Have you EVER had visions of PLACES and TIME you have never encountered in real life?

[hellabomer]

Since childhood, I have had some visions regarding certain places, certain times and areas that I have never really visited, but they are stuck in my mind and I feel like, somehow, I have experienced them because they seem so familiar and known to me. They are not clear, but those visions make me feel positively weird. Have you ever had such visions? What do they really mean?

[Jared.L]

Yes, I had a vision once of a place I used to live before....I think maybe it was a vision from my past lives....It was a beautiful house and family :)

[GoldenWhiteAura]

I often have premonitions of places I travel to, prior to traveling there I will dream about them.

Anyone know what this is?

[dattaseva]

Visions are of two types:

1) Internal: These visions are only projections of your subconscious mind. So many feelings are hidden in your mind from your past several births. These feelings are expressed as visions and appear as real external scenes. In extreme cases, this can also accelerate into a mental illness where the patient talks with another imaginary person appearing before him.

2) External: A scene appears without any relationship with your mind. This is not the projection of your mind and is not a mental illness. The scene is arranged externally and the forms appearing are energetic in nature. Such a vision is independently generated, and not based on any feeling of your mind. This appears due to some external reasons so as to give you some external information.

The real problem is that the internal vision is often mistaken as an external vision. Your own aspiration is conveyed to you in such cases. You’re simply mislead by such a false external vision. Most people even tell lies that they had external visions in order to get some recognition from the surrounding public. They feel that it’s prestigious to have such visions, which get them some kind of special status. This should be nipped at the bud. The reason is that the spiritual path is always based on the truth only. By telling lies for such false fame, you also procure sin unnecessarily.

Even if you really have visions, you should analyze the vision to gauge whether it’s internal or external. If the result of such a vision is proved practically, you can conclude such a vision as an external one since internal visions have no practical outcome. Unless a practical result comes out of it, it may not be a real external vision. It may just be your internal vision expressing your long-time, deeply hidden aspiration.

The practical reality of the outcome of the vision should be proved so that we can infer the reality of the external vision. The proof here should be considered in a reverse way, i.e. from the fruit (practical outcome) to cause (vision). If the vision says that something will happen, you should wait till that happens practically in reality. Then only can you say that the vision is practically real. You should wait till the practical result is clearly seen and then only should you declare that your vision is correct. Otherwise, millions of visions are expressed by millions of people.

[dream jo]

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[Glen.Appleton]

Yes, and mostly during deep meditative states. I haven't yet been able to discern whether or not they're visions from the subconscious mind (forgotten memories from childhood), or from past lives, or something else. It feels like I'm picking up on transmissions in bits and pieces, like stations on a radio as you move up and down the frequencies, but that might just be a symptom of a fractured perspective.

Regardless of the source, I find most of the visions to be quite beautiful, so I welcome them.

[Spirited]

I've not had "visions" so to speak (however you define a vision) - but a few times in my life I have had a dream where I am in a place that whilst still dreaming I know very well, there is always a deep emotional feel to the place and a belonging feel to it. In the two or three I've had, Ive always been lucid in that I was conscious of it happening and able to control what I say and think (usually I am watching my dreams play out with no control).

It's always a sort of feeling to them that "Oh! I remember this place, how could I have forgotten it!" Yet when I have woken, I have no idea where that place was or what it was about, but I recall the dream. I remember one of them I walked into this shop and there was 2 female staff. I remembered them well in the dream and again couldn't believe I'd forgotten the place. I remember telling them that I am going to take pictures of them on my phone so when I wake up, I can see it and remember who they were. But of course this didn't work as the pictures weren't really there when I woke....but it goes to show I wanted to remember upon waking up.

I've never really put these dreams down to anything other than my mind being weird, but it is always interesting to think about. Haven't had one in a few years now. I did once also have a dream where I was sort of shown little clips of different time periods leading up to most recently probably the 1980s and saw all the British and Welsh miners when the pits were closed. Bizare... as I have no knowledge of any of that but dreamt about seeing them. Interesting.

[Dargor]

Once in in a dream what I believe to be the only true spiritual experience I've had, I remember this somewhat heavenly place with a green field and there was also a house. Can't say for sure if it was Earth because most of my memories of it are rather vague.

[Tomma]

I've not had "visions" so to speak (however you define a vision) - but a few times in my life I have had a dream where I am in a place that whilst still dreaming I know very well, there is always a deep emotional feel to the place and a belonging feel to it.

I often had dreams like that when I was a child. It was a wonderful feeling that I can still remember a little bit now, but not really. Like, fully fitting into that place, fully belonging, very connected. Sadly those dreams stopped as I grew up.

The other dreams you describe sound very interesting too!

[pseudonymus]

Yes. Ever since I was a child, I've had dreams where I see and experience a setting, surrounding, place, buildings, scenery... and a few years later, I'll see those places or buildings or scenery in real life. Only the places come true, not the events I dream about.

For example, 5 years ago, I had a dream I was walking in the evening with a friend of mine. The both of us were going somewhere, I don't know where. But in the dream, we cut thru this apartment building. It was a single building, two floors, light green walls, and dark green roof. There was a banana tree by the building, and birds of paradise plants around the building.

5 years after I had that dream [a few months ago actually] I'm looking for a long lost friend of mine [a girl], whom I haven't seen or spoken to in 10 years. I did my research and found a previous address this long lost friend once lived at.

So I drive myself to that city, to that address. I parked my car across the street of that address, the place my long lost friend once lived in. A chill shot up my spine: the apartment building was the same exact one I saw in that dream 5 years prior!

I had gone to a Buddhist temple in April of last year to get a traditional fortune reading, which is written on a piece of paper. My fortune said that any long lost friendships I have will be reconciled!

Anyways... me and my friend did actually reconcile! I figured out where she was and sent her a few letters and my number. She called me to touch base with me and catch up a couple months ago. During the phone conversation, I told her about the dream I had of her old apartment building, I dreamt 5 years ago. I asked her: "When you lived there, was there ever a time when you thought about me in your mind... missed me... or something? Because in my culture, the elders say that when you have such kinds of dreams that your spirit leaves your body and actually goes to such places... something called my spirit to your old apartment?"

My friend says to me: "Well, yeah, I missed you a lot. I was thinking about you when I lived at that apartment. I wanted for you to come visit, but I didn't know where you were or how to find you."

[Shivani Devi]

Yes and also all of the time...pretty much constantly!

There are three main situations.

The First is during the 12th Century in Fujian province in Cambodia/Laos during the Majapahit Empire..Just prior to being invaded by the forces of Kublai Khan.

The second scenario that keeps playing is around 1500 BCE in Nepal at the time of great prosperity, followed by years of drought...

The Third is totally off world or interdimensional and I am unsure where or when, but my essence..My spirit or soul was being nurtured by radiant beings of pure light energy and I don't know if I was one of them or just happened to be there.

Also, these visions...these memories and these experiences are more REAL than this "real world" is...The people on this world rarely interact with me and I am just totally invisible to most of them..I seem to make no impact whatsoever on this physical plane and it is like I am totally out of synch and out of time with people, places and events...Think Bruce Willis in "The Sixth Sense".

At first, this really used to bother me...and it did so for MANY years and now I realise that I simply don't belong here, yet why I am here, I cannot understand.

[Rah nam]

Sure, one I remember I call the read planet. It was very read when I approached it and the trees were very different, very tall and a little bit like king fern on the top. I was told the planet is in the Andromeda galaxy.

[asearcher]

Since childhood, I have had some visions regarding certain places, certain times and areas that I have never really visited, but they are stuck in my mind and I feel like, somehow, I have experienced them because they seem so familiar and known to me. They are not clear, but those visions make me feel positively weird. Have you ever had such visions? What do they really mean?
yes it is past life related, some think they have some deep meaning to them, others like myself believe I have a mix of non important memories and others that are, it is just a part of me, nothing to be afraid of.

[Uriwhetu]

Really disagree that internal visions are mental illness, this idea feels quite unnatural and disconnected spiritually. Psychics frequently have visions, as do meditators and dreamers. Sometimes visions are prophetic, sometimes they are messages from your soul, higher self or the spiritual realm....this is not mental illness...this is being spiritually connected.

I have visited places where I know I have not been in this life, yet the familiarity is overwhelming. Our spirit remembers, hence that feeling, that knowing.
I have also once experienced a precognative vision of a conversation with my mother that descended into a volatile argument...knowing what was about to happen, I chose not to say what I was going to say and the conversation ended up going in a totally different direction....the arguement never eventuated. This is similar to a dejavu, but incredibly specific, word for word type thing...only experienced this once. Now, I am not mentally ill, but this was very much an internal vision that clearly was important enough for my soul to invene in this way. Who knows, maybe that fight could have altered the nature of my relationship with my mum irrevocably?? I'm grateful for it.

A vision is a vision, it is experienced by the experiencer through a variety of sensations - all of which are internally experienced, otherwise everyone else would see it to.