Premonitory dreams

Have you ever dreamt something that came true? Premonitory dreams allow the dreamer to see glimpses of the future that are not accesible in real life. Some dream experts say that premonitory dreams occur when the spirit leaves the body, or in other words, when you astral project during sleep. This has not been prooved, but it soulds logical to me, because when the spirit leaves the body it has access to a variety of knowledge.
I had two premonitory dreams. They both happened recently. In the first dream an old mate from school called me and asked if i wanted to come to a reunion with all the "old" classmates from school. I said yes and we met in a pub. We had fun but the pub was very small and there was barely enough room for everyone. And what do you think happened the next day in real life? An ex-schoolmate called and asked if i wanted to come to a school reunion! It was amazing.
The next premonitory dream was sadder. I dreamt that, for an unknown reason, i was swimming under the surface of the city, in one of the sewerage system pipes. And i was attaked by a shark ( i don't know what was a shark doing in the sewerage system... but what on Earth was i doing lol).We started fighting and it was a fight of life and death. Suddenly i saw that the shark had the head of my cat! But it was not my cat and it had nothing to do with her, it just borrowed her appearance. I knew that if i didn't kill the shark, it would kill me. So i managed to kill it, even though i was terrified that it had the head of my cat. The next day i found out that my cat was very ill and two days after the premonitory nightmaire she died.
So premonitory drems happened to me, too. The problem is, how do you recognise a premonitory dream?? I only knew after the events from my dreams happened. It would be much better to know the nature of the dream right after you wake up.

I love to hear stories of premonition dreams and this is also a topic close to my heart.

I am sorry your cat died, that must have been a horrible dream, then to have it happen very sad Shael

I have had quite a few premonition dreams, when they first started many years ago it was little things like seeing a friend I hadn't seen in years (like your Shael) and then seeing them the next day, very strange. The thing I don't like is that I seem to dream about events that will shake the world up and they frighten me. Back in 2001 I had a dream I was in a building, it was high and I was scared (I hate heights) I could see for miles and even wrote in my dream journal after that it was New York, I saw a look flying plane, the building was so tall that I swear the wind was shaking it, next thing I was on the ground looking up as the plane hit the building. I woke in a hot sweat, in tears, 2 months later 9/11 took place.

I also had a dream before the china earthquake a few years back and have many Tsunami dreams, the first was just before the Tsunami in the indian ocean in 2004. These dreams really upset me.

One dream I have had for many years that hasn't come true but terrifies me is floating on the water or on top of an over turned car in the water, I look down into the water and see streets and house beneath. There has been a tsunami or flood so great that it has wiped out great britain. This dream always gets me really upset.

It is difficult to say Shael what is a premonitonary dream and what is not, I gues the only way you can tell is if it comes true. I would love to know more about it though and why certain people have them. Also is there a reason for them as I felt pretty helpless after my dreams it is not nice.

I think that having premonitory dreams is a gift in some situations, if you recognise the nature of the dream. It can help solve a problem. It's harder when you dream of such catastrophes. I am sure it's a stressful situation and people wouldn't believe if you warned them.
But it's best when you don't have these too often, it would ruin the element of surprise. Both my dreams were very vivid, just like a movie. But in fact all my dreams are very colorful so i cannot recognise a premonitory dream by the colors.

I think we may have touched on this before but I was surprised when I was doing my dream therapy course that many people dream in black and white, I too have always dreamt in colour, like a movie.

I think you have a gift Shael, do you keep a dream journal at all to keep track of not only your dreams but to see if any others come true. Sometimes it can take a few weeks, months to play out.

Recently I can't seem to dream at all but then that maybe because I am not sleeping properly, I do love to dream and would really like a plesant premonition dream.

Prong I am so sorry to hear that about your friend, that must have been very difficult for you I can't imagine the pain and sadness you must have felt. I wonder though if warning him would have changed things, sometimes our lives are planned out and we have no way of controlling things.

My question is if we did warn do you think it would change anything and like with my dreams how could I change or stop a natural disaster from happening? As Chi said Shael said, even if I you did warn who would believe it was true?

I find this topic fascinating but I do get frustrated with not knowing the reason behind them.

I wonder... if because the dream is recognized by us at the time as a premonitory dream and we feel the emotions and think the thoughts of wishing we can help...(even if the event is a catastrophic event and cannot be changed in itself).....our thoughts and prayers go out to certain people's unconscious minds, people we cannot even know consciously about... and as a consequence they change their minds and plans and so they are saved from being involved or someone is in the right place at the right time to save someone. These are the miracles we hear about.
I know it is not provable but the power of love and prayer can influence minds and change the World.
So without even doing anything other than being ourselves and feeling what we feel..we have helped.
cheers saphera

Saphera brought an interesting problem in discussion: if you have a premonitory dream and you recognise it, are you allowed or can you prevent bad things from happening? Or do you have no right to interfere in something major? I tend to think ther first option is more plausible. This is because we have free will and we are free to try and change something. And i actually don't believe that everything is written in stone and "made to happen". There are influences and conjunctures, it's true, but there is also the possibility to change something or prevent something from happening. The only problem is, that in many situations, we just don't know how at the moment.

Shael wrote:Saphera brought an interesting problem in discussion: if you have a premonitory dream and you recognise it, are you allowed or can you prevent bad things from happening? Or do you have no right to interfere in something major? I tend to think ther first option is more plausible. This is because we have free will and we are free to try and change something. And i actually don't believe that everything is written in stone and "made to happen". There are influences and conjunctures, it's true, but there is also the possibility to change something or prevent something from happening. The only problem is, that in many situations, we just don't know how at the moment.

Hi Shael,
Can we ever know for certain if an event is open to be changed do you think?...because there is no absolute knowing model to compare it with.
The catasprophe may have been much worse had we not had the dream and felt about it what we felt...who knows what can be changed?

Living by honouring free will. I think of it like this.,,,from a normal everyday situation.

What would I say or feel or think...if a person who lived down the road, uninvited, came into my garden and started trimming back my roses.....It could get ugly because probably I might be upset or infuriated, put upon, disempowered or violated....my free will thwarted? I would probably try to stop them and the whole goodness of the act would be lost.

What if the person down the road could see that my roses needed trimming and could see that I was too busy and didn't know the best way to do it and they had plenty of time to do it...and they asked me and put the case to me in such a way that I felt they were truly trying to help me.
I might say 'Thanks, great idea!...go ahead!'...or I might say 'No thanks, good of you to offer but I like them overgrown.'
My free will is left strong and happy.

Since we cannot know what is in the mind of another or the plans for their life...all we can do to help them... is ask and abide by the answer and wish them well.
To pray for someone or a situation...at best, all there really is to do, is send loving energy and let the higher self/angels direct it to where it has to go...it may be used for healing in whatever way is needed and allowed and that outcome may be entirely different to what we expect....even quite opposite. I think the outcome is not for us to decide.
And we may never know how or if their life or situation has been changed ...but the feeling for the giver is true if the offer was given with love.
cheers saphera

In the end, it will always be...do what you feel you must....because 'feeling' is really the only thing for us to 'trust' as our guidance. It maps out our life plan.