Why do I feel like I had a dream about something happening before it happened?
Dreams are, as Blake Barbee says, often the way your unconscious processes something that’s happened to you. But just as often, they’re your unconscious warning your waking mind of things that you’ve been overlooking or ignoring.That, imho, is what “precognitive” dreams are—you don’t wanna believe that your friend is about to betray you, frex, so you block out all the clues that they’re giving out, and your unconscious, fearful of the pain that’s coming if you don’t act, gives you a dream where your friend betrays you—but stubborn as always, your waking mind ignores the dream, too.And when the betrayal happens, you feel like there was something supernatural in that dream.People don’t give themselves and their unconscious ability to see things clearly enough credit. Or they don’t want to admit they were stupid enough to ignore all the clues and ignore their own unconscious’ warnings.
Why can you sometimes feel things in your dreams?
When we are dreaming, the body’s nervous system is severely anaesthetised, but not cut off totally from our dream consciousness. If the body’s nervous system were totally shut down, we could not be aroused in our sleep. This might prove disastrous in case of a fire for instance. We would not hear the fire alarm. On the other hand if the body’s muscular system was not blocked to at all, we would act out our dreams. This too could prove disastrous if we dreamt for instance that we are stabbing our bedfellow with a kitchen knife. Yes, we would sleepwalk into the kitchen, get a knife from the drawer and return to the bedroom to do the evil deed. Who would be guilty then for the murder? Experiments in dream laboratories have shown that during dreaming the body’s nervous system is still electrically active. If you dream for instance that you are playing tennis, the electricity in your racket hand will be greater than in the other, free hand. It is for this reason that young people will have wet dreams for instance. They usually occur towards morning when the sexual organs are stimulated by the last dream. At that time the body is gradually getting back to waking state. Hands will be able to get active enough to take part in the dream, like a sleepwalker, and cause an emission. Hypnosis will also help to explain this connection between the sleeping body and dreams. When a person is put under deep hypnosis he will have REM just as the dreaming person has. It is during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) that we usually dream. Now if the hypnotist will tell his subject that he is holding a red hot coin in his hand, the subject will believe it. Then, when the hypnotist puts the coin in the hand of the subject in REM trance, there will be a red welt in the hand of the subject. This shows that the body is never totally out of it and it also shows that the body can get physical symptoms, physical marks through hypnotic suggestion. So when you dream that you are being kissed, you will feel it on your body as if you were awake. But by the time you wake up, the dream will have lost its effect much in the same way as the red welt in the hand of the hypnotised subject will disappear when he wakes up from his hypnotic trance.
Feeling pain in Dreams?
Burn Center Hĵtel-Dieu du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Quebec, Canada. isabelle.raymond@umontreal.ca It has been shown that realistic, localized painful sensations can be experienced in dreams either through direct incorporation or from past memories of pain. Nevertheless, the frequency of pain dreams in healthy subjects is low. This prospective study was designed to evaluate the occurrence and frequency of pain in the dreams of patients suffering from bum pain. Twenty-eight nonventilated bum victims were interviewed for 5 consecutive momings during the first week of hospitalization. A structured-interview protocol was used to collect information on dream content, quality of sleep, and pain intensity and location. Patients were also administered the Impact of Event Scale to assess posttraumatic symptoms. Thirty-nine percent of patients reported 19 pain dreams on a total of 63 dreams (30%). Patients with pain dreams showed evidence of worse sleep, more nightmares, higher intake of anxiolytic medication, and higher scores on the Impact of Event Scale than did patents reporting dreams with no pain content. Moreover, patients with pain dreams also had a tendency to report more intense pain during therapeutic procedures. Although more than half of our sample did not report pain dreams, these results suggest that pain dreams do occur at a greater frequency in suffering populations than in normal volunteers. More importantly, dreaming about pain may be an added stress for bum patents and may contribute to both poor sleep and higher pain intensity, which could evolve into a cycle of pain-anxiety-sleeplessness.
Why do we sometimes feel that the incident currently happening is something we've seen before in a dream?
What you are referring to, of course, is Deja vu. Deja vu is not something we have seen before...per se. Getting the feeling of "being somewhere" or "seeing something" beforehand may have a few explanations. First, seeing something or hearing certain words, etc. may trigger something in your mind to remember a past event; albeit not necessarily bringing the memory up in your mind enough to recognize the event. Think of typing in keywords to search something on the Internet. In this case, your brain and memories are the Internet, and whatever you are experiencing is the keyword. It gives you a feeling of familiarity. Second, Deja Vu is also connected to a misfire of synapses in the brain. There is so much going on in your head--every second, so many neurons and synapses are working hard to keep you healthy. Sometimes, though, they can misfire, making them fire again (in a billionth of a second) and a series of fires may have to be redone very quickly. This will put you under the impression you have lived an experience before, perhaps in a dream, although in reality you lived it just a split second before. The third explanation of course, is that you may posses psychological powers not yet discovered by man O.o. Although the possibility is slim.
What does it mean if you dream about something taking over your body?
i had a dream last night and i was sleeping and randomly out of no where my body felt like it was getting tooken over by something. this feeling i had felt very very very real and scared the **** out of me i still rmeember it flat on the dream was right where i was laying down to. its like i was sleeping in my own sleep and it took over and it felt very very scary and uncomfterable i screamed for help but my voice wasnt working and nothing was happening then i woke up could someone tell me what this means? it terrified me
What does it mean when you have dreams that end up happening in real life, i.e., is deja vu a skill, something else, or nothing at all?
I have had this happen many time throughout my life. Most of which happened as a child.My first and one of the most recognizable times was when I lived in California. We had just moved to a new home in Hollywood and I had had a dream that my Dad and I walked to a park nearby. The next morning, I asked my Dad if we could go. I took his hand and led him to that same park from my dream. My Dad insisted that I had been there before so, I learned to not be so open about the weirdness of it all.Another time, I was older, about 11. I awoke from a dream that was kind of eerie to me because it seemed so real. I was at my nieces birthday party. Nothing out of the ordinary except that I did not spend much time with her so I dismissed it. A couple months later, I was invited to her birthday party. Nothing seemed strange until I was there and remembered my dream. I knew each gift she had before it was even being opened because of my dream.I’m not real sure what causes it, I am not a spiritual or religious person but, what if our time lines are not fixed, what if subconsciously we can float through our time lines and witness our lives through our future selves at any given point. Who knows really but, makes sense to me.
Sometimes in some incidents I feel that this has already happened to me in a dream or in reality. Does it really happened or is it just hallucination?
Technical word for this is known as Deja Vu which means 'already seen' in french.Dreams are still a mysterious subject to humans. Of course, a lot of research has been going on in this area but there are no proper conclusions yet.But, as far as Deja Vu is concerned, a recent study states that it doesn't exists in real. Although about 60-80% of the people have claimed to experience this phenomenon at- least once in their lifetime, scientists claim that this is due to Electrical Malfunctioning and mis-match in neural pathways.So, it's most likely that you have not actually seen it before in your dream, rather its just a mis-match of electrical impulse. Hallucination is a different phenomenon, so that's not the right word to describe Deja VU.Reference - What is deja vu? Scientists probe causes behind mystery sensation of familiarity