Dream Question: can dreams come true – what is predictive dreaming? Dreams about the future

This was a dream question sent to me for answer: If you’d like a chance for your dream question to be answered find out more about the The Dream Download™ here. This topic also features in my book Answers In The Dark: Grief, Sleep and How Dreams Can Help You Heal.

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“Do dreams predict the future?”

The night before one of my media appearances, the studio conducted a survey with their viewers, to establish how common premonition dreams were. Their survey found that 42% of people said they’d had at least one dream which then came true. So if you’re asking me if I think predictive dreaming is a thing, my answer is “yes”. However, as I explain in Answers In The Dark, it’s more involved than that.

Say for example, you arrange with a friend that they’ll come over next week, and the night before you dream they turn up at your door. This, loosely, could be described as predictive – in this context, precognitive – because our dream looked at the future, and saw this to be something that will happen.

It gets more complicated when we start to talk about large scale events, that caught the public’s attention, where many people then described they’d dreamt something would was about to take place. This is what we might call a ‘prophetic’ dream. Christine Lampard’s famous dream about 9/11 is one example.

Does this mean that all dreams have the potential to come true? Thankfully, no. As I explain in the segment below, our dreams are like our friends trying to give us some insight or advice, but like any friend we can take or leave what they say.

Like visitation dreams, sometimes our night-time experiences help us find our way forward after a difficult time. Similarly, if we dream a partner is cheating, that also doesn’t mean they are. However, there are examples of people throughout history who, like Christine Lampard, foresaw a huge event. I explain in Answers In The Dark how some people have told me they could ‘tell’ if their dream was predictive, by the way it looked.

If you’re worried about your dreams, always talk to someone about them. You might find that they’re spotlighting a worry that you can do something about. If you have dreams which come true more than once though, you might decide to keep a dream diary (I offer a template in Answers In The Dark) so that, like others have, you might get a stronger sense of their purpose.

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Delphi is the author of Answers In The Dark: Grief, Sleep and How Dreams Can Help You Heal, out now on Amazon and Hive. The Dreams Maven™ is part of the Helping You Sparkle™ portfolio. You might also like Monday Mojo™.

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