What does it mean when you have a series of bad dreams before something bad happens?

Answer 1

Having frequent nightmares and bad dreams suggests that you are stressed and troubled. Dreams often act out our emotions through symbols and metaphors. For example, dreaming of being chased by a monster suggests that you are "running away" from a problem in real life. Once you stop avoiding the situation and resolve the problem, those chase dreams will end. Similarly, dreams of fighting someone suggest another sort of struggle in reality, in which someone is thwarting your efforts. Figuring out the symbols in your nightmares can be very helpful in identifying specific problems and their sources. See the attached link below for further information.

Answer 2

Having several bad dreams in a row only suggests that the dreamer is under some sort of stress. The nightmares function as stress relief, releasing tensions that otherwise could cause illness or inappropriate behavior. See attached link for further examples and discussion.

Answer 3

The bad dreams might well have been caused by observing a pattern of events that would logically end in a bad conclusion. Such mundane connections are easy to ignore or deny with the conscious mind, but tend to rise up from the subconscious mind in dreams. When the event occurs, the dreams appear psychic, yet are no more supernatural than the daily weather forecast.

..... Alternatively, the fact that bad things occur every day is simply a reality of life in this world. No matter when the dreamer experienced a series of bad dreams, something bad would happen somewhere that could appear to be related to those dreams. But the juxtaposition of the dreams with the event is simply coincidental.