prophetic visions
Foreseeing what comes
Prophetic visions are experiences—waking or in dreams—believed to reveal future events or divine truth.
The term appears in religious contexts, where prophets receive revelation, and in secular use for any seemingly predictive insight: She had prophetic visions of the company's collapse.
The phrase often carries skepticism when used outside faith traditions.
- NostradamusRenaissance physician-prophet from France
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
divine message · omen · eschatology · end times · end of days · foresight · altered consciousness · spiritual awakening · trance · second sight · third eye · Cassandra · clairvoyance · dream · fever dream · premonition · hallucination · signs
- dream loredream interpretation, dream symbols, dream meaning, prophetic dreams, dream books
- End Timesapocalypse, Armageddon, rapture, end times, tribulation
- Italian sacred literatureDante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Paradiso, Beatrice
- prophecyseer, prophets, prophetess, prophecies, sibyl
- ProphetsDaniel, Ezekiel, Elijah, Amos, Elisha
- metaphysicsessence, being, reality, existence, substance theory
prophetic visionshindsight
Recognition after the fact
retrospection · historical analysis · postmortem analysis · post-mortem analysis · looking back
prophetic visionsshortsightedness
Inability to see distance
blindness · obliviousness · myopia · short-sightedness · tunnel vision
prophetic visionsfalse prophecy
Unfulfilled divine prediction
delusions · hallucinations · wishful thinking · pipe dreams · charlatanism