See what will happen in the future in your dreams

[Thumpalumpacus]

Many of my dreams are actually about the past, or at least influenced by it. Dreams of walking over gravel paths with my dad, or running through SoCal with my son, or airplanes crashing, or that last year in Iran. And by definition, I cannot know if I'm dreaming about the future, anyway. And many of my dreams have been influenced by what's going on that day, or that week or month, in tangential ways. For instance, I've had a few times in my life where I've been cash-strapped and had dreams of finding surprise money in my wallet or the grass in the park, that sort of thing. Or when lonely, feeling in dream a deep bond with an entirely unknown dream-person. So I don't see dreams as predictive, but reflective or refractive instead.

I've had feelings of déjà vu, but I could never pinpoint what dreams might have instigated that feeling even though I felt I'd seen it in a dream.

I think maybe déjà vu is an instance of seeing reality rhyme with what's going on in our heads. A sort of resonance. I've certainly felt it, but I'm not sure it merits much weight.