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Subject: dreams of dying

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12:11 09/07/2002 

When I was 9 years old I had a very vivid dream that still haunts me to this day:

I was playing hide and seek around a large castle with other children and I was searching for someone who was hiding.

As I looked in a little nook in the castle a black, caped faceless figure emerged and told me my Grandfather had died.

I remember waking and wanting to tell my parents he has died, but dismissed it as it was "just a dream." The phone then rang. It was my uncle informing my father of his dad's death.

Note:

Another instance was when my great grandmother had died. I had not dreamt this, but felt an overwhelming urge to tell someone she was dead. Only minutes after this I overheard my grandfather calling his sister to tell her just this.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

Jane Teresa Anderson

09:44 10/07/2002 

Hi,

This does happen from time to time.

While dreaming your conscious mind is not exerting control over your unconscious mind (unless you are lucid dreaming) and this is why our dreams are meaningful when interpreted - meaningful because we have the wonderful opportunity to look into and understand our unconscious beliefs and perceptions. This self-understanding is then helpful in seeing why our life is the way it is - and in seeing what we can do to change this.

But, the unconscious mind is also hugely powerful, capable of perception (and creativity and much more) beyond the normal functions of the conscious mind we so rely on while awake. It is the unconscious mind that often perceives events/ memories/ emotions occuring beyond the usual perception range of the conscious mind.

While we all have unconscious minds capable of such perception, it seems that some people more readily access or recall some of this info during dreams or - also in your case - while awake.

My feeling is that everyone could do this with practise.

It certainly happens for me from time to time in each of the ways you have mentioned.

The waking one is interesting. My own experience has been similar to yours - where I find myself speaking something while thinking "I don't know this" - only to discover it is indeed happening. (This has been a rare occurence for me - an example is given in my book "The Shape of Things to Come" where I spoke of my father being in hospital. He was, but I didn't know it consciously. Whenever this does happen for me I always follow the sentence by "Where did that come from? I explain to whoever I'm talking to that this is not something that I know to be true.)

I make a distinction between precognitive dreaming (dreaming of something before it happens) and telepathic dreaming (dreaming of something either while it is happening or, more commonly, while someone else is talking about it but you have not yet been given the info.)

***It's really important***, though, that I emphasise that both precognitive and telepathic dreaming are rare when compared to the number of dreams we all recall. It's vitally important that dreams are NOT regarded as being literal in any way. It is very common to dream of death and such dreams are frequently healthily positive and not at all foretelling the death of the person shown in the dream.

Hope this helps.

My reply to the post below may also help here.

Jane Teresa Anderson

Oobe

11:28 11/07/2002 

Hi there,

Usually if you encounter a faceless person giving you information in a dream, it is your spiritual guidance letting you know what is happening.