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IT HAPPENED TO ME…

PRECOGNITIVE DREAMS

On the topic of precognitive dreams, I think one has to regard them in the light of how the subjects of dreams arise generally. I think there is not much doubt that the dreaming mind selects images or subjects from waking life more or less randomly, and mixes them up and distorts them. Thus if you happened to see a famous musician busking in your high street, and the next night you dreamed about some other famous musician busking in the high street, it would not be controversial to say that the one was the cause of the other.

Following JW Dunne, one can speculate that these random images can be collected not just from the last few days, but also from the few days. I can give an example. One night I had a dream in which I was standing on a brick parapet and was trying to vacuum up some stuff at the base. To do this, I had a long aluminium tube that I was lowering down the face of the brick wall. The next morning, walking to work, I saw something I had never seen before. Passing the gable end of a row of

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