Progymnasmata

Thats scary. I believe that was your guides notifying you that someone you knew was in pain from the death of her child. So sad, sorry to hear it :coolgleamA:

I'm sorry. I know that doesn't even express enough, but it is sincerely meant. Take Care, Meg

Apparently you are a little prescient, Comedian. But I am so very sorry for your friend's loss.

And why is it that when we do have foreknowledge, even on a subconscious level, the news is almost always sad?

I have a friend who dreamt of his mate's heart condition and by-pass surgery. He later found it to be true, as he looked him up soon after. Perhaps it's more common to have prophetic or prescient dreams than we like to admit in our rational world.

A really sad story Comedian. Frustrating too - knowledge without being able to act on it. Cruel.

Originally Posted by qimissung

Apparently you are a little prescient, Comedian. But I am so very sorry for your friend's loss.

And why is it that when we do have foreknowledge, even on a subconscious level, the news is almost always sad?

I look at it this way, it would be kind of boring to have forewarning on good things, becasue it is fun to have good surprises.

But with bad things it is nice to have a little preperation in advance instead of being surprsied by it.

Perhaps the forewarning of bad things is a defense mechinisim of the subconcious.

Thanks guys -- I remember writing to my friend and sending her my condolences. And then I remembered that terrible dream.

I mean, I don't know if it was prophetic, sympathetic, or what -- but that I had a dream that paralleled a similar situation to some one who was once close to me seems really strange.

And if there is some subconscious connection that we have during times of intense emotion -- holy crap! What does that mean? Person-to-person subconscious communication? Sounds too wishy-washy to me, but so too does casting the whole thing as a fluky circumstance.

That's either one heck of a coincident or you were really tuned into something. Wow. That is amazing. That is a sad story. Were you able to send your sympathies to the woman? I don't think I would mention the dream to her.

Thanks Dark Muse. I like your idea.

Well, that's extremely weird.

How often do you dream about something tragic happening to your daughter(s)?

I was just reminded of something right now which you might find very strange.

I had just come back from Zambia, recovering from cerebral malaria, to visit my grandmother. She was asleep in the same room where I was messing around on the laptop late one night. Without warning she sat up from a deep sleep and said "Please be a pet and check on the lady across the passage shes about to die."

I got up, tucked her into the covers and told her its just a bad dream she should go back to sleep.

Anyway, just to be certain the next day I knocked on the door of that lady across the passage to ask how she was doing. She told me she was almost better from a bout of flu but otherwise fine. She said she didnt need anything from the store when I offered to go for her.

The next day she was dead.

It really felt creepy to ask my grandmother how she knew this. As it turned out she had forgotten all about her dream until I brought it up. Now if thats not a prophetic dream then I dont know.....

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