@jbskaggs said:
Not to mention there is also prescient and spiritual aspects of dreams. I have dreamed events many times that 100% came to pass and I relived them exactly how I dreamed them. But they are not long enough to give me any help in the real world. But it does make me think time is some thing our brain might be able to work around- or that reality maybe a "created" simulation that gets rebooted, you know typical redneck beliefs. ;)
So yes, when I was younger I used to have dreams about the future all the time. In fact, I kept a dream journal for lucid dreaming, and I had documented at least 100 cases (with dates and details) of dreams I had that actually happened. Sometimes it would be days later, or even months later. But it was true. Sometimes it would be mundane things, like the outfit a character was wearing in a show I had never seen before. Or sometimes very serious things, like when this guy got into an accident on my block and possibly died and I witnessed it.
After happening so many times, I tried to change things. But I realized that you can't change the future. Even if you see it in your dreams, that was always a part of the past. So anything you do to try to change the future, is also a part of the future you saw. In fact, sometimes in attempting to change things, you create the exact situation you were trying to avoid. I mean, it's useful and fun to see things in dreams, and it can help you understand, but there is no use trying to change anything. Everything that is going to happen, has already happened. We just don't see it yet, but in the real world (outside of time) everything has happened already.
