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Four Amazing Types of “Supernatural” Dreams

Can consciousness expand outside the body in dreams?

Many years ago, shortly after my father died, I wrote a letter to a friend in Germany informing her that my dad had passed and I was grieving. Prior to this letter, my friend did not have any knowledge about my father’s situation.

When my friend wrote back a few weeks later, she told me she had a dream in which I was sad because my father died. Her dream took place two days before my letter arrived in her mailbox.

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There are many reports of vivid and “supernatural” dreams. Although these dreams are largely beyond the scope of current scientific understanding and insufficiently researched, they occur with numerous people around the world.

Here are four types of “supernatural” dreams, with excerpts from my book How to Interpret Your Dreams: Keys to Insight & Empowerment.

1. Premonition Dreams

Premonition dreams are those in which the dreamer has a vision of a future event which later becomes a reality. Content of premonition dreams may range from the relatively mundane, such as dreaming about running into a long lost friend while traveling, and later have it actually happen in the same exact setting, to the more serious such as dreaming about an accident or misfortune (personal, local, national, or global) which later becomes true.

2. Telepathic Dreams

A telepathic dream occurs when the dreamer receives communication about a person or an event occurring elsewhere without the dreamer’s waking knowledge. After the dreamer awakes, details of the dream are verified to be true.

The experience I shared at the beginning of this article about my friend in Germany is an example of a telepathic dream. What was extraordinary about her dream was that even though she was living in a different country, she dreamt not only about what was happening in my life, but my emotional state as well.

3. Shared Dreams / Communion Dreams

Shared or communion dreams occur when different people have the same dream at approximately the same time. There are two types of shared dreams: one in which two or more people are in the same dream together and can interact with one-another (not unlike participants in a virtual reality simulation), and a second type where different people independently have the same dream. In the second case, individuals did not see each other in the dream, nor did they have knowledge that others had the same dream until later (usually discovered by accident).

People who have shared or communion dreams often (but not always) have relationships with one another such as family, a romantic partner, or friends. Participants can reside at different locations and still have a shared dream.

4. Super Vivid Visitation Dreams

People have reported visitation dreams from recently deceased family, friend, romantic partner, and pet. These dreams are often highly vivid, loving, instructive, and extraordinarily memorable. The intensity of a visitation dream may stay with the dreamer for months or even years.

What these four types of “supernatural” dreams seem to suggest is that it may be possible for consciousness to expand beyond the individual, at least in the dream state. It is hoped that further scientific research is conducted on these categories of extraordinary dreams, with significant implications for greater understanding of the human psyche, as well as the holistic nature of human consciousness.

Have you ever experienced a “supernatural” dream? Please share in the comment section.

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References

Ni, Preston. How to Interpret Your Dreams: Keys to Insight & Empowerment. PNCC. (2020)

Ni, Preston. Visitation Dreams of Deceased Loved Ones: Understanding Their Meaning and Transformative Power. PNCC. (2016)

Ni, Preston. How to Interpret & Re-Experience Visitation Dreams of Deceased Pets. PNCC. (2020)

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Jung, Carl G. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Pantheon Books/ Random House. (1963)

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