River 15
Harry
Three Tidal Waves 1993

 ~~~~~~dream~~~~~~

I was standing on a balcony and I felt a rumbling. I looked off the balcony and down towards the water. Along the beach front and to the left, there were three tidal waves coming through a bay entrance into a river mouth.

I remember quite distinctly the building felt Mediterranean. The impact of the waves made no sound, there was just the feeling: oh, the feeling of it! I remember thinking how distinct the feeling was. The three waves went down through the river mouth and then disappeared.

Then I turned around and went to the back door. When I opened it the waves had subsided and they were just lapping in little trickles, broken right down at the back door. I had an overwhelming sense of ‘It’s OK’.

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My dream came at a period when I was unsure, probably through a lack of self-security, direction and a lot of other aspects.

It was feeling the impact of the waves that really caused Harry to look deeper into his dream:

I’ve had many dreams that were significant but this one was so connected to the feeling part that it was eerie. It went through my body, like a feeling of knowing. It was as though I’d felt it before, but at the same time I didn’t know what it was that was coming. It wasn’t a past thing, it was a coming thing. It was an odd feeling.

I had discussed the dream with Jane Anderson and understood that basically I would go through three significant emotional periods or occurrences but that at the end I would be safe and secure.

Feeling that something was coming, but not knowing what, I waited for the significant things to happen. Those were my only steps: to wait for things to come at me. When they did arrive it was like ticking them off a checklist. As the events occurred, I recognised them. Other small things happened, but there was no feeling attached, so I knew they were not the tidal waves. The real ones came with a hidden knowingness or feeling that was connected. It helped me to cope.

The waves came at roughly a year apart over a period of three years. Each affected the other which led on to decisions.

The first was my mother’s death. The second was the effect of leaving my self-employment. Although it was a chosen direction, it was still a thing to overcome. The third tidal wave was the break up of my marriage.

On reflection I think it was all inevitable. The pattern was already there: it was set. It didn’t govern my decisions and wasn’t playing on my mind continuously, but after I’d made each decision, it then hit home and made sense. There was a knowingness about the whole thing. I’d get a feeling at the time of each event, but it’s one thing feeling something at the time, and another thing sitting back and thinking about it afterwards, making the connections after the event.

A second dream, six months after the first one, was equally as important in changing my life.

~~~~~~dream~~~~~~

I was walking through a botanical garden on a guided tour. It was all nice and green, the trees and flowers and so on. We came across an old conservatory or glasshouse and the guide, who was a woman, opened the door. I was the first to walk in.

The whole place was one big pool. The interior was old and dusty, but the water in the pool was crystal clear, although, by the same token, it looked very old. We were all taken aback by the whole thing. Again it was very much a feeling dream.

We were all standing around and the guide explained about the pool and I remember saying ‘Can we go for a swim in the pool?’, to which she replied ‘Oh no! You’re not allowed to swim in here!’ Just as she said that a girl came rushing in and jumped into the pool. Everyone flipped out because of what the guide had said. We were all searching around trying to drag this girl out, which we eventually did. When we got her out she was embalmed in a cocoon. On cracking it open we saw it was like a reverse mould of her body inside, but coloured and textured like the underside of a butterfly’s wings: all iridescent. I remember the feeling of seeing that. Bang: the colour! It was the only colour in the whole dream: like the inner coming out.

Most prominent was the woman jumping in the pool after the other woman had said ‘You can’t do that!’, which was a real shock to me, and the breaking of the cocoon, seeing it turning into something beautiful - like a butterfly.

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I discussed this dream with my wife and others and also rang the dream interpreter on JJJ. What struck me was that the female content of the dream was very strong. The female guide led us to the emotional pool, and also it was a woman, or girl, who jumped into the water. ‘Diving into the emotional’ was my interpretation, and it really hit home. I felt it meant that looking into my emotions and the feeling side is OK and safe. I shouldn’t worry about what everybody else says, but just jump on in. ‘The water’s fine’, so to speak!

If anything, my health went down around the time of these dreams because of my process of thinking through the thing and bringing myself into turmoil. I tend to bring myself right down to bottom and then look at myself in the mirror and say ‘What’s going on in here?’

Whether these dreams have been total guidance, I’m not sure, but they have given me some sense of security throughout the whole trip. I’m happy now, though there are still a number of things I need to work on, but there’s a good sense of self-understanding and self-power, of doing it for myself.

People overlook the power of dreaming and take it for granted as something that we do. We’re brought up thinking that we just have dreams and not to take them seriously, but if you’re really feeling in a dream, which a lot of people don’t do, that’s the key. Touch onto the feeling side of it.

Jane’s Interpretation

Since I helped Harry with understanding his dream originally, my interpretation is woven into his story.

The first and most obvious comment to make here is that none of these people were experiencing any degree of crisis, major or otherwise, in their lives at the time of their precognitive dreams. Although Annie had been through much trauma and sadness over her failed IVF attempts, she had, by the time of her dream, reached a point of letting that go and was on the brink of adopting a baby from the Philippines. Jaquie was looking for a new job and was committed to moving forward in her life, but no great stress was apparent. Sue, Cassandra and Daniel reported no particular stress in their lives at the time of their dreams, while Harry was, in retrospect, feeling insecure about his future and his circumstances, but did not perceive himself as being overly concerned at the time.

How many of the events above occurred because of the dreamer made them happen, or chose to look back on their dreams as being precognitive? Which of these events would have transpired with or without recalling the preceding dreams? How much ‘life-changing’ was in the control of the dreamers, and how much was inevitable, simply previewed in the dream state?

In Jaquie’s case, not only was the interview true to the dream, but she started at the hospital on the exact date given in the dream too. The important point to note, though, is that she didn’t sit back and wait for her dream to manifest itself. She had more direct plans: ‘Because of its clarity, I decided to test it out, and wrote to the hospital in question to enquire about nursing posts and courses. This was the morning after the dream.’

It was the clarity that prompted Jaquie’s action, and, as a previously experienced precognitive dreamer, her judgement was presumably good. To some extent, she made her dream come true, but other elements were apparently beyond her control, such as the date of starting at the hospital, the ease with which she found the place on going for her original interview and the true-to-dream faces and personalities of the interviewing panel. Did Jaquie bring these other factors into alignment through sheer power of thought, or were they always there for the taking? Was she shown a path? Was the choice always hers, or would it have come about anyway, in its own time? Did she accelerate her future by taking quick action on her dream?

In a similar vein, Annie’s dream required a definite action on her behalf before it could be true. Without the dream, she would never have taken the step of deciding to have one more go at the IVF procedure. The dream could not have become a reality without Annie’s action. Yet she did become pregnant, the baby was a boy, he was born by caesarean section and he was born in November, all as the dream had shown. What caused such definite action?

Sue’s action was equally as convinced, even though she was happily married at that time she received the dream: ‘I was shown that my husband would meet another woman... I was then told that I was not to have any more children... I had a tubal ligation performed as soon as it could be arranged, which was only a few weeks later, even against the wishes of my then husband.’ Sue’s dream has been used in this book as an example of following instructions given in a dream, but time proved, in Sue’s eyes, the wisdom of her action when the other elements of the dream occurred true to detail, including matching her husband’s new woman to the looks of the woman in her original dream. Sue felt the precognitive aspects of her dream served as a warning upon which she could base important life-changing decisions to make her future, within the limitations of the predictions of her dream, more manageable.

Absolute belief that their dreams were precognitive was a common factor among these dreamers, with the exception of Fiona. There was no case of ‘maybe’, ‘perhaps’ or ‘only time will tell’. Their response, in each case, was to take quick action.

Daniel acted fast on his dream by warning his pastor, Andrew, of imminent danger perceived through his dream. One dream, apparently, served to change at least two lives. As time revealed, media attention scandalised Andrew’s right hand man which led to a crumbling of the church, Andrew himself fleeing from the conflict. The whole situation changed Daniel’s life and attitude towards that particular church, as his story explains. Precognition enabled not only Andrew but also Daniel to take stock of his situation and act appropriately.

Fiona’s action was equally speedy.