^^ Aside from missing my bit of sarcasm, Shadowofwind, you also may be missing the true reason for "seeing" winning lottery numbers in dreams... a lapse which by a lot of measures is a good thing, by the way.
In reality, I think, this whole exercise has nothing whatsoever to do with premonition, providence, determination, or even misused psychic powers. It's got to do with one thing, and one thing only: hope.
People who dream numbers tend to be the same people who buy tickets in the first place -- day residue and all. Who are people who buy lottery tickets? Hopeful people. Whether they're gamblers, or looking for an easy retirement, or are dreamers like me, or are truly desperate, in the end they're all simply holding out hope, and are willing to pay a couple of bucks to solidify that hope. In a sense, they're buying a few hours of hope during which they can happily believe that they're millionaires -- until the drawing, at least. Dreaming up numbers would be a likely side-effect to a this sort of activity.
Of course, the real bottom line to all this is that no one ever wins big based on their dreamed numbers; certainly not in any provable, couldn't be coincidence sort of way (Like, the numbers come up on the exact day predicted in the exact order predicted, for the exact game predicted, and the prediction was documented before the drawing). Dreaming lottery numbers simply doesn't work, even after coincidences like the OP's close finish are considered. That's true for two reasons:
One; you're right, this sort of future cannot be predicted and, if it could, the lottery would long since have been cancelled due to rampant unfair predicting.
Two; I really do not believe that people are "predicting" numbers in their dreams because those numbers appeared to them from the future. No, they're dreaming them because it stretches that sweet feeling of hope just a little bit further.
It's all about hope; nothing more.
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