Do you ever walk into those moments and get that feeling as if you traveled back in time or fell back into a dream you had? I deal with this every time I get a good night’s sleep. I have vivid premonitions and one day walk right into them at some future point in my life. The difference between this and Deja Vu is that I can remember the circumstances and details of the situation and describe them before they happen. I confirmed this with friends by talking about my dreams especially with the friends who were in the dreams and asking them to remember the conversation, only to creep them out when it happens.
Sometimes, I stop people I recognize from my dreams and confront them, only to find out I have never met them before and then later finding them enter my life again. It is like Quantum Leap but without the cross dressing and the holograms.
This has been going on since I was a child. I have studied it and wondered what I am supposed to do with the ability and what exactly it is. I’ve read some dismissive clinical explanations that were inaccurate to my experience and I’ve also heard many a nut job ramble about obvious hallucinations linked with their drug habits in early adulthood. I have discovered a few rules and distinctions that allow me to cope with the dreams.
Not all of my dreams are premonitions or they are sometimes tainted by the expression of subconscious fears/desires. When strong feelings are involved it can blur or twist the image. The circumstances are true but the outcome is different. People dismiss the dreams as useless if they cannot produce a consistent reliable result or probability. Yet I know when my fears/desires interfere with what I see and how it is effecting the vision. It is true that I can’t always rely on an outcome where strong feelings are involved, however, the circumstances are always correct. Our brains don’t keep time and I can only define a moment by the circumstances, environment and details surrounding it.
Environment is also a great time/location indicator. The smell of the air, the humidity, season are all available to my senses.
A premonition can flow into a dream. It can flow into one causing more confusion. Consciousness and lucidity sneak up on you as you begin to pay closer attention. This phenomenon functions like peripheral vision or super position in string theory. The instant I pay cognitive attention to the premonition, other more playful and imaginative parts of my brain take over.
Perhaps the obvious reasons for those who find it difficult to explain these phenomenon are as follows:
1. Describing smell and climate is difficult to do accurately. Anyone can write a poem to describe the romantic picture perfect moment, but capturing accurate intel from the future is more difficult.
2. Defining the endpoint. Interference from the conscious mind as the vision transitions over to a lucid dream get in the way of our vision. The end point is not the end of the dream. I at least don’t have convenient cues in my visions where the credits roll and the directors and stunt men are listed.
3. Strong emotions cannot be ignored by the subconscious and are placed appropriately into the vision. This is like taking the issues, moods, fears and desires of today and placing them on stage in the world of tomorrow. This is further convoluted by the emotions and imaginings of the future moment. My premonitions are visions of myself in my head; experiencing and interpreting an event. I not only see actions but thoughts as well. The events, thoughts and emotions are compressed together and it becomes difficult to distinguish them. This gift is not just the foretelling of the events but also foretelling of thoughts and mindsets if nothing is changed. Imagine a specific critical moment or emergency arising in your life and instead of responding, you freeze with fear, resulting in harm or suffering to yourself or others. Wouldn’t it be nice to know how you will handle a future crisis, allowing you to reaffirm your confidence or focus on change and preparation for that moment? It is quite a nice feature and anyone can do it.
4. Those same strong emotions that can be identified and separated in the vision, can change as they do in the present moment. The perceived future sent from my subconscious allows me to prepare for the possibility and I believe that is all one can hope to do.
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What is Going On?
I can’t rule anything out but I believe that we barely have an inkling of an idea of the capacity or capability of the human mind. I believe that the subconscious works with an emotional & logical computer that predicts events as if with mathematical formula. This is the nature of intuition, it is like math that can assign variables for emotions/
I recently dreamed I was on my friend’s boat, a large boat, maybe a houseboat or sail boat. I know it took place on a warm climate in a location that is foreign to me at the moment. I was confronted with someone who I couldn’t readily recall their name or recognize in the dream but they were from my past and also had a boat. If this were simply a dream, we’d all be dressed as pirates. The context and story I keep to myself, yet I am curious about the circumstances. I wonder where and when this moment will be? I trust it to come and believe it true just as I trust and believe in the next sunrise.
What do you do with the information given from the premonition?
If you strongly want it to happen or be prevented do not try and force a sequence of events and things into place. The mind is predicting these things given your natural tendencies so interfering by seeking to stop a series of events may not help and may only make matters worse. Why? Fear is predictable and can make us do stupid things. Genuine compassion or love on the other hand, is either harder to predict or given infinite possibility by the mind. It seems to be the only wild card, so only good things may surprise you! These genuine feelings are perhaps more complex. primal or buried more deeply in the human psyche or subconscious.
1. Write it down, every sight smell and circumstance.
2. At first, separate or take away any fears and desires. They are less reliable. Take away the elements you know you have strong feelings about and those are solid details to cling to.
3. You are often left with a vague event with specific circumstances, feelings and thoughts. Explore the thoughts and feelings and try to decide if they were appropriate for the moment. Then, encourage and develop the skills, behaviors and thought patterns that will bring those events into your life.
A scary, true, dramatic, crazy story.
Years before meeting my girlfriend, I had a premonition about rafting with some friends and a girlfriend, I did not know. I knew at the time that the girl was my girlfriend, and the people my friends. I could feel the mental association and their roles. I could smell the sweetness of cedar and bland minerals and metals of the water. The mountains I thought.
The girl and I were in a kayak, going down a river riddled with rapids in seemingly the desert. We hit a large rapid and crashed into a rock that crippled and flipped the kayak sending us overboard. I remember the temperature of the water and the bulging awkwardness of my life jacket. I swam to the girl and carried her to shore. She had drowned in the water. I remember the fear the most. The fear awoke my senses and I then interfered and lost the vision.
This was startling for several reasons. At the time, I was with another woman, so I found the experience scary and inconvenient foreshadowing. Also, I found it difficult to share the dream with anyone else other than closest friends who would remain unaffected by the change in social roles. Another basic reason I found the dream frightening the notion of dying or the death of a loved one especially right in front of you is traumatizing. I also didn’t think I knew enough about kayaking, white water rafting and tried to avoid dangerous activities that didn’t involve showing off or massive quantities of alcohol.
I wrote about the dream and wrote notes to become more comfortable on water and to master fears doing far scarier things than kayaking. The fear kept me in pursuit of knowledge, preparation and confidence. I was not going to let this all happen. I thought that I could keep things as they were if I worked hard to prevent change. The duh factor eventually kicked me in the forehead. Change is the only constant.
Well, life marched on and things changed. I changed. For several reasons I found myself to be an action/extreme outdoor sport junkie and a new woman was brought into my life. I did not recognize her from the dream until earlier this week, when we were putting into the water. My girlfriend had rented a raft, and it threw me off. Things did not click until, upon having the wrong oars and less experience on the raft that we traded with our friends onto the kayak. I immediately remembered the dream and thought to myself about cancelling the trip or changing positions. Instead of crapping my pants or trying to avoid the condition, I remembered that I was shown the events for a reason and I spent the whole trip on the water enjoying the experience and being confidentally aware and ever attentitive to the dangers.
We made it half way down our route, 10 miles down the East fork of the Carson river, to our camp site without a hitch. We got through the toughest section of the rapids without flipping over or hitting any rocks. After camping for a day and a half, I was slightly worried for the rest of the journey, noting if anything were to happen, it would happen on that day. I tried not to think about it and made sure to be extra attentitive when reading the river, rapids and rocks. My girlfriend often poked fun at my overly serious tone- which is often very Indiana Jones on all of my adventures. I made sure to make fun of myself as often as I could and we thankfully avoided calamity and arrived at our destination safely.
The Spooky Ending. Cue the Twilight Zone narrator.
I don’t know if I foresaw a different trip with the same people or if it was my fear that I percieved in the original vision and prepared myself for the possible outcome, thereby avoiding it altogether. Perhaps it is a parallel life or time continuum that I was peaking at in my sleep. One thing is for sure, it was not random neurons firing, or the brain completely at insignificant play. I am quite sure our brains are more capable than we give credit.
duh dunh duhhhh!
Over and out- Post rafting pix soon
