reply to post by freestonew
I have only had one dream that proved to be predictive of a natural disaster, however, at the time I didn't consider the dream to be such. I dreamed
that New Orleans flooded, about a month before Hurricane Katrina devastated the Southern United States. In the dream I was standing at the I-110
off-ramp near the French Quarter, with my Father and he told me that New Orleans had flooded and many people were dead and the place would never be
the same. I forgot the dream until I saw pictures of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, and realized this dream was predictive, if not
prophetic--however I had no way of knowing it was either. It didn't seem special at all and wasn't any more vivid or lucid as I normally dream.
Similarly, I've dreamed of friends or loved ones being sick or dying, only to learn that they (or their spouses) were in the hospital or died that
day or recently. Like I said, the dreams aren't anything special or prominent, and I can never tell if the dreams are predictive, when I have them.
I just hear about this friend or family member's situation, after the dream and mentally chalk it up to "one more weird dream that came true"
How does one know if a dream is prophetic and not just the result of "too much pizza before bedtime?"
Other dreams that are weird, center with my childhood home, in Florida, and involve "drones" or "spy planes" that hunt me down. I usually blow
these off as "guilt" from something that I need to resolve, more than anything else, so I discredit them.
Probably 20 years ago, or so, I had the most disturbing dream that left me in tears and physically sick to my stomach. This dream also starred my
childhood home. In it was a group of men from several foreign nations. They had a sizable bomb, that I knew was nuclear. I remember walking up to
the bomb, and the men wouldn't talk to me. I asked them about the bomb, but they ignored me. For some damn reason I pushed "the button" and a
countdown clock started. I remember, the worst feeling of dismay and hopelessness overwhelmed me to the point that I became violently ill in the dream
and woke up in sheer horror, and the feeling of complete and utterly paralyzing despair. When I woke up, just as in the dream, I became violently
sick to my stomach.
A while later, I had a similar dream, and it centered right outside of the Air Force base, near my childhood home. The sky was orange-red with black
clouds, there was no wind, no sun and all the palm trees were dead. Everyone I knew, was there and could see they were sitting in their cars, lined up
outside the military gate. All of the cars were dead, all phones were dead and everyone was just sitting there, waiting. In the dream we were
waiting for a bomb to go off. Nobody moved, nobody talked much...we didn't run or anything--I don't know why, but even I didn't feel the urgency
to run. I just felt content to wait and see what happened. There was a flash, and I woke up.
Again, how does one know when a dream is prophetic, future-based or predictive and when to discount the junk?

