If I dreamt somebody died, and the next day they're hurt...

…should I feel guilty?

Last night, I dreamed my dad’s mother died, and when I woke up I found out she had another bad fall. A really bad one.

I just don’t know how to feel.

Coincidence. You dreamt she died. She didn’t die, she got hurt.

I don’t think there’s anything to feel guilty about.

If you feel guilty, it’s because you believe that you are responsible of her fall. What is totally wrong. It’s not because you have seen something in a dream that you created the event.
Moreover, I agree with Sureal when he says : you dreamt she died; you didn’t dream she had a bad fall.

Even if you dreamt that she died it would be still not your fault.
Just opposite actually- dreams often represent our fears…the deeper fear the more cruel events in nightmare might be.
If it all means anything(what we dont know) it only means you`re sensitive or that you care.Thats all:)

seems like a forsight to me, allthough im scheptical about that :razz:

definately coincedence…
what brought about the incident of your grandmother dying in your dream… maybe you feel responsible for something you done in your dream???

I also agree that it is definitely a coincidence and even if it weren’t you still have nothing to feel guilty about. It is not like you caused it in your dream. You just dreamed that she died. You did not cause it.

absolutely no reason 4 u 2 feel guilty

And think about it, even if the events were related: What control exactly do you have over the content of your non-lucid dreams?
It would be like driving down the street and feeling guilty because there was a traffic accident up ahead.

I think dreams are better off classified as external events(just as much as anything else in our lives), even though our first reaction is that we personally are creating them.

  • feed_my_BRAIN

Like everybody else said, no need to feel guilty at all.
And it wasn’t lucid, so like Feed_my_brian said, what control do you have? And if your grandmother falls often (because you said another) so then it must’ve just been a coincidence. Don’t feel so bad.

For Christmas I got “The Day After Tomorrow” DVD, and before I watched the whole movie … I skipped to the “wall of water” scene that shows a tsunami wiping out New York. … and then I turned the movie off and watched the whole movie later that night.

Then this tsunami disaster happened and I felt kinda guilty that I was so facinated with the movie version.
I don’t think I should feel guilty, but it’s only natural that I question it.

… even more strange, is that recently Los Angeles has been having a strange spew of tornados just like on “TDAT” movie. :eek:
beta2.wunderground.com/US/CA/047.html

but anyways, you shouldn’t feel guilty. :smile:

I saw the day after tomorrow as well. It is a very frightening movie especially if you believe global warming is true (which I do). I think over the last few years we have seen signs that the earth is very, very, angry. Weird diseases, Florida battered by hurricanes, and now what is going on in Asia just to name a few.

well, day after Tomorrow is one of the most unlikely and silly movies I´ve ever seen, none of the stuff that happens in that movie (of the disasters, that is) is even remotely possible. it´n not unlikely, it will never happen, it´s an impossibility. read more Here, at insulting movie physics

anyways, I don´t believe one sholud feel guilty about dreaming anything at all, even really horrible things like murder or rape (that is, non-LD) because that is totally out of our control, and normally, people won´t kill someone just because thay dreamt that they did…