You’re right in saying that one manages in raising more questions than answers when looking into the depths of fate and our control over it or lack thereof. However, despite this predicament I too wondered about those strange foreseeing dreams and visions, and somehow I’ve come to a delicate conclusion of my own.

Not all our dreams appear to us in reality but some it seems do making us pause and wonder, “I’ve seen this before, I’ve experienced this before.” I think that all our dreams and visions are possibilities and the steps we take in life, this path rather than that path, lead us to these certain possibilities, which if our path be right come true, and yet if we did not take that certain path then that vision, that dream remains just that a vision and a dream.

I cannot deny that there is something about fate which is directive, something out of our hands, but I must also ponder that all direction, all paths of all beings lead to death. How we come to our death, our fate – the numerous paths we take, the mistakes, the joys, the deeds, the risks, they are all our own. Every one decision we make is influenced by everything we are, the thousand decisions we’ve made before, those around us, our soul within us. We think and consider, knowingly or unknowingly, of all the world. But in essence really we are in our own hands.

By “predictive dreams and visions” I specifically mean dreams and visions in which a person saw beforehand a scene they later witnessed. So, for instance, there was one man who had a vivid dream of a rainy street in New Jersey. About twenty years later, he found himself walking down a street in New Jersey that resembled his dream precisely.

Of course, I came to few if any conclusions about such dreams because I only managed to raise more questions about them than answers. But one thing that I’ve puzzled over since that summer: Do such dreams, which in some cases, foretell the future 20 or more years in advance, indicate that our lives are completely determined 20 or more years in advance? Is fate that far reaching?

I have no idea how those questions might be answered.