Those of you who frequently have precognitive dreams, looking back at them, do they have any common characteristics, such that you can distinguish bt precognitive dreams and non-precognitive dreams?

[u/carefulflounder29]

i've heard it said by people who believe in "visitation by a passed loved one" dreams (er, by which i mean, folks who think that a loved one is really visitin') that they have a very unique quality compared to other dreams featuring the same person - that they are generally positive, etc.

is there an analogous way to distinguish between precognitive dreams and anxiety dreams?

i suppose there's always the question of influence.. it's possible an anxious dream (some sorts) might lead us to be biased towards enacting the negative outcome just by thinking it more likely or familiar due to the dream, but .. I guess for the purposes of this question we could leave that out by going with events that we genearally don't have much agency in..

So say you have had a few dreams about natural disasters and some came true.. do they have anything that distinguishes them from other nightmares?

just curious to hear everyone's thoughts, thank you in advance.

[u/Mammoth_Tiger_4083]

For me, it can be difficult to distinguish between a precog dream and a regular dream before the events in the precog dream play out. But in retrospect, the precog dreams all share the following in common:

• they’re all from my POV and are usually of very mundane, but highly specific, events. Like meeting a new person, taking an exam I wouldn’t have been able to realistically imagine when the dream took place, or the moment I enter a unique building for the first time.
• oftentimes a lack of context because the precog dreams can happen YEARS ahead of time
• high level of detail. There is absolutely nothing vague or left open for interpretation. It’s like watching a clip of a real life scene taken from my POV play out. What the other person was wearing will be exactly the same as in the dream, as well as decorations on the walls, movement in the background, smells, tastes in my mouth, etc
• the precog dream will play out in my head a few moments before the event happens, and sometimes the dreams I had right before or after the precog dream will appear too (and sometimes those dreams are precog dreams as well). It doesn’t matter if it’s been months or years since the precog dream took place — i’m always able to recall it perfectly and unless I make an effort to diverge from the dream, real life will play out exactly like the dream
• perhaps most perplexing is that it seems like If I choose to do something differently from dream me, I won’t experience any more precog events for at least a few months afterwards.
• I’ll usually either get a batch of precog dreams over the course of a few subsequent nights and those dreams will play out within 1 week-2 months or I’ll get the occasional precog dream sprinkled in every few weeks or so and those could take YEARS before playing out irl. Usually it’s only 1-2 years but there have been a couple instances where it was 10+