How do you separate "just a dream" from "psychic" dream?

[Agota]

Hey, guys!

I've been having quite a few interesting and vivid dreams lately.

Let's say couple of weeks ago I had a dream that one of my girlfriends is crying non-stop because she cheated on her boyfriend and the dream was very vivid and emotionally intense. Few days after that her boyfriend told me he caught her kissing with another guy. "Interesting", I thought.

I'm having some other vivid dreams, but I don't really understand how do I tell the difference when I'm simply dreaming an emotionally intense dream which is just in my head and when I'm dreaming a dream where I connect to some other person or get glimpses of the future.

How do you guys tell the difference?

Thanks!

[Midnite]

One will come true.

[Agota]

I mean, how do you separate them immediately after waking up?

Obviously, when it comes true it's clear

[Midnite]

It is really quite difficult to distinguish unless you have the ability to remember fine minute details that are easily overlooked. And even then most dreamscapes often have irregularities embedded within them, it's not to say they are not then portraying a real-life situation in their own unique way.

In regards to some kind of post-dream test, I am not sure they exist, other than to just wait for the event to happen. That or you may be able to meditate upon the piece of information, for example 'will my friend cheat on her boyfriend' and come to some answers by using other latent psychic gifts to test the dream's accuracy.

[AngelPsychic444]

Originally Posted by Agota

Hey, guys!

I've been having quite a few interesting and vivid dreams lately.

Let's say couple of weeks ago I had a dream that one of my girlfriends is crying non-stop because she cheated on her boyfriend and the dream was very vivid and emotionally intense. Few days after that her boyfriend told me he caught her kissing with another guy. "Interesting", I thought.

I'm having some other vivid dreams, but I don't really understand how do I tell the difference when I'm simply dreaming an emotionally intense dream which is just in my head and when I'm dreaming a dream where I connect to some other person or get glimpses of the future.

How do you guys tell the difference?

Thanks!

I agree that looking into the details of a dream can aid you in knowing you're having a glimpse of the future. Keep a dream journal if you can and write down as much as the dream as you can remember, as you do this in your journal you'll notice that you remember more of the dream as you write it down (this happens to me all the time).

Another way to tell the difference between a "normal" dream and a dream where you get a glimpse of the future is do some pendulum dowsing. I know you have to have some expertise in pendulum dowsing or muscle testing, but still, it's a valid way to find out what's going on.

edit:
I just found a very good webpage with a nice suggestion:

"You can get clarification by going back to the source. Prior to falling asleep, think about what type of information you need to clarify a previous dream. Instruct yourself to have a clarifying dream and when it comes, to awaken you. Be sure to have writing material handy. Remember! Don’t give up after only one try, keep trying and you’ll get something."

Future Dreams Precognition. How to find precognition in your dreams of the future.

[Midnite]

Originally Posted by AngelPsychic444

"You can get clarification by going back to the source. Prior to falling asleep, think about what type of information you need to clarify a previous dream. Instruct yourself to have a clarifying dream and when it comes, to awaken you. Be sure to have writing material handy. Remember! Don’t give up after only one try, keep trying and you’ll get something."

My experience with pre-cognitive dreams has lead me to believe there is no way to induce genuine prophetic glimpses, other than to wait for them to happen. Even heavy psychic work only accentuates vivid or lucid dreams, rather than the real deal.

Sitting there the next morning after a heavy dreaming session, without prior intent or logical reason for it to happen, makes it quite difficult to test genuinity, unless as you suggested she uses something like dowsing, or other external measures.

[AngelPsychic444]

Originally Posted by Midnite

My experience with pre-cognitive dreams has lead me to believe there is no way to induce genuine prophetic glimpses, other than to wait for them to happen. Even heavy psychic work only accentuates vivid or lucid dreams, rather than the real deal.

Sitting there the next morning after a heavy dreaming session, without prior intent or logical reason for it to happen, makes it quite difficult to test genuinity, unless as you suggested she uses something like dowsing, or other external measures.

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the response!

[momo3bur]

I'm not really sure, Agota. I have these too and it's hard to distinguish what is psychic or just a dream.

The only way I've ever known for sure is when the dream comes true or if I share the information with the person I believe it may have been meant for and they confirm it.

Hopefully one day we'll get to the level of being able to distinguish one from the other. It could be very helpful.

[Partaker]

^ I agree.

Cheating/deceit seems to be a common theme in my psychic dreams, now that you mention it I can remember two where the real life situation that finally revealed was eerily similar to my dream.

In both of those cases I wonder if my dreams were really my gut instinct telling me the truth about what was going on...

[drax]

Originally Posted by Midnite

It is really quite difficult to distinguish unless you have the ability to remember fine minute details that are easily overlooked. And even then most dreamscapes often have irregularities embedded within them, it's not to say they are not then portraying a real-life situation in their own unique way.

In regards to some kind of post-dream test, I am not sure they exist, other than to just wait for the event to happen. That or you may be able to meditate upon the piece of information, for example 'will my friend cheat on her boyfriend' and come to some answers by using other latent psychic gifts to test the dream's accuracy.

I agree

[SarahJaynee]

I used to think some of my dreams were psychic as when I awoke they "felt" different - like they had a different flavour somehow. then maybe that day or in a week or so the event in my dream would come true! Wow I thought - I am psychic :-)
I have posted about dreaming as I was an avid interpreter plus a skilled lucid dreamer. I thought I must be up an evolutionary notch or something on my non-lucid fellows :-)

Now I think much differently about dreams after gaining more knowledge.
Dreams are below ego not above it - therefore they are directed by ego not by your Source. The things we dream of are the ego screaming out to direct things the way IT wants them. Another way of looking at psychic dreams is as proof of the manifestation power you have.
Partaker noted that maybe it is your gut instinct (as in his experience), so we could see the psychic dream as events happening after a vision OR events happening BECAUSE of a vision (dream).

People assume that big loud motivational affirmations are the best way to manifest (law of attraction and all that).
However all thoughts are equal, there is no such thing as an idol thought.

I no longer comb through my dream images for signs of my inner spiritual workings. I recognise that each thought is my ego redirecting what it really wants to happen and I acknowledge how the ego is trying to gain a stronger grip somehow - an I usually laugh at it.
As for lucid dreaming I really do believe that the more controlling your ego then the more lucid dreams you engage and INDULGE in.
This isnt the popular view on this site and indeed it is the existing views that drew me to the dream posts on this forum.

When I became aware of my dreams and how they are manipulations of the ego, my incessant dreaming diminished, and my lucid dreams stopped almost immediately now that I will not play along.

So your post asked how to tell the difference between a normal dream and a psychic dream. There is no difference. All dreams are ego thoughts and all thoughts are reality in the manifestation queue.
The dream of the break-up just seemed more likely (and dramatic and worthy of more thoughts) than say the dream of the upside down elephant in the park!

There are no idol thoughts.