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Anyone ever had a dream and then it happened in real life?

(89 Posts)
sazz1 Thu 04-Feb-21 11:34:27

Ok so I rarely remember dreams but 2 nights ago I dreamed I won the lottery! As I only do the lottery about once every few months I thought it strange but had one line anyway yesterday for fun. I had an email saying I had won a prize - first time to win anything. It was only a few pounds for 3 numbers so not life changing but seems a strange coincidence that I'd dreamed of winning.
Anyone else ever had a dream come true?

TwiceAsNice Sat 06-Feb-21 19:03:59

Sorry going

CarrieAnn Sat 06-Feb-21 20:22:13

I used to dream the winner of important horse races, Gold Cup and Grand National for example.My boss at one time was very into the sport and always went to Cheltenham before he went one time he asked if I wanted to put a bet on,so gave the name I had dreamt of he laughed his head off but nevertheless put the bet on ,my horse won and the favourite his choice finished second.The same thing happened several times with the National, and I won against the odds.

deefletch Sat 06-Feb-21 21:26:49

Wow! I wish I had had these premonition dreams!

Notthecatsmother Sat 06-Feb-21 21:43:18

I had a recurring dream I was going to see my mother in my childhood home, as I reached the front door it changed into a block of flats. Many years later she moved into that block of flats.

Naninka Sat 06-Feb-21 23:48:45

I gave birth to Gordon Ramsey's baby in a forest glade - then he bbq'd the placenta in front of TV cameras, talking his audience through the "recipe".
Hope that one never comes true in any way, shape or form!!!

Grandma11 Sun 07-Feb-21 00:05:21

I Would often dream that I was a Bride and turning up to an Arranged Marriage to someone called William, and just thought it was because it was my Dads name, I was Engaged to someone with an entirely Different name, and my Teenage crush had been for someone called Stephen.
My First Marriage failed after 10 years, and a Couple of years later my Cousin introduced me to a work Collegue, and we started Dating, His Name was William, and he had a son called Stephen. As in the Dream, l married him, and we are still together over 30 years later!

V3ra Sun 07-Feb-21 01:59:15

micky987 that plane crash would have been the Kegworth air disaster in 1989.
We know one of the police officers who was involved in the recovery operation.

mauraB Sun 07-Feb-21 02:14:37

I had a very distressing dream about my daughter, in which, incidentally, I noticed she had had her ears pierced.
I felt sick with worry all the next day and so phoned her when I knew she would be home from work.
I didn't want to mention the trauma of the dream. She was happy and chatty so I just asked her casually if she had her ears pierced. There was a delay before she answered then she said in a tight voice "Why do you ask that?" I replied that I had noticed it in a dream.
She then told me that she had gone to a salon to have her ears pierced on the previous day but had grown increasingly nervous about the procedure and had hurried out when she was called forward.
I came to the conclusion that I had picked up on her fear in my dream and built it into something awful. Keeping of course, the earrings.

Pebblesterrier Sun 07-Feb-21 10:28:03

Don't think I've ever dreamt about something that has later happened, but often have 'feelings'. I sort of know things.

A few examples are that I thought my hairdresser was expecting a baby before she told me. I had a feeling that I put on my welly on and there was a mouse in it. When I went to put them on I turned them upside down, just in case - and a mouse fell out out one of them! Don't know who was the most surprised, the beautiful little field mouse or me! A friend was showing me round her new (rather old) house and as we walked up the stairs I had a funny feeling that someone was coming down the stairs. Months later she told me that their house appeared to be 'haunted'!

Hope I won't be burned at the stake ?

Kenver60 Sun 07-Feb-21 11:28:32

I quite often dream of somebody I haven’t seen for quite a while then bump into them the next day , or should I say I used to before covid.

Purplepoppies Sun 07-Feb-21 12:58:52

I told my best friend twice she was pregnant before she knew it herself.
My mum was very intuitive (witchy she called it)
She often knew who was calling and would answer the phone using their name!! She also knew she was going to die on that day. ?

Aztra Thu 29-Apr-21 20:19:41

I married young - and the marriage only lasted 6years - but for the whole 6 years I kept dreaming of a man I'd never met. 5 years after I'd left I was working in an office and we got introduced to a new guy - omg it was him! I nearly fainted in shock. + Yes we ended up together!!

Floradora9 Thu 29-Apr-21 21:54:01

I tossed and turned one night thinking about a dear friend who had died after moving miles away from us . I kept thinking how I wished we had a memento from his house to remember him by. We went out shopping the next day came home to find a box in our hall of little ornaments with an note from a friend saying she was sorry it took so long for her to deliver this box but please take something in memory of our mutual friend. She had taken weeks to bring it round .

Razzy Fri 30-Apr-21 22:37:03

I rarely remember dreams but one was so real, so vivid, I sat bolt upright in bed! Loads of detail, it was an airfield I’d never been to, and was a very unusual and specific accident, I could see the pilots involved, everything. One odd thing was that I saw tables and piles of paper outside. A couple of days later I was at a dinner party and one chap (who I’d never met) got an urgent call and left. Next day I was told that he was on an airfield committee and there had been a plane crash. All the details matched. I described the airfield and it was spot on. And turns out they were having an open day thus the tables and piles of paper outside. It was the weirdest scariest thing. I was once told I had string psychic ability but was suppressing it. After that dream I think I put the shutters up!

MayBee70 Fri 30-Apr-21 22:44:46

I dreamt that my MIL was going to die. We then had a phone call to say that she was ill and I almost fainted. She did die several months later. Dreams really worry me now.

EilaRose Sat 01-May-21 01:44:47

Well I dreamt that DH had died (he wasn't sick at the time and nothing to suggest it could happen), the whole 'funeral' was a debacle with my narcissist adoptive mother creating hell and wanting to be the centre of attention. Naturally I woke from this dream extremely anxious and while DH and I never kept any secrets from each other, I could never find the time or words, to share this with him. It was too creepy!

Unfortunately he died suddenly a year later and it all played out as in the dream. Something I will never forget and always etched in my mind.

Still sends shivers down my spine thinking about it.

Fast forward to last year and I had another vivid dream it was DH's friend from many years ago who lives in another part of the country so we haven't had a chance to catch up for a long time. Anyway, in this dream he walked into my bedroom and was standing at the foot of the bed when I woke. He said who it was and he didn't want to scare me but he just found out DH had died and had driven a couple of days, arriving in the early hours of the morning.

Once I actually woke up and started piecing this recent dream together, I realised this friend doesn't even know my current address and how would he be able to get into the house in the middle of the night? This part didn't make sense at all, but it was very real in my mind.

Someone else mentioned knowing who is on the phone before you answer (even prior to caller ID), this is something I've always been able to do and sometimes it can be unnerving.

Strange how these things happen...

MayBee70 Sat 01-May-21 02:05:13

Many many times I’ll have the tv or radio on when I’m reading something and someone says the word I’m reading, I always find that weird.
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Maggiemaybe Sat 01-May-21 08:03:59

I had a vivid lottery dream many years ago, when I clearly heard someone reading out the winning 6 numbers. It woke me up and I scrabbled for a pen and piece of paper in my bedside cabinet. I managed to write down 3 of the numbers, but the others were fading fast and I scribbled down 3 near misses (think 26 for 36). After that I kept paper and pencil close to hand when I went to bed, but of course the chance never came again. I still have that scrap of paper somewhere!

Lovetopaint037 Sat 01-May-21 09:57:11

It’s those dreams that you find yourself living while you remember the dream.

Missismac Sun 22-Aug-21 15:46:34

This has happened to me on three occasions.
When I was 10 years old I was worried to death because I had lost a school library book. I had searched and searched for it to no avail. Then I dreamt that I went up into our loft and found it in a suitcase. I asked my mother about it the next day and she assured me there were only some books of my Dad’s up there but she let me go and look and there was my book in a suitcase just as I had dreamed. My mother had put it up there because it was titled Emil and the Detectives and she thought it was a detective novel of my Dad’s!

Socksandsocks01 Sun 16-Jan-22 08:52:33

I've had a few funny dreams. I dreamt of one of the girls at work crying in reception. When I got to work next morning her brother had died during the night. Another dream I just suddenly saw my brothers face right up to my face. Next day we found out he was ill and on his way home. Other times I've had dreams which were vivid and distressing but didn't come true.

nanna8 Sun 16-Jan-22 09:10:56

I’ve had quite a few of these sort of dreams, mostly trivial but some very odd. Many years ago I dreamt that one of the bosses at the local council died . Just a young man, only in his 40s. The following week he was involved in a terrible accident and was killed. I felt really funny about it, quite queasy as I had told a friend and she then thought I was some sort of clairvoyant. There’s more to this life than we dream of, isn’t there ?

Razzy Sun 16-Jan-22 12:22:05

Yes! I rarely remember dreams but once I had the most vivid bizarre dream that woke me up, sat bolt upright in bed! Lots of detail about an unusual plane crash. Next day I met some friends of friends and that evening they got a phone call. Guess what? It was the exact same details as my dream! So spooky!

Grandma2213 Sun 16-Jan-22 14:26:28

My most memorable dream was when my father died and I returned to my home town for the funeral. I dreamed I was sitting on a bench looking over the town and feeling very peaceful. The next day when we went to visit the funeral parlour I was surprised because it was not where it used to be when I lived there. I became very distressed and almost ran away blindly telling my family I needed a walk. I don't remember anything then until I was sitting on the same bench which was on a hill overlooking that funeral parlour. I was stunned and the same feeling of peace came over me. I cannot explain that dream. To my knowledge I had never been to that place before when I lived there.

After that I dreamed regularly of my father until eventually one night he told me it was time to leave him alone unless it was something really important! I've rarely dreamed about him since. In that dream I think it was some sort of psychological acceptance in me that he was really gone.

SporeRB Sun 16-Jan-22 14:28:51

After the excitement of Prince Harry and Meghan’s wedding, I had this strange dream.

I dreamt that I was in a large building with lots of other people. Meghan came holding hands with two children, a boy and a younger girl, the girl is about four years old. I did not see Harry with them, all I see was a silhouette of another man in the background.

Next dream is freaky, I dreamt I was attacked by a ghost – a woman in white in my own home. When I told my daughter about my dream, she said she also dreamt being attacked by the same ghost that same night. Really strange, I believe this could be a psychic attack.

Last one is not a dream but some random thoughts that enter my head.
Many years ago, I told my daughter, ‘If me or your dad were to die, we most likely will die of pneumonia. It is in the air outside but it can get inside the house.’

Just hope I am not predicting my own demise, dying of coronavirus, an airborne virus. It might be just a warning to me to be careful.