The first thing to do is evaluate how the dream affected you upon waking. Were you scared? Were you sad? Did it seem like the real deal and take a moment to snap back into reality?

When having dreams that you feel might have a prophetic meaning, you have to consider these things. Sometimes we have dreams and automatically know that they mean 'something'. These are dreams that you don't just forget soon after. Other times, you have dreams that may have deep emotional feelings, but you wake up and realize it was just a dream and that's the end of it.

You can go out and buy any dream book on the market and try to decipher your dreams, but; in my opinion, you're wasting your money. Dream analysis books are very impersonal and are meant; for the most part, as a form of entertainment.

To analyze your dreams you should take the details in the dream and consider what those things mean to YOU. Write your dream down. Think about what details were the most prominent. What feelings were you having? What involvement did you have? What was the overall mood? Once you've done that you'll find that you are much more able to determine what your dream meant, if anything.

Something of extreme importance when deciphering what your dream could have meant is what recent events have happened that could have caused to incorporate certain things into your dream? For example, if you were watching a movie a day or two before and there was a scene involving a car chase on a winding road you may have thought to yourself, "Wow, that's a car crash waiting to happen!" And so a few nights later you dream your friend is killed in a car crash.

My point is, eliminate all rational possibilities before assuming your friend may be in danger.

If it makes you feel better, talk to your friend. Tell her that you had a dream that something bad happened to her and ask her to be extra careful just in case your dream did have some type of prophetic meaning.

If this isn't a new experience for you and you think you may have prophetic dreams I recommend that you start keeping a dream journal. Keep it as close to you as possible so that when you first open your eyes in the morning you can grab your journal and jot your dreams down. When keeping a dream journal, it is important that you are able to document as many details as possible immediately upon waking. If you get up, go to the bath room or have yourself a cup of tea you may very well forget many important details or even the entire dream.

Dreams are sometimes our body and spirits way of telling us what we are lacking, what we should be doing and what we need. Paying attention to the details in our dreams can alert the dreamer to medical issues, help us to make decisions, discover a path in life we should follow and so many other things.

If dreams are of great interest to you; as they are me, consider looking into lucid dreaming.

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