Poll: Do you think Dreams can predict the future.

[CrazyBlaze]

So I've been thinking these past couple of days about dreams and the future. A few times in the past couple of years I've had a weird sense of deja vu when I was in a certain place doing a certain task. When that happens I think back to dreams I can remember and I remember that exact event in that exact spot doing the exact same thing I was doing. This has had happened a couple of times lately so whenever I have a really vivid dream that seems set in reality I write it down. A couple days ago I had a sense of deja vu. I looked at my recordings and there it was, as close as I could describe it without a picture. I was kinda freaked out by it and it got me thinking. Is the future set? Are there specific points in time that we have to met or is it just a coincidence.

What if somehow our mind ran across our entire time. From the moment it starts to the moment it stops it is connected through out all points in time? And that when you get a sense of deja vu from a dream you had, it is actually your mind in the future leaking back into the past. I know it sounds weird but couldn't it be possible. I mean we hardly know anything about the brain other than a basic simple understanding of what certain parts do. There is so much that biologists are still trying to find out. And what does this mean? I mean the implications could be huge if it was true.


So Escapists. Discuss.


Edit: A lot of people seem to think I mean weird dreams involving lobster people and stuff like that. What I mean is seeing a place you've never been to, people you've never seen and actions that you most likely have never done in a dream that could be real and that you have, then at a later date you are in the same position in the same place with those people and doing that action. I know that sounds weird and stupid but please keep an open mind about it, especially if it had ever happened to you.

 

[aba1]

I really don't believe they can I mean I think it would be awesome if they could. I often deconstruct my dreams and they usually aren't possible or would never come to pass. One thing I have noticed is that a lot of things in my dreams are related to things going on in my life small or big. I think dreams are the construction of all your subconscious thoughts throughout the day all melded into one, which is why when you start to think about them there are relevant elements.

I guess it should also be noted I don't believe in time as a thing that can be altered. When people talk about time travel and things of that nature I think it is a little silly to take seriously I mean time is not recorded it is a free flowing thing that comes and goes and when it is gone it is gone forever. The idea of going or seeing the future doesn't make sense since it hasn't happened anything can happen so there is no answer to what it is. I am also the one who thinks if by some random wtf time travel was invented going back in time would simply create a loop where the person would go back in time and literally be who he was at that time and place so therefore live exactly the same only to repeat everything exactly the same and there for keep going back and forth in time in a loop.

 

[Marter]

If they can, then explain the function that lucid dreaming has. If the brain is all connected to your life's timeline and stuff, then if someone gets Neo powers in their dream, will that someday happen?

Or are we playing the "it sometimes can and sometimes can't; it depends on the situation" game? 'Cause no, I'm not buying that.

So yeah, I don't really think so. But hey, if it's some magical temporal power thing, then who am I to question it or even try to make sense of it?

 

[smithy_2045]

No, that's stupid. You're just having a selective memory for the few things you've dreamt that are were realistic enough to actually occur in real life, and forgetting about the overwhelming number of dreams that don't have anything to do with anything, be it future, present or past.

 

[White Lightning]

No, because that would be silly.

 

[Whitewillow]

Yes. The true dreaming part anyway. The same thing has happened to me several times. I've been able to place the exact night I had the dream a couple of times. It usually takes me a minute or two to remember the exact picture, but I've dreamed the exact faces of the people I'm with a few times. That's a really weird part. I don't believe the future is set though. Most of the dreams I've had that I've been able to place have only come at most a month beforehand. That's close enough that a situation could be guaranteed to happen. A meeting, a date, whatever. I think they might also happen to nudge your subconscious towards making a specific choice. You just won't realize it 'till after the fact.

 

[Craorach]

I'm confused by what there is to discuss.

It's pretty obvious that its not possible for dreams to predict anything.

I suppose you could say that, since dreams are effected by our subconscious, that we could dream about things we would wish to do one on some deep level, and that dream could inspire us to get to that point. But that's less prediction and more imagination.

 

[Vault101]

I dremnt last night that Bioware relased a Dubstep album featuring Javik from Mass effect 3...

so I hope not

 

[Esotera]

Nope, although it definitely feels that way sometimes. My understanding of deja vu is that certain parts of the brain that essentially tell your body that you've experienced this before are mistakenly activated, which leads to all sorts of confusion. Everyone's who's said that dreams can predict the future is really jumping to conclusions on this one...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Once I had a dream about eating toast and that morning I did! The whole WWIII thing didn't happen though...

But... TOAST!

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[TehCookie]

I think deja vu are more of a self fulfilling prophecy rather than predicting the future. Then again I have no experience with it since I can only lucid dream. Sometimes I'll reenact things that happen in my dreams, but that's because it was a great idea. Usually that happens when I dream about food.

 

[Eddie the head]

No I had a dream chipmunks took over the world. Don't think that will happen.

 

[Final First]

Just after New Year's Eve in the transition from 2010 to 2011 I had a dream that I was sitting in my living-room chair watching the window, then I saw a nuke in the distance about to hit its target. In the dream I though to myself "Well fuck, it's true". Also, I knew in the dream it was the afternoon of December 31st 2011.

In the afternoon of December 31st last year I sat in my chair watching the window to see if it was true (not that I believed it was, but you never know). As we all know, there were no nukes on that day several months ago. So no, I don't think dreams predict anything, though I was scared shitless after that dream. It felt extremely real.

 

[Broady Brio]

Goddamn deja vu. It just feels oh so very weird.

 

[Rawne1980]

Sometimes I'll reenact things that happen in my dreams, but that's because it was a great idea. Usually that happens when I dream about food.

But what if you dream about sausages, raspberry ice cream and gherkins?

That would be a very disturbing breakfast.

 

[The Night Angel]

No, I believe you may sometimes make predictions subconsciously in your dreams, but they may or may not come to pass, but you only remember if they do. I mean if I dream of rain, and I wake up tomorrow and it is raining, it's probably just because I live in Ireland, and that is the norm here; not because my dream said it would happen.
You have so many dreams in your life that eventually a coincidence will occur, and something similar to what you dreamed will happen. Also, there is the problem of self-fulfilling destiny.

 

[Bertylicious]

No, because that would be silly.

He's right you know.

 

[Deadyawn]

That doesn't really sound plausible to me.
Then again, I can never remember my dreams so it's not like it matters.