Precognitive Dreams Connect Us All
Dear Nancy: I saw your column and had to write. In the fall of 1985 I had a dream that completely baffled me. I thought it was particularly strange because I have never cared for football and don’t go to games. - Pam
The big football game had just ended, and I am walking back to my seat from the refreshment stand to get my things to leave. I look up to see the space shuttle taking off overhead. Suddenly, it doesn’t crash but simply explodes in the air! Everyone has their arms over their heads protecting themselves and lots of pieces of the shuttle are falling out of the sky. I wake up in a panic.”
At the time, I was working as a technical sergeant in the Air National Guard in the administrative branch, so the next day I blurted out my dream to some guys I work with. I’m a woman, and they just laughed and jokingly told me it had a psychological meaning and that the space shuttle probably was a phallic symbol and I was in dread of its failure. Guys!
About three months later, in January 1986, someone called the office to turn on our base TV, as the space shuttle had just crashed. When the monitor came on, I saw the exact replica of my dream - instead of crashing, it had blown up. I was stunned. My dream came true!
The thing that astonished me the most was that the space shuttle blew up the week after Super Bowl Sunday, so my dream not only showed me the future but hinted at the timing as well. Years later, I’m still curious as to why I would have this dream. I can’t stand football, I don’t like to fly, and science, space and astronomy are totally boring to me.
Dear Pam: Incidences of precognitive dreams have been recorded in every age and culture, and they seem to address all aspects of our lives. Whether these dreams are warning us of disaster or revealing positive developments in our lives, we know they are in a class of their own, reaching into a mysterious realm that goes beyond scientific evidence or knowledge. We also know that they are fairly common and some people have them frequently.
I often think of my relationship with the dreamworld as one that is continually expanding and becoming ever more curious and extraordinary. It’s letters like yours that remind me that whatever we know about dreams, there is much more to learn and more questions to ask.
I do know that when we are sleeping, the normal boundaries of our waking world drop away and our psyches are open to realms of consciousness we normally don’t have access to. During these times, we gain passage to events and people in other realms, past and future. I have dreamed of earthquakes, floods and other national tragedies, only to find these events headlining the morning news. I would love to know how many other people dreamed of the shuttle explosion before it happened. I would guess many.
Precognitive dreams most commonly concern the people with whom we have the strongest emotional ties, but these dreams that involve national and international events are a hint that we do, indeed, live in a universe where all things and all beings are connected. If this is truly so, I wonder what is being asked of us? Are we being asked to consider that through our dreams we can warn others, prepare for disaster or help create more positive outcomes?