Message #77670

[countrigal]

I have often dreamed something... and later on down the road felt that deja vue (sp?) feeling... stopped and thought about it and then, depending on the outcome of the dream, either tell someone or just watch it unfold.  The first time I really knew I did this I was in junior High and dreamed a took a header down the back steps of the school, and a few days later, as I'm falling, I remembered it all and knew what the exact outcome was going to be (a really bad skinned knee that left a scar that is noticeable to this day).  Hubby is so used to it that when I stop mid-sentence, he'll wait patiently for me to either explain or to go on with the conversation.  It's particularly helpful if the situation originally had a bad outcome, because then by speaking to him and telling him the details, we can generally change the course a bit.  He didn't believe me really until one of my dreams involved others besides us, and I told him "She's going to say x, he's going to say Y, she's going to stomp over to the door, slam it, and he'll jump up, trip on the cat, and almost fall into the fireplace." The couple we were visiting were not fighting or disagreeing yet, then she said x and so on... and we stepped in just as he got up and the cat started to shoot under his legs (hubby grabbed the fast little bugger) and they talked and calmed down without him getting hurt.

So to answer the question, guess I do generally act on it and pay attention to it.  I wish I could say which dreams were like this and which were all pretend, but I don't generally know until the actual event starts to occur, so any dreams that aren't far-fetched (if involve talking unicorns and the such I ignore them) then I try to commit details to memory that are then accessed when I get that feeling that this has happened before.  I can stop, flip through the dreams and see if I find the one that belongs.  Then I either get to watch the real-life movie unfold or take steps to alter the course.