Precognition and Dreams

pre·cog·ni·tion noun

• Knowledge of something in advance of its occurrence, especially by extrasensory perception.
• clairvoyance relating to an event or state not yet experienced
• Knowledge of an event before it occurs
  

Precognitive dreams snuck up on me. They were certainly nothing I was "looking for" and nothing I "chose" to believe in. Precognition, found me, and more or less forced me to believe or accept it, or at least take a closer look.

The first precogntive dream I remember having occured when I was a teenager when I dreamt about the death of a family member on the same night that a family member passed away.

After that occasion, as far as I am aware, precognition left me alone until some time in 1997. Since then, primarily during the last three years, I have experiened any number of precognitve yet seemingly insignificant dreams.

This as I said, is nothing I chose. In fact, a hopeless sceptic of anything "unproven" I still at times do not believe that what I have experienced has actually taken place. Finally however, I have grown to understand that I can no longer really chalk up these occurences to coincedence. In fact, recently I learned that there is a 'history' of this within my family. This came as both a surprise and a relief.

To those who choose to laugh I say, laugh away. I can honestly say that had I not experienced this first-hand, I too would be laughing. I must however accept what I have experienced.

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Rattlesnake Dream

Because so many people want an example, here is one from last year. I call it the Rattlesnake dream.

I dream that I am on top of a mountain. The mountain is rather rocky. I walk out of a small shed or pump-house of some type and realize I am with two other people. I have no idea, in the dream, if these people are female or male. As we walk along the rocky soil I suddenly see a Rattlesnake and I point this out to my two companions by pointing with my hand and yelling "Rattlesnake". Avoiding this snake we walk a few more yards where I suddenly see a second rattlesnake and I again, point it out and yell "Rattler".

I woke from this dream and write this down. I do this because I had learned by this point which dreams might be of the "precognative" type and which dreams are not. (Most simply put it is a matter of feeling and how realistic the dream feels).

After writing my dream down I got up and after a few other duties, I checked my email. That very morning (indeed around the time I was dreaming), I had recieved an email from a dear friend who lives in Lake County, California.

She wrote:

Dear James.

My Daughter and I took a little trip up to the Mountain this morning. We ran into a little friend. I attached two photos of him.

Notice that alhough I dreamt of two rattlesnakes...and they only witnessed one, she did attach two photos of the the thing in her email.

Is this precognition. Maybe not. By the time I dreamt of it it had already taken place, but i had no ordinary means of knowning about it. I'm chalking all this up under "precognition" just to make life a little more simple for myself. Please feel free to call it whatever you want..including hogwash, esp etc etc.

In a related dream: I had a dream that I went to see this same friend in Healdsburg California. In my dream I went to dinner at her house and met her children and husband. What was strange about the dream was that I dreamt that I visited her in a Healdsburg, but in reality she lives in Lake County, CA which is an hour and a half north of Healdsburg.

After writing my dream down I was capable of describing to her (again via email) the exact location of the home she lived in (in Healdsburg ) in my dream. (As we both are familiar with Healdsburg it was fairly easy to describe to her the exact location of the home)

My friend answered me later that day

"Here we go again. That is my Grandmother's house . . . we have been talking about buying it".

These are two of many seemingly insignificant dreams I have had that have "proven" to be out of the ordinary.

I have no explanation for them, nor am I preaching anything. I know only what I have been forced to believe and that is very simply that we humans are capable of communicating in many ways above and beyond the normal.