What do you call this phenomenon?

[Nick]

Welcome to the Astral Pulse forums, Mel. [8D] It does appear that you are accessing the universal. The ability to 'see' something before it happens is clairvoyance, and to 'hear' beforehand would be clairaudience. Precognition, would be 'knowing' something is going to happen. There are a lot of great books out there. Try looking over our Welcome to Members Book Recommendations & Reviews forum for some ideas. There is also a forum 'sticky' on Great Books in our Welcome to Magic forum. Additionally, we do have a File Library of eBooks and downloads that may interest you as well.

Very best,
Nick

[Mel]

Thanks for the warm welcome!  Would it still be considered clairvoyance if I'm not yet awake?  I thought clairvoyance was being awake and "seeing" something that's going to happen.  This is closer to a predictive dream, although the things I've "predicted" thus far have been almost comically mundane.  But the fact that it's happening at all is what amazes me.  I've begin reading a book caled "the secret life of plants" in which the author did some experiments with plants that seemd to indicate that a plant could react to a certain person's thoughts, like if a person had a thought that they were going to burn a leaf on the plant, the plant would react as if burned, even though the person did nothing, just thought about it.  The author suggested that plants are attuned to something like a universal pool of thought-matter and can display a measurable response based on someone's thoughts alone.  It's almost like I've been tapping into the same thing; I'm having a reaction (in my dream) to a thought (what they're saying on the radio) before it's actually said.  That's the best way I can explain it at this point. And it's never happened before until recently, when I've noticed it happening 3 or 4 times now.

[Nick]

It does sound like precognitive dreams. There is a nice website on dreams that you might want to check out: http://www.lucidity.com/

Here's an excerpt from their website that may interest you, and the specific location is:http://lucidity.com/LD9DIR.html


"Although telepathic experiences occur during the waking state, as I already mentioned, most instances of such phenomena occur in precognitive dreams. The following is a remarkable example of such a
dream.

"Many years ago when my son, who is now a man with a baby a
year old, was a boy I had a dream early one morning. I
thought the children and I had gone camping with some
friends. We were camped in such a pretty little glade on the
shores of the sound between two hills. It was wooded, and our
tents were under the trees. I looked around and thought what
a lovely spot it was.
  I thought I had some washing to do for the baby, so I went
to the creek where it broadened out a little. There was a
nice clean gravel spot, so I put the baby and the clothes
down. I noticed I had forgotten the soap so I started back to
the tent. The baby stood near the creek throwing handfuls of
pebbles into the water. I got my soap and came back, and my
baby was lying face down in the water. I pulled him out but
he was dead. I awakened then, sobbing and crying. What a wave
of joy went over me when I realized that I was safe in bed
and that he was alive. I thought about it and worried for a
few days, but nothing happened and I forgot about it.
  During that summer some friends asked the children and me
to go camping with them. We cruised along the sound until we
found a good place for a camp near fresh water. The lovely
little glade between the hills had a small creek and big
trees to pitch our tents under. While sitting on the beach
with one of the other women, watching the children play, I
happened to think I had some washing to do, so I took the
baby and went to the tent for the clothes. When I got back to
the creek I put down the baby and the clothes, and then I
noticed that I had forgotten the soap. I started back for it,
and as I did so, the baby picked up a handful of pebbles and
threw them in the water. Instantly my dream flashed into my
mind. It was like a moving picture. He stood just as he had
in my dream--white dress, yellow curls, shining sun. For a
moment I almost collapsed. Then I caught him up and went back
to the beach and my friends. When I composed myself, I told
them about it. They just laughed and I said I imagined it.
That is such a simple answer when one cannot give a good
explanation."

(From: Stephen LaBerge, (1985). LUCID DREAMING. New York:
Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-33355-1])

You may want to look over our Dreams forum as well. If you decide that you'd like this topic moved there, let me know, and I'll move it.

In the sleep state we do access the nonphysical realms. It seems that you are carrying back some information with you. []

Very best,
Nick

[Mel]

In the mornings when I'm not fully awake, I sometimes am dreaming about whatever, and then suddenly I'll get a certain unrelated visual image in my dream, and then all of a sudden I'll hear my husband's clock radio alarm kick on, and then I'll hear people on the radio talking about exactly the visual image I've just seen in my dream.  I am certain that I see the image BEFORE the radio comes on.  I always think "How strange, I was JUST dreaming about that..."  This morning it was undeniable; I saw a vision of someone dressed in a very tacky tight-fitting shirt and speaking Spanish (which I really don't speak) and then the radio kicks on and a second later I hear the DJ speaking in a mock spanish accent and trying to sound funny (kind of like Eminem in that video).  But it's happened with other tyoes of images, too, like I'll suddenly see an egg in the dream and then the radio pops on and they're tallking about an egg.  So either my brain is processing the sequence backwards (i.e. I'm actually hearing the audio first and then seeing the visual in my dream - but by that time, I'm already awake, so that doesn't make sense), or I've tapped into something that allows me to receive and process a thought before actually receiving a sensory input (sound).

What would you call something like that?  Precognition?  Am I tapping into that "universal thought" of the Astral plane?I want to read up on it and learn more about it.