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Issue 13, September 1999Dreaming the Lotto©Jane Teresa Anderson, September 1999
"I’d like to bring a cheque for $174.80 into my life," I explained to John, the hypnotherapist. It was November 1996 and I was preparing to go under hypnosis to travel into the future, with a mission, for the fourth time. No, this wasn’t a dream! Many people choose hypnosis to regress into the past. I was experimenting with progressing into the future as part of the research for my book, "The Shape of Things to Come". The three previous sessions had presented me with some pretty mind-boggling results, with things appearing in my life in ways that matched my adventures under hypnosis. I had come to the brink of one of life’s big questions: If we do foresee the future with some detailed accuracy, is it because the future is somehow fixed, or is it because, having ‘foreseen’ it, we create it? I had spent three years researching this subject, spurred on by a deep need to understand why some of my dreams reveal specific details of my future. That day, as I sat in the hypnotherapist’s chair, I wanted to experiment to see if I could bring things into my future within a two week period. The temptation to manifest a cheque for a million dollars was there, but I felt I wanted to test the idea simply. $174.80 was an odd amount that, I felt, would be most unlikely to turn up as a cheque. In fact, it seemed overly cautious, so I dropped the 80 cents and entered hypnosis to see if I could create a cheque for just the $174 into my life in the next fourteen days. Well, the cheque didn’t arrive, but on the day predicted under hypnosis, my husband (who knew no details at all of the experiment) came home with a new mobile phone. Apart from the prefix, the number was 081 774. Notice that, apart from an extra 7, all the original digits from "$174.80" were in that randomly chosen mobile phone number. Other things happened on that same day in alignment with details ‘seen’ in the hypnosis session, pushing me towards a surer feeling that I had played a role in manifesting that phone number. Why were the numbers re-arranged? The right brain (under hypnosis and in dreams) does not see '174.80' as 'one hundred and seventy four dollars eighty'. It sees it as a collection of numbers (1, 7, 4, 8, 0) while also seeing it as 20 (the sum of the digits). (The full story of all six hypnosis sessions is told in great detail in "The Shape of Things to Come".) Now, this is where dreams link in: Last month I had a dream containing numbers which seemed to be Lotto numbers. As this had happened to me once before (in December 1992 – this story is also told in "The Shape of Things to Come"), I knew there was a good chance that the numbers were winners. I had waited seven years for this! I entered my dream numbers into the draw and got four of the six lotto numbers right: I won $147.80. Yes – those numbers do look familiar, don’t they?! Rearranged slightly, but familiar. And what was that about seven years between my two winning lotto dreams? Does that have any connection with that extra seven in Glen’s mobile phone number? If you enjoy a bit of cryptic detective work I can promise you a thirst-quenching adventure in "The Shape of Things to Come". There was a further twist to this tale. The two remaining lotto numbers that would have given me the complete six-figure win (the millions of dollars), were 38 and 44. I was 38 in the month of my first Lotto dream and 44 for this one. (Why, oh why, didn’t I guess those numbers when I was standing in the newsagents?!) Was my lotto win, due to the numbers I dreamed, another manifestation of my hypnosis experiment? If so, then all I need to do is re-arrange the digits and add a few more zeroes … $8,741,000 sounds rather appealing, don’t you think? Jane Teresa Anderson
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