Is There Any Science to Back Up Dream Predictions?

The fact that science actually has a term for dream predictions might surprise you. It's called precognitive dreaming. In other words, you learn something in your dreams before you are consciously aware of it. Some otherwise skeptical people, like scientists, have taken dream predictions pretty seriously.

You don't really know me, but I can tell you that I'm not somebody who pays attention to mystics. At the same time, I can tell you that I believe I have had at least one precognitive dream.

My Precognitive Dream

When I was in the first weeks of pregnancy the second time, I dreamed of a pair of curly haired, blonde twin toddlers on a cruise ship with me. I'm not sure where the cruise ship came from; however, I had an ultrasound a few weeks later that confirmed that I was, indeed, pregnant with twins. A few years later, that pair did have blonde, curly hair. The dream stuck with me so much that I made a pair of stuffed dolls that resembled the dream twins.

My older sister had twins, so perhaps it was just a coincidence or my mind exploring the possibility. Still, I remember that dream. I've still never been on a cruise ship, but whatever.

Other Skeptical People Have Believed in Their Dream Predictions

In fact, Psychology Today reported upon a study that found at least half of the population believes that they have had at least one dream that predicted true events. (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dream-catcher/201107/precognitive-dreams) A 1989 study at a New York hospital used very controlled conditions to see if "receivers" could pick up imagines from "senders" in their dreams and yielded very significant results. Later studies sometimes yielded similar results and sometimes did not.

This Guy Would Not Lie

Famously, President Abraham Lincoln experienced a disturbing dream shortly before his assassination. Later, the few people who knew about the dream believed it could have only have come from prescience. The president found himself in the White House, and he heard the sounds of crying and mourning. He found guards who stood over a body, and one of the guards told him that the president had been assassinated. Now it's possible that President Lincoln knew that a lot of people didn't like him, so this dream was only an expression of his anxieties. (http://www.historydisclosure.com/lincoln-had-a-precognitive-dream/)

Sources:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dream-catcher/201107/precognitive-dreams
http://www.historydisclosure.com/lincoln-had-a-precognitive-dream/
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I want to Hear About Your Dream Predictions

Most experts say that precognitive dreaming comes from coincidence, a faulty memory either about learning something or the dream, or the unconscious mind tying together information that we're not consciously aware of yet. Others say that our sleeping minds are tuned more into the energy around us and can pick up on things that our conscious mind filters out. I consider my self a sensible skeptic, but I'm not sure what I believe.

Look, don't lose sleep about this. I've also had dreams that showed me in an out-of-control car, falling out of trees, visiting dead relatives in their kitchens, and getting kissed by somebody I would never kiss. I don't believe these were precognitive at all but from something else going on in my cluttered mind.

Have you ever dreamed clearly about events that later proved true or came true?

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