In Response to Avery's Comment on "Dreams and Determinism"

I couldn't agree with you more - there's no possible way our brains could hold that much knowledge. It's just interesting to think that maybe we have the knowledge of what happens specifically in regard to ourselves. So I have no idea what you are going to do when you wake up thirty days from now, but somewhere in my unconscious I might have the knowledge of what I'm going to do when I wake up thirty days from now. So basically our unconscious might have the information pertaining to our own actions - what we personally see, do, smell, hear, say, etc. - but nothing more. After saying that, though, a lot of what we do is affected by outside forces, so maybe what I'm saying is impossible. I don't know, but isn't that the beauty of it? :)

But in response to your last point, I also agree that we absolutely should not base our future activities off what we witness in dreams because it's not like we're always accessing the knowledge of the future in our dreams - it might only be rare occasions that we get that information. We aren't able to differentiate a dream from a premonition, so until we can (who knows?) we should stay away from thinking of our dreams as premonitions.