Yes, We Time Travel in Our Dreams
But Can We Change, Alter, or Fix the Future?
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I have been an active dreamer all my life, with vivid dreams transporting me to other realities since I was a little girl.
As much as we remember our former selves, we also forget; and as such, I forgot that I was a student of dreams even as a teenager. Only while thumbing through my old Psychology notebook from high school in recent years did I remember that I recorded dreams back then, every now and again. (It was sweet and bizarre reading a dream of mine from age 17.)
Before discovering the entry in the notebook I might have told someone I only started recording dreams in 2012 or so, but in the years since I unearthed that old high school notebook, I’ve found other dream journalings in scattered places: old diaries, letters to friends never sent, backed up computer files from the 2000s.
There have been a handful of times I’ve even found dreams from long ago that may have predicted the life I am living now, which even for a precognitive dreamer is a unique delight.
I’ve tracked dreams long enough now to know that we do sometimes dream the future, but in my tracking I have found that it’s most common, at least for me, that I dream futures close to the time I am currently living: a week away, maybe a year, maximum three years. The idea that I may have dreamt of a life I wouldn’t live for another 30 years is pretty astonishing, especially considering the multitude of choices I’ve made along the way.
Contrary to what the headline may imply, I don’t have a definitive explanation for what time travel in our dreams truly is, scientifically or systematically. Nor do I have a definitive theory for what we are meant to do once we know we time travel in our dreams. For now, I have well-informed speculations that excite me.
There are spiritual teachers I admire who have indicated that dreams allow us to experience fourth dimension or fourth density, in which there is no time or in which…
