The Dream Phenomena

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Image by Biljana Jovanovic from Pixabay , dreams, clairvoyanceI researched a lot before I began writing about psychic dreams and found out that I already knew more than most.

Many don’t believe that dreams tell us the future, but I was just a 12-year-old when I discovered the truth. Since then, I’ve often purposely shut out memory of my dreams – the future can seem dark and dangerous.

It all began when an elderly woman – well, to me she was elderly, but looking back she was 60-something – chose to teach me the fine art of psychic phenomena. Lillian was an older friend of my mom’s although not close; the two were as different as cheese and cream. But one afternoon when I returned from school, Lillian was sitting at our kitchen table as if waiting for me. 

 “Would you like to visit me once a week?” she asked. “Just to talk. I’m a lonely old woman with Jack working such long hours.” Image by Daniel Hannah from Pixabay, dreams, telepathy

And oh how Lillian talked, regaling me with her psychic experiences: ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance. I was fascinated and immediately believed every word. She had no reason to lie to me, yet I also knew that she’d never share these thoughts with my mom or any other friend.

Lillian’s husband, Jack, worked at his lumber company but sometimes came home for lunch, eating his baloney and cheese sandwich standing over the kitchen sink. Occasionally he’d walk into the red den where I sat listening to Lillian, spellbound.

“I don’t believe a word of it, not a word,” Jack said one day. “But truth be told, I’ve seen my Lillian in action.”

Chat GPT, older couple in love, DreamsLillian jumped up and hugged her gray-haired husband, patting him on the rear. I blushed, looking away. My parents, much younger, never displayed affection in front of me.

“Tell her about what happened two nights ago,” Jack urged, his wife’s arms still circling his waist.

Lillian smiled, albeit sadly.

“I woke up screaming, which woke Jack and he asked ‘What? WHAT?’

“’A crash. Horrible airplane crash,’ I cried out, my arms stinging as if burned. ‘122!’ I moaned.”

“‘122 what?’ Jack asked.” Chat GPT, dreams

Then Jack continued the story because Lillian paled and sat on the couch, eyes vacant.

“An hour later we turned on the TV. The news report showed a plane wreck – not in the U.S. – that just happened two hours earlier. Many passengers burned beyond recognition.”

I gasped.

Jack continued, “Later we learned that 122 people had perished.”

Lillian startled and asked me, “was that telepathy or clairvoyance? Or just a dream that turned true? I’m determined to answer these questions.”

I never learned if she figured it out, so in honor of Lillian, I’m still researching.

Image by Orange Fox from Pixabay , dreams, clairvoyance, dreamcatcherDO YOU BELIEVE IN PSYCHIC DREAMS?

92 thoughts on “The Dream Phenomena”

  3. I don’t disbelieve. One of my friends has had them–not so much now, she says, but when she was younger. She’s told me they always have a particular quality, and she knows it’s one of “those dreams.”

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  4. I researched dreams and dreams that seemed to tell the future (and wrote five books about it). Dreams don’t tell you the future, but how we interpret dreams works on a static level, probability mathematics. Dreams don’t know more than you do, but they see what probably happens, seeing your actions and reactions. This is more valid than we are aware of because they go back to two memory stores, your consciousness and your unconsciousness.
    We look back on nearly a hundred years of researching dreams that the dreamers thought they foretell the future. Until now, we couldn’t a scientific proof that dreams can look into the future. Modern dream research uses models of quantum physics. There exists a model of the Einstein student, John Wheeler, of multiple universes. There is a probability that a universe exists where time runs backwards (seen from our time level). But that is only a theory. In the research about dreams, science hasn’t found one dream that foresaw the future beyond probabilities. The most famous dream that Homer saw as foreseeing the future was that of Kassandra. But Homer’s ‘Ilias’ is fiction.
    Sorry, to tell you this
    Klausbernd 🙂

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    • Oh I love it and was hoping you’d read this post and comment. If there are multiple Universes and timelines, then it makes sense that a person who dreams into another time line can “see the future.” 🙂 Okay, no? I’ve gone too far? THANK you for your comment. Fascinating.

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      • Well, these quantum physics statements are kind of scientific metaphors. They are metaphors helping to get a rough idea of what’s happening that can only be grasped with mathematics. They are NOT a reality but a model.

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  7. I have had a psychic day dream… does that count? In this case, I think it was nature/spirits? preparing me for the worst. Which it did.

    I would prefer not to have any more, to be honest.

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  9. I wish I could say for sure…belief/disbelief is so binary and rigid. Too many unusual (and sometimes prophetic) things have popped in my dreams over the years. Hard to ignore. And I’m happy to say most provide comfort of some sort – my subconscious bringing me nuggets of truth, pockets of peace.
    And…Lillian. Ah, Lillian. Someone I would’ve enjoyed! 🥰

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  11. I believe there are some with this gift, though I can’t say I’ve ever experienced anything more than intuition. I’ve never been to a fortune teller or psychic before. The beauty of each moment is the surprise that might happen today.

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    • Good point. I figure there’s a reason we can’t ‘see’ into the future the way we can remember the past. Whoever’s in charge thought it not a good idea. 🙂
      I’ve been to a palm reader (the sister of one of my professors) and she was more psychic than palm reader, and to me, more intuitive than anything else. My take is that we can hone our intuition skills if we want to, and that could be quite helpful in our lives.

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  12. My guess is you probably know my answer to this question. I’m trying to formulate it all into a book of sorts. Those dreams get us ready for things that may be too hard to deal with if not prepared to some degree. I agree that quantum physics can explain a lot and have studies that for may years to help me understand the rest of it. Sometimes it’s dreams that guide, sometimes it’s words in your ear or pictures in your mind. I take it when I get it but my daughter has learned I’m never wrong when those things come. I’ve learned to trust even the really “wake up screaming” dreams. Thanks for sharing this.

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    • Yes, you’re right, Marlene. 🙂 I knew you’d have a great response to my post. Quantum physics – isn’t that just matter and energy circling all within and outside of us? And then most certainly we can obtain knowledge/insight/answers if we pay attention to what the energy is saying to us, in whatever form. ❤

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  13. Generally I don’t. And yet … When my dad found out he had cancer, I was overseas. Suddenly I had a terrible anxiety attack. I’d never had such a thing before. My parents didn’t tell me about the cancer for about six months. Off and on all the time he was sick, I had anxiety attacks. I was on a plane flying back to the US when he died. At that moment, I felt the anxiety disappear. When I arrived, I was told about his death.

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    • Wow, Nicki. We like to think that we don’t “see, dream, or feel” things that aren’t right in front of us. And yet, you show that a bond is not just physical. It’s metaphysical as well. Thank you for sharing this. We can keep saying we don’t believe in the ‘woo woo’ of things, and yet when we stop, listen, look inside ourselves, we could be surprised. ❤

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  14. I do 🙂 . Both my cousin and I had dreams about Juniper Lake where our cabin is located being overrun with vacationers….big swan and island “floaties”, BBQ’s and large picnic tents a number of years ago. We also both had dreams / nightmares actually of the fire. Then just a year or so before the fire the trailhead beach was overrun with visitors on Labor Day weekend, just like in our dreams. So out of character for the remote area that is void of commercialism. The fire was also a “dream” actually nightmare we both experienced years before it happened. Coincidence?

    Hugs to you Pam. Miss you and hope you are doing well.

    Barbara

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    • You know me, Barbara. I don’t believe in “coincidences.” Both you and your cousin have proof that the future is foretold in a dream, or as others surmise, in our dreams we slip into a future timeline and ‘see’ what is to come. Thanks for sharing, my friend!

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    • Inexplicable and yet there it is. I think if we “listen” to our dreams, we can learn a lot. One of my friends had a dream that her great-aunt died and visited my friend in that dream. She found out later that during that dreaming time, her great-aunt HAD died. The dream visitation helped my friend in her grief.

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  16. Dreams are very much a part of life. I take them seriously, and don’t understand them in the beginning. But ‘working’ on them, maybe sketching it, pondering it, talking about them (in a dream group about once a month), helps bring it in focus. Dreams tell us what we need to know.

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    • I appreciate how well you explain dreams here! Or at least the little bit that we understand. Yes, I’ve taken dream workshops as well, and the fascinating part was how we listened to each others’ dreams and were able to interpret them in a way that the dreamer said, “aha!” And several have had psychic dreams or dreams with loved ones who have passed, which give them peace. Me? yes, I have a dream notebook and I journal on the ones that impact me the most.

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  17. Though I’m as sensitive as a brick myself I do take a great interest in the work of psychics, the spirit world, other dimensions. And I’m aware that some people have the gift of clairvoyance and that, through dreams or otherwise, they can ‘see’ things that others can’t. I can’t say that my dreams have had any significance, odd though they can be. So much mystery out there.

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    • “Sensitive as a brick” – ha. Not true, as proven in your books that I read, and your blog posts. I’ve actually taken dream workshops and the best I’ve learned is that dreams are universal (as are the themes) and that they show how similar we all are to each other. And that yes, many dreams are explicitly inexplicable. 🙂 Happy dreaming!

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  19. True story, Pam? I don’t think I’ve had a psychic dream, but I do believe that the world is far more interesting, complex, and mysterious than our puny little empirically-minded brains can understand. Just because we can’t perceive something and measure it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. To me, that would be a silly assumption. ❤ ❤ ❤

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    • This is a true story – all of it except Lillian’s name. I’ve written about her before. She was a huge influence in my life, although I’m not sure she knew it at the time. She does now (I know that, because she has visited me in my dreams from time to time.) Yes, I find it amusing that some human beings think we know it all, when we know so little. ❤

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  20. Most people can’t do these psychic things naturally. It appears that the subconscious does the work of sending and receiving. The barrier between the subconscious and conscious minds for free flow of information is too strong in most people so messages don’t get through. However, with meditation and practice to calm the chattering conscious ego, clairvoyance can certainly be done. The problem is that for most people it takes a lot of practice and it’s difficult to learn and easy to forget. A second problem is that to progress you need confirmation of what you saw. Few will confirm or even discuss. Many are at best skeptical and at worst hostile. All of that kills the ability quickly. And the incentive and encouragement to practice is lost. I had two times that what I saw was confirmed by the person involved. After that no one willing to talk. That ended both ability and practice.

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    • Thank you for your open and honest comment, Doug. Yes, I’ve been there also. People don’t want to hear my ‘woo woo’ experiences. When younger, I kept them to myself. When I was in my 40s I began to read some books that affirmed what I’d experienced – who knew others had also?? I began to trust my experiences. Not try to explain them, just trust them. And yes, still, not share them with too many people. But as you suggest, meditation and just plain stopping and BEing opens up to some fabulous unexplainables.

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  21. Oo, I love the eerie feeling this piece conveys and the idea of psychic dreams. It is such a strange feeling to come from a dream that feels so real or to get that feeling of deja vu sometimes and wonder where it stems from. 💚

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    • So many unanswered questions when we wake from a dream that is SO REAL, yet the people in them are unknown. Are they real? From another place/time? Who knows, but it’s worth our while to surmise, and to learn from whatever lesson they’re teaching us in the dream. And if it’s a forecast of the future …. do we pay attention? Or let it go and let what is to be, to be. ❤

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    • I think those of us who are creatives KNOW that there is more than what the eye can see. And yes, I like the way you explain that our brain is still such a mystery to us – so much unexplored, much like the ocean.

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  23. My dreams are too weird to be anything other than mumbo jumbo. But I have had a feeling of deja vu a couple of times in my life and don’t disbelieve that others may have a touch pf pyschic.

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  25. I saw your post but we’ve had the grandkids full-time for two weeks! It was fun.

    Well, this is such a commplicated issue, Pam! Chinese is known for palm reading . I briefly study about it and examined my right palm (left for male and right for female). According to the plam reading, a couple of palmar creases indicates that I have longivity but one line diverted from it indicates I might have a near death experience. The primary palmar creases were there when I was young. It would have caused anxiety to live with the “prediction.” I didn’t believe it and put the idea away. When I survived from cancer, I interpreted my palmar creases gave me an indication. Physiology would say the specific palmar creases patterns are influenced by genetics, ancestry, developmental factors, and even activity levels. I did notice my creases increased compared to my younger days. As far as dreams, I don’t have the “gift” to dream about the future.

    As a believer, I believe certain individuals in the past were called to be prophets.

    I don’t know too much about the modern days, though. Can people see the future or do they have stronger intuition to tune in to what might happen? In God, there’s no beginning and an end. He sees thousand years as one day and one day as thousand years. If man is made in his image and has God-like capacity, man may be able to see the universe as a continuum. It’s beyond our brain capacity to perceive the universe as a continuum and not limited to the time.

    It’s interesting that you recorded your dreams and tried to find the meanings of them.

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    • Thank you for such an in-depth post on your own experiences with palm reading and interpretation and your explanation of those who can see into the future. Maybe. Yes I was thinking about what you went through with your cancer and how you survived it. I would have no doubt that your palms would register this huge part of your life. I have always thought of Palm reading as a type of psychic intelligence.
      And I do believe that there have been prophets throughout humankind’s history. Who knows what is intuition and what is psychic experiences? And are they the same thing? Isn’t it a fun being a human with all these mysteries? 😇

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  27. Interesting story, Pam. I do believe in psychic dreams. I also enjoy dream interpretation. I think our subconscious minds reveal themselves in our dreams and it’s fun to envision another aspect of our selves.

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  30. Why not believe? Most of the time, my dreams are pleasant. Being a physicist , why not? When I was a young child in Germany, a woman told me that I would move far away, and I did. Gerlinde

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