Probably the most asked question I receive deals with people wanting to know how to tell if it was just a dream or was it a precognition? I wish there was a simple answer to that questions, but sadly, it can be a little complicated.

Thankfully, there are some fair clear signs that makes it easy to tell if their is a precognitive aspect to the dream.

The first step is to examine what the majority of your dreams are like. I strongly suggest you keep a dream diary for this. Pay attention to what you feel in the dream. Forget for a few moments the content of the dream. For now you just want to content on how you feel when remembering what the various dream images contained.

What do the images look like in your dream? Are they sharp and clear, full of all the colors of life or are they a little on the vague side? Are the colors realistic or are they a little too dull or even a little too bright?

Now check the sounds from the dream. Do they sound like normal, everyday speech, with all the normal background noises or are the sounds rather plain or exceptionally sharp, almost painful to the ears.

There will always be exceptions to the rules, but generally, most people report precognitive dreams as being composed of images that are very sharp and clear. In fact, it is often reported that the dreamer seems to be in the dream rather than just watching it and the surroundings are almost surreal.

Colors on the other hand are usually reported as realistic or slightly beyond realistic. Crisp colors that stand out and are awe inspiring are reported more often than just normal everyday colors./p>

Where sound is concerned, precognitive dreams tend to have sound that falls at either extreme. For some it is sound so clear you could hear a whisper across a crowed room. For others it is a struggle to hear even when it appears the people speaking are screaming the words.

Your quest to understand which of your dreams are nothing more than dreams and which are precognitive begins with being able to know the differences between your dreams. This is easy to do by simply paying attention to the aspects listed above. It may take several weeks of dreaming before you have enough dreams with precognitive features to enable you to easily tell the difference but it is more than worth the effort to spend a few moments examining your dream each day.

The next step is to pay attention to the emotions the dream evokes within you. Thankfully dreams that are exceptionally scary and leave us awaken and barely able to breathe in the middle of the night, are usually not precognitive. In fact, most people report their precognitive dreams while they may be frightful, leave them more determined than scared.

Scary dreams that leave you wondering whether they are precognitive usually are not. There is usually a knowing from the moment you awake that is your key to a dream being precognitive. It is a concept that is hard to explain until you recognize it from personal experience.

Over the coming months, as you learn to distinguish between the types of dreams that you have, take the added step to see how you feel about the dream immediately after waking. Keep a log of the various ways your dreams make you feel and what things in the dreams look like and you will start to see a pattern emerge.

The last step is to test your gut feeling on the dream. Take a moment to calm yourself and allow all the tensions in your body to release. Ask yourself if the dream in question was precognitive, then pay attention to your body, particularly the stomach region.

The entire concept of a "gut reaction" comes from the shear number of people that have experience a "feeling" in the gut region of their body in response to a question or test on a specific subject or product. For some people, the feeling is exceptionally small when it has gone unrecognized for their entire life and makes it necessary to pay exceptionally close attention in the early stages.

Once you come to recognize the feeling, it will become stronger and easier to recognize when it is giving you an answer.

So what exactly do you need to look for? It is different with each person which means it is really a matter of finding what your own body is saying to you personally. Some people get a feeling only when the answer is positive, meaning yes, or it is good for you, or the answer is true.

For others, they receive not only a reply when the answer is positive but a different type of response when the answer is negative. Exactly which type(s) of responses you will get will have to be determined through experimentation. Pay attention to the feelings you receive and make note in your dream journal along with the actual dream. As time goes on, you will see a pattern emerge giving you the information you need to know to understand which of your dreams are precognitive and which are just dreams.