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That's not controversial at this point. What's controversial is I'm not exactly Christian but Trump is/was a perfect fit for the description of the Anti-Christ, and I've personally had a semi-lucid dream that apologized for being unable to stop painful life events that would only happen five years later. Anecdotal, sure. You don't have to believe me. Just saying I have to believe my own experiences.
Guys, I mean this in the most scientifically-plausible way I can imagine... I think maybe our own unconscious minds might be railroading our conscious souls according to one great big mythological Batman Gambit. There are way too many coincidences or predictions that came true in too small a timespan for a conscious human to produce, and too much of the content of dreams is symbolic and detailed for it to be just neuron misfiring noises.
I mean, obviously real life isn't a story, but the "Dream Land" trope is as old as Aboriginal settlement of Australia and as recent as that new Lego theme/cartoon (Dreamzzz), as lighthearted as Kirby and as dark as the Backrooms (wait, is their lore really that different?) or Changeling: The Lost, as famous as Nightmare on Elm Street or Inception and as obscure as the Tabletop RPG Dreamscape from a 24-hour creator jam back in 2004. Songs about dreams range for the vaporwave-inspired "Dreamland" by Glass Animals, to "Into the Ocean" by Blue October. In short, I can absolutely see there being some truth to the stories behind Complete Me, and the hub page for the Oneiroi Collective had a point; we hadn't even realised it but dreams got into everything, not that shitty Minecraft streamers and a song about a breakup by Juice WRLD really count.
As for how dreams predict the future... You know how supercomputers predict the weather? Do you think a computer is aware it's simulating a planet's weather? If you uploaded a human mind to a hypothetical brain emulation program on some sort of hyper computer, and also ran a weather simulation program on the same super-advanced computer, would the uploaded mind necessarily be aware of the weather simulation? Yeah, something like that, except replace the weather simulation with a mental Siri/ChatGPT.
I was with you until the second paragraph and onwards
Sorry, I might have "come on too strong"; I came to the conclusions in the third and onward paragraph but I'm not trying to get anyone else to. It does sound a bit crazy when you haven't noticed that dreams seem to play a far more important role even in pop-culture and mythology than we give them credit for. I just think it's likely that as images, ideas and feelings created by our unconscious rather than conscious mind and experienced only by our subconscious, dreams are being drastically underestimated.