Can you predict the outcome of your dreams because you've dreamt it before?

Sometimes when I'm walking down the street I have the feeling I've done the same thing before... Deja vu - spooky. Dreaming the same dream as before? The only time that happened was when I was having re occurring nightmares. Predicting the outcome is not an issue when you are having a terrifying nightmare.

sometimes

Perhaps. That isn't something I make a habit of doing.

Yes
this actually has happened to me a couple of times...I am in a dream state...Iam scared because I knew what was going to happen next...I don't understand!!!!

I can predict whether my dreams will be intense... if I eat before I go to bed, they usually will. Other than that... I don't tend to have the same dreams over and over, so no.

Absolutely. Over time I have become very good at being aware while I am dreaming and often have the same dream, or at least same scenario, over and over.

sometimes

Sometimes. I mean, I don't think I actually do this while I'm dreaming, but I suppose I could, since I do have some recurring dreams.

Sometimes.

I do not remember my dreams. I could say "I don't dream" but I know it can't be true (according to the valid theories, that is).

It depends. I have one recurring nightmare, and I despise it.
Basically I'm lying in bed at night, and I have an old wireless radio at the side of me. There's a crackly static man's voice coming through it. Every so often, I'm hearing updates on the process of a large meteor's path.
"And it appears that the meteor is certain to strike Earth..."
"It is heading toward the Northern hemisphere..."
"It seems to be heading in the direction of Europe... Western Europe... The UK."
It doesn't stop there
"The meteor is on course of North West England, Manchester as it happens."
...
"Ok, ok, looking in on the satellite map... it's going to hit... Number six..."
The man reels off my whole address, and in the background there's a noise. It's like a hum, like at the end of Karma Police by Radiohead or the beginning of Plug In Baby by Muse. It gets louder and louder and louder.
And right at the end, there's just the endless noise of a heart monitor in hospital.
I have this about once a month...


Oh, and why I'm listening to a wireless, I have no idea.

I have no conscience awareness of making that kind of decision when I dream.

Most often, no. There's this one recurring dream I have that's always the same. I know what's going to happen, don't want it to happen, yet it always does.

I used to have reoccuring nightmares when I was about 12.. but I guess I'm like a goldfish and forgot

Nope

Now that you mention it, some of my dreams do have familiar themes and characters in them that I do not know or are familiar with in real life, so when a certain dream situation pops up, I say to myself (in the dream, mind you). Oh, this is the dream when I will see (blank) and do (blank).

My dreams often have a theme but they generally tend to end differently.

I do have one particularly recurrant dream though, about abandoning my horse, and that always ends the same way. I hate that dream.

> Now that you mention it, some of my dreams do have familiar themes
> and characters in them that I do not know or are familiar with in
> real life, so when a certain dream situation pops up, I say to myself
> (in the dream, mind you). Oh, this is the dream when I will see (blank)
> and do (blank).

OMG exactly
that is freaky

So maybe our dreams are our real lives and our waking lives are our dreams.

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" From a song by a band called Propoganda.

LSD?

No, more like creepy poetic philosophy. Their music is just like that. No psychodelic colors or LSD trips.

creepy poetic philosophy. Something like the coffee houses and beatnik society from the late 50's early 60's that my grandmother told me about.

Yeah, that's about it.

that happened only once to me.

every time I dream that the setting has fell out of my ring someone dies. Truthfully.

no.

Some times I will have a dream then five years later I will have it again and know what is going to happen

Yes, I have several re-occuring dreams, but never back to back. Each one starts and ends the same. But, in each dream, whether a re-occurance or not, you follow a script you can't change. It's like acting in a play or movie, you have your place and time in it, and when you're supposed to do what you're expected in it. There are no adlibbing in re-occuring dreams.