Topic: Can dreams forewarn us of danger ?

[Peripatetic Phil]

Last night I dreamt, amongst many other things, of medication.  I was asking someone for some medication, and two of the items were clearly (from their shape, relative size and colour) the tablets that the older of my two cats needs daily.  The third was Immodium.  When I asked for this, I was offered Ex-lax, and of course I said (in my dream) "No, that's exactly the opposite of what I need !".  I then rummaged around in wherever it was that she had produced the Ex-lax from, and found one, rather battered, Immodium capsule.

Today, whilst tidying up some spare A/V cables, I went up to one of the spare bedrooms where such things are stored, and in order to get in there I needed to close the lid of a small suitcase in which the cats can sleep (it lies, lid open, against the spare-bedroom door).  As I went to close it, I noticed inside the mesh a capsule, rather battered, that looked suspiciously like an Immodium capsule.  I removed it, and sure enough it was.

Now that suitcase has been against the door for at least three months, and not once have I ever noticed the Immodium capsule inside the mesh lining of the lid.  Today, forewarned by my dream ?, I immediately saw it and removed it.   Had I, in fact, seen it there before, but not registered its presence consciously, and was my dream a warning that I had better remove it before a cat ate it ?

** Phil.

[Secret Santa]

Had I, in fact, seen it there before, but not registered its presence consciously, and was my dream a warning that I had better remove it before a cat ate it ?

** Phil.

Almost certainly. You do come up with some strange notions Phil. You'd have CA foaming at the mouth with anger just now.  ;D

[RubyDoo]

Happy Chris had a dream. Something about an e-book!!  :

[Peripatetic Phil]

Happy Chris had a dream. Something about an e-book!!  :

Why is there never a moderator about when you need one ?  Moderator :  off-topic alert !

[RubyDoo]

Happy Chris had a dream. Something about an e-book!!  :

Why is there never a moderator about when you need one ?  Moderator :  off-topic alert !

It was about dreams wasn't it? 

[Malc.]

I am normally a sceptic when it comes to things like the supernatural, but I have had a similar thing happen to me, or at least that is what I am left to believe. As a child I used to dream I could fly, quite a normal occurrence it later learn in life. But I do remember that I would fly down the stairs and out the front door the and over the house etc. On one occasion I dreamt of flying over the back fence which is tree lined and over the neighbours garden behind it. Well the following day I had an image in head of te neighbours garden which I had never consciously seen and made an effort to find a spot in the house where I could peer into the garden. Imagine my surprise when I found the garden looking the same as my dream! I ask myself though, if I could peer into the garden, maybe I had already done this but forgotten, who knows.

Dreams are quite odd though. Following a serious accident in '95 I was invited by the doctors and nurses of my local hospital's ITU, to a 4 week induced coma. That was an interesting 4 weeks, I can tell you. Completely knocked out I lay in a constant dream state where my subconscious put dream like images and situations to the sounds my ears were actually hearing. Not that I new any different and to this day I have some pretty odd memories of those dreams.

The mind plays some very interesting tricks though take Daja Vu for instance, i've had that several times .

[Peripatetic Phil]

(Responding to Axe) --

As a child, I had a regularly recurring nightmare :  I would be on a train that, at some point, would cease to run through the normal British countryside (or towns) and would instead cross a horribly deep gorge on a horribly narrow railway line off the side of which (in my nightmare) I kept dreaming we would plunge (I don't remember whether we ever did so plunge in my dream).  At the age of 40, I visited friends in Otago (New Zealand) for the first time, and took a tourist train up into the surrounding hills.  I probably don't need to tell you that at some point it ceased to run through the normal Otago countryside amd instead crossed a horribly deep gorge on a horribly narrow railway line ...

** Phil.

[DalPuri]

Was just watching Michael Caines (chef) on saturday kitchen and wondering why he has a plastic hand.
If I was him, i would make much more use of it with different attachments for the kitchen. All he can do with his is support things and stop them moving about. Seems such a waste of a good opportunity being a chef.
Anyway, why i've mentioned it in this thread is because the chef lost his hand in a car accident in 1999, and there was also a film (1981) starring Michael Caine (actor) where he also loses a hand in a car accident. ...
Spooky . ...