Am I nuts or do you believe in this?

[Patryn]

I had a dream last night, very vivid, about an old friend whom I've lost touch with. Now, this is odd for a couple of reasons...I don't usually remember my dreams, and I rarely think about this person.

We didn't have any argument, just drifted apart after High School, but in this dream he was glad to see me again and we had quite the nice conversation. Nothing "dreamy" about it really, no one turned into someone else, I didn't come to work nekkid, no trees talked to me...you know what I mean.

Now, maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part (and I'm almost positive it is) but do you think it's possible that this living person was thinking about me at that time, and I just picked up on it, if you will? I'd sure like to think so...and maybe that's why I do. I realize the more likely reason is that he just popped into my mind at some point, and therefor into my dream.

 

[Bobtoad777]

No your not nuts and yes I do believe in this. this will freak out Deborah. But I think that even though I am Christian, I find that everyone that we meet we intrinsically become connected with even if seperated by time and distance. And that because of that we can sometimes reach unconsciously out to one another and that if we are in tune with ourselves we can sense that reaching out. Now of course I believe that this all relates back to our original perfect creation and something that we lost full capability of due to extenuating circumstance due to choices made. But I will stop ramblinb now.

BTW, how are you feeling today, is the pain easing up any Patryn, I have been keeping you in my thoughts.

 

[Patryn]

Thanks bobtoad, and yes it is. I only took one pain pill today, and that was this morning. It's now 6 pm here, so I'd say I'm doing pretty well.

And no, I wasn't on anything when I had that dream.

The only reason I ask is that this this friend "told" me in the dream a few things I know he never would have if we'd been face to face. But like I said, maybe it's just what I would have wanted to hear had he been there. I'm not ruling it out of course, there are more things in heaven and earth than we can explain after all. And 90% of our brain that no one's really sure what it does.

In either case, I think I'll give him a call, but I'll leave the dream part out, at least for now.

 

[Bobtoad777]

No problem Patryn your right about a lot of things that we cannot explain, and i didn't mean to imply you were on anything when you had the dream if that was what came across.

Take care of yourself as well.

By the way has the bunny stopped his door rattling?

 

[Latina]

Yes, dreams CAN be eerily on target!

Mother-in-law told me she woke up one night screaming from a nightmare, that her favorite aunt had died and was calling goodbye to her. Two days later she got a letter that her favorite aunt had died.

Husband (owns an antique car) once dreamt he was at a car show, talking with another car collector named John, who had saved his antique car from a farmer's barn that was about to be torn down. In the dream, John made a point of stating that the car was made in 1916. Very next day, my Frank got a letter from a man named John, asking for information on where to find spare parts to restore a 1916 car he had saved from a farmer's barn that was about to be torn down. HOW did his dream hit ALL of those details so right on target?

"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy" (is that accurately quoting Shakespeare?).

 

[Jade]

Stuff like that has happened too much for it to be coincidence.

We are all connected in some way or another and all of us have some degree of 6th sense related abilities.
Perhaps yours is through dreaming.

No matter, if the dream was THAT intense and you could physically "feel" what happened in the dream... then I say call him. What have you got to lose?

(I stand awaiting my indefinite bantering and criticism from a Lasher or Dixon here shortly!)

 

[Patryn]

Yeah, Jade, I'm expecting that too. Will I care when it shows up? I might if it's well put and intelligent.

I think I will give him a call. I'm romantically involved with a great guy right now, but the guy in my dream was also a great friend, and IMO you can never have too many of them.

I guess I just doubt it because it seemed so real. Maybe that's the very reason I shouldn't doubt it.

 

[Renee]

I so many "for instances", that I don't know which one to tell you...so I will tell you this one...

I used to date a person who meant very much to me, he was my best friend for years... anyway, I haven't seen him now in 10 years. We don't talk, don't see each other, and have no mutual contacts... no fights, just drifted apart due to other reasons... anyway... I had this dream, where I was walking down the street and passed by a cemetary... I looked in and saw his name on a tomb stone. I was very upset and in this dream I searched for his family to have them tell me what had happened... his grandmother whom I was very close to too had passed away when we were 17 was also in my dream she told me that I needed to listen to what was being said and learn from it. That the pain I was feeling for losing him so quickly w/out warning, would help me through what I was to experience.

I woke up and was upset over the dream, yet, I didn't quite understand it. Two weeks later, My grandfather had a massive heart attack and died. He was a very healthy man and he had just been to the doctor two weeks before for his 6 month check up... where they did an EKG and all signs were fine. So we had no idea that this was coming.. it was a total shock. However, my dream had warned me about it.

Now, two years later, I had this same exact dream... and 2 days later, my UNCLE died from a heart attack.. again out of the blue.

Anyway there is more to this story but I am tired of typing.. lol. You get the idea. My husband said that he thinks that the two of us just had a special connection and somehow know when the other is going through or will be going through hard time. I believe that, but I also wonder.. when he does come to me in my dreams... am I in his dreams that night too??? I'd love to know.

 

[Sammyjo]

I've had these things happen to me, too. Of course, I have powers...Xander can attest to this...

I had this friend in high school, we ended up working on a project together, and later found out that we were born on the same day, in the same hospital. Ever since that day, we had this connection, sort of like sisters. Anyway, one night, I had this dream about her, and when I woke up, I was very confused. I had this overwhelming sadness, and sense of loss, I was drenched in sweat. I got to school and found out that she had died at the exact moment that I woke up.

I've had dreams about my "friend" in Toronto, only to hear from him that he's had the exact same dream on the same night.

 

[Laurel]

Speaking of Dreams...

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001012/hl/dreams_1.html

Yes, Dreams Are Strange And Here's Why

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Much has been made about the psychology and symbolism of dreams. Now, scientists suggest they may have discovered why dreams are often just plain weird.

Seeking to find what brain areas orchestrate dreams, researchers had three groups of people play the computer game Tetris. Two groups included 'normal' study participants, while the third consisted of amnesia patients.

After hours of extensive Tetris playing, participants in all groups dreamt of ``Tetris imagery''--typically, game pieces falling in front of their eyes. Most importantly, amnesiacs had visions of Tetris pieces even though they had no memory of ever playing the game, according to the report in the October 13th issue of Science.

This suggests that dreams do not replay memories, but instead flash concepts before the dreamers' sleeping eyes, the authors report. In an interview with Reuters Health, Robert Strickgold of Harvard Medical School (news - web sites) in Boston, Massachusetts, said that this explains the seeming illogic of dreams.

According to Strickgold, animal research has shown that during the dream stage of sleep, a brain area called the hippocampus is effectively shut off. The hippocampus governs ''episodic memory''--those distinct memories of recent events that amnesiacs do not have. This study, Strickgold said, supports the idea that the human brain does not draw on episodic memory during dreams.

Instead, the brain pulls images and concepts together. This, according to Strickgold, explains why amnesiacs and people with intact memory would all dream of Tetris images and not of actually playing the game. In a larger sense, Strickgold noted, the findings may explain why dreams are more symbolic than logical.

SOURCE: Science 2000;290:350-353.

 

[Lasher]

(I stand awaiting my indefinite bantering and criticism from a Lasher or Dixon here shortly!)

I'd have to double check the Rule Book, but I think this is Dixon's area...

 

[GuyJD]

RIGHT THERE WITH YOU, PAT

You're not nuts, Pat. I believe that dreams, often the ones with friends or loved ones in them, have meaning.
Some time ago, somewhere in early 1988, I had a dream that I had purchased my brother's 1968 canary yellow Pontiac Firebird for a $200 (hey, I can dream, can't I-LOL). I loved that car to death. Then, in the dream, the car was stolen the next day. I was upset and my father had come outside to confront me about the car. For some reason, my Dad stood in front of me and then squatted in disbelief that the car was stolen. But I, realizing that my Dad was no longer with me, hugged him from behind. The funny facts of that dream was:
(A) My brother sold that car back in 1982 to a childhood friend of his,
(B) As mentioned earlier, my Dad died in early 1987,
(C) In 1986, I bought a 1976 Chevy Silverado Pickup from my brother for $200 but not a 1968 Firebird, but most weird,
(D) The dream took place at my grandparents house that they had moved from around 1969.
My only assumption of a meaning to that dream was that it involved everything and everyone from my past that/whom I missed dearly.

 

[Ramlick]

Nonsense.

 

[teresafannin]

Hello Patryn, I am glad you seem to feeling better. I have been thinking about you a lot this week. I used to be the ultimate sceptic, but not anymore. The dreams I had about my first husband & my son being together were so real. I felt them both telling me that they were all right & it was time for me to be all right too. There are so many things out there we don't understand & scientists can't explain. I say call your friend, you can never have too many.

 

[Latina]

Responding to Laurel's posting on dream research.

OK, I understand that dreams can tie togeher half-forgotten memories in powerful and eerie ways. But that still doesn't explain the dreams that tell someone something that is happening at that moment, thousands of miles away, like death of a loved one. Or dreams that predict events that occur a day or two AFTER the dream, and contain details the dreamer could not POSSIBLY have know. Like Frank's dream I mentioned, about a man named John saving a 1916 car from a farmer's barn that was about to be torn down, and then the next day Frank received a letter from a man named John who wrote that he had just saved a 1916 car from a farmer's barn that was about to be torn down (they would have buried the car under the rubble of the barn if this John hadn't rescued that car). The dream could not have been based on memories, since the letter arrived the day AFTER the dream, and contained the SAME details as the dream. Obviously, something more than recombining old memories in new ways is at work in these cases.

With all the DNA and brain resarch underway, there is bound to be an explanation for such phenomena some day soon. I do not buy into theory that something we cannot explain MUST be caused by some divine intervention. Most such divine events have eventually been found to have not-so-divine natural causes. I just say we don't know the causes yet in cases like these. But I hope that we will soon. And I don't think the world will be less romantic when such phenomena are no longer mysterious--just less frightening, and romantic in NEW ways.

-- Latina

 

[Aranian]

Analyzing dreams is like analyzing poetry. The more you want to believe that there's actually some sort of meaning to all of the worthless gibberish, the more likely you are to actually invent one.
17-6

 

[TN_Vixen]

I believe in it. It has happened to me. That's all I'm going to say.

 

[Never Again]

I don't believe in it, it's happened to me. That's all I'm going to say.

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