Unnerving Prophetic Dreams - Help please

[victoriaperine]

Okay, so, the past two months, weird things have been happening related to my dreams. In January, I had a dream where this woman I sort of know (I'm not including her name for privacy reasons) was grieving. The morning after I had this dream, the woman's husband died. I thought it was incredibly weird, but I thought it was just a coincidence. But then, a few weeks later, I had a dream about this other guy I know (who was also grieving in my dream). Same as the first time, this guy's grandfather died that same night I had the dream. Now it's happened a third time with yet another guy I know. A member of his family died the morning after I had my dream. In the past, I've had experiences of premonition before (like dreaming about a friend who I wouldn't meet until a year later), but never to this extent. I also have a sleepwalking problem where I often wake up and find I've written (sometimes in poetry), drawn something, etc. I've also always struggled with insomnia. But it's unnerving that this has happened three times in the past two months. The other weird thing is that I've never met these people that are dying and I don't know the people whom I dream about very well. Two of the people who died lived across the country from me (I'm in the United States). I don't think there was any way for my subconsciousness to start recognizing the signs that these people were about to die. I have shared this with a few of my closer friends, but they don't know how this is happening either. One of them suggested my consciousness was somehow killing them (considering one of them was in almost perfect health), though I severely doubt that. All in all, I'm very confused and unnerved. I don't know why or how this is happening, but if you have any ideas, please reply. I don't know much about spiritual things related to psychic abilities or anything, as I was raised in a strict Christian home (I'm not Christian, though), but I'm open to those ideas. I just want to figure out why this is happening and how to stop it. I don't want to dream this stuff for the rest of my life.

 

[PaulKH]

Hi there. Sad to hear about your disturbing sequence.

Have you had people you know who have died meet with you/visit you in dreams (especially family members)? How do dreams like that leave you emotionally (lingering disturbed or calm or...)? If what you talk about above is isolated, then it's different than if fits into a larger pattern.

I wanted to see what you said before offering anything further, but in case you are truly in distress, I know it's not helpful to delay.

So, understand that I can only speak from my own experiences in similar things. Dealing with a few meaningful deaths early in my life, I had to come to special terms with death. The loss to the living and the end of physical awareness--not paying it lip service and the whole, "yeah, yeah, we're all mortal", but to truly feel/understand what that means and then make total peace with it. This kind of peace comes with a kind of goodness and acceptance of the way it must be (some use the phrase "natural order", which I like in lieu of more faith-loaded phrases like "God's will"). People's path to calm acceptance is slightly different for each individual, of course, but it's possible this is what causes your exposure in dreams (and therefore how you can prevent it from reoccurring). If death is no longer a barrier or problem, no longer a fear/dread, then perhaps your message will be received and that kind of dream will also stop (as it was for me). Hope this helps.

 

[DammitDog]

The suggestion that your consciousness is killing them is just ridiculous. I've had dreams like this, 1 of my grandmother's cancer and another warning me of about my own future. They shook me. I'm not sure such dreams about people I don't know would affect me that badly. Despite your friend's suggestion, you play no part in that. You just get the news before others do. Maybe if you work to out less significance on them, they'll stop. It seems like the more anxious you let yourself be about such dreams, the more focus and attention you give them, inviting more. Just offered as food for thought.

 

[Lyn Holley]

I have read about many people who have these psychic abilities. Of course, you have nothing to do with their deaths. You are a sort of radio who is picking up frequencies. It would be helpful if you could speak with others who have these abilities.

 

[SnowOwl]

I have had multiple disturbing premonitory dreams about people dying. And in some of them the dream symbology implies that I have a role. Although I don’t think I caused the deaths, I don’t think my responsibility is utterly zero either. We are not ‘just antennas’, we do influence things also, at least very slightly, as is true for real (electromagnetic/radio) antennas also.

For me, I think there are several reasons I feel responsible. One, I think that the angel, so to speak, that is involved with the event is sharing a little of its first person perspective. To some extent it isn’t entirely ‘my’ dream, so the responsibility isn’t mine either. Also, I think that the ‘angel’ wants to highlight the way in which our moral natures subtly influence events. Even if I’m only 0.000001% the cause of what happened, it is still important that I recognize that I do affect those around me, in obvious as well as less obvious ways. Finally, my experience of an event may be symbolic of another event that’s closer to me where I do have more responsibility, and I feel the weight of that. I don’t believe in reincarnation, at least not in the simple sense of a sequence of past lives. But I think we do inherit karma, so to speak, and our experiences remind us if those deeper patterns.

If you feel like you’re not getting very helpful feedback from people you try to talk to about your experiences, I hear you. Most people are dealing with other things in their lives, and are not prepared to grapple with something like this, at least not in this way. I’m willing to talk about the subject in a public forum in the abstract, but not willing to give specifics except privately, since these are things that have happened to real people that we’re discussing.