From: dcseward@athena.mit.edu (DeWitt C. Seward IV)
Subject: Dream Precognition (was) Re: Father's Death
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:59:48 GMT

In article <20AUG199221501802@zeus.tamu.edu> chaos@zeus.tamu.edu (Kimberly Diane Faircloth) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.155812.4401@athena.mit.edu>, dcseward@athena.mit.edu (DeWitt C. Seward IV) writes...
>> 
>>This story is good since there are several witnesses who really don't
>>care one way or the other in terms of if it is true or not.  In fact, I
>>had forgotten all about it until this news group popped up.  I was
>>wondering, how many instances of this "unnatural" death knowledge are
>>there out there?  It might be interesting to see if this is a common
>>thing or not.
>
>Actually, I've had the same experience with my grandmother (father's mom),
>whom I was not as close to as compared to my relationship with my maternal 
>grandparents.  A little over six years ago, I had a disturbing dream...my 
>whole family and I were standing at a gravesite, with a casket, tent, the 
>works.  The children, my father's brothers and sisters, were seated in 
>front of the casket and the rest of us surrounded them.  No one was crying 
>(very unemotional family) except for one of my cousins, my sister and me 
>(but we didn't start until later...).  In reality, to my knowledge, my 
>grandmother was still alive. The next morning at 10am I got a call from 
>my uncle next door saying that my grandmother had just passed away.  The 
>scary thing was the funeral was EXACTLY as I dreamt it the night before she 
>died.  (...message and .sig deleted...)

This dream precognition is an interesting subject, although I hesitate
to discuss it hear for fear of getting too off the subject of Ghost
Stories proper.  Anyway, I have had several semi-interesting experiences
where unprobable events are fortold to me by my dreams.  Here are some.

1.  When I was younger, I had tried out for the school basketball team.
I made it through the final cuts, but I alas I did not make the final
team.  It wasn't a big deal for me, though.  Anyway, later on in the
season, I had a dream where I did get a chance to be on the team, even
though the season was part of the way over, because some of the players
were kicked off.  I told my mother about it later, and she said to me
that was nice, but students had been kicked off this team in previous
years, and nobody was ever asked to be on it before.  Well, you all
guessed what happens now.  The coach called up two or three days later
and to the complete suprise of my mother, invited me to be on the team
for the last three games of the season.  

2.  I have always had Deja-Vu, where I thought I had been somewhere
before in a dream.  But, since I could easily explain this as being
pre-programmed to think that certain events similar to dreams are closer
to reality than they are, I dismissed it.  Anyway, I began to write down
my images, as kind of a test.  One of the images I wrote down was of
this scene were we were driving in a car under a highway bridge.  I even
wrote down some store names.  Anyway, for some reason, a few days later,
we went to some place just outside of the town where we lived, and I saw
the exact scene, complete with the liquor store and everything.  Later
on, I wrote down a scene where I was riding my bike, but then I had a
wierd view of it.  That day, my friends and I were fixing our bikes on
the grass, something we never do.  Anyway, the events unfolded just as I
had written down only a few hours before.  

I would like to know, does anyone else have these experiences?  Please
reply to me by e-mail, and I'll post a summary if this newsgroup has
interest, since I am not really sure if anyone minds these non-ghost
stories in this discussion group.  Thanks.
-dcs
dcseward@athena.mit.edu
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