Questions anyone?

[ShadowSong]

Hello DrmDoc,
I had a question,and couldn't find any answer yet(I'm looking for months).I hope you can help me.
Basically,I wonder is there anything like "semi-precognitive dreams".To give an example,I had a dream about a person who I haven't been contact for 12 years and I also didn't have friendship with him.He was talking to somebody"private messaging" on facebook in my dream(he isn't a member of facebook in real life) and he talks about "my obsessions aren't disease they're true ones.Next day,I woke up and I look for facebook;I saw that he signed up facebook that night.Yeah it may be big coincidence but I think it was a precognitive one and I start to anxiety about my dream's other part is true.

To be clear;I had a truman show disorder.I sometimes think that I was in truman show and my family,friends all are actors.While I saw my friend is private messaging in my dream;he's saying to somebody;"ShadowSong's father isn't real one".Which is the nearly same words in truman show movie.
I over my truman show obsession but this dream keeps me confusing.I wonder that it was a semi-precognitive dreams?I saw some precognitive things and then my brain adds my obsessions,my fears.Or should I call it a coincidence?a big one,or what?

Additional info:I can't read their private messages,I even didn't saw their names.I saw only private messages screen than I sense that was him,and he was talking about my disease and I freaked out.

[Cherrykitty]

First question: My friend has the same dream reoccuring over and over again. The dream goes: she is in the driver's seat of a car but she isn't driving. The car is driving itself. Her family and friends are searching for her but no one can find her. She can't get out of the car it is just driving. Then the car usually ends up at a cliff just before the car goes over the cliff she wakes up.
Second question: I have prophetic dreams. The dreams i have are kinda scatter brained. They don't make any sence. Like for example i will be in a court room and something will happen and i curl up against the wall and the wall will be a grocery store aisle and i will look back to the right and its still the court room. i look up and i am against a mirrored wall in front of me. so 3 sides. then somewhere in my dream i serve coffee from a coffee pot on the top of a 2 teir burner. A few months later i served coffee from a 2 teir burner and that deja vu feeling sets in. The thing is i had served it from that burner many times before and did it many times after but that one time was the Deja Vu moment.
I was wondering why many of my dreams come true? Is there even and answer? If you e-mail me directly i would love to dicuss more with you. Any response would be appreciated.

Thx! Cherrykitty

[DrmDoc]

Originally Posted by ShadowSong

I had a question,and couldn't find any answer yet(I'm looking for months).I hope you can help me.
Basically,I wonder is there anything like "semi-precognitive dreams".

There are full precognitive dreams wherein dream content appears to reference future occurences that envelope the life and experiences of the dreamer. Then there are dreams, such as the one you described, that reference snipets from the immediate future as a way of attracting the dreamer's attention to the significance of dreams and dream content. These dreams occur as a means to help the dreamer realize the importance of understanding dream content and the kind of information dreams can provide. Precognitive dreams occur primarily as a means to prepare the dreamer for life's eventualities rather than as a means to change the future. I hope this helps.

Originally Posted by Cherrykitty

First question: My friend has the same dream reoccuring over and over again. The dream goes: she is in the driver's seat of a car but she isn't driving. The car is driving itself.

This is a fairly common dream for those dreamers who feel that they are not in control of their destiny. The obvious solution to ending such recurring dreams is to take steps necessary to gain the control the dreamer believes she doesn't have.

I was wondering why many of my dreams come true? Is there even and answer?

Your experiences could be as I explain in my first comments. Your dreams can provide so much more than you may know. The source of your dreams, your innermost-self, grabs your attention whereever you experience in life something you may have dreamed. This could be a call for you to seek a deeper understanding of dreams and dreaming beyond your current level of interest. If our dreams can prepare us for our future, imagine what else they might provide. I've often thought of dreaming as having a genie in a bottle; we must decide whether our interests warrants freeing the genie by deepening our understanding of its world. I hope this helps.

[ShadowSong]

Thank you for reply.
I understand your point but I wonder why this is only happening to me?When I search the internet,all I saw that "my dreams come true -exactly- as I saw". And When I look for dream types,I haven't found semi-precognitive dreams or kinda like it.I only found something on Jung's theory (future-present-past dreams)

I know people generaly have symbolical or dejavu dreams and they usually reference to it.I guess precognitive dreams are rare,and semi-precognitive dreams are rarest or what?For example I nearly read hundred of dreams that came true but I only find 2 of them is semi-precognitive one,and there are only have "small different parts";I even didn't find a dream like mine(precognitive + obsessions)

[DrmDoc]

Originally Posted by ShadowSong

I understand your point but I wonder why this is only happening to me?When I search the internet,all I saw that "my dreams come true -exactly- as I saw". And When I look for dream types,I haven't found semi-precognitive dreams or kinda like it.I only found something on Jung's theory (future-present-past dreams)

The key here is not to search outside yourself, but rather within. These dreams seem to be asking us to examine ourselves and our dreams for the answers we seek. Whatever you wish to know about your dream experiences is within you and part of your being. You just have to ask the right questions of yourself to get the answers you desire. Asking the right questions involve pen to paper queries before bedtime to motivate your dreaming-self into helping you understand what your dreams are telling you. It requires patience and consistency with the knowledge that you are forming an intimate partnership with an insightful aspect of your being. Also, you should understand that the person you are in your dreams is not the person you are awake. Although you recall your dreams in the first person, your recollections are merely that of a passenger along for a ride your inner-self is taking. I hope this helps.

[ShadowSong]

I agree with you.Every dream is unique to a person and only they can interepret dreams in true way.But I guess you misunderstand me.I don't search internet for interpretation,I search internet for "semi-precognitive dreams".And I have found them rarely.
To give an example;When you said to me your dream may be partly procegnitive I wonder how you know it?I don't mean "interpretation",I mean that where you read dream can be fully or partly precognitive.Because 2-3 person said to me it too.However,they haven't got any example,or any article about it.

Later,I found an article about it;"a dream may contain only elements from the future (à la Dunne and Sondow research)".But I still haven't seen any real example for it.I also check this forum's precognitive topics and they "all came true exactly as they saw",and I'm still lack of examples

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In addition,I got one additional question for you When I wake up after that dream,I couldn't remember the dream.When I realize he signup on facebook 1-2 day later,I try to remember dream,and I recall his avatar,texts etc.I wonder if they are my bullshits?Because I didn't remember my dream in 1-2days,and when I saw him facebook I go anxiety and try to fill my dream.I didn't remember any avatar,any visual part of my dream but when I saw his avatar on facebook,I start to recall my dream with his facebook avatar.Are they my additional things?If not,how i forget about my dream and recall it 2 days later?(It wasn't dejavu)

Thank you

[Cherrykitty]

Thank you so much drmdoc! I appreciate you helping me. In regards to my friend, that makes total sense! Her life is riddled with chaos that she can't control.
Now, the reason i have asked you about Prophetic dreaming is because i had a dream nearly a year ago that really scared me. It was my death. Of course i woke up b4 i died but, it went something like this: I was driving in my car alone and i exited onto the highway, a flaming bus comes screaching by me on its side and i wake up just before my car crashes into it as i have nowhere else to go.
I am inclined to believe that this is how i will die because several of my dreams come true like the previous one. However, my dreams are never this clear cut, they are more like pieces that are shoved together that make no sence. I also believe this is a significant dream because when i think of dying in a car wreck i have this tremenous peace about me. Thoughts? comments?

[DrmDoc]

Originally Posted by Cherrykitty

I was driving in my car alone and i exited onto the highway, a flaming bus comes screaching by me on its side and i wake up just before my car crashes into it as i have nowhere else to go.
I am inclined to believe that this is how i will die because several of my dreams come true like the previous one.

In the realm of dreams, thoughts are deeds. In waking reality, belief is a potent force that can make the immaterial a reality. You have the capacity to change what you believe and, by extention, change where you believe your life may end. By focusing your thoughts on life and living rather than death and dying, life and living become deeds in the dream realm. I hope this helps.

[paisley]

Dream Doctor, I had a very unusual dream experience last night that I wonder if you can explain. Last night I had a very realistic dream that scared me to the extent that it woke me up. I wasn`t a terrifying dream but it was scary enough to wake me. When I woke up, I was completely awake, my eyes were wide open, and I saw on the ceiling a huge, fat, black tarantula (I was not dreaming about spiders and I had no spider experiences the day before). I wondered how the spider got in my house considering we don`t have tarantulas in Japan. Then it began rapidly walking across my ceiling towards the wall at the head of my bed. As it got close to the wall, I popped up to a sitting position while keeping my eyes on the spider and gasped out loud "Oh my goodness!" as I wondered how to get my family awake and out of the room before the spider came down the wall. Then as it got to the wall, it just vanished and I realized it wasn`t real, but it looked real. It was 3 dimentional and I was wide awake. I don`t do drugs or alcohol and never have so this was not some drug induced hallucination. I`m also healthy and of sound mind so it wasn`t some fever or mental health induced issue either. All I can figure is it was an extension of my dream state into my waking state since my dream state ended abruptly. Is that possible? And if it is possible, what could it mean? Thank you.

[DrmDoc]

Hello paisley,

From the description and information you provided, your experience may have been the result of a type of lucid state between dreaming and full arousal that is called hypnogogia. Commonly, dreamers experience loud noises and acute physical sensations causing them to arouse rapidly or suddenly from sleep. From my study of dreams, dreaming and the dreaming brain, the sights, sounds, and sensations of hypnogogia are no different those we experience while dreaming; i.e., they are representations or interpretations of something we have mentally perceived or experienced. That tarantual should be perceived as any other dream image and translated from that perspective. If I had a similar experience, I would perceive the spider as the mental effect and representation of something in my life that I view as threatening to me, my family, and peace of mind. Very often, spiders represent the creepy way the things we know make us feel. For example, having foreknowledge of evidents before they occur could be unnerving to some people. Perhaps you are person who is quite intuitive and that ability can be a little unsettling. What may be most profound about your experience is that you were able to move and was not paralyized by your fear. This suggests your ability to overcome whatever fearful situation or influence you may encounter that might intrude on you and your family's peace. I hope this helps.