Can vivid dreams can really predict the future?

No

I've had multiple dreams that have occurred later in my life. They usually involve a very specific set of circumstances and me thinking of a very specific phrase while someone else says another very specific phrase. Coincidence or not, it's happened to me multiple times.

Dreams don't predict the future.
Sometimes people think they do because in one dream over 100000, a coincidence happen that you dream of something that happens. But of course you would. There's no way you're not going to dream by coincidence about something that will happen at least once in your life over the 100000 dreams you will have. It's like if you say a different word everyday. There's a relatively high chance at one point that one you will say will be the first you will hear all day on the tv one day. Does it meant you predicted the future? Nope.

Dreams are not predictions but rather messages from your subconscious.

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Yes

I think so

No the vivid dreams can’t predict the future can’t

I had a vivid dream that I was chased by an ugly pterodactyl. How's that going to be my future, exactly?

For years after I left the Navy, I had dreams about screwing up in the job I had then and others about how they'd hauled me back to do few more years of servitude. In both cases, I woke up feeling very anxious - which was immediately followed by a huge sense of relief that it had been only a dream.

I'm with those who say that dreams - no matter how vivid - are not predictive. The only thing they may show is that you have an active imagination and you're better able to recall dreams than most people are.

I agree with the points made by Dio in his reply. What he describes also explains the phenomenon of being contacted by someone out of the blue that you've recently thought of. I don't completely dismiss the possibility that there may be some woo-woo stuff going on in such cases, but I think it's more likely that the person will have had passing thoughts about many people in the last day or whatever, and the only one that subsequently is assigned a greater significance is the thought about the person who called or was encountered or whatever.

No

Yes. Besides my curiosity on what I've read about dreams predicting the future, which I doubted anyway, but still found the idea interesting. Here's what I have already understood about dreams: and this is why some dreams can be very bizarre and don't make sense, is that when you sleep, the part of your brain which controls logic and reasoning shuts down, but the part of the brain which holds your memories and controls your emotions remain active, perhaps even more so than when awake. That's why there have been times I would dream of something or someone that I haven't seen or thought of in years. And the dreams can be emotional experiences, more emotional than if experiencing the same thing in real life. And some dreams have been too bizarre to explain, but I also have been unable to figure out and think at the time of the dream in a shrugging kind of way "oh well, this is just a ridiculous dream". I'm more like in a temporary complete awe during the bizarre dream. I suppose that's evidence of the logic and reasoning part of the brain shutting down when you sleep. They haven't all been bad though. Some of those dreams have been fascinating sometimes