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Mind Knows Bounds As To Time

Nancy Huseby Bloom

Dear Nancy: My dreams have always given me guidance and have become an important part of my life. I had this recurring dream as a child and I referred to it as “The Nightmare.”

I am standing on the second story of a building with my hands on a metal railing. I notice the railing is cold. As I look down I feel very lonely and depressed. The people walking below me are all dressed the same and there is a sickly green tint to everything.

I fear the worst is about to happen to me.

Years later, in the late ‘60s, I reluctantly joined the Navy Reserves and was sent to a special weapons training base.

The two-story building where I attended classes was built inside a huge green glass cube. Moments after I received orders to go to Vietnam I stepped out of that classroom and touched the cold metal railing.

That touch and the sickly green light triggered the memory of my childhood dream. As the next few seconds passed, it was difficult to separate reality and the dream.

The people walking below me all looked the same because they were in uniform. At that moment I felt very lonely and depressed but also aware of my connection with a larger reality. - Joseph

Dear Joseph: Precognitive dreams are those that make us aware of events before they happen.

These dreams can be foretelling positive or negative events and are far more common than most people realize. If we pay attention to and record our dreams on a regular basis, we will find occurrences of precognition.

It seems the mind has no boundaries when it comes to time. It has been said by mystics and scientists that there is no linear time, that time is actually flexible and relative.

While this may be a difficult concept to grasp, it may explain the phenomena of precognitive dreams.

There are some specific indications that a dream may be foretelling the future. Precognitive dreamers seem to experience extremely vivid imagery and an accompanying “gut feeling” that a dream has to do with legitimate events. A certain clarity is present during these dreams that we can learn to recognize over time.

Questions naturally arise, such as, “Is the future cast in stone? Can I change the course of the future by making different choices in my life?”

We can, and do influence the future each day we are alive. These precognitive dreams may be tapping into a “probable” future giving us information about events that are likely to happen given the elements and circumstances in place at the time of the dream.

No one really knows how or why precognitive dreams occur, we only know that they do, and although they are extraordinary, they are not rare. They are another of the psyche’s mysteries and evidence of our connection to a larger reality.

This column is intended as entertainment. But psychologists who work with clients’ dreams say that dreams can hold a tremendous amount of significance; a particularly disturbing or repetitive dream may indicate the need to see a therapist.

, DataTimes MEMO: Nancy Huseby Bloom has studied dreams for 16 years. Dreams may be sent to her c/o The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210-1615, or fax, (509) 459-5098. Please send a short summary of the circumstances in your life and include your name, address and phone number. Nancy conducts dream groups on a regular basis. For information, call 455-3450.

Nancy Huseby Bloom has studied dreams for 16 years. Dreams may be sent to her c/o The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210-1615, or fax, (509) 459-5098. Please send a short summary of the circumstances in your life and include your name, address and phone number. Nancy conducts dream groups on a regular basis. For information, call 455-3450.