The Principle of Precognitive Dreams

Precognitive dreams occur when the manas allows the mind consciousness to know in advance things that are going to happen, which shows that the manas can know future events that have not yet occurred and can reach into the future. Why is this so? Because the tathāgatagarbha, in accordance with karmic seeds, can know the affairs of the three realms of the world throughout the past, present, and future; the manas, relying on the dharmas that the tathāgatagarbha perceives, gives rise to its own perception. Since the tathāgatagarbha can perceive all dharmas, the manas can also perceive all dharmas; the only difference is that the essential nature of the dharmas each of them perceives is different. Because all dharmas are illusory, it seems miraculous; in reality, everything is empty, and there is nothing miraculous about it.