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(12-30-2013 10:41 PM)Windom Earle Wrote:  Slightly OT, but have any of you guys had prophetic dreams?

This has happened to me three times previously.

It's kind of like deja vu, but I could source it back to the memory of the dream.

For the first two, it has been landscape imagery that triggered it, but the most recent one was different. I dreamt that a girl I worked with previously had a baby. When I woke up, I checked her facebook (I don't go on there often - had no idea she was pregnant), and sure enough, she'd had a baby 2 weeks prior. So that one was dreaming of something that happened in the past. By the way, although we never hooked up when we worked together, I always felt a strong connection to her.

After having these experiences, now I wonder, what if some dreams are glimpse into your own future (or past). During most dreams, I'm dreaming random and jumbled things that make no sense upon reconstructing them when wakening, but upon closer inspection, and linking certain moments of the dream to events in waking life (retrospectively) maybe there's a lot more to them than we think.

You are right on the money with your suspicions about dreams.

I've had a couple prophetic dreams before, but those are rare. Mostly my dreams are a way of communicating to me who I am at this point in my life and what is going on. I think that's true for most people. A dream uses symbolism to express this. The symbols used are from events and things we've seen in our waking life.

For example, is it possible that you may have known or heard that co-worker was pregnant? Maybe you just sensed she was pregnant early on? I sensed it once with my sister. I just somehow knew she was, before she even told anyone.

Giving birth in a dream symbolizes a new beginning. Since it's a young woman giving birth it probably means you are developing a new relation to the feminine, though it's still in it's infant stages of course. An old woman in a dream would represent wisdom.

The guy who mentioned the dream about a car being out of control and crashing….well…the car symbolizes the vehicle with which you use to move forward in life. If it's going too fast, broken down, out of control, crashes….well…I think it's clear what the dream is saying.

Flying over buildings would represent some type of transcendence. What kind of building was it? A little bodega or a skyscraper? Was it a hospital (realm of care/feeling) or a high school/library (realm of higher learning). As they say, the devil is in the details. Just as important as the details are, the kind of feelings you had in the dream are also very important. Fear? Calm? Anger? Sadness? Joy? etc.

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My experiences on my occasional lucid dreams. Keep a journal or notes of your dreams. If I wake up in the middle of the night I scribble some quick notes if I remember the dream. Or upon waking, we've all had the moment where we want to sleep more to finish the dream. Make some quick notes to recall this later.

I love to fly like a bird in my dreams. I know this and when it happens it triggers me to realize that I am dreaming and I can enjoy the show.