Are my dreams psychic?

I'm sure you want them to be, but wanting something doesn't make it real. Otherwise we'd all win the lottery, look like A-list celebrities and solve world hunger.

To date, there is no good scientific evidence for psychic dreams. Everyone has heard of a friend-of-a-friend who "had this amazing psychic dream, so it has to be real" but please bear in mind that such stories are often embellished, and coincidences do happen.

Also, consider this:

1) Nobody has identified a mechanism for psychic information to travel from the future into your dreaming mind. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but it's a tad premature to believe in something we can neither perceive nor explain.

2) It's far more likely that so-called psychic dreams are caused by coincidence. How many deaths and accidents have you dreamed about that didn't come true? Though it may seem unbelievable at the time, mathematically it is commonplace.

3) It's also quite likely that "psychic" information is received unconsciously. In other words, if you know your friend is a risk-taker behind the wheel, it's not psychic to dream of him having a car accident which later happens.

There is a scientific principle known as Occam's Razor, where the observed minimalist solution is always better than calling upon additional unknown factors. In other words, lose the wild unproven theories and accept the simple proven explanation.

I'm not 100% dismissive of alternative theories. If solid evidence emerged for psychic dreams, I would accept that they do exist. Lucid dreamers are best poised to take on this task, as explained in my article on Precognitive Dreams. Until such time, I'm going to base my beliefs on observation and calculated reasoning.

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