Curious if anyone can report dreams with intuitive insights or premonitions. They say the Alpha state (kind of pre-sleep dooziness) lends itself to such things.
Every once in a while, I will have a very specific dream with very specific details. It's kind of like turning on a movie for 5 seconds in the middle of the film and seeing everything out of context. I'm left wondering things like, "What is that room? Why am I there? What is the situation? How did I know to say that?"
For instance, once I had this dream of being in a large room with white walls and tile floors. There was an echo-y sound in the acoustics of the room. Other people were standing around in the room. I had the feeling I knew these people, but at the I time I dreamed this, I didn't recognize the room or the people. Someone approached me and asked me a question, and I sat down on a wooden bench and wrote "SARAIVA" on a small scrap of paper and gave it to the person. Then the dream ended.
So I wake up thinking, "What was that word? How did I even know that word? How did my brain even come up with a word that random in a dream? Why was I writing it down? What was this about??"
Fast forward a couple of years. I'm in Spain for a language course. I'm in a building. The room has tile floors and white walls. Other people are standing around talking. This Brazilian guy and his wife had just moved into my apartment, and one of his friends came up to me and asked me if I could get the guy's phone number, because he wanted to connect with him, but he had already left. I said, "sure," and sat down on a wooden bench that was nearby. I tore out a little piece of paper from a notebook I had and wrote my apartment mate's name, "Saraiva" and his phone number on the paper.
At that instant, I suddenly remembered the dream. Everything was in its exact configuration. It was like an extreme version of deja vu. I was like, "I've seen myself doing this before!" It was very surreal.
This has happened to me a few other times. One was when I was in the car driving to the place where I would meet David for the first time. David later became my husband. But at the time, I was NOT thinking there would be any romantic interest whatsoever. It was just a meeting over a marketing project. Other times have been SUPER random and seemingly not connected to anything important at all, kind of like the "Saraiva" one. But they're always oddly specific like that...like they always have some detail that would disqualify any "random" situation from matching the dream.
I have one dream like this that's still "pending" (as in, I've dreamed it but it hasn't happened in real life yet). In the dream, I have just ridden an elevator to a very high floor in a tall skyscraper that is faced with window glass on the entire outside of it. I get out of the elevator and walk into a posh-looking office. I can see down the hall to the end office, probably where the big boss works. The end office door is open and I can see out the windows. I notice that we are very high up above the horizon. To my right is a reception desk, and to my left is a seating area with couches that have dark-colored, stiff-looking leather squares as seat cushions. I go over and talk to the receptionist about an appointment I am arriving for. She says, "Great! He is expecting you. You can just walk down to the end of the hall and go in his office." I'm dressed in a suit and heels. The suit is a light color, like fawn with a hint of lilac. (It's not a clothing item I currently own.) I start walking down the hall, and the dream ends.
We'll see if this one ever happens.
Anyway... whenever this has happened to me, the way I process it is just to conclude, "Hmmm, God saw me doing this before I did it, and he even gave me a glimpse into it myself."
The idea is if you make reality checking a habit in real life, you are likely to start performing them in dreams, giving you a reliable way to notice you are dreaming.
I do the opposite. When I'm in a dream, and I notice, "This is a dream," instead of doing a reality check for something normal, I check for something awesome and fun that I can't do in real life. Like, "Hey that means I can fly just by jumping!" I try it out and it works, confirming that I'm in a dream. It's super fun. I'm always SO bummed when those dreams end.
(I guess this implies that you have to have a way of noticing it's a dream in the first place... but for me, that tends to happen automatically without me trying, which has been the case ever since I was a child.)
The other thing that happens to me with those kinds of dreams is that sometimes I'll have a recurring dream, so when I get into one of those, I'm like, "YES! I get to explore this world further than I did last time." I typically just "go on an adventure" with these dreams to see what wacky, bizarre things my brain comes up with to surprise me, rather than trying to control the dream.
The intriguing thing is, my brain does surprise me. But my brain that gets "surprised" is the same brain that came up with the surprise. Somehow. But I wasn't consciously thinking through the plot twist. It just felt like it "happened."
This boggles my mind to no end when I think about it.
