Can Dreams Predict the Future?
Some dreams contain portents for the future, but we must know how to distinguish between precognition and psychological content. Examples from studies show that sometimes dreams may give an overview of what may happen, but the details may change. Mystics argue that the future is not set but can be changed by our free will.
Hopes and fears for the path ahead
Dreams that predict the future may show unexpected events, pitfalls, and opportunities, but the fact is that you have free will and can choose your path. We may already hope or fear that certain things will happen, and the unconscious will oblige with a ‘psychic dream’ that may be more about our own fears than things that will happen.
It is important to be sensible, discriminate against our dreams, and not assume that everything revealed is a prophecy for the future.
How to tell if a dream is about the future
My experience shows that dreams about the future have a unique quality. You awake from the dream, ‘knowing’ that it is about the future. These dreams usually have a strangeness, but at least they are rarely frightening or upsetting for me. Even disastrous events appearing in a psychic dream are experienced with calmness and sometimes with a sense of disinterest. The non-attachment may show that the dream is less about my own anxieties and could be a prediction or premonition of actual events.
Questions to ask about the dream
If you are in doubt, you can ask a few questions about the dream to determine whether it concerns the future.
- Was the dream exceptionally vivid?
- Are there any elements that seem particularly bizarre or don't make sense?
- Does the dream include things that have never happened?
- Does the dream include people you've never met?
- Is the dream set in situations you've never before encountered?
- Is the emotional content unrelated to your feelings?
Signs, Stories, and Symbols:
Sometimes, dreams contain the strangest signs of the future, and the sleeping mind may latch on to the oddest predictions. A famous dream in the UK happened to William Cavendish-Bentinck, the sixth Duke of Portland. While involved in preparations for the 1901 coronation procession of King Edward VII, he dreamed one night that the royal coach got stuck in the arch at the Horse Guards.
Disturbed by the dream, he ordered that the arch be measured the next day. “To my astonishment,” he said, “we found that the Arch was nearly two feet too low to allow the coach to pass through.” It had been many years since the coach had passed through the arch, and over the years, the level of the road had been raised by resurfacing work. The Duke had the road lowered, and the procession went smoothly.
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