Dream:In to the future

 Dream Travel and Precognition

Time travel is a consistently fascinating concept. While it’s true that objects with mass can’t reach the speed of light—a limitation that restricts almost every physical method of achieving time travel, with the exception of light itself—recent research has primarily focused on these physical approaches.

However, another potential avenue to consider is non-physical, such as traveling through dreams. My focus here is purely on the idea of consciousness seeing into the future. While I've read about concepts like astral projection, I haven’t experienced it myself nor met anyone who has, so I won’t be delving into that topic. Instead, I’ll concentrate on dreams that seem to reveal future events. There are even some real-life incidents that make you wonder. For example, a colleague of mine dreamt about his brother’s death, and two days later, the same thing happened, even though his brother had been perfectly fine just before. Another instance is when my father was going to his hometown. As I dropped him off at the bus stop, I had a strong, inexplicable feeling that it would be his last visit. That night, I felt the same way, and the following morning at 3 am, he passed away from a cardiac arrest.

My dad usually traveled quite a bit, so why did I have such a strong feeling that particular time? That question still lingers with me, unanswered, and it’s what makes me wonder about the possibilities of non-physical time travel.

Personal Experimentation with Consciousness

Consciousness beautifully plays with our minds, even though it’s capable, it never reveals its full capabilities. I’ve read a few articles (without naming them) that suggest maintaining a meditative state might open possibilities for seeing visions.

Driven by these profound experiences, I even attempted a personal experiment to see if I could consciously access a state of "future-seeing." I tried to hold my mind in a state analogous to quantum superposition, where, until an observer collapses the wave function, all possibilities exist simultaneously. My goal was to keep my mind completely plain, devoid of any specific thoughts. This was incredibly difficult; I managed to maintain that position for barely six minutes. During this time, no specific vision arose. Instead, it was a different kind of experience: a deeply focused and remarkably refreshing state of mind. I later realized I had forgotten my initial intention to keep my mind blank – if there’s an intention, how can true blankness be achieved?

My Survey Observations

I gathered information about similar experiences that have happened to others and will briefly explain my findings. This is the first time I’ve conducted a public survey about dreams that came true in real life. I surveyed 60 to 70 people; a few told me they couldn’t remember their dreams, and some said nothing like that had ever happened to them. Forty-three people, however, shared their experiences. I won’t be uploading their individual stories, but I will present my observations based on their accounts.

First and foremost, the most common theme is negative content. Nearly every dream described some kind of difficult situation. A major portion involved visions of death, a few concerned breakups, and younger individuals often dreamt about academic or personal difficulties.

Interestingly, in most cases, the dreamer and the person who died in the dream shared a common genetic lineage (e.g., family members). Only a few dreams involved visions of non-relatives, such as neighbors.

It's particularly striking that in a very small number of cases, dreamers saw a specific place and identified their surroundings in the dream as exactly the same as what happened in real life. Some might refer to this as déjà vu.

Conceiving of something that doesn’t yet exist, or having thoughts about something highly complex, is generally very difficult in waking life. However, in dreams, it might not be as challenging. This raises a compelling possibility: the development of humanity and society might owe some significant part to dreams. For example, did early humans dream of inventing the wheel or harnessing fire, and then try to work them out in reality? It’s like a paradox: did our consciousness see the future, which then led to human inventions? Which came first?

While people can certainly lie, it’s unlikely that most of them would, or if they did, how could they consistently create such common themes and patterns? Based on these experiences, I believe consciousness has some potential to perceive the future. However, not everyone can access this ability. For a select few, it seems to serve as a warning or a way to prepare them for future difficulties.

Communication of Precognitive Dreams

It’s actually very interesting to consider how consciousness might communicate a looming negative event and prepare us for it. In such situations, our physical body is completely fine; consciousness cannot inflict pain or use physical means to warn us. Instead, it seems to engage the heart, playing with blood pumping, which is why we often say "something is wrong, my chest feels heavy," or "my gut senses something bad"—what we recognize as intuition.

Then, through dreams, consciousness sometimes provides direct visions or sometimes offers disturbing dreams without clear logic. This "sense of wrong" becomes stronger, and without consciously realizing it, we begin to prepare for the real situation.

The question then arises: Why do these visions almost exclusively depict difficult situations and not positive ones? And why can’t we have control over it, to access it whenever we need?

If consciousness truly has the potential to see the future, it would imply that the future already exists in some form. And if it already exists, then perhaps we lack the ability to change anything. Furthermore, if consciousness were to communicate positive events, what would be the purpose? It might even diminish our present happiness by revealing future joys too soon. All of this makes me ponder the incredible, intricate design of our existence.

Consciousness, a part of us, acts so differently when it’s observing. Why does it seem to become separate, not fully ‘part of us’ in that moment? This very dilemma might be why consciousness never achieves its full potential.

Concluding Thoughts

Still, I have no clear answers for the ultimate question: How can we truly tap into consciousness to see the future?