Are Dreams a Gateway Into the Future

I dream alot especially if I've been high or drunk that night. But, mostly I dream every night. And for about he past 4 months now, my dreams have actually came true. Just today one did. The dream I had was about work and I was talking to another crew member while there were about 3 orders on the screen (I work at McDonalds, it sucks but its money). But anyways, in my dream I got yelled at, but today I realized this and I made the orders needed without being yelled at. Has this ever happened to anyone else, or am I just going crazy?

 

My dreams never come true...Imagine a 4 year old kid riding a roller coaster asking if every woman wearing a hat was his mother...I had that dream...That'd be scary though...

 

lot's of dreams of mine have come true, not what happened but rather what everything around me looked

 

Snowman,

maybe we are the gateway ourselfes to the timeless land.

We are our own greater dream as well, and our own future, past and present with all the possibilities and impossibilities included, and some become manifested as experience.

And whatever we experience, it is experienced in the Now ... so we unfold from dream to dream, tapping into the awareness of what we are, reaching beyond the limits of time.

I guess at least you are not crazy. Just unlimited.

 

hm hmm do you think this is because our destinies are planned? or do you guys think free will exists, or were just like some puppets being pulled by some forces working through something elses intent or what? or do you believe our destinies are planned to an extent but we have the free will to decide what to do with them, hmm that makes the most sense to me.

 

I think dreams are predictions that your subconcious makes
but in most cases if a dream comes true I think it is coincidence, because I think dreams are all about symbolism (at least mine are since superficially they rarely make sense)

 

Deams are definitely the gateway into the future. My dreams usually teleport me 6 hours into the future every night.

Other than that, I think dreams simply play out a variety of possibilities. You could just as easily ask yourself: how many dreams don't come true? But, like in the example at McDonalds, it worked out great, because the dream prepared you for the possibility of getting yelled at. As a result, you did a better job.

And, yes, that's how I view fate in general... many different possibilities that you can control.

 

I think dreams are like a card,
sometimes when you are playing the game of life, and the chance to play the card comes up, so then you can use the card.

Honestly man, who really knows about dreams, dreams are dreams, its like watching tv while you sleep, you could say you saw something on the tube the night before and it happened in your own life, dreams don't do anything but just keep your mind stimulated during the night, theres no way of knowing whats commin up around the turn man.

 

....its like this. dreams are NOT an insight or gateway into the future, its not even about your things you fear or always wanted. its just that, a dream.

now come back in a coupla weeks and tell me if you're reaaaaaaaally seein your future

 

I beleive I am. Usually my dreams will come true a few months after I've had them. A few months ago I had a dream that I was in a different town with my mom, and she asked me if I was bored. I said "yes" and she said, "Well good." And in my dream i flipped out. But, this happened this weekend when i went to Bismark with my mom. I didn't flip out tho because I realized I had a dream about it. So, I now believe that a dream is an alternate future.

 

I have had dreams that come true before.

The one that totally blew me away though, was when I was a freshman in high school I had this dream about this place I had never been. The imagery was SO VIVID, especially the color of the flowers. There was a swimming pool, and this rock wall and then this open kind of shelter building with tables and these beautiful boganvilla (I don't know if that's spelled right) flower bushes... huge ones, not the kind where I live. I remember dreaming about it.
Well that summer I went to the Girl Scout World Center in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Well when we walked around I saw that place and was struck with that image from my head like a lightning bolt, and I knew I had seen it before.
And I know what some of you are saying, I probably saw it in a picture, but I had never seen it before. No girls in my Council had ever gone there before, and the day when they had a slideshow about the trip at our meeting I was gone. I had never even looked at a brochure or anything about the place we were going.
I don't know how else to explain it.

 

1.) I dreamt I was driving with Paul McCartney and Wings in an old beater car up through a narrow, winding valley. Around two weeks later, I was sent to a job at a place called Ryder Lake, I had never been there. As I started to enter the valley, I noticed that the steep sides and the flat low overcast cloud made it seem like I was indoors, exactly like my dream, no Wings though. I was alone. I was amazed how exactly the same it looked and said to myself out loud, well if this is the same, I should come around a corner to the right and see a big white farmhouse with a wrap around veranda.....about two or three turns later, I came around a corner to the right and burst out laughing.....there it was. Many years later, I met a man who knew the lady who lived in that house, he recognized it when I told him the story.
2.) I was in San Francisco with my ex. and we were just leaving fishermans wharf when I stopped dead in my tracks. She said what? I was standing exactly where I had been in a dream, on a boardwalk beside a white landscapers pickup full of rakes and shovels etc. It was parked on an angle in the middle of the boardwalk, not lined up with anything, and was exactly the same as a scene in a dream from a few weeks earlier. I live in Canada, and when I had the dream, I thought nothing of it, never even thought it might be SanFran, or precognitive till that moment.
3.) When I was in grade two, I had a dream that a boy in my class was kidnapped and taken to a cave. the kidnappers broke a window of my classroom to get in. When I was having breakfast and telling my brother (who was in grade one) about it, he swore he had the same dream. My mom, who was in the kitchen too, said she had the same dream too. Well, I got to school, and the window was broken and the boy was not in class. He never did come back. I assume that his family just moved away or something, but still....my dream was right about him being gone, and the window being broken.
4.) Back in 1983, my best friend's girlfriend was in a dream I had, and I told him about it, she and I were kissing, it did not go over well, so I shut up. They broke up a month or so later, she moved out of her parents and into a basement suite, and I was over there one night, and just as we started to kiss I realized it was the basement suite in my dream, exactly the same. When I had the dream she was dating him, living at home. Within a couple of months of the dream, they split up, she moved into a basement suite, and one night as we kissed, I remembered the dream and looked around. The couch and tv were in the same place, the carpet was chocolate brown, the same colour, and there were a couple of sheets of writing paper lying on the floor in front of the tv in the same place and orientation as in my dream.
5.) When I was about 20 I had a dream I was in my car, and it was spinning, but even though I wanted it to stop, I was unable to control it, and I didn’t understand why. Christmas eve, which was within a few days later, I had too many festive brews at a friends house, and his dad drove me home in my own car. He lived on a cul-de-sac and as he drove around the circular turn around at the end of the street, the motion was slightly nauseating for me, and as I sat there, I recalled the dream, and felt that I now knew why I wasn’t able to stop the spinning.

 

hmmmm i dunno about that one mate..

whether someone yells at you or not is completely their choice and could be down to a number of things - stress to do with the job, personal shit taken out through job, authority issues, etc. you're not really in control of that unless you do something to deliberately piss them off.

it was just a dream - if you didnt have this dream you would of gone to work and done your job, not got yelled at and peaced out with a J on your break lol.

 

the future isn't a 'the'. it's more the collective sum of the directions we focus on.
my dreams are not so much a gateway as being there, in a kind of parallel universe, that may or may not be like places that exist in a real parallel one. the world mine take place in has a definite geography, both like and unlike places i have been, as are the places in it. there aren't too many cities in them but i've learned my way arround the transit routes in a couple of them. and most of the bus and train schedules beyond. and use them all frequently.

there's a definite geography and while i never know where i'm going to land or teleport to in it. i always know my way arround wherever i end up. in this is the closest parallel to waking life.

i also spend much of them exploring the back rooms and cellars of places i never legitimately could in real life. when i'm not out walking the wonderful maze of twisty trails in the forrest.

i've always gotten a kind of itchey feeling when i worked somewhere and where i was actualy at the same time working started showing up in my dreams, that i had definately been living and or working in the same place just a wee little tiney bit too long.

 

I honestly find dreams to be bitter sweet. When I am in a deep sleep my flesh and mind get the rest they need, but too often create dreams that although help me escape reality, also set me up to awaken to a reality that I am not prepared for. For this reason, I try to limit my dreams the best I can, for my own sanity. Some dreams that come true are tolerable, but none have ever compared to one I had a particular mourning. It started out with me being back home in my parents back yard and I looked up and saw two planes flying overhead with heavy smoke coming out of both of them, so much smoke that very quickly it filled the sky.
When the smoke cleared, following the planes was a plethora of B2 bombers that also filled the sky. Shortly afterward I woke up.
So, as I preceded to work that mourning I couldn't help but think about the dream and how real it seemed, but eventually tried to forget it so that I could concentrate on work.
After a couple hours at work, I had to leave my bench to go out to the warehouse, when I came back, they had the TV on in our room and everyone was huddled around it, I asked what was going on and someone replied, "well watch". As I did so, it was reported that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center in New York city. Truthfully, at that moment I just felt sorrowful for the people that were very likely hurt and my dream from that mourning didn't even occur to me until the second plane hit.
In case any of you still haven't figured it out yet, this dream happened on the mourning of September 11th, 2001, just hours before it occurred.
Coincidence? I will let you decide, but I can assure you I did have this dream on said date before it happened.

 

Personally I feel the dreamscape is a more fluid and malleable manifestation of whatever our self or "spirit"(whatever you want to call the thing that you watch the world through) has to perceive and learn from in order to grow. Situations with the same moral opportunities or lessons will present themselves in both waking and dreaming life, but dreams can be easier to decode because we don't take them as seriously and don't get so caught up in "maya". It helps a lot to not take things literally.

 

Wow, i had a weird dream the other night...high flying gigantic bird was flying over me...and in the dream, I knew it was a huge hawk, but then it made a crash fall landing near me, which would have rendered it dead in real life...but it became a little girl who fell on her head...and then a full grown girl stood up with a bruise on her head only......WTF!

 

Not THE future as there isn't a fixed one. But dreams often seem to prepare you for things, or help process things that already happened.

 

when you are on a chosen path there will be intersections , and then with commitment - a destiny .

 

the future isn't a "the". sometimes things that happen in dreams do later happen in life.
but since you never know how far in the future, or even if at all, that doesn't exactly make their erratically doing so very useful.

i mean sometimes they might remind you of something you needed or intended to do, that you might have otherwise forgotten.
i've had that happen.

but telling you what horse to bet on or what stock to buy or that your great second aunt is going to die of her grout or something,
i really wouldn't trust their reliability on anything like that.