Longterm Predictions
This page lists examples of a rare type of dream: predictions of events years in the future. Most predictive dreams are short-term--days or at most weeks; the broader list contains all the dreams below and many more. My thoughts on the implications of predictive dreaming are on the general page; here, I'll just list examples that show how far a dreamer can, on rare occasions, see ahead.
In the main list, full descriptions of dreams are alphabetical; but here's a list from longest first: 70 years: Buffalo Person -- 65-70: Layanasha's Dream -- 40: Harry and Kuvyrkin -- 39: Gudrun's Four Husbands -- 37: My Ex-Wife -- 34: Ocarina -- 33ish: Bill Cosby's Wife & Impossible Ships -- 30ish: Plane over Oraibi -- 29: White-Faced Mare -- 26ish: Siegfried Must Die and The Great Peace -- 25ish: Jack of Greatness -- 23: Crazy Horse's Dream -- 22: Eagles in Love with a Swan -- 21ish: Sky-Boat -- 20ish: Gunnhildr’s Birth Dream & Ragnhild's Tree -- 18: Lucid on the Moon & Rift Zone -- 17: Six-Month Tombstone, Seventeen-Year Cabinet -- 14ish (arguably 20ish!): Joseph and the Pharaoh -- 12: The Tao of Dennis the Menace -- 11: Unexploded Sphere -- 10-11: Riverbank Bliss -- 10: Ten Years After -- 10 & 8: Red Uncle, Red Canyon -- 5-10: Deja Reve -- 8-9: Coffins & Breast Bandit -- 8: Mesopotamian Armory -- 7: Egyptian God, Gunships, Two Planes -- 6: Street of the Future, Guardian Angel Course, Aida's Toilet Boat -- 5: Starfish, Ordeal by Infrastructure, Lion-Girl Triangle -- 4: Five Hearts -- 3: Emancipation
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AIDA'S TOILET BOAT: by Wayan; 1993/4/7, a short- AND long-term predictive dream. A sexy comedian and her troubles down the drain. A dream that turned out to be true six days later, and again in a different way six YEARS later... |
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BILL COSBY'S WIFE: by Wayan; 1994/5/5, one of many creepy dreams about a comedian I loved. I'm Bill Cosby's wife, finding it hard to cook for him without a stove or fridge... CAUTION: SLANDER, I HOPED. I HOPED WRONG. |
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THE BREAST BANDIT: by Wayan, 1984/5/31, an embarrassing dream. I'm bad. I'm really bad. I know I shouldn't have done it. But my mail-order breasts were late... CAUTION: BREAST THEFT |
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BUFFALO PERSON: by Plenty Coups, summer 1857; a child's time-traveling, tribe-saving dream I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house... |
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COFFINS: by Beryl and Wayan; 1983/11/5, dark parallel/shared/telepathic dreams
Twin dreams of ghoulish games backstage at a theater. And they anticipated real long-term ghoulishness... CAUTION: SLOW DEATH |
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CRAZY HORSE'S DREAM: by Crazy Horse; summer 1854 (age 11-12) a life-predicting dream I saw a man riding across the face of a lake. Bullets and arrows flew at him, but all missed. He reached the shore. Men who looked like him rose from the ground, and pulled him down... CAUTION: GENOCIDE DIRECT, GENOCIDE BY PROXY |
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DEJA REVE: by Percy Bysshe Shelley; before 1810, a flash of a premonitory dream While walking in the country, a vista suddenly terrifies Shelley: he recognizes it from a dream years before... |
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EAGLES IN LOVE WITH A SWAN: by Thorstein Egilson; c. 982 AD, a twenty-year predictive dream Before his daughter's even born, Thorstein dreams two eagles in love with a swan kill one another in rivalry over her... CAUTION: PATRIARCHAL BARBARIANS |
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THE EGYPTIAN GOD: by Wayan; 1991/12/21, a 7-year precognitive dream. Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up... CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST |
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EMANCIPATION: by Harriet Tubman; c. 1860/1/1, a dream looking three years ahead Tubman woke ecstatic, unable to eat. "My people are free!" Her host said "My grandchildren may see it; but we will be gone." "No! I tell you, sir, you'll see it, and you'll see it soon. My people are free! My people are free!" Three years later... |
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FIVE HEARTS: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/1/11; sexy psychic unicorn dream-comic (text only: FIVE HEARTS) I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to... CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA |
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THE GREAT PEACE: by George Antheil; early 1922; two predictive dreams that change a pianist's life I dream it's after a great war; I hear the music I must write, and meet the girl I must marry... |
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THE GUARDIAN ANGEL COURSE: by Wayan; 1984/9/29, a long-term predictive dream I get bored with crime, so I take a course in finding my Guardian Angel. But my test results are strange... CAUTION: WEIRD ANGELS |
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GUDRUN'S FOUR HUSBANDS: by Gudrun Osvifursdottir; summer 988, plus spring 1026
Four childhood dreams predicting Gudrun's life; plus a predictive dream by her husband Thorkell Eyjolfson Gudrun dreams of four treasures: a hood, a bracelet, a ring, a jeweled helm. Her cousin sees them as four marriages... |
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GUNNHILDR’S BIRTH DREAM: by Gunnhildr; c. 1150, a surreal predictive dream. I dreamt I gave birth to a white-hot stone shedding sparks. Most folk would find my son strange... |
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GUNSHIPS: by Wayan, 1982/4/24, a nightmare predicting the Falkland war Helicopter gunships invade. I repel bullets with pure willpower. But they too have shields making guns useless. I duel two soldiers... CAUTION: SURREAL VIOLENCE |
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HARRY AND KUVYRKIN: by Vladimir Nabokov, 1916, a punning long-term predictive dream. Nabokov's uncle left him a fortune but the Revolution took it. He dreamed his uncle said "I shall return to you as Harry & Kuvyrkin." 40 years later filmmakers Harris & Kubrick paid Nabokov a fortune for the rights to Lolita... |
IMPOSSIBLE SHIPS: by Wayan; winter 1966?, a child's lucid-prompting dream; & longterm prediction |
The fog parts. A huge ship's on San Francisco Bay. Impossible--half a mile long! I must be dreaming. But half a century later... |
JACK OF GREATNESS: by Mistress Abbot of Guilford; 1562; a predictive, pregnancy-craving dream. |
Mistress Abbot dreams if she eats a jackfish her child will be great. Next morning one swims into her waterbucket... |
JOSEPH AND THE PHARAOH: by Joseph, a cupbearer, a baker & a Pharaoh, c.1673-1660 BCE; six surreal dreams |
Joseph as a teen dreams sheaves of his brothers' grain bow to his; then the sun, moon & stars bow to him. Eleven years later, in prison, Joseph interprets two cellmates' dreams as premonitory, and gets both right. Two years later, he interprets two bizarre dreams troubling the Pharaoh, thus saving Egypt from famine... CAUTION: BRONZE AGE FUN! NEAR-FRATRICIDE, SLAVERY, EXECUTION, FORCED MARRIAGE... |
LAYANASHA'S DREAM: by Layanasha, laibon of the Maasai, c.1850, a prophecy spanning 65-70 years |
Layanasha foresaw the British would bring a great snake spanning Maasai territory, then a plague killing half the tribe, a second plague killing nearly all the cattle, and finally huge birds flying over the veldt... |
LION-GIRL TRIANGLE: by Wayan; 2000/12/11, an uncomfortable sex-dilemma dream, possibly predictive |
I'm a betrothed teenager having to choose between mates, in an alternate Africa where lions are another tribe of people--and occasionally adopt humans... CAUTION: NUDITY |
LUCID ON THE MOON: by Wayan; 1980/2/23, a long-term psychic dream. |
I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis? CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY |
MESOPOTAMIAN ARMORY: by Wayan, 2008/8/6, a shape-poem based on a dream |
An ancient Mesopotamian city learned to make catapult-bombs of powdered manure. But excessive stockpiles & bad housekeeping led to Armageddung... CAUTION: BABEL-MYTH DEBASED |
MY EX-WIFE: by Wayan; 1982/3/23, a dream on delusions--and maybe ESP |
A woman with two teenagers breaks in and says she's my ex-wife and they're my kids. I'm in my twenties; I CAN'T have teenage kids. And I have no ex-wife! Just my girlfriend Cassandra. Forty years later it all makes sense. It's not about me then, but John now... CAUTION: ADULT THEMES--TRULY STUPID ADULT THEMES. E.S.P., TOO. |
NUCLEUS: by Wayan, 1979/3/18, a surreal dream of character-insight, set inside an atom |
I dream my theatre friends are particles dancing inside an atomic nucleus-- particles that reveal their character, motivations and power. And I'm one too... |
OCARINA, or, MILLION-YEAR SENTENCE: by Wayan; 1972/5/27, a lucid / predictive dream. | I go lucid and drive my bed to the Nevada desert where I see my next million years. And so far, it's been true... |
ORDEAL BY INFRASTRUCTURE: by Wayan; 1987/11/22, a Clintonian dreamtale--before Clinton! |
I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite. But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal by Infrastructure... |
THE PEGASI TUB: by Wayan; 2013/11/9, a fun, flirty dream I felt I didn't deserve |
After a rainy hike I'm cold and muddy. In the camp's hot tub, six girls splash and play. They welcome me, but I feel shy. They slowly become winged ponies! Were-Pegasi... CAUTION: HOT-TUB NUDITY |
PLANE OVER ORAIBI: by Hosteen Hal, c.1902-13; a long-range predictive dream |
Before I'd ever heard of planes, I dreamed one landed near me. A white man invited me to ride, and we flew over Oraibi. I told people but they didn't believe such a thing could come true... |
RAGNHILD'S TREE and HALFDAN'S CURLS: by Queen Ragnhild and King Halfdan of Norway; c.850 CE |
twin dreams predicting their children and nation will prosper. Ragnhild sees a lovely tree rooted in her pain and blood; Halfdan sleeps with pigs and dreams he has a great head of hair... CAUTION: KIDNAPPING, ARSON, GENERAL BARBARISM (check the date!) |
RED UNCLE, RED CANYON: by JB Priestley; c.1907 and c.1925, two dreamlets looking years ahead |
As a boy I dreamt my uncle (a calm man) glared at me in red rage; I was terrified. A decade later, in a bar... I dreamt I saw, over a balcony rail, bright-colored, spectacular scenery. Years after in Arizona, I took a detour... |
THE RIFT ZONE: by Wayan; 1987/11/27, a long-term psychic dream. |
I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!... |
RIVERBANK BLISS: by "Anonymous #11"; c. 1920, a mood-predicting dream |
Eleven years after I dreamt of that green dress and green riverbank and dreamy day, I was convalescing in... |
SATORI ACCORDING TO GHOST: by Wayan; 1998/4/11, a longterm predictive dream |
A Buddhist student, troubled by a corporation marketing a product called "Satori", summons the ghost of her beloved mentor for advice... |
SIEGFRIED MUST DIE: by Carl Jung; 1913/12/18, an archetypal (and predictive?) dream. |
Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what? CAUTION: GRIM |
6-MONTH TOMBSTONE, 17-YEAR CABINET: |
(by a California model, pre-1961, and by a Texas maid, 1945; two predictive dreams compared) Predictive dreams rarely hint how far they've peered ahead; they just place you in their foreseen future... |
SKY-BOAT: by J.W. Dunne, c.1889; a long-term predictive dream |
As a child I read Jules Verne's Clipper of the Clouds--a metal craft with many propellers on spars, not wings. Soon I dreamt I designed & flew quite a different craft, like a small boat of canvas on a wood frame. 20 years later, I was test-flying a new aeroplane with a boatlike cockpit of white canvas on a wood... |
STARFISH: by Marc Ian Barasch, c. 1985; a multileveled, doubly predictive dream |
A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts? |
STREET OF THE FUTURE: by Rick Veitch; Mar 1974; a predictive dream |
I'm a bike courier. I take a packet of fifty potent dreams up Dream Street and deliver them to the year 1980... |
THE TAO OF DENNIS THE MENACE: by Wayan; 1986/4/17, a dream of a wise mentor. |
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me... |
TEN YEARS AFTER: by Anonymous #31; before 1951, a predictive dream. |
I dreamed I drove through snow to my parents' home where my mother lay dead. Ten years later... |
TORCH-BEARER: by Queen Hecuba of Troy; c. 1270 BCE, an alarming dream. |
Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live... CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION |
TWO PLANES: by Wayan, 1994/9/6, a multistaged psychic dream. |
An assassination plot using two planes triggers an invasion of our kingdom. Flee? Fight? I'm a peaceful hobbit who'd rather be playing Frisbee with the dryads... |
UNEXPLODED SPHERE: by "Anonymous #10"; c. 1904, a precise predictive dream |
As a boy I dreamt of a war; officers marked the landing-spot of an unexploded black sphere. Years later... |
A WHITE-FACED MARE, 29 YEARS LATER: by an Iowa grandma; 1918, a predictive dream |
My grandmother dreamt a white-faced black mare trampled me in our orchard. We had no such mare. But 29 years later, I boarded a man's two mares... |
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