Laura

Prophetic …nightmares?

Have you ever had Deja-vu?

What about a premonition that later came true?

Or perhaps a reoccurring nightmare that ended up being a warning you should have heeded?

I’ve been playing around with the Playground AI and Deep AI generators, heh

I was recently discussing prophetic dreams with Marvellous Nightmare (and now I just realized she has the most appropriate name for this discussion, lol) – who happened to write a blog post in November 2022 about said types of dreams, and in that same exact week – I also wrote a blog post about premonitions and dreams.

Warnings.

Synchronicities are amazing – but when they happen in the past so profound like that, it leads to a higher level of understanding there must be so…much…more.

At the time I wrote said post, I truly felt like I was in Limbo – not sure what was going to happen but having that foreboding feeling of something was just not quite right.

The other night (or day, considering I am day-sleeper, thanks to working at night) I had what could only be considered a nightmare with some vile and nasty elements. I was walking barefoot through a most unsavory and disgusting filth that I care not to chronicle too closely, lest the images pop up in my mind’s eye again all too soon. 😅🤮

I was just as disgusted as you would be in waking life

And here, you thought – the woman who rants on and on about the moon and the sky and the stars and dreams…doesn’t have disgusting ones?

Yes, not all my dreams are happy and lovely.

Not at all.

Anyways. The point?

Elements contained in said dream have always pointed towards unfortunate events and future illness.

Some people may very well ask:

“Is it really prophetic? Or a self-fulfilling prophecy?”

That’s valid, in some manner. Perhaps if you see, hear, smell, or are exposed to something that is unpleasant, you may try to avoid that very thing, out of fear.

Or ignore it.

I’ve ignored warnings in the past, only to be put on my ass.

Some I’ve written very much in detail about here.

Deeper, darker, and more unsavory it goes – watch your step

What are prophetic dreams, anyways?

Well, they are dreams that predict or foretell future events, often in a way that is symbolic, metaphorical, or cryptic. These dreams can be vivid and memorable, and they may be so vivid that they seem to be trying to convey a message or warning. There is a multitude of reasons why researchers believe precognitive dreams may happen, too many to list here. However, the one that resonates with some people is that the brain has a unique ability to simulate telling future events, which allows us to imagine and anticipate what might happen. This ability may be responsible for the creation of prophetic dreams, which can be seen as a manifestation of our brain’s simulation capabilities. Also, we can anticipate future events through our dreams, with the way certain energies stand now in our current lives. The brain loves to recognize patterns and connections.

But what about when it happens months or years in advance? How is that explained?

Is it a sign? A warning? Or just my mind?

Some prophetic dreams (nightmares?) have had such profound significance that they are remembered in history. One notable example is the dream of Calpurnia, the wife of Julius Caesar, who foresaw a terrible fate befalling her husband. She begged him to stay home, but he ignored her warnings and ultimately met his demise (he was stabbed to death).

Similarly, President Abraham Lincoln had a prophetic warning dream. Three days before his assassination, he shared his dream with his wife and friends. The authenticity of this account is verified by Ward Hill Lamon, a companion who recorded the conversation, providing a valuable historical record for dream historians.

And many more unfortunate events have been reported to be accessed precognitively through dreams. In contrast, we can have a wonderful dream, something that allows our intuition to find a solution to a problem we’ve long been seeking an answer. The mind tends to remember the negative more intensely, however.

For reference, I had to make note of what I felt were similarities in the posts from November 2022:

“Once in a while I happen to have a prophetic dream. Unfortunately, I used to ignore the message they contained as if it was a product of my imagination.

Nonetheless, life shows that I should pay more attention to them, because they often contain various warnings, which could help me, if I paid enough attention.” – Marvellous Nightmare’s post here.

And from my own:

“Have you ever had a premonition?

Or deja-vu? You just knew something would happen?

Or have you ever had a dream about something – not knowing for sure what the dream meant at the time, but then months…maybe even years later, it means something?

I have problems with this. All the time.”

Haha, maybe if I wore my Catwoman costume in dreams? Come on, you know I have to try and inject some humor 😅

Because I know people won’t click the links anyways. 😉 I’ll just make my point in said post, as it were.

So, where am I going with all of this? Is there a rhyme or reason? It took me several days to write this post, as well.

It means to me, that within this dream that I know has certain elements which foretell bad things coming, that I must actually be careful with my next steps, quite literally. Since it relates directly to my health or future events surrounding, I’m trying not to travel down a bad path (pun…intended?) of filth, disgust, waste and make it a point to…take care of myself.

In fact, I’ve received a few messages recently that I need to overhaul my life and bring it into balance. I happened to call out of work last night so I could rest my body. 4th overnight 12-hour shift in a row? No, I’m good. I think I’ll keep on the path of prioritizing myself, so I don’t end up in a situation months down the road where I’m asking, “Damn, why didn’t I listen, again?”

So, thank you for making it this far.

And now, I have a question for you too, dear reader.

Prophetic dreamer or not – Have you ever received a warning, an intuitive hit, a download of information from your subconscious, or your gut, that you knew you should’ve listened to at the time, but didn’t?

I would love to know your thoughts.

Gratitude, always.

“The dream is specifically the utterance of the unconscious. just as the psyche has a diurnal side which we call consciousness, so also it has a nocturnal side: the unconscious psychic activity which we apprehend as dreamlike fantasy.” – The Practical Use of Dream Analysis” (1934) – CG Jung

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    • Very important to listen to yourself, always. I’m the same as well 😊 we shouldn’t take on more, anyways, there’s already too much as it stands now, haha 😆

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      • Yes, it was years ago but often I have to remind myself that there are only so many hours in the day. So, prioritize. I have cut down on work and more often say no to new projects. Take good care of you, Laura!

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      • Thank you for that, Alice. 🙏 Much appreciated, and I still have struggles with saying no sometimes it seems. I remember you said in another post what gives you peace is prioritizing your time, which is so insightful. Most definitely 😊

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  3. I’m not, but my mom is. She’ll be telling me all about her dreams, which often involve sick or dying people. I’m glad that I don’t have those kinds of dreams. Most of the time, I sleep pretty well, except for the occasional jumping out of bed in the middle of the night due to PTSD.

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    • Oh, bless you 🙏 PTSD can bring on some awful nightmares, so anyone who has it, I definitely don’t want them to experience anything harmful.
      Your mom sounds like she has some interesting experiences and stories. Most definitely, it can be difficult and hard to go through and not knowing if it has a specific meaning or not

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  4. Fascinating Laura ❤ and I get a completely different perspective, because I too have lived with vivid dreams all my life (lol)! This is the time to notice, were you hurt or just observing? You said you have been burning the candle at both ends, so could be exhaustion and work overload. I’m hoping nothing prophetic, but hay Nostradamus had some epic forecasts! Please get some good rest love and honestly this dream screams you need pampering!

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    • Awesome, so you know how it is. It’s one of my gifts…curses? Lol to have vivid, strong dreams. I wasn’t hurt, more so just walking along but I was disturbed, obviously. Thanks for bringing that up – that’s an important element I didn’t consider. Yes, I honestly just woke up, slept a lot, and will be taking my own advice and doing some self-care. Absolutely exhaustion, you hit the nail on the head. 😊 ❤️ 🙏

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  5. My dreams are also vivid and memorable, Laura. I’ve come to enjoy them as I’ve grown older, perhaps because I understand them better. There was a time when I had frequent “bad man” dreams. I was being stalked, hunted down. I was in fear. I learned to have lucid dreams and faced my demons.

    It was important in that at the time I was in an abusive marriage. As I took control of my dreams, I took control of my life. I picked up the kids and left–with nothing. And we all were better for it.

    Now, I see family and friends on both sides of this world all of us together. On the other hand, I still have PTSD dreams from caring for my last husband with Alzheimer’s disease. In those dreams, I’m an incapable caregiver. I need to get back in those dreams with some lucidity to change this.

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    • I work to understand mine too, glad to know you are enjoying them and they are vivid and memorable for you, Mary! I work with lucid dreams if I can, as well. It’s an awesome feeling.
      So sorry to hear about your struggles 🙏 and the abusive marriage. Taking that control must have felt so, so powerful and needed in every way.
      Very impactful story you’ve shared.
      And you being a caregiver on top of it all, you are so strong, and kind and that type of love is amazing. 🙏 your comment really means the world to me, and I thank you. And I’m so happy you are in a better place, as it is well-deserved. You are such a beautiful guide for people in life. 😊

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  6. You quoted Jung and he was in my mind all the time while I was reading this post. He said that there’s a part of our psyche that’s outside the boundaries of space and time. I had prophetic dreams, and also other sorts of dreams that were powerful and gave me insights I needed at a time. Now I usually don’t remember my dreams. Guess I’m a bit out of touch with my subconscious mind.

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    • I don’t think you are out of touch at all. If anything, you’re probably more aware than most. There’s definitely an outside of space and time and I think we know it more than we can quantify. I love when our dreams can give us insights! 😊

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      • I guess there’s more than one way of being in touch with your subconscious mind. When it comes to space and time, they say the way we percieve it is deceiving, so the place outside space and time in our psyche might be the place where we actually experience things as they are. I had a phase where I would have a dream referring to that day and it would come true, what I dreamt would happen. And I also had other experiences in dreams that gave me quite insight. Dreams really are the language of our subconscious.

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      • Somehow this comment got lost in the shuffle! Sorry about that 😊 and that’s a great concept to ponder! They absolutely do lend to much insight and can really be helpful for us.

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  8. So I would pay very close attention and take the dreams rather seriously, which it seems you’re doing.

    HOWEVER, even if one is generally intuitive and aware and ‘knows things’, habits are very tricky. It’s very hard to slow down and pay attention at a bodily level. I tend to think that if you weren’t able to affect the situation somewhat, the dreams would probably not come, or come so clearly. Indeed sometimes it’s anxiety playing out in the nightmare, which isn’t good either, but your feeling is that it’s prophetic or at the least, playing with time in an interesting way. I’d listen. I’d do all the things you do for yourself when you are in a good place, and maybe spend quiet time talking with/listening to your body. Some people would think that’s a weird suggestion, but my therapist first got me to actually take time this way and I’ve found it helpful.

    It’s weird that my son and I were talking about recurring dreams in the car today, since he had some nightmares last night, and I had an amazing recurring dream situation that I wrote about at some point but may share again. I have a lot of dreams that feel recurring but are not. The places I’m in, I would swear 1000% if you asked me in the dream, that I’ve been there many times. And I’ve had really wonderful premonistic dreams, plus premonistic dreams that meant nothing important. I once dreamed about losing my keys and then found myself wandering the path between the kids’ school and my then house, looking for keys when I remembered it. I dreamed of my oldest daughter’s eyes before she was born.

    But, I also had recurring anxiety dreams about traffic things before a bad accident once. Like you describe I brushed them off. When the accident happened it was a miracle it wasn’t worse than it could have been. It wasn’t my fault, but I was NOT paying attention on the road the way I should have been. If I had, maybe I couldn’t have avoided it.

    Not to be too intense about it, but it seems to me you have a sense of this. I don’t think anything is a given where these things are concerned, and sometimes it IS anxiety working itself through. I’d really consider whether what the filth you’re walking through in the nightmare is, and see if you have a sense of where it’s coming from. Maybe you need to equip yourself with something? Also, remember the mud dream I had weeks ago? I described something similar with the mud being not nice mud, but really disgusting. Then I wrote about ‘no mud no lotus’ later. I’m still unpacking that dream, honestly.

    Hm, sorry for writing a tome!

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    • Thank you so much for writing such a detailed reply, I love to hear your thoughts on this! 😊 And yes, paying attention, trying not to just dismiss it! As you know, being intuitive it can be tricky to know what is actually what, what is a warning, what is anxiety, what can be dismissed.
      Listening to your body doesn’t sound weird at all, it’s one of the things my mentor always tells me about too. And so often we don’t do that. I actually have my manager messaging me now, asking if I’d like to come into work tonight since I didn’t go yesterday – nope, nope, NO! lol. 😆
      That’s a very true facet you mention, that if it were just impending and going to happen, it may not give me a warning that I can change it.
      So sorry to hear your son had some nightmares, hope he is feeling better now. 🙏 Definitely, if you’d like to share about your own recurring dreams, that would be awesome. I have had them too, about mundane things (like the keys – but what a helpful dream!), and your daughter’s eyes…wow, that sounds so beautiful. And yes, premonistic dreams too about wonderful things, it’s always these crappy things I think that scare us and make us pay attention closer. haha. 😅And yes, have been through that “this has happened before” but then it…hasn’t?

      Oh wow, the traffic and accident dreams are so scary. SO glad you are ok. ❤️ and yes, this happens to me too. I feel like when it’s something that could really alter our reality, like something impending, the warning is that much stronger. It’s like the warning I received with the tire in my car. I should’ve listened closer and just replaced it – but luckily it wasn’t as bad because I had that prior warning.

      No worries on the intense part, I definitely can relate! I do think we have a deep inner sense of things, as well sometimes. 😊

      Yes! The mud dream! Actually, as I was making the pictures with the generator and as few came up, I was thinking of your mud dream and how it was somewhat similar – trudging through the mud. Yes, I think I will be unpacking this one for a little bit, or just making sure I am taking steps (LOL, what other way to say it) to be healthy and more aware. How are you feeling now? Do you still feel a bit stuck?
      I really appreciate you diving into the deep end with me on this, it is so, so appreciated! 🙏❤️ And I hope you write about yours too, if you want to, of course!

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      • If anything, I’m glad to be here for validation. Sometimes I think the confusion, or whatever we want to call it, is what we’re learning from… that the confusion wants to open up to clarity, and one is just supposed to follow it through to the other side.

        Good for you, not letting yourself get drawn into work. This is important work, too. 🙂

        I’m having some movement, so I’m not sure how to answer the stuck question. 🙂 Need to dig deeper.

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      • Thank you so much. 🙏 That means everything. And I agree that confusion can lead to clarity. At least I hope it does. In many ways, it causes us to question, so then we start to ponder what’s really important.
        I’ve gotten sucked into work too much before and it’s been detrimental. So I know when I need to slow it down, lol 😆
        Dig deeper! I’ll be here 😊

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  9. I’d only say this because you shared and asked for input. I didn’t want my Mom to go on vacation right after Thanksgiving, I had a bad feeling. I did say “I don’t want you to go”…and as you know she was injured on vacation due to morons and I’ve not seen her since. She is under medical care on the east coast. I’m here manning the fort with the kittles while my sister travels for work and stays with my mom on days off to help my other sister, who cares for her so she is at home.

    I wish I’d picked the little thing up and run off with her now….

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    • I’m so, so very sorry that it was that feeling you had 😢 sometimes things like that happen, and we feel awful for it after. I truly hope and pray your mom recovers well, I know you must be missing her so much! Healing thoughts and intentions to you, I can most certainly feel your pain through this. And take care of those kitties! (I know you do, so well!) ❤️

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  11. Prophetic dreams are real however it’s best to ignore them simply because they don’t have a scientific hold or that there is no clear study or method that could interpret them. It’s like something tapping on your ignorance. There are tangible ways to reduce their effect on life by simply holding steadfast to the things you can count on. For example, i don’t know if your religious or no though reciting Hail Mary atleast once does have a control on the paranormal.

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    • Thank you for your input, I just saw this comment 😊 nice to have your perspective and I agree it could sometimes be an irritant to look into in terms of trying to interpret them.

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