psychic dreams

Visions while sleeping

Psychic dreams are dreams believed to contain supernatural knowledge—prophecies of future events, messages from the dead, or insights unavailable through ordinary perception.

The term belongs to folk belief and parapsychology rather than mainstream science: She swore her psychic dreams predicted the accident.

Also called prophetic dreams or precognitive dreams.

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foretelling · sixth sense · subconscious · nightmare · lucid · telepathy · omen · intuition · sleep · REM · sleep paralysis · symbols · mystical · supernatural · foresight · déjà vu · trance · medium

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Distressing sleep visions from stress

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G