It isn't within the scope of this book though to present a historical list of precognitive dreams. In my own case, I have had many dreams which were relevant to events emerging in the future. The physical events I later experienced were never carbon copies of the dream events, but the similarities were striking. The distance you are from a dream event and whether or not you are participating in it can be an important factor in divinitive interpretation. Sometimes in dreams, physical time is seen as distance in space with events that are further from you in the dream representing events in your physical life that are further away from you in time.
Physical time becomes dreaming distance.
This principle has been used by some to try and predict the future from dreams. The idea is that those people and events closer to you in a dream have more to do with your present, while those in the distance have more to do with your future. Dreams of future events of an unpleasant nature can many times be reacted to in such a way as to avoid the future they represent. They aren't inevitable future events. By changing your actions now you will change the future you will later encounter.