id, I have the same thing happen to me all the time, but rarely mention it in polite company for fear of James Randi cracks like Crash’s kisses Crash . The first one I can remember was when I was in Kindergarten, and I dreamed about being lined up from recess with the other kids in my class and pulling on two mismatched mittens. I was so shocked by the feeling that I can remember all the sensory input from that moment … visuals, smells, textures, etc … 100% clearly to this very day.
When I was in High School I started keeping a Dream Diary, and then going back and marking the pages when thinks happened to me that I knew I had dreamed before. Over the course of about six years I had at least 150 dreams that I can document came true … in exact detail … sometime later (usually the day of the morning I awoke from the dream). I have about another 50 or 60 instances where I dreamed about someone and would have an unexpected letter, phone call, or meeting with them the next day (but that was not the exact same situation as the dream). Part of the trick of the Dream Diary was it was always the very first thing I did in the morning, before I got out of bed and often before I was completely awake. What was odd was that I would go back through the days and find that I had recorded dreams that I had no memory of at all a few days latter.
I haven’t kept a Dream Diary in probably ten years, but I still have these sorts of dreams — and other, super vivid dreams, many of which have an ongoing story line over many nights or which repeat characters and locations but not plot points — mostly very early in the morning, usually within an hour or two of the time my alarm is set for. One thing I’ve had to actually learn to do is to time when I go to bed and/or get up around my dream cycle — its not unusual for me to be dreaming so vividly and heavily that its almost impossible for me to wake up.
I have no idea what causes it, and I have no theory (tinfoil hat, James Randi fodder, or otherwise) about why it happens. I’ve never dreamed about anything important that came true — its always snippets of conversation or trying on a shoe or someone telling a joke — just the fabric of everyday life.
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