The Mystery of Precognitive Dreams - The Mind's Ability To See The Future In Dreams
"Dreams are messages from the deep." - Dune
This is the first episode in a series, “Mind Over Matter,” where we’ll uncover the mystery of psychic abilities—the apparent superpowers of the human mind.
Today, we’re diving deep into the mystery of “precognitive dreams,” or dreams that see the future.
As Neo said in “The Matrix” (1999), my aim with this series, apart from uncovering the mystery of psychic abilities, is to show you:
“A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.” - Neo
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Psychic Dreams — What They Are & The Different Types.
“Precognitive Dreams” Within the Context of Psychic Abilities.
Precognitive Dreams as “Future Day Residue.”
Types of Psychic Dreams.
Premonitory Dreams.
Teleporting Dreams.
Symbolic Precognitive Dreams.
Historical Roots of Precognitive Dreams.
Shamanism & Religion.
Famous People with Them.
Parapsychological Studies on Precognitive Dreams.
Scientific Experiments.
Does Everyone Have Them?
How To Know Whether You Have A “Credible” Precognitive Dream.
Key Takeaways & Actionable Steps.
Key Takeaways.
Actionable Steps.
Precognitive Dream Protocol.
Reply With Feedback & Your Precognitive Dreams.
Glossary.
Sources & Further Resources.
Introduction
“In some place in the world, there’s going to be a tsunami. A lot of people are going to die,” Ania told her father after waking up from a terrible nightmare. Three hours later, when she turned on the TV, her nightmare became reality. “Breaking News: Tsunami in Japan,” read the morning news. She had just sensed the future in her dreams.
This is what Ania, a Spanish teacher and friend of my mom, had told me, after she arrived at our home in Mexico from Delaware to come visit my family for a few days.
Lucky for us, she knew I had a knack for spiritual and seemingly paranormal topics, so she told me this story while we were sitting in the living room before dinner. “I’ve dreamt of the future since I was a little girl—from 10 to 12 years old,” she told me. Then proceeded to give me an example of her most “impactful dream.”
A dream where she foresaw one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Japan, and the third-largest in the world since 1900. An earthquake that would also set off a massive tsunami, which Ania would vividly experience in her dream.
To this day, she recounts this haunting dream with a palpable intensity:
“I dreamt that I was in some building, on the second or third floor. I saw how the sea came in large quantities. The water was turbid. It was brown, with dirt. The dirty water came, with sticks, houses, cars, trees, and people. The people screamed. They asked ‘help, help!’ but I couldn’t do anything. I just watched.” -Ania
Her voice trembled as she told me about waking up crying at 4 a.m., unable to shake off the terror of her vision:
“When I woke up it was around 4am. I woke up crying, from the impact of seeing all these people. I was with my dad, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ I told him, ‘Dad, in some place in the world, I don’t know where, there is going to be a Tsunami. A lot of people are going to die.’ So I couldn’t fall back asleep, and he couldn’t either. I paced back and forth around the house.” - Ania
Only 2 hours after the incident, Ania turned on the TV and saw her chilling vision flash before her eyes. “Breaking News: Tsunami in Japan,” read the morning news, as it passed the same exact scenario that Ania saw in her dream.
Surprisingly, Ania is not alone in being able to dream of future disasters. A brief dive on Reddit shows many other people seem to have this ability too. One Reddit user even recalls dreaming of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, “the night before it happened.” 1
Others dreamt of 9/11, a week or two before it happened. One user dreamt of “2 really tall buildings burning,” with “people screaming for help,” the “building collapsing,” and “all those people being buried under the debris.” 2 Another of the aftermath, with “rescue workers digging through the rubble.” 3
This makes me wonder whether we have some X-men mutants, or Marvel superheroes among us! These stories remind me of “Blind-fold,” a mutant with the ability to see the future before it happens.
This also makes me wonder whether there’s some truth behind the superhero movie “Unbreakable,” where “Mr.Glass” says that superhero comics are inspired by real events. It even makes me wonder whether, in fact, we’re all mutants, and have yet to tap into our abilities. Abilities which may just be normal powers of the human mind, and not so “super” after all.
The Big Questions
Apart from making our childhood self excited about the possibility that we may have ‘superpowers,’ these dreams also raise some mysterious questions. Like:
What are these psychic dreams? What types are there?
Are there any examples of these predictive dreams throughout history?
Is there scientific evidence for them?
Does everyone experience them?
How can you know whether you’ve experienced one?
These are some of the questions we’ll attempt to answer in this newsletter. If you want to go down the rabbit hole, read along amigo.
Psychic Dreams — What They Are & The Different Types
“Precognitive Dreams” Within Context of Psychic Abilities
“Precognitive dreams” is the name given to dreams which seem to predict the future. The name comes from a type of psychic ability known as “precognition,” and well, “dreams,” the state of consciousness we experience when we sleep.
In this video, where I explain the different types of psychic abilities according to this declassified CIA document, I explained that “precognition” is a sub-species of “clairvoyance.”
Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance is the ability to perceive “information about objects, people, places, or events,” without physically perceiving them,” in both the distant past and future. 4 It's essentially “psychic perception,” across all of space and time.
Because ‘clairvoyance’ is the psychic perception of both the past and the future, you can think of it as perceiving things with your “mind's eye,” which, psychically speaking, has “omnipresent vision.” This means it can see anywhere, anytime. It’s quite literally the “all-seeing eye.”
Perhaps that’s why the etymology of “clairvoyance” is “clear-seeing,” because it allows you to remove the veil of limited physical seeing, in order to finally see, everything.
It’s like the movie “Dune: Part 2,” where a sandworm’s poison called “The Water of Life,” allows people “to see” both the past and the future. Paul Atreides, who already had precognitive visions, had his abilities enhanced after drinking the poison. His visions became so “clear,” that he could literally “see possible futures, all at once,” as well see into the distant past. If you watched the movie, recall that scene where Paul tells a Fremen exactly when and how their grandmother died.
Precognition & Retrocognition
“Precognition,” is the more limited ability of psychically perceiving the future. The name comes from the Latin words, “cognitio,” which means “acquiring knowledge,” and “pre,” which means “before.” So, etymologically, it means, “to know beforehand.”5
“Retrocognition”, is the reverse of precognition, and it’s the ability to psychically perceive the past.
“Precognition” and “Retrocognition” are both sub-types or sub-species of “clairvoyance.”
Precognitive Dreams as “Future Day Residue”
You know when you dream of something you were doing the day before? Like if you were watching a movie about WWII, such as “Saving Private Ryan,” (great movie btw), and that same night, you literally dream of tanks, guns, and a bloody war! As if your past experiences blended into your present dream life.
Sigmund Freud, a famous Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis called this “past day residue.” Because he realized that, “in every dream, it is possible to find a point of contact with the experiences of the previous day. 6
If time is non-linear, and our subconscious mind is somehow in direct contact with possible future events, could this “past day residue” be what happens for precognitive dreams, but for the future? Are “precognitive dreams” just “future day residue”? Where what we experience hours, days, or sometimes weeks ahead, get imprinted in the subconscious mind, and bubbles up in our present dream life?
Well, I don’t really know. But this is what J. W. Dunne, British soldier, aeronautical engineer, and philosopher, hypothesized in his book, “An Experiment with Time.” A book where he wrote about his precognitive dreams and some informal experiments with his friends which tested if everyone might have them. 7
Types of Psychic Dreams
There are different types of psychic dreams—premonitory dreams, symbolic dreams, & teleporting dreams.
Premonitory Dreams
A “premonition,” is a feeling that something bad is going to happen. It’s the essence of the famous Star Wars catchphrase, “I got a bad feeling about this.”
The word comes from the Latin words “prae” meaning “before,” and “monere” meaning “warn.” So etymologically, it literally means “to warn beforehand,” or “warning in advance.”
Premonitory dreams, in this context, are dreams of something bad that’s going to happen, almost like a warning about a possible terrible future. They’re usually dreams of death and disasters, like the Japan tsunami, or 9/11.
Ania calls them, “specific revelations,” and says it's when “I dream of things that are going to happen, sometimes to specific people, and other times, I don’t know what, who, and where it's going to happen to them.” Peculiarly, these dreams can be accompanied with a feeling that what you dreamt of is actually going to happen, which can make them a very stressful experience for those who have them.
In “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,” (my favorite Star Wars film), Anakin Skywalker has a premonition of his wife Padme dying during childbirth. Like Ania and her premonition of the tsunami, Annakin wakes up panting and sweating, clearly stressed from his premonition.
After this troubling episode, Anakin goes to see Master Yoda for guidance. During their conversation, they talk about “premonitions” as “visions” of “sensing the future,” one of “pain, suffering, death.” You can watch the conversation below, or read it:
Yoda: “Premonitions? Premonitions? Hmm. These visions you have…
Annakin: “They’re of pain, suffering, death.”
Yoda: “Yourself you speak of? Or someone you know?”
Annakin: “Someone.”
Yoda: “Close to you?”
Annakin: “Yes.”
Yoda: “Careful you must be when sensing the future Annakin. The fear of loss is a path to the darkside.”
I’m not going to give you any spoilers of whether his “premonition” actually came true, in case you haven’t watched the movie. As Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist, once said that “precognitive dreams can be recognized and verified as such only when the precognized event has actually happened. Otherwise the greatest uncertainty prevails.” 8 So, go clarify that uncertainty if you wish, and watch one of the coolest movies ever in the process.
Teleporting Dreams
The teleporting dream is one in which you seem to travel to where someone is, and see what they are going through. Ania described it to me like this:
Ania: “It’s almost as if I teleport, and I see. I see the situations, I see people, I see what’s happening to them, what they’re doing. Whenever they’re going through something emotionally difficult, I transport myself there.”
In “Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones,“ Anakin has one of these. He has a dream where he sees his mother in distress, screaming, and calling out his name for help. During his dream, Anakin seems to have teleported his mind’s eye to where his mother was, allowing him to sense that she was going through something terrible.
Padme: “You had another nightmare last night?”
Annakin: “Jedi don’t have nightmares.”
Padme: “I heard you.”
Annakin: “I saw my mother. She is suffering Padme. I saw her as clearly as I see you now. She is in pain. I know I’m disobeying my mandate to protect you senator, but I have to go. I have to help her.”
Unfortunately, Anakin was correct. His mother had been kidnapped by the Tusken Raiders, who kept her tied up, and severely beaten.
Ania has had several of these. She tells me of one in which she could see that some of her old family friends, which she hadn’t seen in 20 years, were incredibly sad. She later found out that they were both going through hard times. One of them had cancer, while the other had a degenerative brain disease:
“Around like 5 months ago, I dreamt of an honorary aunt and her son, with whom I played as a kid. They were both very sad, and you could see that they weren’t well. I hadn’t seen them in 20-25 years. I hadn’t spoken with him since I was a little girl—and same with the mom. But my sister was in contact with them. So after that dream, I asked my sister, ‘Hey, how is [X]? I have dreamt them very sad.’ And she said, ‘Oh my, I haven’t told you. The son has cancer—he’s doing chemotherapy.’ And I told her, ‘But I also saw the mom, very sad.’ And she said, “I don’t know anything about her, but I’ll call to figure it out.” I then called her myself, but she didn’t tell me anything. I called her just to say, ‘Hello, how are you? I dreamt of you. Are you all okay?’ But, obviously it had been many years since we spoke, so we couldn’t speak with the same openness, so she didn’t tell me anything. But afterwards, I found out that the mom has triquina. Triquina is a disease that pigs have, which lives inside the brain. Unfortunately, right now, this week, the mom is in a coma, and he’s still bad with cancer.”
Symbolic Precognitive Dreams
The symbolic “precognitive dream,” is when the future manifests through dream symbols.
A symbol is anything that “represents” something other than itself. When you raise your middle finger, that is a symbol, because it represents something other than your hand.
The middle finger literally represents a penis, and the curled fingers on the side represent the balls. When you raise it, its a way of saying, “fuck you.” Now yk. Don’t ever do it to your relatives, unless you’re from Alabama.
In dreams, symbols can range from anything normal like fruits, teeth, or animals. Since these things represent something other than what they manifestly appear to be, they need to be interpreted to figure out their meaning, and what they potentially foretell if it is a “precognitive dream.”
Ania gave me several examples of this. She and her mother, who’ve both had symbolic precognitive dreams since a young age, have come up with some interpretations during their years of experiencing them. Of course, these are probably highly prone to misinterpretation, and might even mean different things to different people, but either way, it’s cool to know their interpretation of dream symbolism.
Here are some meanings according to Ania:
Sea = “separation.”
Clear Water = “Everything is going to be okay. Everything is going to workout. Everything is going to be in harmony.”
Muddy Water = “things are not going to go well.”
Rain = “Something is going to happen that’s going to make me cry a lot. It depends. Whenever I am below a roof, and I just watch the rain, it means there’s going to be lots of tears around me which I’ll be witness to, but it won’t directly be me who’s crying.
Poop = “money,” and “if you dream of being in the bathroom, and you’re about to poop, but it doesn’t come out,” then “the money is about to come, JAJA.”
Teeth falling = “depending on the type of teeth means the age of the person who’s going to die. If it's a molar, then it's an older person. If it’s on the front, it's a younger person. If it’s the two front teeth, then its babies, kids.”
Rats = “If you look at them and they’re there. Represents people gossiping about you.”
Blood = “robbery”
Knives or machetes = “treason.”
Ripe Fruits = “pregnancy.”
Ania and her mother have a lot more, but I didn’t bother her with the entire list. Instead, I told her to make a book about her symbolic dream interpretations, starting with those of her mother, and then hers. It would be like a sort of “family heirloom.” A book of dream symbolism passed down from mother to daughter.
If that ever comes out, I’ll let you know.
Historical Roots of Precognitive Dreams
Now that we know what “precognitive dreams” are and have even seen some examples of regular people having them, and even them appearing in popular media culture (Star Wars), we can turn to the question: how far back in history do these things actually go?
Shamanic and Religious Roots
Precognitive dreams likely go as far back as shamanism, which is estimated to be around 10,000 years old. Shamans, witch doctors, and medicine men of indigenous tribes in the past and present have reported precognitive dreams, as well as the ability to interpret the “symbolic precognitive dreams” of the people in their community.
In religions like Judaism, which is more than 3,000 years old, there is even a story in the “Book of Genesis,” where a biblical figure named Joseph has precognitive dreams, as well as the ability to interpret the “symbolic precognitive dreams” of others. 9This ability is seen as a “divine prophetic gift."
On one occasion, Joseph interpreted the dreams of two prisoners—a butler and baker. The butler dreamt of “three branches,” with “ripe grapes,” and the “Pharaoh’s cup,” filled with them. Joseph said “three branches” meant “three days,” and the cup with grapes meant he would be freed from prison and return to being the Pharaoh's butler. In the story, he was freed from prison in the next three days, and returned to being the Pharaoh's butler. A similar thing occurred with the baker’s dream.
Joseph also interpreted the meaning of the dreams of the pharaoh of Egypt. He told him they meant Egypt would have seven years with lots of food, followed by seven years of famine. Both of which came true in the story.
Famous People Having Them
Many famous people throughout history also have reported precognitive dreams, like Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln. Let’s give a vivid example of one of these.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain had a premonition of his brother's death—seeing it in exact detail.10 “Mark Twain dreamed of his brother Henry's corpse lying on a burial cask in a sitting room, with a bouquet of white flowers, in the center of which was a single red flower, on his chest. Mark was so shaken by the dream that he actually stood up and got dressed, intending to pay his respects to his beloved dead brother, only before realizing that it had been a dream.
But then came the news of an explosion in the boiler room of a steamboat in Memphis. Henry, who worked there, was one of the many who had been killed. When Mark Twain arrived in Memphis, he saw his brother lying exactly as he had seen him in his dream, lacking only the bouquet of white flowers. A detail which was made complete while he sat there, for at that moment an elderly lady came in with a large white bouquet, and in the center of it was a single red rose.” 11
Parapsychological Studies
Given that precognition and precognitive dreams are so prevalent in history, have there been scientific experiments done on them? You bet.
Scientific Experiments
READER WARNING: Some of the horrific events mentioned in this section may be sensitive for some viewers.
In 1932, Charles Lindbergh, the famous Aviator and the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic, had a son who was kidnapped, murdered, and buried among trees.
Psychologists Henry Murray & D. R. Wheeler used this event to test for the existence of precognitive dreams. 12 They invited the public to report any dreams of the child—of the 1,300 dreams reported, 5% saw the child dead, and only 4 of the 1,300 saw the location of the grave amongst the trees.
The psychologists concluded the statistics were too low to be significant. This doesn’t necessarily show they don’t exist. All scientific experiments show is probability, they can make certain things more or less likely.
Scientific experiments with psychic abilities are usually all over the place. On the other side of the world, there was a more ‘positive’ finding, from another, incredibly negative incident.
In 1966 a huge coal tip in Wales destroyed part of the Welsh village of Aberfan, killing nearly 150 people, most of them schoolchildren.
A psychiatrist, Dr J. C. Barker was impressed by the number of people who reported having premonitions of this disaster. After collecting and checking the results, he concluded that, although there was no single clear-cut case where the premonitory visions perfectly corresponded with reality, taken together, they confirmed the existence of precognition.
Although, once again, from a scientific perspective, if his findings were positive, it doesn’t “prove” the existence of precognition. It only makes it more likely.
I’m sure we can all agree though, that if we weren’t so nit-picky, it’s pretty damn clear that precognitive abilities exist.
If people did see these horrific disasters before they occurred, does it mean they could have stopped them? Were these visions really “warnings” from a future that could have been prevented?
Perhaps.
Does Everyone Have Them?
If they indeed exist, how common are they? David Ryback, a psychologist in Atlanta, attempted to answer this question with a questionnaire survey that investigated the prevalence of precognitive dreams in college students during the 1980s.
His survey of over 433 participants showed that 290 or 66.9% of them reported some form of a precognitive dream. He rejected many of these reports, but based on his findings, concluded that 8.8% of the population was having genuine precognitive dreams.
How To Know Whether You Have A “Credible” Precognitive Dream
If precognitive dreams are common, how can you know when you've actually had one?
This is a tough question, for several reasons. For one thing, “symbolic precognitive dreams,” can be very hard to interpret. More importantly though, as Carl Jung said, you can't know you’ve had a “precognitive” until the event takes place, and most of the time, especially if the dream is bad, you don’t want that to happen.
Nonetheless, let’s look at some criteria.
In 1965, G.W Lambert, a former Council member of the Society for Psychical Research proposed 5 criteria you can use to determine whether a precognitive dream is “credible” and not “coincidence.”
You can use these to determine whether you’ve had a “credible” precognitive dream. These criteria are strict, with “symbolic dreams” taken out because they’re prone to any interpretation. Here they are: 13
Witness - The dream should be reported to a credible witness before the event.
Short Time Interval - The time interval between the present dream and the future event should be short. (~2 weeks)
Unexpected - The event should be unexpected at the time of the dream.
Literal Not Symbolic Precognitive Dream - The description should be of an event predicted literally, not symbolically.
Events Match Up - The details of the dream & the future event should match up.
Takeaways & Actionable Steps
Key Takeaways
This letter demonstrated that the human psyche is a lot more powerful than we think. It can do the seemingly impossible. It can see without eyes—into the distant past and future. Like the Marvel superhero “Blindfold,” and Paul Atreides from “Dune.”
All science fiction movies and books showing these kinds of abilities always have a hint of truth. They show us the true potential of the human mind. What we’re truly capable of.
Once we begin taking these abilities seriously, realize we’ve always had them, and understand that they’re neither ‘paranormal’ or ‘supernatural,’ but simply a manifestation of what we are—we can begin to do what we’ve always been capable of.
As a final food for thought, isn’t it curious how Western religions believe the monotheistic god has the power of omnipresent vision, which is why they represent their god with an all-seeing eye? Perhaps the truth is much stranger than that. Perhaps, ‘ye are gods.’ (psalms 82:6-7), we are the all-seeing eye….
Actionable Steps
Precognitive Dream Protocol
So, how can you test whether you are having precognitive dreams? Here’s a protocol you can try, at least for a month. From what I’ve heard, it’s very likely to see positive results.
It’s inspired by the protocols of J.W Dunne in his book “An Experiment with Time,” as well as those of Eric Wargo in his book “Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self.”
Dream Journaling.
Get Dream Journal.
Place a notebook and pen by your bed, this is your dream journal.
Write Down Dreams Every Morning.
As soon as you wake up, immediately record any dreams you can recall.
Write down as many details as possible, including people, locations, objects, colors, emotions, and events.
Ensure that you record your dreams before doing anything else.
Date each dream entry. Example: “Dream Entry 1 - 8/8/2024.”
Reflect on “Past Day Residue” In Dream.
After or as you record the dream, note any elements in the dream that seem to be influenced by past experiences, thoughts, objects, people, etc. They could be from the night before, or years before. This is the “past day residue” we talked about in the precognitive dreams post.
Record the original experience that brought about this “past day residue” in your dream.
You can write it after your dream entry if you’re recording this “past day residue” after you write the entire dream, or below the relevant dream events, people, objects, etc; if you’re recording it as you write the dream.
Day Journaling.
Get Day Journal
Get another notebook, and keep it by your desk. This is your day journal.
Write Down Your Day, Every Night.
At the end of your day, write down any significant events, thoughts, or realizations you had that day in your day journal.
Write down as many details as possible, including people, locations, conversations, objects, colors, thoughts, emotions, and events.
Date each day entry. Example: “Day Entry 1 - 8/8/2024”
Compare Dream & Day Journal Entries.
Compare Dream & Day Entries over the Last Couple of Weeks (Once A Week), Months (Once A Month), and Years (Once A Year).
Compare the dream and day entries over the last couple of weeks either weekly or every day. You can compare them after you write day entries (so every day) or once a week on a specific day, like Sunday.
Compare the dream and day entries over the last couple of months, at least once a month.
Compare the dream and day entries over the last couple of years, at least once a year. You can do this on New Year’s Day.
When Comparing, Look for BOTH Literal and Symbolic Correlations.
Literal correlations - When the dream entry almost perfectly correlates with the day entry. These are pretty straightforward to find, and will likely stand out. These can be literal correlations with past experiences (past-day residue), or future experiences (future-day residue).
Symbolic correlations - When the meaning of a symbolic dream in your dream entry, correlates with an event recorded in your day entries. These can be symbolic correlations with past experiences (past-day residue), future experiences (future-day residue), or most likely, a blend of both. The best way to find the meaning of symbolic dreams is to “free associate.” This means the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of or see the symbol you’re trying to interpret, is part of its meaning. If the symbol has no meaning for you, look up its meaning on the internet. You can use both meanings too. You can analyze the meaning of each symbol separately, and then bring their meanings together to form a single dream meaning. For example, the day after the Lion’s Gate portal (8/8/2024), I dreamt of a lion who was chasing me inside my house, it was playing around, but I was a bit scared. A lion usually means power and potential. Being chased usually means you’re scared of something. A house usually represents your very own self. If we piece this together, the dream means I’m scared of my power or potential.
Things to Take Note Of When Looking For Correlations:
The date of your day & dream entries—sometimes the date of the dream and day experience match, even if it is 1 or 5 years into the future.
The details of both day & dream entries, everything from people, locations, conversations, objects, colors, thoughts, emotions, etc.
The influence of past experiences (past-day residue), and future experiences (future-day residue) within the dreams.
Continue This Process For an Extended Period.
Continue this process consistently over an extended period to gather data.
With enough recorded data, you will likely start to notice patterns that indicate you’re having precognitive dreams—literal, symbolic, or both.
When you notice these patterns, they will likely be dream people, locations, conversations, objects, colors, thoughts, emotions, or events, influenced by a blend of past-day experiences (past-day residue), and future-day experiences (future-day residue).
Reply With Feedback & Your Precognitive Dreams
If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, let me know in the comments!
I feel like this email was DEFINITELY too long. Sorry! I just love to include everything. That’s how my mind works.
My Mayan astrological sign is the “Net,” which supposedly represents how I want to catch it all, like a fishing net. You can figure yours out here, feel free to share it in the comments along with any precognitive dreams you’ve experienced.
Anywho, I’ll try to make the next deep dive shorter if you think this was too much. You guys can vote on a word count for the next deep dives. This was ~4,000 words.
If you’ve had any precognitive dreams you’d like to share, please reply with them! We could highlight some of them in a future newsletter, or all in a community post if you want! Let a brotha know!
When the discord community is out, we’ll have some group-sharing story time so you can share your experiences, discuss the implications, and make some friends with like-minded individuals. Be on the lookout for that!
Excited to talk with you guys more personally :)
Glossary
Clairvoyance (“to see clearly”) = the ability to perceive “information about objects, people, places, or events,” without physically perceiving them, in both the distant past and future. It's essentially “psychic perception,” across all of space and time.
Precognition (“to know beforehand”) = the ability to psychically perceive the future; a sub-type of clairvoyance.
Retrocognition (“to know afterward”) = the ability to psychically perceive the past; a sub-type of clairvoyance.
Premonition (“to warn beforehand”) = a sense that something bad is going to happen. The meaning of “I got a bad feeling about this” in Star Wars. It can occur in dreams, where one foresees a future death or disaster.
Precognitive Dream = a dream that psychically perceives the future.
Premonitory Dream - a precognitive dream with premonition, that is, a dream of something bad that’s going to happen.
Symbolic Precognitive Dream - a type of precognitive dream where the future manifests through symbols. The symbols must be interpreted to figure out their future meaning.
Teleporting Type Dream - a dream in which you transport yourself to someone’s location and see what they’re going through.
Sources & Further Resources
Best Sources
Dunne, J. W. (1927). An Experiment With Time. A. C. Black.
Others
Scientific Experiments
Murray, H. A.; Wheeler, D. R. (1937). "A Note on the Possible Clairvoyance of Dreams". Journal of Psychology. 3 (2): 309–313. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1937.9917500
Ryback, David, PhD. "Dreams That Came True". New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1988.
Movies & Quotes
Dark Side. (April 28, 2018). Anakin’s Nightmare [Video]. Youtube.
Mr. Purrington. (Jan 17, 2020). “Carl Jung on Precognitive Dreams.” Carl Jung Depth Psychology.
Reddit
Report Your Precognitive Dreams
I always look at the etymology of words to understand their meaning. I highly suggest you do this in your research.
Signum Freud. “The Interpretation of Dreams.”
Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1: 1906-1950. p. 460-461. Quoted in: Mr. Purrington. (Jan 17, 2020). “Carl Jung on Precognitive Dreams.” Carl Jung Depth Psychology.
For a fun, short, cartoon-type story of Joseph's precognitive dreams, see: “Joseph’s Inspired Dreams,” “Joseph in Egypt,” and “Joseph and the Famine.”
Murray, H. A.; Wheeler, D. R. (1937). "A Note on the Possible Clairvoyance of Dreams". Journal of Psychology. 3 (2): 309–313. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1937.9917500.
Super interesting article! Thank you!! I have had at least 2 of these dreams as a teen (and suspect I've had more). They were just so bizarre I had to tell my sis. The first, I dreamt we (she and a bunch of my classmates) were in a car accident and we were all wearing some kind of uniform. That school year, she and I both joined the volleyball team and were in a car accident on the way to a game! Everyone was fine so I'm not sure why my brain latched on to that incident.
The second dream didn't come to pass until years and years later. I dreamt about my childhood babysitter in a sort of library using these enormous books. At the time, it was totally random so I told my sis about how odd it was. A decade later, I found myself in the record room of our county looking through these giant ledgers doing land research as a job and I run into my old babysitter there doing the same work!! I sat down when I saw her, it was so jarring to realize this was my dream as a teenager. As a teen, I had never seen a record room or these giant ledgers, so they didn't make sense to me and I thought it was an ancient old library.