Ask Erin: Can you share some of your premonition experiences?
April 24th, 2006 by Erin Pavlina
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Question: I know you’ve said you’ve had dreams that came true; premonition dreams I guess. Like the one from your grandfather. Can you share more of the dreams you’ve had that came true? - Alyssa
Answer: Sure, I’ll share a few of the ones I can remember off the top of my head. You’ll note that some of these dreams, although they came true exactly as I dreamed them, weren’t terribly significant. But hey, a girl’s gotta be proud of whatever she’s got.
In junior high I dreamed that I was wearing my green and white striped favorite comfy shirt. In gym class some girls that seemed to take delight in picking on me stole my clothes, hid them, and made me cry, begging to get them back so I wouldn’t have to leave the locker room naked. I woke from this dream thinking it was just a regular anxiety dream. A week or two later, I wore that shirt to school but I wasn’t thinking anything untoward was going to happen. My mistake! When I went back to the locker room after gym class I noticed my locker was wide open, my clothing gone, and about 8 girls were taunting me telling me I had to play the “hot and cold” game to find my clothes. Remembering my dream, I marched out of the locker room and simply told on them. No crying or begging from me! This didn’t win me any points with the bullies but at least I didn’t have to go home on the bus naked or sweaty. 
Another strange and seemingly insignificant dream occured while I was in high school. I had this very simple dream that I left my house, got into my car (a blue chevy nova) and started driving down the street. In the dream I looked in my rearview mirror and noticed my trunk was up! Couldn’t see out the back! The next morning that very thing actually happened to me. I got in my car, started driving, remembered my dream and glanced into the rearview mirror only to see my trunk was really up! I pulled over and closed it. Again, nothing significant, but very precognitive.
Now on to the more significant…
Me and one of my friends were both pregnant at the same time, but she was due 3 weeks after me. I had my baby and was home doing well. One night I dreamed that I was walking with my very pregnant friend through a garden. I felt odd in this dream, not quite lucid, almost like I was an observer. As we were walking she said, “Watch out for the snake. It might bite your ankle.” A snake jumped out at us and nipped at our ankles. We then walked to a backyard barbecue party but the people there were very sad and subdued. I felt awful and sad. And I woke up. That very morning I got a call from my pregnant friend. I said, “Hey! I had a really strange dream about you last night…” She interrupted me to tell me she was at the hospital and her baby had died during the night, in utero. They had to induce her and she had her baby; stillborn. Cause of death… umbilical cord wrapped tightly around the baby’s ankle. Cut off the circulation to the placenta. It was devastating for her and her family. They had the funeral at their home, in their backyard.
One evening my grandmother came to me in a dream and told me she was ready to move on into the next life. In the dream I saw her die. I told everyone in my family about this dream. The next day someone in my extended family DID die but it wasn’t my grandmother. Everyone thought this was related. But I told them, “no, it was definitely grandma that died in my dream.” Still people were impressed. Two days later my grandmother did die, very unexpectedly, after receiving a totally clean bill of health from her doctors. I guess she was the one to decide when she would go. But I thanked her for the advance warning.
Another evening I dreamed that Steve and I were driving up a hill and we saw a car accident. We drove over some of the wreckage but something got kicked up, flew into the air, and bashed through our windshield. In the dream, the glass just flew everywhere and cut into our arms and faces. The next morning my mother called to tell me that she and my father had been driving home from a wedding that previous night, were passing an accident, and a flare from the accident kicked up and flew into their windshield, shattering it. My mom had glass cuts all over her arms (but thankfully not her face). We backtracked the time and realized I was having my dream around the same time she was having her accident.
That’s just a sample of the dreams I’ve had which have come to pass. Often the precognitive dreams feel different to me than a regular dream. I take note of them and watch for them to happen. It’s not always pleasant news, but a little warning does take some of the sting out of them.
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April 24th, 2006 at 11:04 am
I’ve had dreams like that too. Is it okay to share? Maybe other readers have stories as well.
I went to bed early one night, around 7-8pm, and dreamed that my great aunt, who recently had a stroke, had passed away and all of my family went to the funeral without me. The next day I got an e-mail from my grandma about my aunt’s death and whether there would be a memorial service or not. Apparently she thought somebody had told me that she had passed the night before around 9:15, but even though everybody else knew, nobody had called to tell me.
I also had a dream when I was on vacation with a friend, about my family. I don’t remember exactly what it was, but it was so sad that I woke up crying. That morning I called my mom because I just wanted to hear her voice. I told her about my dream, and she said that she hadn’t wanted to tell me because I was on vacation, but my brother had been hospitalized for depression while I was gone.
And have you ever had precognitive emotions? I had a Christmas once where I was so thoroughly upset and depressed and anxious, it was frightening. It lasted a few days, and it was really confusing, and went away as oddly as it started. After we went home, my grandfather suddenly died of a heart attack. Somehow I always felt like it was related.
To a lesser extent, I had a weird bout of inexplicable anxiety and sadness prior to a friend’s wife passing away from cancer. I felt like that was connected too, but I’m not sure how.
April 24th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
I’ve had a dream involving a firetruck, 5 naked women, and a 21-gun salute. I’m REALLY hoping this is a precognitive dream!
April 25th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
I have precognitive dreams fairly often. They aren’t really dreams so much as “snapshots” that occur while I’m asleep. It’s taken a long time but I’m finally able to recognize and remember them before they actually happen. I used to only remember them when the incident occurred. Like you mention Erin, they’re insignificant and being snapshots, it can be really difficult to figure out what it refers to.
On a different note, I’ve been getting precognitive “feelings” while meditating sometimes. These ones seem to be about significant moments of choice that will occur in my life. I get a sense of the moment leading up to the choice and, thanks to the precognitive bit, I know that even though on the surface the choice seems trivial, it will have a great impact on my life. Do you have something like that occur for you too?
As has always been the case for me, the biggest challenge is in recognizing when these moments are happening. You seem to be quite aware of these moments. Can you provide some tips on recognizing them?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:35 am
dreams do foretell the future. How and why , that remains to be still explained. However , one thing is sure , that one has to interpret dreams correctly to benefit from the same.
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:07 pm
I’ve had a few myself– not with the future, but with the present, usually involving my family. One that I will share is entirely insignificant, but strangely coincidental. I dreamed that I was walking near a swimming pool and I saw sharks swimming in it. Then my younger brother came walking along and I told him, “Stay away from the pool! There’re sharks in it!” To my horror he was curious and walked right up to the edge of the pool– a big shark lept out towards my brother that was huge like Jaws, but then it just stayed still, and seemed almost fake, and my brother, who wasn’t frightned at all, looked at it with fascination. The shark slid back into the water, and all was well.
I only talk to my brother occasionally since I live across the country, but the day of this dream I happened to talk to him on the phone. I told him about my dream, and he said, “That’s freaky, because I’ve been watching Shark Week on tv this week…pretty much 24/7.” (he was on break from school). Coincidence….or not?
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:10 pm
By the way I didn’t have cable at the time and had no idea Shark Week was running!
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:27 pm
I’ve had precognitive dreams about things as varied as Lucille Ball’s death and 9/11. My grandfather had precognitive dreams, too, so I always figured it runs in the family.
I’ve noticed that the precognitive dreams almost always happen the nights that my forehead tingles as I’m trying to fall asleep. It’s as if my ‘third eye’ is activating.
I also have ‘visitations’ from loved ones in dreams. My mom has come to visit me several times since her untimely death in 2000, and I’ve also been visited by her mother and aunt and sister. They usually have news or encouragement or a simple message of peace and ‘everything is going to be okay.’
I consider such dreams and ‘visitations’ a gift.
Thanks for sharing yours with us!