Are premonitions and prophetic dreams real?

I'm not an expert in this of course, but from my own experience I'll say this: premonitions do exist, it's just not mysticism. after 7 years working in a library i noticed that intuition often hints to me when i need to have a talk with a reader or when there might be conflict. but then i realized it's just experience - i unconsciously pick up on signals that other people simply don't notice. when you work in one field for a long time, you start to predict events based on details that you don't consciously register.

it's a similar story with prophetic dreams. while i'm preparing for winter fishing i often see dreams about fish, about ice, about different situations. then some of them somehow match reality and it starts to feel like it was a prophetic dream. but if you think about it logically, it's just because my brain is worried about fishing, running through different scenarios and naturally one of them can match reality. the probability of a match is higher if you often think about something before you fall asleep.

anyway i think premonitions are a real phenomenon but the explanation for them isn't mystical but psychological. the brain is smarter than it seems and can predict events based on accumulated experience. and prophetic dreams are mostly coincidences that we remember because they made an impression, while we forget all the other dreams.