Precognitive Dreams / Clairvoyance?

[Rennard LaCroire]

This is the field of the paranormal that I've had the most personal experience with to date. I have dreams, vivid, descriptive dreams that usually happen within a few days of them happening. Not all of my dreams are like this, of course, and the most striking examples of this have been involving the death of people I've known. I can list at least five different instances when I dreamed of someone's death, only to find out within a few days later that that person actually died. I've only ever had one logical, unprovoked death dream that didn't come true, and I was legitimately freaked out by it for about a week. I say logically because occasionally, I have dreams of people dying in ridiculous ways that are usually connected somehow to a movie or story I've seen or read recently. (Like people being killed by homicidal robots or falling in volcanoes )

I also have premonitions, strong ones, sometimes, that aren't really strong enough for me to do anything about, but that make me realize once something has happened that I knew it was going to before it did. I can remember one specific instance when I was about seven, walking to get a newspaper with my dad, and I was thinking "What if there was a car accident on this street right now?" and then a matter of seconds later, a car came tearing down the street, jumped a median, and crashed in a field across the intersection from us. That's the earliest that I can remember, but it's happened many times since then. There aren't ever any images associated with these things, just really strong ideas in my head that I can't seem to shake.

According to what I've read, this is referred to as clairvoyance, but I'm not sure...Anybody else experienced similar things?

[Narijima]

That's really freaky, having dreams predicting someone's death. I don't know that I'd ever sleep again if that happened to me.

I've never had any dreams that I'd consider precognitive, though I have had strong... hunches, I guess? I can't seem to think of the word I'm actually looking for. ^.^;; Usually, I end up looking back and going, "huh, guess that thought/feeling/my intuition was right after all!" I should really start listening to those hunches. *nods*

[sammy]

This actually reminds me of Sam from Supernatural. He has powers and can see visions of people dying not so long before they do. It sounds really freaky, and I never knew anybody would actually possess this ability in real life.. amazing. In one way I wish I was able to use this ability.. I mean, I could get a warning about someone's death before it happened, prevent it and stuff.

[Rennard LaCroire]

I definitely wish I could use it to prevent stuff, too, but the thing is that while I dream about logical deaths, they usually aren't the one that the person actually dies. My neighbor had a stroke, and died in the hospital about two months later, but the day before she died, I had a dream that she died of cancer. She didn't even have cancer, but she did die the next day... Of course, it's not like I could have done anything about it even if I'd known exactly how she was going to die, but it seriously freaks me out when I dream about people I love dying. There's always that line between "Okay, am I dreaming this because I've heard something about wildfires/car accidents/shootings and it's made me think about that kind of thing, or am I dreaming this because someone I love is actually about to die?"