philiusfog said:
The strange thing is I had the dream and then I had the later experience of precience. Both, to my mind were linked, as the images from the dream (ie the circle formation, the locker room, the exact friends) were identical to reality. It was just the dialogue which had perhaps slipped from my mind, only to be brought back shortly before the event.
Philiusfog.
I've been hoping for years to find someone who has experienced this. It's a really hard thing to put into words but I'll try.
My own experiences of it go back to when I was a child - I'm not sure how far back. All of the dreams/premonitions I've had like this are completely mundane. When I was younger I once freaked a schoolfriend out by repeating his exact words to him a split second before he'd said them. I dreamt about what he would say some weeks before (I can't remember the exact words).
The way these dreams occur have changed as I've got older. The differences are that now I can't will these dreams to happen (I used to be able to), they are less frequent and they are
exclusively dreams about a place I haven't been to yet, with people I haven't met yet, in situations that haven't happened yet.
Four months before I went to College (circa 1989 and before I had applied to any colleges or even had any idea what I wanted to do) I had a dream about finding free credits on a photocopier (hardly mind-boggling revelations about future events I know!), standing next to a stranger (who I didn't recognize but who somehow I knew in the dream) in a place I'd never lived before. In the dream someone walked around a wall next to the copier and the dream ended. Four months later I'd gone to college half way across the country and I was with someone who'd became a good friend when we found ten pounds worth of credits on a copier, I got a really weird feeling looked up to the corner and sure enough someone from my course walked around it.
They seem to occur when I'm trying to decide if something is a good idea or not, when I'm having to make some big decision that will affect my life. The dream seems to act as a kind of reassurance and I always wake up and think 'that was one'.
Another one happened in 1999 and involved a conversation between myself and a circle of 4 close friends while I was travelling in Australia. I dreamt about it at least twelve months before it happened (While I was in Britain deciding whether to go or not). The weird thing is this time it was exactly as philiusfog described - all I could do was sit gaping as each person spoke in turn and then turned to face me. I knew what each of them was going to say but couldn't say anything before they'd spoken, I was dumbstruck. There was an odd sense of the words being spoken by each person in a certain manner, almost weighed with meaning that seemed relevant in some unfathomable way.
Deja Vu doesn't quite fit the bill with these dreams as I have woken up and related them afterwards to people, even written some down only to watch them be played back some time later.
Well 'nuff said for now - I feel I've been rambling but it's nice to know I'm not alone.
There was an old thread in the fortean archives about this - something about 'mundane precognition' I think.
Anyone else have this type of experience?