Do you ever have dreams about random stuff and then months or years later you 'live' that dream?

[SpeedyGonzalez]

It's not deja vu. I remember my dreams well. Except sometimes I remember them as I'm experiencing the thing I dreamed about.

It's always banal stuff, never anything useful that would help me to save a life or get rid of Gordon Brown or anything.

Weird.

I reckon it's something to do with string theory and the 11 universes.

Happened to me the other day at work.

I put it down to tiredness.

Although tell me more about string theory and the 11 universes!

Yes, I normally tell dh as I like someone to know but anyone else would think I was a weirdo.

A few years ago I dreamt that a work colleague got a new job as a Sales Administrator at Comet of all places, completely unrelated to what she was currently doing. About 9 months later she handed her notice in to go and work in Sales at Comet.

I also dreamt that a friend told me that her brother died suddenly, we were in a park and it was autumn. A few months later (autumn)we were in the park and she told me that another friends brother had died suddenly.

I have had other awful dreams too, I try to push them to the back of my mind as they can be quite upsetting.

Recently, if i'm very rude about people they die.

I'm only going to use that power where absolutely necessary from now on.

Well! You did ask!

Err...

Err...

Do you know what? I have many faults but one of them is not bullshitting about stuff that I know next to nothing about. So I will tell you the 1/2 pence-worth of information I have about 11 universes.

Apparently there are thought to be 11 universes, some or all of which exist within the same space but within a different time. I think this is also called string theory, but I don't know why. Yet.

That's it.

!

But I like to think that it means we can somehow cross through to a different universe occasionally, which would explain the weird dream thing. These things only ever happen for me in dreams. I like playing around with the idea that maybe these things are real, and maybe not. Who cares; it's fun!

Prophetic dreams I think its known as.

Used to happen to me all the time, hasn't for a while, don't know whats changed? I used to know after having had a prophetic dream that it was one of 'those' dreams, I just got used to it because, like you OP, it was never anything good or exciting like lottery numbers just everyday, ordinary snapshots.

Whats this string theory?

Lottery numbers, ha! Now that would be useful. Just once, that's all I ask

Dollshouse - that sounds quite heavy, must be quite shocking when it happens.

NG - you should be glad I don't have that gift; I've been very rude about you recently

watch it! i have the power.

I would dream of places before i had been to them. Quite disturbing dreams so when i went to these places i would feel uncomfortable and on edge.

Hasn't happened for years though, so i assumed it was perhaps i had been to these places very young and forgotten about them til the dreams years later.

Glad i'm not the only one though

NeverInsultNeverGoogle

I dreamt last year that was a friend's child minder.

Weird as she doesn't have children

Turns out that was the day she had it confirmed she was pregnant.

She was completely freaked out when I mentioned the dream as that stage they hadn't even told their parents.

She confessed two months later what a coincidence it had been

Ooo DB how goes the diet?
And are you salivating at Sawyer's return next month? I can hardly wait (we need a drool emoticon really)

I am learning that I am no good at all this 11 universes and spiritual stuff.

I put things down to reasons that I understand. I don't 'get' time space continuum and bending time. Probably just a bit much for my brain maybe.

Have been training in acupuncture and my sciencey brain is strugglin with the whole concept. According the the textbook I am suffering from intellectual obnoxiousness or somesuch.

i'm really trying to get my head into it, but it's not really happening yet.

I need actual results and proof etc.

It doesn't happen to me very often thankfully! I have found that it usually happens when I am under stress, not sure of the significance.

I have also had the thing about being in a place before. When I was in Bangkok I just knew that I had been there before and felt like I was coming home. I miss it too, I have been to loads of lovely places but I want to go back to Bangkok and eat noodles from a street vendor because it feels comforting.

NG: "I don't 'get' time space continuum and bending time"

Tsk. It's easy-peasy.

I don't get it either, which is why I know so little about it!

Acupuncture - sounds brill, are you looking to change direction or enhance your current practice?

Right, I really have to get off MN now. Catch you later.

oh hello badietbuddy!

diet on hold over christmas although didn't put the weight back on that i'd lost. so need to start again.

i don't have sky anymore so will have to wait for the boxset. DO NOT TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS!!!

you have been warned! i have a special power remember.

No sky???!?
To be honest it's the only reason I still pay for my subscription, I could do without the endless Spongebob repeats otherwise. Well done on the not gaining though

in fact, i'm going to do my davina dvd while the kids have their tea now.

i know. i'm missing project catwalk, project runway, americas/britains/australia next top model, the hills, the city.

nevermind. all those programmes as favourites make me look a bit thick.

i just watch question time now. (actually scarily true)

I managed quite happily with no TV for 4 years until dd's nan thought it was verging on neglect and paid for the installation. I can waste hours watching crap noe. I was watching the Hills just this morning, thinking just how slappable Spencer is. What a tool

he is a tool.

we had no tv for the first 4/5 months after the move. it was nice, but made the living room a bit too quiet and we hardly used the room until we put a telly in there.

Ooh I have very vivid dreams - the most common involve me doing very normal and everyday things - problem is when I wake up I'm not sure if I'm awake or dreaming

I do also have dreams like in the op. Most weird was when I was 18 and I had dream that I was sitting on a metal dock on a lake talking to friends I hadn't seen in 10 years. The lake curved round a corner and the land sloped up a slight hill. I had never been there before. Anyway a year later I did a camp america type thing and got assigned a random camp in the US in an area I had never been before. The camp was on a curve on a lake with exactly that the one in my dream. It gets better - a few weeks into the job they had an open day where they invited old and new campers to come and visit for a 4th July celebration. and yep those exact 2 friends I had dreamed about turned up. It was REALLY WEIRD!!!

Spooky dream, scrappy!

The first time I remember being aware of this was when I went to school late one morning and was met by a friend who was out of the classroom and in tears. It turned out one of our friends had committed suicide over the weekend. As she was telling me what had happened it dawned on me that I had been in the whole setting before - being in the empty school foyer with just this girl telling me something terribly sad. It was such a strange feeling to be re-experiencing that scene.

I don't think of that sort of thing as spiritual in any way - perhaps because the 'dawning realisation' bit always happens after the event, making it pretty useless as a prophecy, right? This is why I prefer to think I've crossed into a different universe in my sleep.

(I don't believe I've ever sounded like more of a loon than in that last sentence )

Oooh, heard a very spooky tale on the radio - a woman used to dream that she was flying and would always end up visiting one particular house in this dream. Well, one day, some years later, she was house hunting in a new part of the UK. She went to one particular house, which looked familiar, and when she was inside a little girl in the house said: "Mummy! That's the lady who's been haunting our house!"

Who cares if it's real or not? What a FABULOUS story!

NG - do you have a DVD player? We have a copy of The Last King of Scotland which I can send you if you haven't seen it - absolutely brilliant film, though very brutal in parts. It's because of the brutal stuff that I'm giving it away, otherwise I'd gladly see it again! [wuss-icon]

I thought string theory had more than 11 universes....or rather dimensions...

Hmm...I am getting confused now. Last I heard it was definitely 11 but that was a few years ago. Also am confused with the dimensions v universes thing as that also rings a bell - unless the dimensions come as a consequence of being set in different time-space continuums.

I have a very limited ability to bullshit so I shan't develop that idea any further!

How many universes/ dimensions do you think are contained in the theory, then, Puss?