There is an opinion that a dream is a set of events that once happened to us, they are simply collected in the most unusual and unexpected order. But is this always so? In this we have to understand. All modern science claims that there are no prophetic dreams, and all the so-called prophecies are just coincidences and nothing more. However, in ancient history, there are many references to such prophetic dreams. So, for example, the parable about how Julius Caesar's wife saw a prophetic dream on the eve of his death is not unknown. She warned her husband, but he did not listen to her advice, for which he paid with his life.
Prophetic dream also played a significant role in the fate of Emperor Augustus. Prophecy appeared in a dream to his friend and the emperor, who believed in prophetic dreams, left the place of his lodging in time, which saved him from destruction.
However, not all scientists deny the existence of prophetic dreams. French scientist Camille Flammarion published a book in which he combined a huge number of stories telling about prophetic dreams. Flammarion believed that it was necessary to accept the existence of prophetic dreams, as an indisputable fact. He described the existence of a special vision within us that allows us to see and hear without resorting to the help of ordinary senses. And the soul with the help of this inner vision is able to feel events that occur at a distance and predict the events of the future.
There are also many examples, both those described in historical literature and those that take place with our contemporaries, when a premonition or a dream saved people from death. So before the famous Titanic sailed, about eighteen passengers refused to travel. They explained their behavior by the bad foreboding that haunted their last days. Including five passengers saw the corresponding dreams, and the wife of one of the abandoned made a drawing, which depicted a sinking ship.
Academician Bekhterev paid a lot of attention to the study of prophetic dreams in his work. Together with a practicing doctor Vinogradov, who was his good friend, Bekhterev conducted a study. Vinogradov spent four years interviewing his patients, trying to find out if they had prophetic dreams. The result, which scientists received, was phenomenal. Almost half of those surveyed at least once in their lives saw prophetic dreams. Naturally, Vinogradov considered only serious evidence, and did not take into account not credible stories. However, because of the war, scientists have not been able to publish a book on the results of their research.
Now in the world there are several hypotheses describing the nature of prophetic dreams. One of them put forward bioenergetics. They argue that, asleep, the human consciousness loses its connection with reality. In this state, the human body is able to obtain information from the external environment, which they call the noosphere. The human brain extracts the information it needs from the noosphere, but not everyone can do it.
The authors of another hypothesis are neurologists who claim that during sleep in the brain of a person, the information accumulated during the day is processed. This information is analyzed and combined with the one already in the subconscious. Thus, based on dreams, a person can analyze and change his behavioral habits.
Opponents of these theories argue that in reality, these dreams are not prophetic, but are only a reflection of events that have already occurred. It is possible that they are really right. For example, Freud also believed that dreams can in no way predict the events that had not yet come to pass. Dreams, according to Freud, come to us from the depths of our subconscious, but in a highly distorted form. There is a mixture of different memories, the replacement of thoughts with visual images or various symbols. Often dreams are a reflection of desires, which a person is ashamed of and consciously suppresses, sending them to the unconscious. During sleep, a person does not control his thoughts and secret desires burst out, pouring out into various dreams. More often than not, when a person wakes up, he no longer remembers his dreams and does not even know about their meaning and content.
Prophetic dreams: truth and fiction? To say clearly whether there are prophetic dreams and what the nature of dreams now, probably, no one can. This mystery of human nature has yet to be solved.