The Dreams That Came True Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.
The dream is a field with a five-bar gate. There is a horse in the field, standing side-on, and it will not look at you no matter where you …
1698 Upvote · 87% of readers believe this story
The dream: a ward with six beds, a window on the left with a broken blind that hangs at an angle, and a nurse with a plait who says, "You're…
1524 Upvote · 89% of readers believe this story
I do not think dreams predict things. I want that on the record before I say the rest, because I need you to understand that I have spent a …
1341 Upvote · 83% of readers believe this story
The dream started when I was seven. I am now forty-one. It is not a nightmare. In the dream I am walking up a path toward a yellow front doo…
1214 Upvote · 84% of readers believe this story
I am not a superstitious person and I have never had anything like this happen before or since. But one night I had a dream that was less a …
331 Upvote · 90% of readers believe this story
My grandmother raised me for a good part of my childhood, and even after I moved across the country for work we spoke every Sunday. She had …
322 Upvote · 93% of readers believe this story
I do not usually remember dreams, but this one came in sharp and stayed. I dreamed I was stopped at a red light and, on the median, a man st…
283 Upvote · 88% of readers believe this story
My grandmother raised me for half my childhood, and her house rule — she was fierce about it — was that she never left without saying so. Ev…
148 Upvote · 98% of readers believe this story
Our street has never flooded. I want that on record: not in the forty years my neighbour has lived here, not in our nine. There was no weath…
124 Upvote · 36% of readers believe this story
For six years I had a filler dream: wandering a house that does not exist. A staircase with a landing window at knee height, absurd and char…
119 Upvote · 59% of readers believe this story
Job interviews are performances, and for the role I actually wanted I got a week of unasked-for rehearsals. Every night, the same dream stag…
95 Upvote · 85% of readers believe this story
Biscuit went missing on a Thursday from a garden he had never once tried to leave. Gate open — a meter reader, probably — and eleven years o…
66 Upvote · 87% of readers believe this story
I fly monthly for work and I have never been a nervous passenger. That is the context for how out of character all of this was. Three nights…
61 Upvote · 41% of readers believe this story
The dream did not feel like mine. That is the cleanest way I can say it. My dreams are murky and self-involved; this was framed, like someth…
42 Upvote · 97% of readers believe this story
For seven nights the dream was just numbers: a woman's voice, patient, slightly amused, repeating 'seven, thirty-one, four' over black. No p…
37 Upvote · 91% of readers believe this story
My brother and I talk maybe monthly; he is a marine engineer and his schedule is chaos. The dream call arrived on a night I had not thought …
13 Upvote · 49% of readers believe this story
