dream, it was identical. That's when I realized the dream was going to come true.
One truly cannot put this feeling into words. I hope one day you too will have the opportunity to experience this amazing phenomenon, let's hope the outcome is more positive than mine! =P Thanks for the comments and thanks for reading!
@ Dreamer:
That's an awesome story, thanks for sharing. Just goes to show the amazing powers of the mind!
@sandieganliz:
Yes, it does seem like a curse sometimes doesn't it? Even though it can feel that way at times, look at the benefits it has- the more we start to trust our instincts, we can recognize deja vu as a warning or a hint towards something and avoid possible dangers or reap the benefits of rewarding opportunities. Keep dreaming and thanks for stopping by!
@ ArjanJ:
That's a very wise decision to write down your dreams. You are probably having deja vu frequently because you have developed your dream recall skills by paying attention to your dreams and writing them down. As to the cause, I really cannot say. I just know from mine and others experience that the more you pay attention and develop this skill, the more frequently deja vu can occur.
I am glad you enjoyed reading this, thank you for your kind comments. =)
I have had many dreams that come true although I can't explain why. My Mother also shares in this. I also seem to experience the deja vu feeling a lot so you could be very right in your assumption. Good Hub!
@ LisaMarie724:
Yes, I'm really thinking there is a connection there. Seems to be a lot of cases of it. Thanks for reading and commenting!
My dreams and visions come to pass all of the time; the sad thing is. . .is that it is usually the bad dreams that come true. When I was in prison, I had a dream that my Dad had a heart attack; as soon as I was allowed to use the phone I called my parents house and told my mom of my dream, and she proceeded to tell me that that my Father was in the hospital having suffered a heart attack. This has happened to me a number of times, but I shall spare you the details. Its the dreams that haven't come to pass yet that are really scary to me - they are usually very apocalyptic. Thanks for the great article.
@ Joshua Kell:
Thanks so much for commenting. I've had too many apocalyptic dreams to count. Let's hope they don't come true either!
I had these dreams & premonishions as far as i remember having memory,so there for always.I could fill a book with these sorts of experiences..I am trying to write a short novel on something simular to this, & im sure this will be mentioned in the book.I really hate it when i ask a Q about these things & trolls say the dreams are a resault of something we lie about & have such a judgemental attiudes. They are so closed and slamed shut minded, that they can't see how stupid they truly are.I have examples but for times sake i won't go in to it here.Well i can tell u this,they put their clothes in a tree cause it use to be one.Now it's called a drawer or table, is some of what i am saying.If they don't believe in these kinds of things there are other catagorys where they go.Millions of em.They got to be such an asswipe.I shared an experience of a dream "wake" state in here & someone mention that the acid i was taking would wear off soon is why i am saying this.No where private to go and these is what u got to deal with. I really enjoy these articals and love reading them.Thanks for doing this and it's now clicked into my favorites. Sincelery,b4u2~
I have had vivid dreams often for as long as I can remember. Not much is known about dreams, because they are not material things and are difficult to study. I have had both premonition type and clairvoyant type dreams (but not limited to those two types). My premonitions manifest in the form of a deja vu, but they are usually insignificant things like me standing in a particular spot or me watching something on TV. They may not seem much, but I am certain that we can peer into the future.
And then I'll have clairvoyant dreams, they are usually highly symbolic, but I can still get a general understanding as there will be people I know (or don't know yet) in a dream. Usually they are something like, someone broke up, or cheated on someone, I would find out the next day that this was true. And even stuff like someone having a vacation home, or someone being sad about something. I do not know this stuff before hand, it just appears to me in my dreams and I confirm it by asking the particular person about it. I really didn't hear about it before hand. They are usually people I don't talk very much too, yet personal things about them appear to me in my dreams.
I can't say I've ever had a powerful premonition or prophecy... Though it may have happened but I am not aware of it. I have a strong sense about when people will break up, it appears to me in my dreams too. But the point is, there is a lot we don't know about this stuff. People shouldn't be so quick to knock down these experiences. I think they should be taken more seriously to find out more, instead of just speculating.
Jala,it's prconoction-that's what you are calling deja vu and clairvoyant as well as other labels.It's just a part of who we are and perhaps what we chose to do in this life.As in other's can see spirits we feel them and dream vividly as we do.Everything we dream is of importants, it all means something,we just have to put them together is all.I learn more & more as I have these exsperiences.It's out side exsperiences as well.I get out side sourses that inter act with what I get inside if u understand what im saying.It's more then just the one thing here.I just wanted to let ya know im with you on this.
I see we can't fix things without doing another post.Anyways,I meant they are precognitive dreams,prophetic.I would like to mention that if u gey into bad dream you can clap ur hands or call on Mother Mary,she'll get u out of them.I know it sounds strange & i didn't believe it either until I did it myself.It works!
i believe that we have premonition dreams, doesnt always work the exact way your dream showed it to you but, the main parts of the visions do come true...an example for me is one time i had a dream of meeting a girl on a bus in an unknown place, the next day i remembered this dream clearly, then later on in time i forgot all about it and the girl,,then some time after i moved house, and the next day after moving house, i saw her, the girl from my dream, it felt so weird, it felt like everything froze when i saw her it was crazy, as soon as i saw her i remembered her and the dream, now i know i dont meet her in real life on a bus, but it is a new place and the exact same girl from my dream, who i had never seen in my life, till the dream and when i moved and it turned out she was my new neighbour, and me and her became good friends, i never told her about the dream, didnt want her feeling uncomfortable about me in anyway lol also i have times when im doing something small thats nothing important like be shopping or something and ill be standing there and see things which trigger memories from dreams ive had about this time place and everything im doing at that time, and i stand thinking wait ive seen this happening and im trying to remember what happens next, but i can never remember and then its gone,i believe remembering things from ur dreams when it happens and trying to remember what happens next somehow alters what happens next and thats why u never see what happens next if i make sense, but i do believe every now and then our minds shows us views of our future, but i have no clue how and why we see these glimpses. now other dreams can be totally messed up and most of the time you cant understand nothing, but like one person already commented there is always a meaning to dreams,,they could be anything to future, present or past, emotions, anything, they could be a mixture, could be a dreaming telling you ur present feeling and emotions and how they could interupt in ur future or change ur future in a certain way.
I'm very interesting by your hubs for reflexions on my website, thank you very much.
I so relate with your topic here, I have always had many dreams some recurring too. I have had the deje vu effect from these dreams more times than I can count really. Great hub, voted up and useful, very informative too. You should read my hubs on dreams, based on my real dreams I made into stories. This is great therapy by the way too.
@ b4u2: I relate with your anger towards the trolls* who discount our experiences...too bad they exist on the physical plane as well, not just in cyber space. Think the tides would turn if they experienced it themselves? You never know until it happens to you. ;) Good luck on that novel, sounds like a great idea!
@ Jala: Thanks for reading, hope you got a little more clarity out of your experiences by reading this article. It is true that no one really knows much on this subject, from a scientific standpoint at least. (Even though I'm certain millions have experienced these things firsthand and I see a fraction of that evidence in these comments!) It gets written off and skeptics don't give it the credit it deserves. At least I and others know from their experiences that there is truth in this phenomenon...developing dream recall helps so much since remembering the experience is half the battle. Good luck to you on your journey through the realm of dreams. :)
@ Voyance par mail: Great! Glad you could get something out of it.
@ Fluffy77: Like I said, so many of us relate to this topic, I wouldn't be surprised if millions shared similar experiences! Truth be told, we all possess this innate ability and it just needs development. And of course, excellent therapy. ;) I would love to read your hub on dreams, will be sure to stop by and check it out!
@ David: Thanks for sharing your story! I've gotten such positive and confirming feedback that it almost makes me wish I could survey a large group of people and try to prove this thing somehow to the scientific community! Wouldn't that be something... anyhow, yes... deja vu, whether it be from a dream or a vision, is a startling, unexplainable feeling. There is so much more to be learned about this- both dreams and precognitive experiences are so powerful and I believe they tell us so much about the human brain and how we function. Every dream is meaningful, keep dreaming. :)
Every time my dreams come true afther it happens I can hardly breath and chest starts to hurt why is this
Ryan:
Sounds like an anxiety attack to me. Are the things that come true unpleasant? That would make sense.
No they are not but it only last for maybe a couple min.
What does this mean when this happens my dreams coming true it happen not a lot but it done happen maybe 10 times and the dreams sometime take a couple of years couple of months they do come true exactly like it happened in my dream then I have the anxiety attack
Ryan: Hmmm. It is definitely an anxiety attack associated with the deja vu. I looked into this and see that you aren't the only one who's had this issue:
http://www.steadyhealth.com/Nightmarish_Deja_Vu_an
I would say that even though the dream that came true was not a bad one, the shock of living out a dream in real life can be a pretty startling experience and deja vu itself can be very frightening. The mind may have trouble coping with something that feels so extraordinary and this is why you are having the anxiety (chest pain, trouble breathing).
Now, as far as why our dreams come true, that's a whole different subject. No one really has the answer to that, only opinions of what it means to them. Personally, I look at it as the spirit's way of guiding us. Our intuition warns us and wants to guide us, but many times we cannot understand what it is trying to say. It is very obvious to me that we all hold the power to glimpse into the future, those with dreams that come true are proof of this.
I hope that this helps you somewhat. Don't worry about the anxiety, it is your body's reaction to a startling situation and is quite normal. Thanks for sharing your experience!
I agree with the dream/deja vu connection. I wrote about it a while back because it kept happening to me. Our minds are beautiful and mysterious things!
@ Bendo13: Yep, that's very true!
I had a dream two months ago that I came into my place of work and it looked different and the people were different. I went up to the lady at the front desk and said, "you are at my desk, that is my job". She said, "not anymore". Two days later when I went to work, 5 managers from our corporate offices came in and told us they were closing our plant and we were all going to be let go. (our closing date is November 30th). I had actually told someone at work about the dream the day before they gave us the news. I said, "why can't I have useful dreams like of winning lottery numbers".
Last night I had a dream that they were giving away company jackets (with logos on them) and some other things they have around here. Someone came up and asked if I wanted a jacket and I said I'd rather have something else. This morning at work, someone came up and said that there were extra company jackets that they were going to have a drawing for if we all wanted to get involved in it. I'm telling you....this dreaming stuff that comes true is getting really weird.
Wow I thought I was crazy but I decided to look up deja vu dreams that come true and looks like im not the only one haha yesterday I was at work and got the deja vu feeling that I more than often get and I realized that I had a dream about it and I knew exactly what the patient was going to say what I was thinking how I felt at the time cool stuff I would like to get the hang of it though I thought I was becoming psychic or something like that
now that i've seen your picture i see why you lost your job truthawake lol it freaks me out when i have deja vu. i dont wanna sound crazy but it happens pretty often. i would really like a pin point explanation on how and why this happens
I have had many dreams when I was very young, and at the time I did not understand what theses instances in my life was about...... Until I grew up and actually experienced the dreams for real, might sound odd I know and it's still continuing I'll be doing something innocent and then bang I recall the dream and what I do as well as what happens next......This is where it gets really interesting. With this foresight I have told friends of events that will happen next. Even better knowing what actions I did in the dreams I have actually done the opposite just to see what happens. (Nothing) I will stress that it's simple little things, like being in a place, usually lasts no longer than about 3-4 seconds. Sometimes I go months without one, sometimes I have had a few clumped together in the same week. I have a theory and it is Einsteins, basically we live our lives in a loop hence the recollections. this has many effects We can never change our fate....Which is sad I think. We could of lived the same life a million times over hence the memories passing through or partially retained, a bit like a computer that has had it's hard drive deleted but with some memories still retained. My next step believe it or not is to try and communicate to myself (in the past as a kid). Or is that the other way around?? Interesting paradox!
I completely agree with original article, and this is why: Ok, this may be long so bear with me. A little background...
I dream EVERY night. Let me rephrase...I KNOW I dream every night. Most mornings I remember my dreams vividly. Sometimes, I only remember enough to know that I have dreamt. In my 26 years on this earth, I have never once woken up and not remembered (to some degree) at least 1 dream I had that night. This, apparently, is considered quite strange, but it's a normal thing for me.
I experience de ja vu quite often. A handle of times a year, i guess. Some times with gaps, sometimes clumped together. My de ja vu experiences are also very vivid. They are not the type of experiences where a room merely 'seems' familiar. For me, the room, the people, where they stand, what is said, what I or others are doing...EVERYTHING is EXACTLY the same.
Most of my de ja vu experiences, i cannot attribute to anything. i get the sense of de ja vu, and thats it. Tho i can recall at least 5 de ja vu experiences where I KNOW i have dreamt them. Some of them I only recall the dream after/during the de ja vu. Yet 1 of the experiences was linked to a dream I fully remembered and carried with me. It wasn't just a memory of the dream whilst or after the de ja vu experience.
Its a very strange phenomenon, and I cannot claim to know de ja vu across the board. I can only know what I have experienced and what seems fit for my experiences. But based on my experiences, de ja vu can DEFINITELY be linked to dreams. I have experienced it quite a few times. Its the only explanation I think fits well with what de ja vu could be.
I cannot tho, predict things. Some of the de ja vu experiences linked to dreams have a time span of years between the two. And as i remember so many dreams upon first wake (I cannot remember them ALL forever, as every night for 26 years would lead to a lot of dream memories! I tend to remember dreams for the morning, then forget forever (almost), only remembering the most vivid and interesting).
Just another small thing, a food for thought so to speak. this doesn't have to be taken too seriously. its something I experience, struggle to explain, but can lead to at the very least, an interesting thought/imagination exercise.
I cannot philosophically distinguish between dreams and reality. When I recall a memory from a dream, it appears to me in the exact same way as a memory of reality. (Hmmm, how to explain)... Sometimes I'll have a memory, and I'm not sure if its from a dream or from real life. I have to use my best judgement. Sometimes I'll recall a dream, only to find out through confirmation from someone else that it actually happened.
The only 'evidence' I have that a dream is a dream, is that i tend to dream when i go to sleep. This is NOT a good philosophical argument. It may be good enough for most people, but philosophically its weak. I have dreamt I have woken up, only to actually wake up again. Im sure many others have experienced this.
This is my thought game, then. If I can wake up in a dream, but still be dreaming, how do I KNOW i am not dreaming now? Add that to the fact that I confuse dreams with reality and reality with dreams, and have no philosophical distinction between the two, How can I ever be sure I am awake at all?
And to mess heads a bit more, where/how could de ja vu come into play with this?
Have fun :)
I apologise if my comments already cover what others have been saying. Not a technological person, and have no idea what a hub is lol. (tho as you can tell, i know how to talk/type lol) Just found this page doing de ja vu research online. Thanx guys for all the great info.
hi so i'v e been having horriable dreams lately adout zombies and i know what your thinking just quit watching zombie movies but that just the thing i don't the last one i had where the worse because they where the most vivid no white smoke or anything a it was weird because Tracy morgan was in it and he was pulling a heist with my mom and her friends. and to turn out Tracy is a FBI agent and everyone get a crap load of years. but then that where stuff gets weird i get my own place and all m stuff is getting took away but the irs and im talking to them downstairs and out of the elevator comes Digimon or poke'mon or something like them come down and are acting like im their father so i tell the oldest to take everyone up stairs so the do and i continue talking to the IRS man and he asked me if he could see those things again so we hop in the elevator he start to try and kill me, it turns out he was a cyborg and had a weapon like wolverine's claws some how i kill him and the elevator door opes up and i have a gun and im at a police station(yeah oh shit)I stuff the gun in my pocket and find the police chief and give him the gun it turns out its his. at this point in my dream im walking outside and and everythings vanishes and turns into a giant plains it was so beautiful to see but over the hills zombies flocking and they smell me i run every way i could but they are everywhere and a voice in my head starts to name off types of people and its flashing there faces in front of me one of them was a friend of mine and when i saw it he said temptress. this is where it really weird im run over a hill and come out on the ocean and there is seaweed on shore along with whales so im thinking those whales have enough meat to keep them busy for a while. so i start to run to the beach to lure them there but the closer i get to the seaweed the more i get scared because all the seaweed i walking around talking to each other they are as tall as a semi truck and they asked me if i had a some type of leaf and that where my ream ends. so if anyone could tell me what all that meant would be great because most of my dreams come true and i don't want to be chased by zombies it my number one fear i've been having zombie dreams for years now and im tired of it i need to know what it all means. the heist thing with Tracy Morgan was cool though.
All my life since Elementary school I can recall premonitions in dreams and later them actually occurring. I'm 17 now and recently had another occur. They are never any pivotal life changing premonitions or occurrences, but are ridiculously spot on when they happen. The most recent occurred while in my room with my boyfriend and his friend. They were both on a coach in my room while I looked at them while I sit on my bed, the conversation they were having and the way they were moving automatically made me freeze and the feeling of Deja Vu came over me. It is exactly as you describe it, it's that puzzle piece setting in. I suddenly recalled it all happening in a vivid dream I must of had months, maybe longer, before. They of course looked at me being crazy but it was very real. Every human has some kind of subconscious psychic abilities I believe, its just a connection with you, others, the world, everything. Some have it stronger and some have it almost hardly.
When I was little the premonitions were like memories you didn't actually have. I was at lunch once around the 2nd or 3rd grade and suddenly, Deja Vu, there was a bee flying close to where I was sitting, a girl caught it with her bare hands without being stung and just walked away and released it, it was weird when I was little, I semi knew the basis of Deja Vu even being so young, but didn't truly understand it til then, everything is exactly how it happens in my dream, not even the slightest bit of difference until further or before the specific moment. It was like one specific scene from a movie, but all the rest were different. I just wish there was a way to expand your abilities, if things like this happen, isn't it an ability?
Very insightful hub post, thank you for sharing your story.
Glad to know I'm not alone. I've had these since childhood, both good and bad. They happen so often I usually just smile to myself when it happens primarily for the very subtle ones which don't affect anything. The worst I've had was from visiting my aunt after 3 months in school. The dream was that she was pregnant and that the baby would die. I had no idea she was pregnant and nobody mentioned it, plus it didn't help that she always wore traditional clothing that covered her completely so you couldn't tell at all even if she was 9 months pregnant. Next day after having the dream, I woke up and she wasn't around but my other aunt was. I wanted to ask her if my other aunt was pregnant but it would have been a very odd question out of the blue so I ignored it. Hours later, all my other aunts left for a couple of hours then came back later. My pregnant aunt's younger sister didn't go with them but when she saw them she asked excitedly how the baby was. At that point it hit me that my aunt was pregnant and I dreaded what was about to come next. My other aunt said that she lost the baby and it just tore me up inside, felt completely powerless.
The other really bad one was in December 24, 2004. It was a really weird dream that I couldn't really make sense of and it was really unnerving. I woke up from it with the thought that the world is going to end but that didn't make any sense. I used to be religious years before that, but at that point I wasn't but I immediately thought it was in relation to the Bible so I decided to ignore it but I was uneasy the whole time about impending doom. Two days later, Dec. 26th, 2004 I turned on the tv to CNN and the deja vu immediately hit me. The dream was about the tsunami on that day which killed over 230,000 people and that's why I couldn't make sense of all that mess which I interpreted as the world ending. I was just lost at that point, sadness, frustration, anger etc.
I don't know how to explain them but I just think we are connected to something much greater than us and we can occasionally slip into seeing the bigger picture. I like @Lewis response about Einstein's Loops. Actually I prefer a more modern approach using a conclusion from String Theory's concept of Time and Dimensions... "Everything that can ever happen has happened" and we are merely going through the motions to unfold the events. So maybe in deja vu dreams we are able to 'jump' to a 'future' point since we are not tied down by the physical body and after experiencing that future event in a dream state, we come back and re-experience it much later when our body 'catches' up. Just a thought...
@Vicky To answer your question about how do you know if you have actually woken up. I'm not sure how you experience the waking up in your dreams, but from my experience it's kind of strange. I'm 28 now but the only time I had the false wake up and didn't realize it was a couple of times when I was a kid and the dream was about waking up and going to the bathroom to my dismay in the morning. As an adult, the only ones I experience I always immediately know since I can't move my body. My spirit or something levitates out of my physical body and I'm aware that I'm out of the physical body, but I get scared of going away from my physical body. I usually lay down again and do everything possible to move my physical body which eventually happens and I wake up for real. Doesn't happen too often.
The more common form of false wakeup that I experience is usually really unpleasant. More often that not, I wake up to darkness in my room and there's a shadow, smoke like figure or multiple figures that have pinned me down. I try to fight them with everything I've got but I can't, they are usually too strong for me. I try to really wake up for real at that point, try screaming nothing works. At times I can't even scream and the experience is horrible, pure terror. There's usually only one thing that frees me and I'm able to wake up for real, screaming to Jesus and asking him to save me. It's ridiculous, I know... and I'm not even religious, maybe in the past but now I don't want anything to do with religion of any kind. It's funny because I wake up shaken and all but immediately reject having committed to become a Christian in my dream (false-awake) state until the next occurrence. The technical term for it is Sleep Paralysis and lots of other people experience roughly the same thing from my research plus they all come out of it in different ways. If I could come out of it without the Jesus thing, I'd do it but for now I'll stick to what works for me.
i saw a dream yesterday that i am in troublle . Every where is strange area and people are living in fearful attitude whats its ? Tell me
well, i'm rather skeptic about all psychic "superpowers", but, yeah, this happens me so often... i use to dream completely random things, with jumping from one "scene" to another... and, at least for me, scariest thing is that, usually after some time (sometimes after few months, sometimes weeks)i expirience that "scene", and remember the dream. I was trying to write down my dreams, to prove that i'm wrong. and it confirms opposite. i'm not dreaming nothing really important, but, it's like that you roll to random spot of movie, see something, and after that watch whole movie and recognize that spot you choose random. to be honest, this sometimes scares me. any comments, advices, or something?
Nebojsa: I have the same thing! For years I will all of a sudden have a moment in time that I have dreamed whether it be a month or 5 years ago.
Claire: It's good to know that I'm not only with that phenomena. I tried to find something about it, but Internet is full of classic thins... And it gives you the feeling that your whole life is just already written, and that you can't do anything with your free will (at least I feel that way at more than a few moments)
I have deja Vu all the time, only It's kinda different, example I see something in my dream and I never saw it before only in that dream and then in reality I watch TV or drive past something and I'm so shocked because I've seen that in my dream I've NEVER seen it before in reality only in my dream! It's so weird. But I have these dreams like once a month or sometimes more. :)
I have deams that come true all the time. I also experience Daja Vu often. I dream things such as being pregnant myself, and someone close to me finds out they are pregnant. Or I dream about seeing someone I have not seen in a while, and the next few days after my dream, I run into this person. I had a minor wreck last May, which I dreamed, and a few weeks later it happened. Which I felt shaken for two weeks like something was going to happen before it did actually happen.
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What if the subconscious manages to put together facts and information the conscious refuses to acknowledge and then presents its conclusions in the form of a dream? :-)