If you had a dream that someone you know was going to die, should you tell them?

Question

A bit of background: Two years ago, I had a dream that an elderly, but otherwise healthy relative was going to die of a ruptured aneurysm and was woken before dawn by a phone call that exactly that had happened.

In February, I dreamed that one of the women from my office was going to die in a car accident and within a week, she had been hit and killed by a truck driver who fell asleep, crossed the center lane and hit her head-on.

I just had a dream that someone I know, but don't get along with, is going to die by choking on a steak sandwich on his lunch break, alone in his truck. If I told him, he wouldn't believe me. The other thing is, he's really not a good person—he hits his wife when he's drunk and his kids wear hand-me-down rags when he has a very expensive brand new truck.

Should I tell him, or just tell his wife to double his life insurance?

Answer 1

Given your tongue-in-cheek remarks (I hope) about insurance and gift certificates I think you should cryptically tell the guy "don't eat the steak sandwich" and let him take it from there - 'nuff said.

What an uncanny streak of dreams fulfilled in dreadful ways.  Normally one can look hard at these things and see that some hint of things to come preceded the dream, and the fulfillment was no more than a logical outcome.  Did you know of an anerurysm in this 'otherwise healthy relative', perhaps even passively or subliminally through some family input?  Did you have concerns about your co-worker's route of commuting and the traffic there?  The timing is uncanny even if these other precedental notions were buried in your mind.  I have no rational human clue as to why even the timing alone, if that's all the mystery there truly is, is so uncannily immediate to your dreams.  

And who am I to suggest that psychic dreaming / premonition is not real?  I cannot prove it to be true, only observe what you report.  Nor though can I or anyone disprove it - it's one of those things that leaves us in wonder of things-'psychic'.  

The journal is a wonderful idea - but I would most definitely do two things - keep it clearly as a 'dream journal' - and I would make that cryptic comment to the guy and note that fact in the journal.  The rest is up to him - and he may save himself by being more careful before wolfing that thing down.  

One question comes to mind - have you noticed the guy sitting out there, frequently wolfing down some heavy meat sandwich as a habit?  Is he in an ill temper when he does so?  That raises dietary hazards - including the chance of fatal coking.  So does raucus laughter at the miseries of others.  Maybe he's mean spirited and it's not hard to visualize this eventual outcome.  Take that as 'old fashioned karma' should it happen, God forbid, but the very image suggests exactly what you describe.

Of course he'll scoff at you - especially if he survives the thing.  But it could be your very comment that caused him to use more care.  That may seem a cruelly twisted reward for you, given your dislike of him, but a human life is worth not squandering.  I would refrain from actuating the insurance suggestion and gift certificates as being something done in poor form - it could actually be hard to live with should this fellow go purple in his truck on a chunk of cold sirloin.

This is all fascinating - and suspenseful.  I should like to hear more of any future such experiences here in this forumn - including outcomes.  Especially this one - I await in rapt fascination - but hope the rotten fellow does survive.  The look on his face when you mention 'steak sandwich' ought to be reward enough; de facto mortis would not be good..

Thanks for sharing this most fascinating set of dreams and outcomes.  All the best to you.

Answer 2

You should not tell him and not be judgemental. His wife has a choice to put up with his behaviour or leave, it is not your place to fight her battles for her. Remember karma is always at work and anything you do will come back to you, whether you have judged someone as 'bad' and are doing your bit to redress the balance or not. You may even have got it wrong

Answer 3

Yes, pass the tip unto his wife...

Answer 4

I call bullsh*t on this one!

Answer 5

No, but do start writing down and putting the date and time on your dreams.  That is interesting.

Answer 6

If you tell someone something like that, it puts you in a precarious

position.

Could be changes are coming that will hit him like a truck.

I think it's your own decision whether or not to interfere in someones

life.  Who knows?  Telling him may wind up having a positive impact.

But then again...

Answer 7

Don't tell them. You are focusing on dreams that happen to coincide with actual occurrences. What about all of your other dreams that didn't come true?? Don't worry, you can't tell the future.