I've experienced typical deja-vu sensations many times (like most folks), and they often leave you with a vague sense that you saw the scene before in a dream. However, you can't usually say that for sure. I've had one case in my life, though, where I definitely did see a future scene in a dream, and I have no explanation for how it could have occurred. Any input would be welcomed.
It happened in June and September of 1986. I had graduated from Antioch (CA) high school the first week of June. Later that month, my girlfriend was house-sitting, and I stayed overnight with her. I had a dream in which we were leaving her father's office, and driving to Pittsburg High School (Antioch High School's main rival in a neighboring city). We were going to the theater there to see if I had been cast in a play I had auditioned for (The Crucible).
At breakfast that morning, I told my girlfriend about the dream. It made absolutely no sense. Why would I go to Pittsburg High School to see if I was in a play? Not only was I now out of high school, but I hadn't gone to Pittsburg High School. The Crucible was one of my favorite plays, but no one I knew was doing it. We talked about it and basically laughed it off as a typical Weird Dream(tm). And, like most dreams, I promptly forgot about it.
Later that summer, I moved away from Antioch for about six weeks for financial reasons. I moved back in late August, and my girlfriend was planning to attend the local community college (Los Medanos College, or LMC). I went with her to the campus during registration and so forth, and noticed flyers posted advertising auditions for the LMC drama dept.'s fall play.
It was The Crucible.
At this point, I still didn't think of the dream, but I certainly jumped at the chance to audition for one of my favorite plays. As it turned out, LMC had only a tiny theatre... large enough only for drama classes and such, not large enough to stage a play. The director also happened to be the drama teacher at a local high school, so they were going to stage the play there:
Pittsburg High School.
So in early September, I was riding with my girlfriend. We were stopping by her father's office (in Pittsburg) to drop off some stuff for him, then we were going to the Pittsburg High theater, where the cast list for The Crucible had been posted, to see if I'd been cast in the play.
As we left her father's office, I was hit with an overwhelming sense of deja-vu. As I processed it, I remembered the dream from a few months earlier. And one of the unique things about this was, I had told someone about my dream when I had it, and that same person was with me when the actions from the dream took place!
I told her about the deja-vu, and asked her if she remembered me talking with her about that dream a few months earlier. She also remembered the dream, and was equally astonished that the dream -- whose elements seemed so nonsensical then -- was coming true. The sense of deja-vu renewed when we reached the theater, and lasted until I saw the cast list, after which it faded again.
I have no explanation for how this was possible. It wasn't just a sense that maybe I'd dreamed it. I had a "witness;" a person I'd discussed the dream with before it occurred.
I couldn't have subconsciously created it by seeing a flyer for the auditions in June and forgetting about it. I investigated this possibility, and found that the flyers hadn't been posted until mid-August, and at the time of the dream in late June, the play and the director hadn't even been decided on.
And it can't be a coincidence-style dream... where the events are fairly generic and it's not too hard to believe that later occurrances fit them by chance. The events of the dream were quite specific, and made no sense at the time of the dream. They only made sense later.
I dunno. I know it happened, so I know that some kind of precognition is possible somehow, although I can't explain it and it's happened to me only once.
Any thoughts?