Lucid Precognitive Dreams
The Lucid Dream Exchange, 5 (7/3/94),
11-12
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- Have you ever had a lucid precognitive dream?
I've had a heck of a time trying to locate examples in the lucid dream
literature. They tend to be single instances inserted between other kinds
of dream reports. However, I've managed to discover that Anne Faraday(1)
and Frederik Willems Van Eeden(2) have both reported spontaneous precognition
in the lucid dream state. More recently, Carole Russell related in The
Dream Explorer (3) of the precognitive story behind a lucid dream contributed
to Nightlight(4). On its part, Nightlight made no mention
of the psychic aspect of the dream. Jane Roberts(5), Oliver Fox(6) and
one of Charles McCreery's subjects(7) have recorded successful lucid dream
attempts to intentionally obtain information which was subsequently destined
to "come true." Soozi Holbeche(8) described how her friend's
proactive response to a lucid dream scenario saved a mother and child from
a nasty fall in the waking state.
The laziest method for obtaining precognitive dreams is by collecting/suggesting
those which relate to an upcoming meeting, journey or happening of personal
significance. That way you have a waking standard about which you currently
know nothing, but can easily compare to your lucid dream. I have had spontaneous
and intended lucid precognitive dreams about people, places, events and
even movies I would soon see.
In late 1984 I began gathering all dreams which had a reference to a
"conference" because I was planning to attend the June 1985 Association
for the Study of Dreams Conference in Virginia. I brought the dreams along
to see if there would be any correspondence to the unfolding events. In
a few cases, I had a queasy sense of déjà vu; others were
more opaque, but virtually all dreams had relevance to the conference. One
dream, from 4/27/85, was lucid:
I'm in a hall with many people. At one point I seem to recognize and
warmly greet (fellow dreamworker) Kent Smith, although I don't actually
see him. The other people are new to me. I lean my arm and elbow against
a tall divider and observe the scene. I'm at the dream conference. The people
standing about are dressed fairly casually. I think about how many business
meetings I have to attend and how few dresses I can get away with bringing.
Maybe I can dress in pants during the pre-conference.
A man at the far end of the hall is addressing the audience in some sort
of opening welcome speech to the newly arrived..."Do you keep a record?"
he asks me.
"I've kept a dream journal for the last four, oh, maybe three and
a half years,," I respond, waving my palm to indicate the approximation.
Then I inform him, "I'm lucid," but the scene blurs and I awake. |
I was surprised at how casually the people did dress at the ASD conference,
unlike more formal affairs I had attended in the past. I was very glad that
I had brought along some pants. At the time of the dream Kent Smith was
planning to attend, but a few weeks later announced he would not. Instead
he remained in San Francisco to keep track of last minute conference mail
coming to the ASD post office box. When I telephoned him from Virginia for
that information, I did "greet" him without seeing him. In addition,
since I started my dream journal in early 1982, by conference time it would
have been "three and one-half years."(9)
Some lucid dreams are precognitive of people you are going to meet. I
was introduced to someone named "Barbara" in a lucid dream in
November of 1984. This was 2 years before I ever talked to Barbara Shor
by phone, corresponded with her by letter or met her in the waking state.
After I got to know my colleague and co-author, Barbara confirmed that the
information I picked up in the lucid dream about her was correct. We also
discovered that during the 2 years at least, we had been "dreaming
together" without knowing one another. There were several times during
that period when we had corresponding mutual dreams...which stood out because
a particular description, theme or symbol seemed out of sync with our waking
life and would instead refer us to another person, who we didn't yet know.
Ruth Sacksteder had a precognitive "meeting" dream in June
1992...of a woman who turned out to be me.
...The door to Apt. 8 is partly open so I decide to visit that apartment.
As I go in, I wonder if it'll have the Dream Learning Center decor I mentally
created for it in late April or if it will have reverted to being an apartment
with rooms to the right and left of the inner hall. I see it has reverted
to being an apartment. I go into the room I used to consider as belonging
to "Michael." I see a couple of beds in there and see a couple
of women awake, relaxing in the beds. I ask if this is the Dream Learning
Center or a private apartment. One of the women says, "Sometimes it
is the Dream Learning Center, but sometimes it is an apartment."
Then I notice a third bed and a third woman. The one who spoke wants
to show me something and digs into a file of papers. I wake up as she does
this. I try to return to the dream by "spinning" but am too wide
awake to successfully create the illusion. |
Ruth says, "I believe it was the third woman who looked very much
like Linda Magallón (a few days before I first saw her). She was
the only woman of the three whose looks I could remember.
Also had a non-lucid dream the night before I saw Linda at the dream
group in which I saw a woman who could have maybe been a younger version
of 'her.'" |
- Footnotes
- 1 Faraday, A. The Dream Game (NY: Harper & Row, 1974),
264.
- 2 Green, C.E. Lucid Dreams (Oxford, England: Institute
of Psychophysical Research, 1968), 112.
- 3 Russell, C.D. The Dream Explorer, II/3, 10.
- 4 Nightlight, Spring 1991, 12.
- 5 Roberts, J. Seth, Dreams & Projection of Consciousness
(Walpole, NH: Stillpoint Pub., 1986), 267-8.
- 6 Fox, O. Astral Projection (New Hyde Park, NY: University
Books, 1962), 45-6.
- 7 McCreery, C. Psychical Phenomena and the Physical World
(Oxford, England: Institute of Psychophysical Research, 1968), 117-8.
- 8 Holbeche, S. The Power of Your Dreams (NY: Avon Books,
1991), 128.
- 9 Magallón, L.L. "Beyond Passive Literal
Psychic Dreaming,," Dream Network Bulletin, 8/4-6, 22.
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