Let's say a king is getting ready to do battle on Saturday, but he has a dream that he waits until Sunday. After waking up, the king is so convinced that the dream is a prediction of the future that he waits an extra day to attack his enemy. Did the dream show the future, or did the king simply change his plans because he thought the dream showed the future? The king could have ignored the dream and attacked on Saturday, and then it would not have been an accurate prediction. In other words, the dream predicted the future only because its dreamer believed in it. It's the same as if you dream about a trip to Disneyland and then wake up and convince your parents to take you to Disneyland. The dream didn't make the trip happen...you did!

But what if you dream about something you have no control over, and it still comes true? Let's say you dream about a thunderstorm, and a few days later, it rains. Did you predict the future? Maybe. But then again, rainstorms are pretty common, depending on where you live. It could just be a coincidence that your dream happened a few days before a thunderstorm. Another possibility is that you heard something about an approaching storm on the radio or TV, and just forgot about it. Even though you didn't remember hearing it, the knowledge somehow got put into one of your dreams.

Basically, researchers have never been able to prove that dreams can predict the future. Sometimes we dream about stuff that seems to come true simply because we dream about a lot of different things, and a lot of different things happen. The events in our dream lives and our waking lives are bound to match up once in a while!

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