My dream a few nights ago, was a plain one many have had. The white room. I didnt know what to think in the room.
Scared?
Curious?
Happy?
Annoyed?
Apparently what you feel in this dream is what you think about death. (courtesy of my friend)

Also, i had a dream where my teacher banged her hand on the table and shouted at my mate.
The exact same thing happened next day.
This has happened many times and Im very sure other people have had this too.

Is this normal?

I've had similiar situations, although when I see things that happen--they're always so mundane. I was maybe 15 when I was thinking about this and had in my hand a seashell from my stay at Okinawa and then it hit me: I had daydreamed this situation many weeks before. But why? It's so damn mundane, it happens occasionally but I guess it could be attributed to Daja vu. I've heard that our instincts are like this, a supra-logical response to a situation, if you have a strong background in the situation it can be proven useful. I've come to think pre-thought (seeing the future) is possible if the mind isn't busy. Like if your bored, you find something to do, if your brain is bored, maybe it calculates all the variables in your life and it produces a vision. I think I'll focus on this, write down what I see, and come back to when I feel daja vu. I'll report the conclusions. Nice to see other people feel this way. I believe you my friend, I very much do.

I have dreamed the future on rare occasions, like dreaming about my high school before I ever saw it, but unless you're predicting huge events that could affect mankind, I wouldn't worry about it. The brain is a powerful thing- who knows exactly what its capable of. It could just be coincidence, too. When you sleep your brain replays the event you've experienced throughout the day in dreams as a way of filing away important information and getting rid of what's not needed (that's what they say, anyway), so if the things you dreamed about are typical, such as things you'd expect to happen (perhaps you noticed your friend slacking off in class the day before?), your brain could easily link your thoughts on the matter and what you actually saw in a dream. Or everything I'm saying could be complete bollocks. I've had some crazy dreams I can't explain at all.

As for the white room experience, I've never had one of those, but I've had....I guess....a "gray room experience." I don't remember anything that happened in the dream except that suddenly I was standing in front of a big, gray wall, with a steel, metallic finish (if I recall correctly). It was a pretty normal looking wall but for some reason it terrified me so badly that I woke up. When I woke up I was still frozen in fear and it was a good twenty minutes before I could even move and get out of bed, and a good while longer before I could fall back asleep. I believe these are called night terrors, but I still don't know what was so awful about a gray wall. I know this probably didn't help at all. Sorry.

It's really weird but I used to get the exact same thing. It started as shapes and patterns, like blocks stacked in a certain way, that kind of thing. Still pictures. Then it started to show movement: cars pulling away from intersections, things moving in a certain way ... Then it started with voices: I'd get snatches and pieces of conversations that would happen later.

Then I got really sick one time and it stopped. I used to tell people that it was like being blind. I couldn't SEE things as before, but I could kind of 'smell' it. After I got sick, I've only had one or two instances where I could actually see something (and in two cases, I had a complete conversation).

This one time, I was having a conversation, and all of a sudden, it got familiar: and then it hit me. I'd had this same conversation before. It was really creepy because I knew word for word, not only what I was going to say, but also what THEY were going to say. And I was wondering during the conversation: what would happen if I broke it, said something that wasn't part of the original. Unfortunately I was too chicken to try it and I let the whole conversation (about five minutes worth) play out as I remembered it.

One interesting thing I read recently is that things happen a fraction of a second BEFORE we realize it and process it, and this scientist believed that deja vu was a process by which some people sometimes circumvent the normal process and actually have an awareness of something AS it's happening. Then when the brain processes the event, we end up with a kind of double exposure. I don't know if that's true. In junior high I knew the answers to a test because I had 'foreseen' a conversation that would happen days later ... when the teacher was going over the answers after the test.

This post has been edited by kirin-rex: Jun 6 2008, 05:27 PM

Heh, sounds like a classic DMT trip! I still think that endogenous DMT is responsible for many of these types of experiences.

As for the white room AkuMalevolent, did it seem like some sort of 'medical' facility? I've had a similar experience of crawling around - seemingly 'drugged' - what i felt was some sort of medical facility. There were curtains and when i tried to look under one, i was grabbed by the ankles and dragged away. I also had the impression that it was some sort of military hospital...

A double exposure? I like it and it makes sense in the conversations I've had with some of my friends. And I did do what I said I was going to do, and if it does come true I have a time stamped file on my lap top to prove it. Only then will I go more in depth because I highly doubt its going to happen.

This is aku but i forgot my password :S
Yeah it was just a solid white room, square, nothing special.
Also id like to note that in the room i was wearing my favourite clothes if that makes a difference :S

im sort of scared now because ive recently had a dream that my brother and his mate were attacked...and he died so im not too sure about this...

Iv'e also had mundane dreams that have come true and have had really worrying dreams that havn't happened so try not to worry about them.

howdy all... i'm brand spank'n new... so forgive my newbie-ness...

i've had alien dreams, but have always passed them off as late night t.v. upchuck from my subconscious...

but this dream genuinely caught my attention...

not to mention the fact that - tho i'm quite familiar with sleep paralysis (and it's frequency has increased drastically since i hit my twenties) ... this dream was followed by that very experience... and then i noticed that every incident i've journaled about having s.p. - it's been upon waking, but never going into sleep.

so: i'm lay'n on my back. bright light... so bright i can't see who's above me. i can catch glimpses from my peripheral vision, but i can't seem to focus directly on my fellows in the room... i remember turning my body (with great effort and only after being granted a weird sort of permission) towards them, reaching my right hand across my body for comfort.
i'm aware, but not aware of my body or sensation at all... no sensation whatsoever...and then i heard a sort of masculine, yet gentle voice ask me what can be done to help ease my discomfort...
you see, i remember feeling terribly upset, but not frightened. no fear in the least...actually a sense of familiarity, but i was upset by something. it was purely emotional...
and after being asked this, i was suddenly able to see their faces... and the one who had addressed me was the one nearest to me. i remember being able to say in my head "touch! i need to feel touch!" certainly i would never have actually said that had i been speaking with someone... it was too primal. but i found it unnecessary at the moment to say anything, or BE ABLE to communicate anything that was not as direct as primal truths...
at that moment, a hand was extended toward my reach... i felt like i was now "allowed" to move my arm and hand...i remember expecting to see claws, but grateful to only see a hand... slender, similar to my own...but too slender, and discolored... and in an instant i remember wanting to ask him why he was missing a pinky finger...
anyhow, i reached to touch the hand, and pulled back. not from disgust, but because after touching it i was astounded with how SOFT it was...so much so that i expected to see powder on my fingers from having touched it. i pressed my cheek to the hand and then held it for a moment... and in an almost toddler fashion, proceeded to let go, touch the upper arm, and then, as my hand moved toward his face, i was aware i was doing something that made the others uncomfortable...even the gentleman standing there...
huge eyes... beautiful massive eyes staring down at me....

and then i woke...

much too early to suit my insomniatic ways.... around 4 am.

so - i suppose i'll just sit with my thumb up my butt and see if this rings a bell to anyone. hopefully i'll get a response from those of you who may have had similar experiences.

thanks!
_L_

My mother saw the two towers collapse (9/11) 15 minutes before it happened. in dream
She saw it in first person as she was in the building but yet she was sleeping miles away in estonia.

holy hell...

that would've scared the piss outta me.

i suppose this whole dejavu thing can bring about the discussion of time - that basically humans believe time to be a linear concept, when in actuality (supposedly) everything that's ever happened, will happen, and is happening, is all taking place in one instant...

some of the new agers and that school of metaphysics group believes this backs up the dejavu experience, pre-cog dreams, and the soul's purpose to learn..that we experience time in sort of slo-mo fashion to fully learn from and about ourselves and the collective conscious we're intertwined with.

*shrugs*

go figure...