Precognitive Dreams

Some are blessed with precognitive abilities while others are blessed with a sound sleep. I say this because, precognitive abilities mostly manifest themselves through dreams, people who claim to have precognitive experiences often receive premonitions in dreams.

Precognitions of the future often use the gateway of sleep to enter your mind; your mind or brain processes the information it receives and gives you an indication of having received a precognition of your future. Once your mind tells you that, you begin to believe that you have had a premonition, rather precognition and that you know something of what's going to happen in the future.

The idea of knowing your future is not always as interesting as it sounds. Precognitive experiences are not as exciting as they seem to be. And how can they? How can knowing something you are not supposed to, be pleasant? How can interpreting information that your brain is not designed to process be interesting? The idea of having knowledge about the future is actually thrilling, there is this strange kind of attraction towards the paranormal phenomena, because of which the thought of having precognitive dreams seems exciting.

Precognitive Dreams: Definition

What are precognitive dreams? Precognitive dreams are dreams that foretell incidents of the future. Precognition dreams are often correlated to premonition dreams; there's a small difference though. While premonition is necessarily used to refer to a feeling of evil to come, precognition implies knowing the future. Precognitive dreams are those types of dreams which give knowledge of the future. Precognitive dreams give future sight; which means that an individual acquires future information that cannot be deduced through sensory perception. Precognitive dreams convey information that is not derivable from presently available data. This is something beyond normal human understanding and this makes precognitive dreams, a parapsychological process of perception. Precognitive dreams provide the means to obtain information that is not quite obtainable through one's physical senses. They may foretell a future event, predict its result or provide information about an object, location or person. Precognition in dreams is a form of communication that requires no physical channel. It is a form of extra-sensory perception, close to clairvoyance.

Precognitive Dream Research

Who can Have Precognitive Dreams?
Research in the field of precognitive dreams has brought about many facets of precognitive dreaming. It has been observed that precognitions are associated with that part of the brain which controls feelings. It has been found that individuals with a creative bent of mind receive precognitions of better clarity. Also, the rate of those precognitions turning true is higher in creative people. It is also observed that individuals who practice yoga or meditation on a regular basis receive clearer precognitions of the future and the rate of those turning true is again higher in this group of people. The inference is that people who can better disconnect themselves from the worldly things, and those who can better tune themselves to a particular situation, have greater chances of receiving precognitions related to the situation they are in. This means, you have chances of receiving precognitions about things you are best tuned in to. Greater emotional involvement in someone or something leads your mind to imagine future occurrences pertaining to that person or object, which might give you a feel of having precognitions about it. And they can turn true; sometimes for occult reasons, sometimes for reasons clearly seen and at times it's sheer coincidence.

Now if you asked me how to be a precognitive dreamer, I'd say, there is no specific answer to this. But yes, getting yourself deeply involved in the situation at hand may increase the chances of having precognitions about the outcome of that situation. If you want to know about the outcome or future of something, merely expecting precognitions won't work. Instead, sleep over the thought, register it in your mind and without even you knowing about it, your subconscious will start processing the thought, and who knows? You could find your answer next morning! It might just come to you through, what could be called a precognitive dream!

Precognitive Dream Examples
Precognitive dream research has recorded some classic examples of precognitions in dreams. One is of Abraham Lincoln who is supposed to have had a dream of a funeral at the White house, just two weeks prior to his assassination. The dream had him asking someone about who was in the casket, to which "President of the United States" had been the reply. Another example is of Mark Twain's precognitive dream, in which he had seen his brother in a casket. Unfortunately, a week later, his brother died. The question in both these situations is that could the precognitive dreamers have changed their future. Would it have been possible for Lincoln to take more safety precautions on the night he was killed? Would it have been possible for Mark Twain to warn his brother about death? One more example of a precognition in dreams was with the sinking of Titanic. After the ill-fated ship sank, there were reports of many having canceled their trip on account of precognitive dreams they had about the shipwreck. Reportedly, there were some who could interpret their dreams the right way and save their lives, while there were many others who did not pay heed to their dreams and succumbed.

Precognitive Dreaming and Psychic Powers
Precognitive dreams have always been associated with psychic abilities. Supposedly, individuals who possess phychic powers more commonly have prophetic dreams, and precognitive experiences are a form of psychic dreaming. Psychic dreams can be in the form of telepathy, that is when there is no physical communication channel and the communication is believed to take place from mind to mind. Or they can be in the form of precognitive dreams, which means that an individual receives precognitions about the future through dreams. The concept of precognitions in dreams is not new. You will find instances of precognitive dreams in the Bible. In the ancient times, dreams were believed to be messages from God. Precognitive dreaming is closely related to dream divination and prophetic dreams, which, according to Hebrew prophets can be of help in changing the future. It should be understood that prophetic dreams give you a chance to change the future while precognitive dreams give you an indication of what the future holds for you and there are less chances of changing it.

Precognitions in dreams are considered to be about events which are not under your control. However, it is considered possible to interpret them right and take the necessary precautions. The technique of lucid dreaming can help you change the future based on your precognitive dreams. A lucid dreamer is aware of his dream and can participate in manipulating what is happening in the dream. Hence, technically, one you might be able to change the future by changing what's seen in one's precognitive dream.

Precognitions in dreams can also be attributed to intuition; it's a gut feeling about whether something is right or wrong; it's a feeling you can't give reason for. Intuition manifests itself through dreams that seem to be indicative of the future. Often this intuition is based on the knowledge you have acquired over a large span of time and that which is stored in your subconscious mind. Feelings emerging at the subconscious level have no logical reasoning. The subconscious mind knows no bounds and can go beyond the known realms of human knowledge and understanding.

Precognitions in Dreams and Precognitive Abilities
As stated earlier, there are some people who possess precognitive abilities, or that they claim so. While some regard precognitive experiences as co-incidences and precognitive abilities as fake, there are others who proclaim precognitive abilities as being God's bliss. Theories state that there is nothing mystic about precognitive abilities. Precognition is merely a transfer of energy through non-recognizable channels. Precognitive abilities can manifest themselves in dreams, flashes or through intuition. Studies show that there are in fact quite a few individuals blessed with precognitive abilities, but they fail to recognize them. It is said, that the more you use your precognitive abilities, the better, as recognizing and using your precognitive experiences for the right, sharpens your ability to do so. Ironically, many a precognitive experiences go unnoticed as they are not recognized as indications of the future.

I think, precognitive abilities is something a few of us are endowed with; it is up to us to recognize them and put them to good use. I think precognitive abilities is something you have or you don't and that developing precognition may not always be in your hands. But it can be made possible to a certain extent at times and the key to developing precognitive abilities is understanding precognitions. Precognitions can come in dreams or when awake; some come in a symbolic form, some direct. Anything to do with precognitions happens at the subconscious level. But interpreting the information received requires using the conscious mind.

Precognition can be developed if you start recognizing and registering indications of the future you receive during sleep or when awake. Often when you are deeply involved in something, you feel something intuitively, your subconscious takes a decision. Or that you find the solution to a problem that you had long been pondering upon, overnight (you remember of having a dream that gave you the solution!) At all these times, it's your precognitive ability at work; and sadly sometimes, you don't even realize that. Like there are things that help develop precognition, there are things that hamper precognitive abilities. Studies show that alcohol, increased stress levels and mental fatigue impair precognitive abilities. Perhaps the most important thing that hampers precognitive abilities is disbelief. You experience precognitions in dreams or through intuition, but if you never pay attention to them or never try to derive meaning out of them, your abilities won't develop. Forget developing precognition, you will never realize you had any such strengths.

Having said that, I would suggest, think carefully so as to identify if you possess any such psychic abilities that might help you understand things beyond normal human perception. Try to identify whether your precognitions are extra sensory perceptions or merely illusions. Do you have precognitive dreams that entail the future? Do you dream of things that indicate future incidents? Think.

What are you blessed with? Precognitive dreaming or a sound sleep? As I said before, precognitive experiences through dreams may not be a pleasant experience. Specifically so, because these dreams hint you about the hidden; they do not necessarily make a clear indication about anything; your understanding of what they indicate depends largely, on your dream interpretation. Thus, precognitive dreaming might be a curse in disguise of a blessing, but a sound sleep is definitely a bliss. Sleep well.