Visions...

[huggyboo]

Sometimes when i sleep i have dreams and nightmares. Like most people. One thing that happens to me that doesn't happen to anyone else i know is that i have visions.

An event that has never occurred before will somehow fit into a very strange or awkward dream. Later on usually a day or week later, the event happens. One time i knew the score to a high school football game from a dream and made $20 from my friends.

Sometimes i also have dreams that have some sort of message in them.

But i had a weird dream today when i fell asleep in class. I was at a train station and i bumped into this girl and something made me go with her. It was kinda strange but felt natural to me.

I kinda wanted to ask if anyone else has these sort of 'powers' and what you think my dream meant.

[SilentRayne]

Eh. Sometimes that happens to me, the future sight, but i wont ever remember it. Then once it happens i get a major deja vu moments thinking that it has happened before. i dont really have an explanation just saying i see it too.

[huggyboo]

Yeah i usually remember it and when i dont it is major Deja Vu. I do sometimes work things in my favor

[1samurai1]

Lol this happens at time to me to and I just think its Deja Vu.
My record was I had Deja Vu of the EXACT same thing happening 5 times.

[Cthulhu]

My take on this power (which I have experienced many a time): One of my hypotheses is that after a certain amount of time your brain has amassed enough information about the world and universe that at certain times, when your mind is aligned correctly, you subconsciously predict events in great detail. Very much like computer simulation programs. blah blah, etc.

My other idea: Multiple universes. When you go into a higher consciousness you connect with another one of your infinite selfs.

[huggyboo]

I think your first hypothesis is more correct because in the multiple universes created after every choice or decision someone or something makes, events won't repeat themselves the same way unless all of the choices you could make lead to that event which is impossible unless it was forced by some power.

[Cthulhu]

Nothing is impossible, ever. I live by these words every day.

Although, the first is the most likely, since it's just a more advanaced version of when people remember things that happen normally, and predict that it will happen again.

[huggyboo]

Well i am still confused about the train one, mainly because i have to visit a train station for a school assignment.

[Cthulhu]

Well i am still confused about the train one, mainly because i have to visit a train station for a school assignment.

Did you see the face of the girl? If not, perhaps you should focus on the dream when you go to sleep tonight (or tomorrow depending on where you live,) and see what happens.

[huggyboo]

i kinda did i would remember her if i saw her, but i will try to focus. Whenever i do though i never dream of them.

[1samurai1]

Nothing is impossible eh? Turn into a girl without any help from outside of your body.

[huggyboo]

Sam he means, technically nothing is impossible but there are physical limits

[MonsterMiner]

I don't have many dreams.........

Or nightmares,

My explanation is that Cthulhu has been messing with your brain at night.

[screwbaII]

Ah I get these too! They are cool, I don't see them in dreams though. I don't know where I see them though lol which is odd. Once I had a vision that I would miss the bus to school, and one day I got up and the bus went up the road and I was like Oh crap! I got changed in like two seconds and went to run to the bus, but then I was like wait this has happened before:

How I had seen it I had gotten to the end of the verandah, which is approximately the end of my room when the bus came back down the road.

What I then did was like, well I'm going to miss it anyway so I ran back to my room as if I would be running along the verandah and in the exact same spot the bus came down the road.

I've had many others before, as for the dream of the train and stuff I have a book of dreams, and it has helped me a little to try and understand mine (although I do it mostly for fun).

Apparently to dream of a train station indicates direction. As for the girl you follow, you describe her as a girl so I will go with girl interpretation: for a male this is a reflection of undeveloped emotions, and regardless of what the dreamers gender is it suggests a need to be more in touch with the more feminine aspects of yourself.
If the girl was in fact a woman but you dscribed her as a girl, here is what a woman in your dreams means: for males dreaming of a woman not only reflects relationships with their actual woman in their life but also the relationship with the feminine or intuitive part of himself. If woman is well dressed it indicates you are happy with that side of yourself.

Ummm, yea I hope this helps. Maybe your dream is telling you to go with your intuition in what direction you choose to take on your life path.

[rosedragon]

mmm, I dont know, I'm used to believe I got one but later I don't believe anymore so nothing odd happens. :)

I think believing is the power by itself.

[Pirate Foxes]

Yeah this used to happen to me.

Just ignore it and push it away. In time, as you get older, these visions or "powers" will go away.

It's not deja-vu or whatever, I know what you mean. Don't worry too much about it. An overactive imagination...
Or something of the sort.
Don't start believing in it or it could lead to you developing mental issues like schizophrenia or paranoia.

[screwbaII]

er... no it doesn't lead to either of those things if you believe it...

it's a natural phenomenon that most people get, and it doesn't lead to developing mental disorders... Just no... And they don't go away no matter how much you ignore them, at times you will still get a sense of knowing what is going to happen, or a situation of familiarity, it still happens time and again for me.
I don't go around thinking that I know what is going to happen there are just moments that seem familiar to me. It's got nothing to do with the imagination and definitely nothing to do with schizophrenia or paranoia, if it did we would all be paranoid schizophrenics.

http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/117/1/71
The brain can be artificially stimulated to produce vivid 'memories' that never existed and feelings of deja vu, explained by a 'dreamy state'. Tests on epileptic patients who experience these things often have led to discovering parts of the brain that may be associated with this phenomenon

http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/130/1/88
Here is some more information on the 'dreamy state', in a study on stimulating it and what parts of the brain are involved in hallucinations and deja vu.

All in all it seems that the 'visions' are just something going on in your brain that is making a situation seem familiar or giving you memories that you don't have. Everybody gets it, it's just tests on epileptic patients who have seizures in certain areas of their brain are better because they experience it a lot more than normal functioning people.

As you can see you are not going crazy.

[zlyfire]

well, sometimes i got these but they just went away, but in 5th grade, i seemed to be able to control what TV show episode or commercial came on. i couldn't control when, but it was the very same day that i said the name, like(i liked pokemon then) i said a episode of pokemon would come on, i would know the episode name down to the symbols, and sometime during the day when i watched TV, i looked through the satellite guide and, sure enough, there it was. Any insight screw?

[Pirate Foxes]

You said that these are fake memories?

If believing in these fake memories all the time, as opposed to dismissing your deja vu, and going beyond that to take it so all "visions" and dreams you have are taken to be literal and real...
Surely that can screw with your perception of the world?

[screwbaII]

Do dreams screw up with your perception of reality? because that is what this phenomenon is similar to. The thing is your brain is programmed NOT to remember these things, because if you did remember them then yes your perception of reality would be screwed.
You dream 4 - 5 times per night, you probably only remember one of them at most if any at all, and that is because you wake up during your dreaming, and your memory is shut on when you wake up. When youre asleep you have 'sleep amnesia' for this very reason - so your brain does not confuse reality with dreaming.
The 'fake memories' is used to describe the sense of deja vu or familiarity, a sense you have done it before, thus you are remembering something you have never actually done. In this 'dreamy state' you can also remember actual memories as well in vivid detail.

The feeling generally only lasts for a few moments, it is not serious enough to screw with anything whether you dismiss the feeling or not. Personally I just take it as a sign I'm on the right path in life. They don't occur frequently enough to begin with to be seriously believing these sorts of things either. But I can tell you that this phenomenon does not cause the disorders you mentioned. In fact they are not even remotely related to either of them.

As I said these things can be artificially produced by stimulating certain areas of the brain involved in memory and such, thus it is a phenomenon of the physiology of the brain not of the consciousness of the mind. That's why it is more linked to physiological disrders like epilepsy that affect the brain rather than mental disorders like paranoia that affect the mind. Brain can affect mind, but mind doesn't seem to affect brain much (although it can).

As for you Zly, youre not psychic if thats what you want to know :p that's like me saying I can control my ipod when I predicted 4 or 5 songs in a row on random shuffle on my ipod, simply because I thought about them a few seconds before they came on (which actually happens sometimes). There are almst 1000 songs on my ipod by the way lol. There are still a lot of things that we don't know about the brain, and for real psychics and mediums are not recognised to have any differences in their brain or brain functioning, so it is a questionable phenomenon that isn't recognised by psychology or neuroscience...

[kittenlazars go mew mew]

Nothing is impossible, ever. I live by these words every day.

Bah,whenever I tell my brother that,he says "Its impossible to breath in space,you idiot/retard".

[Pirate Foxes]

Well he does have a point, if he is a bit rude about it.

Keep you head on your shoulders, that's all I'm saying.

Edit:
Think about that line as said by Napoleon Dynamite:

"You freaking can't breathe out in space, IDIOT! uuuh"

[Cthulhu]

That doesn't mean the laws of physics can't suddenly break down, and gas leaks from another universe into space, allowing you to breathe.

[Pirate Foxes]

Pretty sure it does...

The raw radiation of alpha, beta and gamma and temperature differences? :p

[huggyboo]

Well you could breath in space, become an astronaut, go on a space mission and when you are in space whether in the ship, in a suit, or not you are technically breathing in space.

And for the dream things sometimes they do help me with things. If i had to break down the dream i would guess the girl is a metaphor for my lonely and repressed emotions due to be single while all the people in know have relationships. The train station like Screw said is more than likely my mind saying i need a more spread outlook on life, relationships, and other things. If it was a vision then i will probably see the girl or someone similar when i goto the train station for my project.

[Cthulhu]

Blech, I've always hated dream analysis, it's always just too conveniently simple to work with the human mind.

[Pirate Foxes]

The vague representation of the girl in your dreams most probably was a way of expressing, as you said, your want for a friend. (I didn't say that when you first posted but I thought that.) The train station could be from some apprehension you feel about traveling to an unknown location with people you normally see in a different environment.

Or it could just be your mind going crazy, doing what it does. As mentioned, take it lightly, and don't be on the lookout for a girl while on your trip, and most importantly don't HOPE for such a thing to happen.
And don't... get on a train with a random stranger...

Take for example, this dream I very recently had.
I was stuck on a Doom 1 style UAC base on mars and had to fight hoards of demons with only... a shotgun. Me, being who I am, got INCREDIBLY far, but eventually was burned alive by an Arch Vile. (For any who know, a shotgun against an Arch Vile is... you might as well give up.)
I "reloaded" my game... ahem... yes and proceeded to do this "level" again, but I had to divert into other rooms I skipped the first time, battling my way through more hoards of undead and demons, in a vain attempt to procure better weapons. Eventually I got the .30 cal chaingun from Doom 3... in Doom 1-2...
And whooped butt.

But what does it all mean? Am I suddenly going to be thrust into a situation where I will need to discharge mass quantities of shells into enemies on the moons of Mars? Will demons suddenly unlock a gate to this world?
Conclusion: I have been playing WAY too much of a certain Doom 2 mod...

[MonsterMiner]

That doesn't mean the laws of physics can't suddenly break down, and gas leaks from another universe into space, allowing you to breathe.

But, if something was there it wouldn't be "Space" if there was something would it? If it was "Outer Space" then anywhere with oxygen not on Earth would be enough. :D

[Cthulhu]

Well then, your body suddenly evolves from magic rays and you no longer need to breathe.

[MonsterMiner]

Well then, your body suddenly evolves from magic rays and you no longer need to breathe.

If magic rays in Space made you no longer need to breathe, you still can't breathe, so that wouldn't change anything. The question was you can breathe in space, not if you could live in space.

[screwbaII]

I'm sorry but you don't go crazy from having dreams or believing them. Dream analysis is fun but should not be taken too seriously, more as a guide or a quick sketch of a problem. You need reality to fill in the details. Nobody knows the significance of dreaming or what they are but it is important to us that we do dream. It is the last stage of the sleep cycle and sleep is necessary for normal functioning.

Dreams aren't meant to be taken literally because anything can happen in them. Some say it is the cerebral cortex or your higher thinking centre, interpreting randomly fired messages into a story. Some say it is prophetical, or tells you something about a problem in your life. Some say it is fulfilling wishes that you would not otherwise be able to achieve.

My most recent dream I remember was I was on a farm that produced good crops and was rich, and there was a poor farm next door to us, and the farmer tried to sabotage my farm so I had an argument with him and gave him a bag of potatos because I thought if he had help he would stop. My mum said "you know what that is going to do right?". And then my white cat was killed by the poor farm's brown one.
Looking it up, a good farm represents the down to earth side of oneself, the poor farm represents the anxious and unhealthy side, cats represent independence and white is a tone for happiness and brown is confusion. Lately I had been getting really anxious for no reason, I kept thinking scary thoughts and then I would get depressed. I took this as a way of my brain telling me 'You need to stop thinking these scary thoughts, you yourself are fuelling these unhealthy feelings, you are killing your own happiness and you need to stop it and stop worrying about the future'
I stopped thinking these thoughts and now I am feeling a lot better and my nerves have calmed down a lot (mind you this had been going on for several weeks). I think it is healthy to try to interpret dreams because sometimes they give insights into your problems but they probably shouldnt be taken seriously and DEFINITELY NOT LITERALLY.

As for you pirate, dreaming of playing games is a representation of how you cope with your life. If you are playing well it indicates you are managing well, but if you play badly you may need to consider upgrading your coping 'skills'. Guns are signs of aggression. The thing you shoot represents feelings of aggression towards people or a part of yourself, in your case you are shooting demons which is probably a part of yourself that you hate. I think you can apply this to your life if you want to, maybe it is a sign you need to confront the things that you don't like inside of you. Maybe because you are getting better at the game that it is a good sign that you are beginning to cope with your life better as well. There are many interpretations of dreams, you can take whatever message you feel applies and use it to help you. Of course my analysis of dreams is taken from one book on dream meanings lol, but depending on where you look the meanings may change.

[Pirate Foxes]

No, I was playing Doom right before I went to bed. I stayed up too late playing it online that night. >_<


Guns are a sign of aggression huh...
I bet. :D

[screwbaII]

Hey, that works too :p but playing things, or thinking of things before you sleep doesn't necessarily mean you will dream of them don't forget :D You will never remember the last thing you think about before you go to sleep though lol, because of 'sleep amnesia' XD

I think dreams are a way for your brain to solve problems in an environment where nothing applies and everything can happen. Studies into 'lucid dreams' where people can control the events in a dream show that they cannot control the place where the events take place... which is kind of strange I guess lol... I like dreams though, it's always fun for me trying to interpret them.

One weird thing that happened to me last year when I was still with my ex, was I was having a dream and I had developed a mutant cow-lion and I got rich, and I said "I has a lot of monies now" and then my ex replied in my dream with "ok" and I could hear his voice and I wake up then and I'm like "are you awake?" and he was asleep but I could hear him saying things in my head and his mouth wasn't moving. Like you know when you think to yourself and you hear your own voice in your mind, well it was like that except his own voice and I couldn't stop it.
Then I woke him up and was like were you just dreaming and he was like yea, and I relayed back to him exactly what he had been saying in his dream (which was of talking with a foreign exchange student at his house lol). It was really scary at the time though because I couldn't stop these thoughts that were entering my head. I have never experienced anything like it before or since though, but I swear it did happen. Not sure what that was about though.

[rosedragon]

Yesterday I dream to be an handicapped orphan girl who live with adopt parents. The parents already desperate on finding something (a job?) for me to do.

Then after awhile the dream oddly tells me as I am, a game developer with decent income. This game developer me somehow met the handicapped orphan girl and the developer me give some game making tasks to this handicapped orphan me. So the games provide money to both game developer me and handicapped me. Handicapped me can smile widely now and her parents are proud of her.

I know this dream is a symbol of my past met my present.

[screwbaII]

Interesting dream Rose :o I wish my dreams were nice like that... my nicest dreams are the ones where I am playing with my dog who died a couple of years ago... They are both my happiest and saddest dreams and I wake up either laughing or crying from these dreams.

[Darken Sin]

I dreamed that I was in D-Day... it was... gruesome.

Yesterday, I dreamed that I was in a dark sinister bone collection museum. VERY SPOOKY

[Senna]

My dreams are incredibaly weird and tend to shift about alot also i never speak in my dreams and several times i havebeen male in my dreams when im acctually female.

My lastest dream was set in my schoool hall we(me and the school) were trying to make a maze out of tape measures, but the caretaker was trying to fix a hole in the roof andthrew us out. Later we returned and had a group hypnosis session but it wzs called a self belife session we all belived we were working in an office. However i fell asleep and fell of my chair breaking the illusion. Later i met the guy who led the session at a pirate bar on a beach he was a a blond gay hippie with sun glasses.

If anyone can explain this id be very greatful

[huggyboo]

I had another weird dream that i can't really explain but can never forget.

http://RARavary.deviantart.com/art/A-Dream-I-Had-and-Can-Remember-132311016

for those who want to tell me what you think it means....

[Pirate Foxes]

It means I'll be dead before that ever occurs so I'm good. Heh...


My dreams, on average, tend to be incredibly dark and wouldn't be appropriate to recount here.
Really.

[Cthulhu]

I'd tell you some of my interesting dreams but:

1. You'd go mad from most of them
2. The rest are either inapropriate,
3. Or too personal.
4. Lazer cats!
5.:eek:

[MonsterMiner]

My dream was that I woke up and went to school
But forgot my backpack

Then I woke up. (it was a short dream)

[screwbaII]

This is for Senna...

Being a male in your dreams represents the masculine side of yourself. It could be that you wish to, or need to get in touch with your more masculine side of yourself.

Dreaming of school represents learning and knowledge (particularly if it is your old one). Not only knowledge about the world, but knowledge about other people and social situations, groups, pressure, acceptance, authority and many other things that shape us as we are growing up. Common to dream about school when you are about to undertake some type of new learning process and ask yourself whether you are preparing to embrace new attitudes, groups or knowledge.

Maze represents feelings of confusion and ideas that make it difficult for us to find our way or make progress, beliefs and old values may be the cause of losing your ability to think clearly about things. Tape measures I have no information on but think about what they are used for and how they could apply to this.

The roof represens the peak of our view from the loftey summits high up, removed and totally objective. We utilise this objective state of mind to either reach spirtual growth or to protect ourselves against emotional involvement.
Dreaming of being under a roof suggests protection but if the roof is leaking watch out for possible dangers. Think about what fixing the roof might indicate... you are stopping it from leaking...

An office in a dream may be a sign that you have too much responsibility at work or that you have a project or problem that you can't leave behind when you go home.
Since you weren't actually at the office or dreaming of an office here is something I made up:
Imagining you are working in an office probably denotes a sense of 'imagined responsibility' perhaps. Maybe being hypnotised into thinking you are working at an office might mean you are being made to believe you have more responsibilities or problems than you actually do. Breaking this illusion by faling asleep may indicate you are 'shutting your eyes' to the problems or you could be shutting out the things that are giving you a false sense of responsibility...

Chairs are for resting or relaxation, so they usually express the dreamer's passive attitude or openness. May suggest you need to take more rest and be open to new methods of relaxation. Think about what falling off a chair might mean...

Dreaming of being in a bar sugests that you need people around you for socialising, perhaps you are feeling isolated in our private life and need to make new friends. Dreaming about a bar usually relates to how we handle group situations.

Again the man is the masculine aspects of yourself. Think about all of the ways you described this man and relate them to whatever aspect you feel suits it best. Hippies are usually concerned about environmental issues, and have a carefree attitude, and gay men are usually very flamboyant and conscious about their appearance, they are also very feminine.

Glasses relate to the way we see the world around us, and especially wearing sunglasses is a way of hiding oneself.

Dreaming of a beach can indicate a need for a holiday and can signal romance.

I think the fact the man in your dream is wearing sunglasses may indicate you are hiding that aspect of yourself, and maybe it needs to be expressed more, hence the hypnotising by the guy. Or perhaps that aspect is hypnotising you and making you believe you have more responsibilities than you do because this sounds like the carefree self trying to show.

I dunno I'm making up a few things here, point is the key to analysing dreams is to analyse first the key objects in the dreams and what they are associated with, so you can then interpret them in relation to emotions and feelings. We cannot see emotions and feelings only feel them... in dreams we see them in physical forms that relate to certain feelings, which I think is why dreams make absolutely no sense. The forms and figures in them are not representations of the external world but rather the internal one.
Hey I could be onto something here :D ... Anyway hope this helps you out, sorry for the length people!

[mang11]

usally I have dreams where i'm someone else but when I do have dreams about my self there usally confusing.

one that I think is really intresting is that I was at a restruant with a girl I didn't know (I was about 28 and she was about 25 in the dream) but now about seven years later I know the girl in the dream.( I was seven when I had the dream)

[Cthulhu]

What does it mean when your consciously aware that you are dreaming, and are able to affect what happens? Almost all my dreams nowadays are like this.

[screwbaII]

It's called 'lucid dreaming'

[huggyboo]

it means you are an outer dimensional being. Hey Cthu you know you are a mount in Scribblenauts?

[Cthulhu]

It's called 'lucid dreaming'

Good song.

I find it annoying that I've never heard of this.

[screwbaII]

lol... a song AND a psychological phenomenon ;)

[1samurai1]

I found this on youtube http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward. (http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward)
Its a show lol

[Cthulhu]

Damn, I forgot I was going to watch that. Guess I'll watch it online later.

[screwbaII]

Lol, video only available in the US... sucks to be me.

Actually I remember reading somewhere people had 'dreams' about the Titanic sinking and so they cancelled their tickets, and what do you know it sunk!!! And it wasn't just one person it was several people who had booked to go on it. Weird huh.

[Cthulhu]

Not really a vision, but when it said I had a friend request I instantly knew who it was.

[MonsterMiner]

The titanic sank because of Cthulhu, he was very hungry that day.

[screwbaII]

AH HA HA Cthulhu was it me :3 ???

[Pirate Foxes]

Not really a vision, but when it said I had a friend request I instantly knew who it was.
That's just being a psychic. :p

[Cthulhu]

Actually, that's being a 20 meter tall ocean dwelling demi-god, residing in a human body.

[MonsterMiner]

Actually, that's being a 20 meter tall ocean dwelling demi-god, residing in a human body.

But, you summoned it!!!!!!!!!!!!!