Have you ever had dreams that have come true?
Posted by bigpussystance@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 38 comments
For a long time, I kept experiencing Déjà vu. Like at school, I would swear I’d already lived the lesson the teacher was teaching or that I knew in advance of what they were teaching. I would have a dream then the next day, the exact thing would happen. It was creepy as fuck.
Every so often, I’ll have a dream about someone saying or doing something or something happening then it happens within the next few days or weeks.
I can’t really explain it but it’s so weird.
Sad_Cardiologist5388@reddit
In about 2003 or 4 i dreamt the entire introduction of the film Inception with Leo Decaprio bring dragged up a beach in a suit and presented to some guy.
In the dream I was watching it play out from above like at a theatre or old cinema with a balcony in red velvet seats. Anything that wasnt the film was total darkness like a giant spotlight was shining down on the action.
I have toyed with a belief that some creative ideas or concepts kind of float around like bubbles and when were asleep or receptive that anyone can receive them. I got it before Christipher Nolan and didnt do anything with it, then he got it and hey Presto, there's that scene in a film.
theworldsaplayground@reddit
Entire book ideas, films, series, songs and works of art are constantly floating around waiting for the right minds to catch them. That's what many musicians and authors say anyway.
Sad_Cardiologist5388@reddit
Yeah makes sense to me. It's wierd because I was doing a dream diary at the time so it was there in black and white, when I saw the movie i was gobsmacked
MrMonkeyman79@reddit
Sometimes I dream about my job, then the next morning i get up and go to work.
I think I may have the gift of prophecy.
theworldsaplayground@reddit
I've never once dreamed about my job. Ever. Thank god.
RIPNINAFLOWERS@reddit
Yes happens to me all the time ever since childhood.
Sometimes it would be the most innocuous sequence of events too.
Bennjoon@reddit
Yes it’s weird usually it’s just glimpses of things rather than a scenario. Most recently I dreamed of kids running past the hallway windows in my flats hallway and I didn’t live there until at least a year later.
They are very distinctive windows. Narrow and floor to ceiling with old dark brown frames.
hunterfam55@reddit
Yep I dreamt of the lottery numbers about 20 years ago, it was very vivid and then come Saturday as the balls were drawn, had a massive case of deja vu and I predicted the next numbers to come out
Thin_Object_3981@reddit
Don't take this the wrong way OP. If this keeps happening and is frequent then then you should see your GP. Otherwise I think you need to sleep more and de-stress if you are stressed.
Morganx27@reddit
What makes you say that? Is it a symptom of something?
Thin_Object_3981@reddit
Apparently Deja Vu is when your brain stores short term memories into your long term storage. Usually people with some brain injuries tend to have them quite severely. Having some deja vu is fine I think but I made the comment just in case there is something else going on. Hopefully OP is fit as a fiddle though.
EmMeo@reddit
Déjà vu has been linked to short term memory stuff I believe. Apparently sometimes we think something has happened before as it’s happening because our brain is trying to put it in the short term memory place, has a little fizzle, and we think it’s already there - hence the feeling of “wait this already happened”. It’s just a theory. So if you’re getting it all the time, there might be an issue with your brain’s memory sorting abilities.
anonymous-redditor57@reddit
I did I had a dream about my a levels results and I got those exact results on results day
Illustrious-Bass9651@reddit
Oh yes, I am one of these people!
People speak of Déjà vu but what’s the one which is an even more intense feeling of having lived through that moment.
Then there is a feeling something is new but knowing it or them, or do you ever feel you’re just about the remember but it’s out of reach… WTF is going on, surely I’m not alone?
I can’t get my head around this, though.
UltimateT1tan@reddit
I remember having a dream where I was with a group of people outside a house smoking at the early hours in the morning
I went to whp in Manchester around the end of 2017/2018 and left the rave in the morning and me and my group of mates where outside the Airbnb smoking
It felt like a reality shift at the time as the dream happend a week before the trip to Manchester
Sea_Director_4439@reddit
Read the Premonitions Bereau by Sam Knight. What you experience is quite common.
MrLipp24@reddit
Us humans are capable of things that would boggle your minds. Always trust your intuition. Things happen for a reason. Some of us are more susceptible to peculiar things than others
obiwanmoloney@reddit
I once dreamt that there was a stash of money in some woodland near where I lived, the dream was so compelling that I went to the woodland, found a small, derelict concrete foundation and the money was hidden under a broken corner.
I don’t believe in the supernatural and I have no conceivable explanation of how it could happen but pure coincidence seems incredibly unlikely.
I don’t have proof that it happened but it did and it’s been rattling around in the back of my mind for years now.
blamordeganis@reddit
Without wishing to minimise your or your mother’s loss: who organised your dad’s funeral?
bigpussystance@reddit (OP)
It wasn’t her. It was a military funeral so organised by the army.
Not_Wrong_Tho@reddit
I mean, you did explain it. Deja vu.
Keep a dream diary, and when these moments occur go back and actually check whether you had that dream, because I'd wager you didn't. Exactly why this happens is hard to say, because while stupid, brains are still wildly complicated, but basically your brain is storing new memories as old memories, where it can be reconciled as a possible past event, like the classroom lessons, it does so, and you feel like you've got two of the same memories, one recent and one further back in time, where it can't reconcile the event as happening it convinces itself it must have been a dream, so you remember it as a dream.
heavenhelpyou@reddit
Only in the case of patterns that im used to/aware of/know about show up in my life following a dream that has similar aspects. Nothing that accurately predicts something that has later happened, though.
I once had a dream where I did a photoshoot with Marilyn Manson on the top of an iceberg and the photographer was David Beckham. Don't have any particular liking to either of those people, and thankfully the dream never came true.
StGuthlac2025@reddit
Yeah but it's the most boring things. A tiny boring snippet of a day such as turning a corner and getting a certain view. I can recognise it when I wake up now. Normally weeks or months later I'll get the feeling of deja vu and remember that snippet from the dream.
Used to happen a lot but not so much these days.
jonathing@reddit
I don't have dreams
Sandy_Bananas@reddit
Yea but they’ve always been totally mundane.
Forsaken-Original-28@reddit
I had a prolonged experience of deja vu one day, went on for a few minutes. I later found out my grandparent passed away at the same time as that was happening to me
farlos75@reddit
I regularly dream of a normal day thst ends in disaster, then have the day happen without disaster. Its freaky but probably just my brain making sure that sleep is no refuge from anxiety
L-0-T-H-0-S@reddit
Everyone has the sensation of deja vu - you were dreaming of an environment where things happen on a regular timetable. Of course you were going to get the feeling you've lived through a particular lesson before, literally you had - one chemistry lesson (or whatever) is largely the same as the next and ones accurate recollection of dreams is, of itself, generally hazy at best. The brain often puts details in when consciously awake, essentially filling the gaps.
Its only spooky if you want it to be.
SupportNo9543@reddit
I read dejavu was something to do with the memory allocation process in the brain not working properly, resulting in a new experience being filed as a relived experience
Any_Preference_4147@reddit
This is fascinating!! The mind is weird and incredible!
NapalmSword@reddit
I thought it was something to do with left and right hemisphere getting out of sync briefly
Fine-Ad6532@reddit
It’s happening to me a lot
Charming-Spinach1418@reddit
I had a dream years ago that my brother in USA ( who I’m not particularly close to ) was attacked by a german shepherd dog and he held up his hand and two fingers had been torn off 🤢 very vivid! The next morning my mum rang me to say my brother had cut two of his fingers off with a buzz saw. 😮😮😮
SupportNo9543@reddit
The night before the concorde Air France 4590 crashed in 2000, I had a visceral dream about a concorde crashing. I woke up crying, which woke my girlfriend at the time up too, it was that horrible. The next day when it was in the news, well you can imagine it freaked us out.
AXX-100@reddit
Wow 😮 that’s very freaky
SupportNo9543@reddit
Yeah, complete coincide I know, but it totally freaked me out
BowiesFixedPupil@reddit
How do you know it's a coincidence? Are these types of dreams common for you, really vivid etc? And the subject also?
If neither, I'd not put this down to coincidence but to something else that we simply don't understand.
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