Other types of experts say that reading into your dream symbols is not something to be skeptical of but, instead, that it should be encouraged. Psychic reader and teacher Siobhan Johnson tells HelloGiggles that prophetic dreams are fairly common with her clients. Like Dr. Mayer, she finds that people more frequently claim they are having predictive dreams after they start paying closer attention to the content of the dreams. And while Johnson notes that dreams that seemingly predict a worldwide disaster, for example, are fairly rare, she believes smaller prophetic dreams happen all the time—to all of us.
The more capable we are of connecting to our dreams and interpreting their symbols and narratives, the more potentially prophetic information we can receive from them. Remembering and understanding that information is a skill you can practice by recording, talking about, and interpreting your dreams.
Johnson believes that there are a lot of important takeaways to be discerned from dreams, both about ourselves and the world around us—present and future. She says that our brains essentially create scenarios in our dreams as a way to give us complicated information that we can interpret, similar to how we might interpret art or music.
For instance, your brain might symbolize your deteriorating self-esteem within your marriage through a dream where your wife is disgusted by your teeth falling out. Another way to think about dreams is that they can help you figure out what is going on on a subconscious, emotional level so that you can make informed decisions about the future. Per the example above, if your marriage falls apart, you might look back in retrospect on that dream as predicting the failed marriage.
According to Psychology Today , informal surveys put this figure much higher, suggesting around half of the population has had some type of prophetic dream. Results of surveys can sometimes become skewed, depending on who they involve. People with stronger belief in psychic experiences, including precognitive dreaming, tend to have a higher likelihood of interpreting dreams as precognitive.
According to research , selective recall is one possible cause. Researchers gave 85 participants a fictional dream diary and true event diary, telling them the same student had written both as part of a separate study. The event diary contained an entry that either confirmed or disconfirmed each dream recorded in the other diary.
They asked the participants to read both diaries and write down the dreams they remembered and any relevant diary events. They hypothesized that participants would remember more of the events that confirmed their dreams than events that did not. Just as the researchers predicted, the participants had better recollection of their dreams confirmed by events in the diary.
This selective recall was consistent across participants, regardless of their level of belief in precognitive dreams. A few days later, you leave your shoes in the sand at the beach and the tide carries them away.
Even though only one small part of the dream occurred, your brain focuses on the part that happened correctly. The research mentioned above also involved a second study with different participants. This study tested the idea that people who believed more strongly in precognitive dreams would have a greater tendency to make connections between unrelated events.
They asked 50 participants to read four different pairs of dream diaries and news articles and list as many connections as they could find. Those who reported higher levels of paranormal belief or belief in precognitive dreams specifically made more associations between the news articles and the dream diaries. You dream about fighting with someone.
When you wake up, you recall feeling very angry. The next night, you dream about feeling very sad. A few days later, you get into a car accident.
No one gets hurt, but your nearly new car is pretty beat up. Feeling angry and sad about your car, you think back to those dreams you had. Anger and sadness are both common emotions , so you might experience them for any number of reasons.
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