Precognitive Dream

At the time that I wrote this, I was writing every morning (sort of a journal) and I just happened to write about a dream. As it was dated and so on I know that I had the dream the night before.

28/11/04

A dream. I'm on a flat beach. The waves suck back a long way before coming back in. I'm paddling with Jack. We race into the sea as the surf recedes. Then there's a wave coming that's huge. We've run into the pull of the wave. We ran over the dry sea-bed, but the sea has gone back too far – it's like it's gone completely. But then it's coming – huge towering over us ready to smash us into the shore. But we ride it out safely.

Now I'm on a boat. It seems much too big to be this close to shore, especially in this unpredictable, crazy sea. We're bouncing on waves that are threatening to launch us into the seaside hotels. Is it Scarborough, Blackpool, something like that. But I'm up on the deck. Somehow maneuvering the ship. Saving everyone.

[This is exactly as I wrote it down, unedited]

When the Boxing Day Tsunami happened (26/12/04), I'd forgotten about this dream, but I was reading through my journal and found it quite freaky.

Obviously there are bits that are not to do with the Asian Tsunami (ie me and Jack being there). But there are some details that are very similar (the sea-sucking back, it being a resort-type beach).

According to J.W. Dunne in "An Experiment with Time" we have quite a lot of these precognitive dreams. We don't notice unless we record our dreams accurately and really try to look for the links.

I really recommend that you buy Dunne's book. Also C. H. Hinton's stuff is great.

Also watch Donnie Darko and read From Hell.

Not synchronicity but ...

In June 2010, I read a really good book by Mikita Brottman ("The Solitary Vice"). Finding this book at all was a strange co-incidence - I just happened upon it browsing Amazon. Among other things, it mentioned serial killer books. She spoke highly of "From Hell", which I had never read, despite being a fan of Alan Moore (I had seen the film). I sent an email or two to Mikita Brottman, discussing how much I liked her book.

A little after this I got thinking about the 4th dimension and precognitive dreams. I remembered a couple of books I'd read on this: Rudy Rucker's "The Fourth Dimension" and J. W. Dunne's "An Experiment with Time". Re-reading the Dunne, I came across some interesting references to C. H. Hinton's "What is the Fourth Dimension?". I sent an email to Rudy Rucker around this time, thanking him for some useful material on writing he'd put online.

Moving into August I read "Fingerprints of the Gods" (1995) by Graham Hancock. Much of this centres around the fact that the Great Pyramid is made in such a way that it "encodes" pi and numbers related to the Precession of the Equinoxes. Hancock takes this to show that a technologically and mathematically advanced society existed around during the "Age of Leo" (ie about 10,500 BC). (for more info see here).

When I read "From Hell" (immediately after the Hancock). I was surprised to read that the Hinton's ideas figure heavily and that James Hinton (C. H.'s father) is an important character. Moore's notes mention Rudy Rucker's book. "From Hell" also talks a lot about Egyptian matters (esp. obelisks and Anubis).

Immediately after this I read Carl Sagan's "Contact". Precession of the Equinoxes is quite important here: there is discussion about which star would have been the Pole Star at times in the remote past (the first "Message" dealt with in the book comes from Vega). Here's a quotation:

"Vega was the Pole Star about twelve thousand years ago."

This coincides with the time that Hancock thought the Great Pyramid was planned and built (the Age of Leo - when the sun rose in the Constellation Leo at the Equinoxes).

Pi is very important in this book: in the novel, Ellie finds a mathematical message hidden in pi. If this were true it would be proof that the universe was "designed" by a mathematically-minded creator. She's told to look for this by the representative of the beings who sent the message from Vega. These beings make use of a network of wormholes which make faster-than-light travel possible, but they say they didn't make them - they are all that remains of some even more ancient culture. This book was first published in 1985. Its text is available here.

Immediately after this I started reading "Gaia". In this book, Lovelock mentions that when he was having difficulty publishing his early theories about the atmosphere and Gaia, Carl Sagan was the first to accept an article for publication (in the journal Icarus).

Maybe this is not synchronicity, just ordinary co-incidences. Interesting though. By the way, I have at least one definitely precognitive dream, but I will need to get my evidence together for a later blog post.