Author Topic: Oooh... Prophetic Dreams!! (Read 1686 times)

AthenaiiseSofia · « **on:** December 16, 2012, 06:32:33 pm »

I've had many strange experiences with my dreams. I always dream vividly. I have symbolic dreams, and prophetic dreams- where what I dream literally comes to pass- from time to time, less as I've gotten older. I think we are all psychic to a certain extent, and with practice, we can hone our abilities.

Usually, my "prophetic" dreams have to do with important people and situations in my life. I've dreamt about workplaces in detail when I'd not even applied, nor stepped foot into the place; dreamt of conversations in detail months before they've happened, and the list goes on. But the strangest thing happened to me. I dreamt the outcome of a football game two nights before it happened.

What the heck! We don't even watch football, let alone bet on it or anything. I don't understand why, after years of dreams that are relevant to me- I get this!

So has anyone ever experienced this kind of thing before? Or does anyone have any explanations? Thanks!

Faemon · « **Reply #1 on:** December 16, 2012, 11:48:42 pm »

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Usually, my "prophetic" dreams have to do with important people and situations in my life. I've dreamt about workplaces in detail when I'd not even applied, nor stepped foot into the place; dreamt of conversations in detail months before they've happened, and the list goes on. But the strangest thing happened to me. I dreamt the outcome of a football game two nights before it happened.

What the heck! We don't even watch football, let alone bet on it or anything. I don't understand why, after years of dreams that are relevant to me- I get this!

So has anyone ever experienced this kind of thing before? Or does anyone have any explanations? Thanks!

I used to get the feeling of deja vu a lot, and it did always specifically feel like "I dreamed of this moment before" but whenever I checked my dream diary, I wouldn't be able to find it. I figured that either it really barged in like a momentary flash, in the dream, and it didn't fit the story of the dream so it wouldn't stick when I was trying to remember it-- or, it really is a glitch in my hippocampus.

A few times, for frustratingly unimportant moments, I would not only recall what I dreamed and be able to look it up later... but, I would recall what happened in the rest of the dream. Just two days ago (although it hasn't happened in years) I was sitting in bed with my laptop at my aunt's place, and I overheard a short exchange of words that she was having with my cousin... that I dreamed last year, word for word. In the dream, she then barged in and was shocked and angry about something that I was doing, so when I heard them talking in waking life, I looked around in a panic about what that could be. But, my aunt didn't follow the dream for that moment.

The few times that my dreams could be interpreted as prophetic... it's "could be interpreted as" because it was bogged down with symbolism (so it can hardly count.) For a while, people I knew in waking life would appear in my dreams as pale versions of themselves, or wearing white, and then in waking life would pass away a short time later. And so, I'd start to panic if I dreamed of anything white, even if it were either symbolic of something else this time or just a dream about something white, which also happened, often.

Sooo I gave up on developing this skill :p The subconscious is a wild place.

Juniperberry · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2012, 12:25:22 am »

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So has anyone ever experienced this kind of thing before? Or does anyone have any explanations? Thanks!

When I was twelve I lived in the LA area and ran away with an older crowd. I was picked up and sent to live with my mom in KC the next day. About a week later I had a dream that two people from the group showed up, I left with them, and my mother was crying. So I wake up, go outside to smoke, and sure enough those two people come around the corner of the drive. Something about my mom crying in the dream made me tell them to come back later, but before they could, they were picked up for grand theft auto. (I was stunned they showed up, but still young enough where I could shrug it off and be all "whatever".)

Because of that dream I met my best friend. A decade and some change later I dreamt that he was carried through a celebration by women in white and I knew it was goodbye. In reality he had hanged himself during that same night.

The only thing that makes sense to me is a) I was given those dreams for a reason and b)my hugr is at work.

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Hugr: Spirit, mood, thought. Trollkvena Vindr “the wind of the female magician”: breath. Víghugr “spirit of battle”.

Semantics: Presentiment — “as my hugr tells me”. Affection– “making his hugr race towards individual”. Desire– “placing hugr on a woman”. Thinking– “making his hugr run”.

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Hugr is like the animus, the piece of you that can leave your body. I've had OBEs where I've walked through my home and seen the time and woken up to have it confirmed. I feel I've had OBEs and met others' hugrs. I've seen my fylgja in dreams, my ancestral hall*, my family tree written like a street map across the world.

I don't think there's a purpose. I just think I've been pretty tenacious about this the last few years and can now begin to identify what's probably happened a lot to myself and others. The sagas are full of stories like this (something like 500 or 800 + dreams recorded), of ordinary people who pay attention to what they see in their dreams, because ancestors, ancestral spirits, and soul will speak through them.

I call things like that the Otherworld a lot but I don't see it as different than this world. We can't see everything in the material world but we all share the same space.

Altair · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2012, 11:34:07 pm »

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The few times that my dreams could be interpreted as prophetic... it's "could be interpreted as" because it was bogged down with symbolism

Same here. One instance I feel quite strongly was prophetic; I posted the experience here a long time ago, gods only know where, so I'll just describe it again.

I dreamt there was a white-phase gyrfalcon flying in circles around my head. For whatever reason, the dream woke me quite early, so I took the opportunity to vote in that day's NYC mayoral primary election at the crack of dawn and then headed to Central Park to do some bird watching. This was unusual for me; I almost never bird the park in autumn, but since the dream was about a bird, and the weather was promising for a good migration day, I went for it.

That was September 11, 2001.

I was already in the park for an hour or so when the first plane hit, so the dream occurred several hours before the shit hit the fan. It wasn't until a few years later that I realized the dream was prophetic, when I stumbled upon the William Butler Yeats poem "The Second Coming"; as I read it, the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

I had read the poem before, long ago, and forgotten it; but my subconscious hadn't, and it pulled up that imagery in an attempt to tell me that something monstrous was coming our way. That's really the only time I've experienced something I'd definitively label a prophetic dream.