Going to sound crazy but anyone had this experience with a dream? I’m usually cynical about this stuff but this was so strange...

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I’m questioning myself even typing this! As I don’t really believe in anything like it...but the other night I had THE most vivid dream that I was tucking in this child into bed, the colour of his hair, the chat we had on his bed, I read him a book, turned the light off and then went back up to check on him a while later. It was all so vivid and I felt like I knew him and I was in this new place but I knew it well... the stairs, the carpet, it was like it was a home I hadn’t felt before. When I woke up I remembered it and felt happy all morning in this really really strange way that I can’t explain. Like a weird content feeling and like a haze of this feeling that I can’t describe either. It was the most calm I have felt in months and months.

Context...I’m single and a while back I was very deeply unhappy I didn’t have a partner or a child, following a devastating break up and miscarriage (both happening within three months), I was distraught... but that wasn’t on my mind of late or that night or anything.

It probably sounds silly but has anyone experienced this before?! I’m sure it sounds silly to most, I would have scoffed at it before it happened too! Haha.

I do believe in this sort of dream - I had one many, many years ago about Shanklin Pier on the Isle of Wight. I dreamed that the bit over the beach was missing and children were trying to bury the feet of the pier in the sand. There people on the remaining bit wondering how to get off. About 6 months later it was destroyed in the 1987 hurricane. But I couldn't guess that at the time and there was bog all I could have done about it.

I am always amazed at the detail of dreams, how there is never anything missing. And you know things - that man over there has a brother in law who's a builder, when in fact neither man exists. Not in your life, anyway.

As for your

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I have a friend who's very skeptical about dreams, says it's just your mind putting things that have happened in order.

Your dream well..... If he's right, this is the rational, calm, logical part of your mind sitting you down with tea and biscuits (like a good mate would) and telling you that it's all going to be okay, that you will have the life you want one day, you will have the children you want (and I was so sorry to hear you lost a child). Because it's your own mind, you have not put up any argument, you have listened to this internal best mate (whereas life you might have got a bit "woe is me" - and who can blame you?) . So you feel better and able to take the next steps in your life.

If I'm right and this is a prophetic dream, then this is the child you will have one day come to reassure you that it will all be right. Or we could both be right. Either way the peace of mind is a gift. Enjoy it like a piece of good chocolate.

*in real life

Aaaargh!

I know I’ve had dreams that ‘came true’ and I hope yours does too

these messages are so nice to read!

In the past people have sometimes commented on things like this and I’ve always massively dismissed it in my head and though god what are they on about! But after this I can’t help thinking it over as it was so strange...the dream was clear but it wasn’t particularly lucid, I suppose I did feel like I was actively doing things, going upstairs etc but it was more the feeling that came with it and then afterwards even when I was awake. And I can see that face now and his dark blonde curls and the little shy smile.

Last year I was due to go into hospital for open heart surgery. About three weeks before I went in I had a dream that I’d had the surgery, woke up and felt immediately better with no symptoms. And all my family etc were there waiting for me, except I couldn’t get to them and couldn’t reach me.

I woke up and told my DP that I knew that I was going to die in theatre. I seriously considered cancelling the surgery but thought doing so on the basis of what I thought was a premonition was a bit loopy, so I said goodbye to DP/DS on the morning and went off sincerely believing i wouldn’t be coming back, although a part of me hoped it was. just anxiety.

Before the surgery the surgeon came to see me and said that having looked at my scans he didn’t believe I could survive the surgery and so cancelled it. He sent me down for a test for a different procedure. I crashed anyway, very nearly died and spent six weeks in hospital including two weeks in ICU, a further cardiac arrest, and the lesser procedure.

I was told that while this was obviously bad and I was lucky to be alive, had I had the surgery I 100% wouldn’t be.

I'm a lucid dreamer. It's sort of like I'm watching a film, even though I'm in it. I can taste, smell, feel temperature, rain / snow falling on me etc. I often think 'ooh, this is a good dream' but if I don't like it I can change it.

I have recurring dream themes. If I'm stressed at work I usually have a dream where I'm walking at night and the sky is full of billions of stars. It's very peaceful and I wake up calm the next day. It's like my brain knows how to de-stress me.

I've also had a dream where I'm standing at a stone sink washing breakfast plates. I'm wearing a long skirt and a blouse, my hair is long and red. Then I hear a pit siren, I feel complete fear and dread and I go cold. I drop the plate I'm washing, grab a shawl from the back of the chair and run out of the house. Lots of other women are running with me downhill to a mine and there's loads of smoke in the air. I can still picture everything about it - it's stuck with me for about 20 years.

I had a really vivid dream where I was driving along a local road that I use regularly. In the dream I rounded the corner and slammed into the back of a white pick up, it made me wake with a start.
Throughout that day I was very conscious of how many white pick ups there actually are round here and drove more cautiously than usual.
So I was heading to the school to collect my DD and came up to a busy roundabout, vehicle in front went to go, i checked right and went and bumped into the back of the guy in front who hadn't gone after all.
It was a yellow works van rather than a white pick up but I've never had any sort of collision other than that one and it left me with the freakiest feeling.
There was no damage caused and we just decided to carry on with our days.

@Doyoumind mine are 90 % of the time predictions . Yes sometimes dreams are made up of what you think about or hope about but sometimes they are predictions too

I just had a really vivid dream that I met a Clive Owen lookalike at a wedding and fell in love, when I woke up I was genuinely devastated it was only a dream 😂

I totally believe there is more to dreams than we know

When I was single and lonely I had a few very vivid dreams about a little girl with a dark bob called Iris. I was convinced she’d be my first child, but I just had a little boy! Maybe she will be my second. But my husband is Muslim and I don’t think Iris will fit in our ‘acceptable to both families’ centre of the Venn diagram

I have various different types of dreams, i used to have premonitions in dreams that just felt different, more like a message, and they would haunt me for months until they came true. I dreamt of the London bombings, the space shuttle explosion, the pub bomb in soho.

I have also had dreams where deceased family or friends have come to me with a message, usually just before I wake up, and they often hang over me for days too. Both these types of dream feel completely different to normal.

I recently had one where an old friend had died about 8 months before and I saw her in a park and she stopped me and said she had been desperately trying to talk to D, our mutual friend whom she was incredibly close to, but D couldn’t hear her so she’d come to find me instead. She begged me to message D and tell her that she was trying so so hard and to listen out for her. I did actually message D and tell her. I’m sure she thought I was mad but I just had to pass it on.

I have very strange dreams.
I once dreamt that someone i knew had died. He had committed suicide that night.

I once dreamt that I snogged David Baddiel. I hadn't thought of David Baddiel in ages and certainly hadn't thought of snogging him. There was no further development on that one.

A close friend of DH and I died in his mid 20s. It was a bit of a "carpe diem" catalyst for us and we got engaged shortly after his funeral.
Soon after, I dreamed of our friend. He came over, looked me up and down, winked and turned to go. He was well, not like before his death (long illness). I told him how happy I was to see him again, that DP and I were getting married, and that we would be naming our first son after him.
"You won't", he said.
"Why?"
"You're going to have two girls"

It has always stayed with me.

Lovely as it was, we turned out to have 3 boys....and our eldest has his name as a middle name.

"... I have dreamt of my Daughters future children & given she thinks she doesn’t want any (she’s now 28), she’s in for a rude shock"

Not my daughter's biological child, but I have had dreams for years of her being in a significant role to a little red-headed little girl. My daughter (24) has spent the last decade or so, adamant that she doesn't want children of her own, so the dreams of this little red-headed girl, splashing in puddles with her two younger brothers (who, in the dream, are my daughter's biological children), until very recently made me think it was just my subconscious trying to deal with her decision(s). Except, my daughter's recently started to date someone who has... a little girl with red hair and the same beaming grin as the one in my dream (I've seen photos), and has now decided that one day, having met "the one", she wants to have children. I'll be interested to see if she has little boys who're the spitting image of their father, if that's the case.

Hi yes I'm a dreamer. I sometimes dream things and they eventually come true.

But I've also dreamed up new friendships and spent a night dreaming of an adventure or conversation with them. I always feel sad to wake up and I feel sort of how you describe the next day.

I have quite a sad/strange one. There's a house near me. I had a dream one night that I went into this house. There was a bloke in the chair with a white t shirt and dark hair. He was sweating. I hugged him and he hugged me back and it felt like we were reuniting. I felt really emotional. The next day In real life I thought about it all day.

In real life two years after this dream I worked with a girl who lived in this house. I didn't know she lived there until she showed me. Didn't think much of it. A few months later her step dad who was only mid 20s died after going to the gym. He had a heart attack. He looked like the lad in my dream. Dark hair and stuff. To make it even more weird his wife (an older women in her late 30s) has the same name as me.....

I have always remembered the dream. Always remembered what happened. Always wondered how the hell I dreamt about it. I'm not gifted. It was likely a coincidence. But I worry sometimes how many things were linked. I fell pregnant the month after he died. My second child was born the day before his child's birthday. So close to sharing the same day.

Sometimes I wonder if dreams are spirits visiting us. I'm not religious at all. But I'm a believer in spirits.

Just to add to this. My grandma died on Christmas day years ago never met her or my grandad but I have been to their grave with family many times. My baby was due Christmas Eve a couple of years ago. A few days before he was born I dreamt I woke up in the graveyard in my bed next to their grave. I wasn't scared but felt peaceful.

I had my son three days after Christmas.
I had my first child three days after my Grandads death in the same month too.

With my first pregnancy I had rotten all day nausea and exhaustion. I had had 3-4 weeks like it and was feeling quite down. I had a dream my other grandma ran me a bath with red radox. She had died when I was 9. I woke up the next day and felt alot better and was able to clean up. I remember scrubbing the bathroom and feeling so much happier!

I went through three miscarriages in a row after getting married. It was a horrible, dark time for me.
In the midst of the grief I was sitting in an armchair one evening with a lamp on so I could see my reflection in the window. I don’t know if I fell asleep or just zoned out but I suddenly became aware that I could see a blonde haired child and a dark haired child playing in front of me in the reflection. They were only toddlers so I couldn’t tell if boys or girls. The experience really stayed with me.
A couple of months later I was pregnant with my eldest DD, a blonde, and less than fifteen months later her sister arrived with dark hair.
This has happened to me a few times but never on a scale like that . I have no idea if it was a dream or a premonition or I’m subconsciously picking up on things that then seem like predictions.

I don’t generally believe in all of this stuff but I have had some strange dreams. I once dreamt that a friend who had a little boy and I had met up in a park except she had 2 boys and I had 2 girls. We were talking while the children played. It was so vivid at the time but I forgot about it. Around 4 years later I went to visit this friend, by this stage she’d had another boy and I had 2 girls. She suggested that we went to a park and it was the exact scene from the dream I’d had a few years before.

Not going into it too much but I was seeing a counsellor about an ongoing situation and she asked me if I’d had any dreams.

I explained I had, we chatted for so long that we extended the session and it turned out to be life-changing for the absolute best. It was about infertility and me conceiving.

Didn’t believe in them until that experience xx

My nan died 3 years ago, she was from South Africa but had lived in the UK for the last 50 years before she died. She was poorly before she died and didn't look like her self obviously. I had a dream about a family reunion and she was there, I went up to her and said "I thought you were gone?" she looks beautiful and had her lovley tanned olive skin back. She said "no sweetheart I'm not gone, I'm just away it's lovley I feel so much better"
Had a few dreams about her and the gist is always the same, she's on holiday and pops back for a visit. Always makes me feel happy the next day.