Do you believe dreams are a portent of the future?

Yes I have had that experienced that before, in minor cases like dreaming of a conversation or being lectured by a teacher lolz then i forget about it a few months later it happens and I'm like oh no not again... But I did have one that was a major one for me. I am an only child and since I was two years old I never met my father although we spoke over the phone... anyways I had this dream of going a few blocks from my house and incidentally my dad was there and he took me to a church at nearby city. here's how it translated to my real life a few months later. a friend of mine who lived a few blocks from me invited me to go to church at a nearby city... Then when we got there it just so happened that the minister asked me if I was somehow related to my Dad and that he knew my Dad from when he was here. I was so surprised I didn't know whether it was coincidence or deja vu or whatever it was...

I don't usually remember my dreams, but sometimes I feel like I've been somewhere or done something before and I know that physically I haven't. De ja veu (sp)? My youngest daughter used to get up some mornings and absolutely refuse to go to school. When I'd finally get her to talk to me she'd say that she'd had a dream that such and such was going to happen and she could tell that it was one of those dreams that was going to happen. The event she'd dreamed about wasn't catastrophic or anything, it was just something she didn't want to face at that time. We'd talk it through and she'd finally go to school. I don't know if she quit having that type of dream, or if she finally accepted that it was just a warning so she could prepare herself emotionally for the day. She quit mentioning them when she got in high school.