Can dreams be premonitions?

[asreon]

So for the past month or so I've been having these odd nightmares that involved friends at school. There was one involving a particular friend (this friend shall be referred to as "A") which I seem to remember the most of.

 

Here's how it went-

I was at an airport, about to board a plane with A and we were chatting it up and making jokes etc. Then an announcement came over the loudspeaker saying that flight (whatever it was)  was ready for boarding. So A and I picked up our stuff to get on the plane. There was far more people than what you'd expect to see in one flight but I thought nothing of it. Then minutes later, I turned around and realised that A had disappeared. So I tried to search for A, eventually finding them talking to another guy who seemed to "have the same mindset" as A and they really hit it off.

For some reason I really didn't like this new person (let's call him B) and tried to get A to move away from B. Then another announcement came on and said there was a fuel leakage dangerously close to the engines and there was a high risk of an explosion so everyone should be evacuated from the area. Everyone else started to run in a panic and I felt myself being pushed along. 
I tried to get back to A through the crowd because for some reason he didn't seem to have heard the announcement and kept going towards the plane with B. I eventually got to A, but even though I tried to pull them away, they just pushed me off and told me that "I never valued the conversation between us anyway". Upon hearing this I turned back around and ran. Then when I reached the main airport building, I looked through a window and watched as the plane exploded.

 

Following this, not a week later, A ended our friendship because they had "found someone better" to talk to. So my question is, as stated, can dreams actually be premonitions?

[dsayers]

 

Following this, not a week later, A ended our friendship because they had "found someone better" to talk to.

Can you elaborate please? Friendships aren't mutually exclusive.

 

In the strict sense, no, humans do not possess the apparatus to see into the future. That said, there may have been things about yourself, A, or your shared friendship that consciously you weren't aware of that your unconscious was processing. The proximity of the dream and "break up" would be coincidental if anything. Rather than trying to find meaning in the coincidence, I'd look into what about them made them such a fleeting friend and what were the warning signs to avoid this happening in the future.

[Lars]

Dreams described as accurate premonitions are really just our subconscious reminding us of important social cues which should not have been disregarded in the moment.

[ra86]

On a conscious level, how did you feel about your relationship before, or around the time of, the dream? Before the friendship 'ended', did you think things were fine?

 

I'm also curious about why the relationship 'ended' so decidedly. As dsayers says, friends aren't mutually exclusive. Have you missed out any significant details?

[Will Torbald]

Making predictions is really hard, especially about the future. Predicting the future is very simple when you wait long enough. We dream nonsense 99.9% of the time, but the one day one dream fits by coincidence what happened weeks later we are astonished.

[villagewisdom]

I would say there is a company or other organization that you are or were involved with that is perhaps not using resources and money properly, is perhaps expanding rapidly but definitely destroying itself. 

[FranckJ]

Personally, and I know this is subjective,I tend to remember at least 1 or 2 short dreams per night. I have never predicted the future and I would argue it is impossible. Coincidence seems like the most probable explanation.