Is reality all that its cracked up to be?
When I was nine years old, living in London, England, I came down with a particularly nasty bout of pneumonia one year that kept me out of school for an entire month. The day of my return to school turned out to be the first day of exams, a period which lasted a week and an event I was completely unaware of - well almost. A week after the exams had concluded I was summoned to the headmaster’s office and summarily accused of cheating! My exam scores were the highest in the class. Since I had been absent for an entire month how could such an outcome be possible the headmaster ranted rather sternly. No lessons, no homework, no tutoring, no prep! I was informed that an offense of this magnitude was grounds for expulsion. He demanded a confession. I was guilty till proven innocent! I gently informed my headmaster (and my homeroom teacher who was also present) that the night before I returned to school I had had a dream. In the dream, I found myself flying down a chimney chute. When I emerged from the fireplace I found myself in the study of my school teacher. I snuck up behind him like a ghost, hovering over his shoulders. There I witnessed him formulating the exam questions along with the answers (which teachers are required to do in England). I had never been to my teacher’s residence before but was able to describe the interior of his study in great detail (and with considerable accuracy it turned out)! When I relayed this dream to my headmaster, he responded, “You’re either telling the truth or are an incredibly creative liar! Dismissed!” After they determined that the next highest scoring student sat nowhere close to me they settled on the former explanation.
This type of experience, where we dream of some event and then encounter it again in waking reality is known as a precognitive event. In other words, the event precedes our cognition of it. We come to know of the future before we actually experience it. Based on the feedback in the Dreamer Profile Survey, it appears as if many of you have experienced precognitive events in some form or another (dream, synchronicity, déjà vu or intuition). Dreaming it turns out is the number one source of precognition. And although some hard core scientists would like us to believe that all such precognitive events could be rationally explained if we simply had enough prior data, there are enough examples of this kind to fill an encyclopedia, where one is hard pressed to explain how 1 + 2 + 3 = 4.
This precognitive experience got me wondering early on in life that there is more to the nature of time than what the clock is telling. According to the authority figures in my world (parents, teachers, scientists), such events were not possible. And yet the more I focused on these cracks in reality, these holes in space-time, the more cracks appeared until I reached a certain point where I was convinced that there are significant gaps in our understanding of space-time and most adults are in the habit of turning a blind eye to these inconvenient truths. They were habitually tuning out the evidence that was right in front of them instead of approaching it with curiosity…
What I’d like you to do over the next few days is to look back upon your own life and see if you notice such anomalies. What were some of your anomalous experiences (dreams, synchronicities, déjà vu or intuitions) where space and time did not behave in a classical fashion? It might be helpful to make a list of such events. Such a personal investigation is very much needed if one is to tap into the power of Dream Magic and Dream Healing, topics we’ll explore more in the coming week.
When I was nine years old, living in London, England, I came down with a particularly nasty bout of pneumonia one year that kept me out of school for an entire month. The day of my return to school turned out to be the first day of exams, a period which lasted a week and an event I was completely unaware of - well almost. A week after the exams had concluded I was summoned to the headmaster’s office and summarily accused of cheating! My exam scores were the highest in the class. Since I had been absent for an entire month how could such an outcome be possible the headmaster ranted rather sternly. No lessons, no homework, no tutoring, no prep! I was informed that an offense of this magnitude was grounds for expulsion. He demanded a confession. I was guilty till proven innocent! I gently informed my headmaster (and my homeroom teacher who was also present) that the night before I returned to school I had had a dream. In the dream, I found myself flying down a chimney chute. When I emerged from the fireplace I found myself in the study of my school teacher. I snuck up behind him like a ghost, hovering over his shoulders. There I witnessed him formulating the exam questions along with the answers (which teachers are required to do in England). I had never been to my teacher’s residence before but was able to describe the interior of his study in great detail (and with considerable accuracy it turned out)! When I relayed this dream to my headmaster, he responded, “You’re either telling the truth or are an incredibly creative liar! Dismissed!” After they determined that the next highest scoring student sat nowhere close to me they settled on the former explanation.
This type of experience, where we dream of some event and then encounter it again in waking reality is known as a precognitive event. In other words, the event precedes our cognition of it. We come to know of the future before we actually experience it. Based on the feedback in the Dreamer Profile Survey, it appears as if many of you have experienced precognitive events in some form or another (dream, synchronicity, déjà vu or intuition). Dreaming it turns out is the number one source of precognition. And although some hard core scientists would like us to believe that all such precognitive events could be rationally explained if we simply had enough prior data, there are enough examples of this kind to fill an encyclopedia, where one is hard pressed to explain how 1 + 2 + 3 = 4.
This precognitive experience got me wondering early on in life that there is more to the nature of time than what the clock is telling. According to the authority figures in my world (parents, teachers, scientists), such events were not possible. And yet the more I focused on these cracks in reality, these holes in space-time, the more cracks appeared until I reached a certain point where I was convinced that there are significant gaps in our understanding of space-time and most adults are in the habit of turning a blind eye to these inconvenient truths. They were habitually tuning out the evidence that was right in front of them instead of approaching it with curiosity…
What I’d like you to do over the next few days is to look back upon your own life and see if you notice such anomalies. What were some of your anomalous experiences (dreams, synchronicities, déjà vu or intuitions) where space and time did not behave in a classical fashion? It might be helpful to make a list of such events. Such a personal investigation is very much needed if one is to tap into the power of Dream Magic and Dream Healing, topics we’ll explore more in the coming week.