How does one differenciate?

[Kalandriel]

How can you tell the difference between a 'normal' dream, and one that might be a premonition? I dream quite frequently, but can't tell the difference between the two, so I never know which dreams are which until the event dreamt of happens.

[mtpathy]

experience and intuition are probably your best teachers,like many things in this i dont think
that theres any type of set formula.
start practicing various methods of lucid dreaming,astrel projection or whatever your wanting
to call it,and keep a dream journal so you can become familier with your own symbolism within
your dreams.

[Kalandriel]

Yeah, I really need to do the dream journal.. I tried doing that once before a few years back, because I would wake in the dead of night and have such an amazing dream.. then forget it within minutes...

So I started my journal... and unfortunately stopped after a week when in the morning I'd look at it, and all of my writing just looked like gibberish to me.

I'll have to practice for sure, and meditate more as well..

Thanks :)

[Derwin]

I found typing on the computer in WordPad works a whole lot better then a pen and pad.

[Akashic Brother]

Yeah when you dream you are at a very high state of awareness, so when you wake up you start shifting back, thus losing all the insights that made sense a minutte before. In this higher awareness your spirit can show you many possible outcomes of you immediate future. Also showing you solutions to your problems, past live experiences, etc. Your spirit is at such a high atate of awareness that it imakes it difficult for us, in our limited bodies, to understand what it is showing us. It resorts to using symbols that we can relate and translate, as well as talking verbally to us in our hieghtened state. It is soo super important to write our dreams out, and interpret them for ourselves. A premonition of the possible future is common place in our dreams. Our spirit can see time all together. Time is not linear to the spirit. There is no past, present, or future. Our spirit only know experience. For example in a dream you have you will be with your ex-girl, and your present girl, but they are both are your girls in the dream. You have experienced this, and so it is. We are the sum of experience. Future is the same, but it is flexable. There is only a possible future based on a chain of events that our spirit has the high awareness to see, and interpret.

[Kalandriel]

I so hate losing what I knew a moment before!

Though it leads me to believe that the whole deja vu experience is from dreaming an event beforehand...

Now I'm feeling all introspective! I am just so eager to figure this out sometime... because today I had a vision (while awake) that corresponded with one dream that I did remember. I definately am trying a dream journal again.

Thank you all for your input :)