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Have you ever had deja-vu or dreamed something and then the next day it happened?

Asked by bluegirl (83points) January 4th, 2010

things like this have been happening to me a lot lately…could it just be a coincidence? Please tell me i’m not the only one here!

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hearkat's avatar

When I was 4, I dreamt that I was able to balance well enough to ride my older brother’s scooter, and I got up the next day and did it!

Spinel's avatar

I dream about food all the time. Its an in inherited family curse. My grandfather was Italian..self-explanatory from there… On Friday, I dreamed about hamburgers. Not the greasy MacDonald’s deal, but the full thing. What should happen on Saturday? A friend takes me out to lunch and orders full blown, stuffed to the bun burgers for both of us.

marinelife's avatar

Yes, I have had that happen especially with deja vu.

wee1020's avatar

yes this happens all the time with me. sometimes I dream of something and years later it happens. makes my usually boring day exciting for a time :P also have really weird dreams but have nothing to do with deja vu

_Liliya_'s avatar

@bluegirl Thank you so much for asking this question, I thought I was going crazy! This has happened to me on occasion and each time I think I am going crazier! Whether or not its about my friends or even food, it happens! So thanks again for asking this. You’re not the only one who dreams this way. :)

applesaucemanny's avatar

this happens to me a lot too actually, I like to think it’s coincidence; or that we change the dream in a way that makes it seem like we dreamed what happened.

Chikipi's avatar

I have Deja vu quite often, but sometimes it is hard to explain the connection to others. I’ve had dreams studying months before an exam then see the exact word phrase on the test when taking it. I’ve also experienced the vision of my surroundings before, but have never physically seen the place until that day- like visiting a house for rent I was interested in, but somehow knew the exact layout of the house and seeing the same stand alone cabinet next to the stove. It’s strange when it happens, but it makes me smile. I guess “god” made us more indepth then we are able to comprehend. I just believe that this makes lifes journey of understanding how people and the universe are connected more intriguing to discover. I may never know the final answer, but it’s neat to find the connections and develop my own intrepretation of life :)

Justnice's avatar

Last December I had a dream that I got up to go to work and when I left to go start my car, it wouldn’t start and it was making a weird noise. So the next day, I got up to go to work and my car wouldn’t start. It was making the same noise that it made in my dream. Now I know this is weird but it was not just a coincidence. The car was new! And I have no idea what type of noises car makes so how could I have dreampt it?? I think it was a premonition, not saying that I’m a phychic or anything

Mrs_Rose's avatar

I’ve had a few experiences where I knew something was gonna happen long before it did… though I didnt dream about them. Just had a sudden feeling while I was sitting awake one day- out of the blue a light bulb would flick on in my head lol =) Its weird… ANYWAY- About a month before my newborn nephew was born (many years ago) I had this incredible foreboding feeling that just came over me one day when I was laying on the couch thinking about how life was gonna change for all of us once this child was born (the circumstances around his conception where a bit scandalous to say the least). I suddenly felt VERY sad, and had a ‘daydream’ (for lack of better term) that I was with my family and we had just been told that the baby had passed away. It was very vivid. I immediatly brushed it off as paranoia and didnt say a word about it to anyone. A month later he was born and all was well. Then when he was 6 weeks old he suddenly stopped breathing in the middle of the night and passed away while everyone slept. SIDS I suppose. The day he died we were all sitting in my living room, crying, JUST like the ‘dream’ I had. Afterwards I remembered and felt guilty for not saying anything about it. But I guess its just one of those unexplainable events… I think we all have the ability to have deja vu (or similar feelings), its just a matter of paying attention and being open minded.

Nullo's avatar

Not really, unless you count backwards.
Years ago, I lost one of the more important vacuum cleaner attachments. I looked for it all over, with no luck. Then, that night, I dreamed that I had left the attachment in the trunk of the car after vacuuming it out. Turns out I was right.

MissAnthrope's avatar

I’ve definitely dreamed of things and then experienced them later. I know it’s not déjà-vu because I remember the dream. There was one time I vividly remembered the dream and when it happened in real life, it was eerie. Like, it felt like time slowed down as I noticed and matched all the details between the dream and the event.

It’s never anything important, though, just random parts of my day.

Mclaren7703's avatar

On Sept 9th 2001 i had a very intense and vivid dream that was quite disturbing, enough so that at its end i woke, and then woke the GF to tell her about it. Didnt think anything more of it, to me it was just a crazy dream…. until late at night (australia) on Sept 11th 2001 when the GF told me to look at the TV, and the dream came rushing back in all its detail – the rest is history… and the dream has never been forgotten.

LeotCol's avatar

When I was around 10 years old I dreamt that my next door neighbour had come in and gave my parents tickets to a concert or football match of some sort. The following day that evening my mother came over and said “John has just given us tickets to go to a football game”. I said “Again?”, as I remembered the dream so well that I thought that it had actually happened. My mother was confused looking and asked what I was talking about.

I tried to convince her that it had already happened the day before or in my dream at least. She didn’t believe me =[

Sometimes I think they did mind tricks on me as a child

scotsbloke's avatar

I think it’s our minds way of keeping us on our toes.
I love it when I get deja vu – cos for a brief while I feel like I am in the twilight zone.
It happens to me occassionally.

for me though it’s usually the opposite.: but that could be old age settling in…......it’s called Jamais vu

*Jamais vu (from French, meaning “never seen”) is a term in psychology which is used to describe any familiar situation which is not recognized by the observer.
Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.*

downtide's avatar

In 1989 I was dozing in bed in the morning and I thought I heard something on the TV about a plane crash. When I woke up I watched the news to find out more about it (this was before the internet) but there was no mention of it. I couldn’t think how there’d been news of a plane crash early in the morning but nothing later, then I figured out that I must have actually dreamed about the news report.

The next day, this happened, less than 100 miles away
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegworth_air_disaster

That’s been my only experience of anything like that.

Velvetinenut's avatar

There was a time when I had a lot of Deja Vu. When it happened, I would say, “Oh, I dreamt of this before!”. Freaked me out once when I dreamt of a funeral at a friend’s house.

janbb's avatar

I dreamed I was running in a race for pregnant women and that morning woke up in labor. I had my oldest son the next day.

OpryLeigh's avatar

I have had the odd dream that has come tre the next day. I hate it when that happens even if it was a good dream because it scares me whenever I have a bad dream that it is a premonition.

shonoutin's avatar

like almost every day i dream about something that i already dreamed about or will happen the next day but not all of the next day just a part of it

creepy thing is that in my dreams everything looks the same as it does in real life

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