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From: andrew@garfield.UUCP (Andrew Draskoy)
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Subject: Re: Question (dreams)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 15:26:56 EDT
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> From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
> 
> I have some anecdotal evidence for time dilation...  I had a fairly
> involved dream, which I only remember snatches of, which ended in a
> burglar alarm sounding.  The dream seemed to last several minutes,
> ending with the "burglar alarm" which woke me up.  The burglar alarm
> turned out to be a telephone bell that had been ringing for much
> less than the (apparent) several minutes of my dream.
> 
> Now, I could have started with a perfectly ordinary dream into which
> the phone intruded (as a burglar alarm) or the dream could have been
> initiated in response to the phone.  Hard to tell, though from what
> I remember of the dream, it made sense for the burglar alarm to be there.
> 
> p. rowley, U. Toronto

There is one more, albeit stranger, possibility:  Perhaps the ringing of
the phone was anticipated, and the burglar alarm stuck in by the sub-conscious
so that the sound would fit in.  The sounds outragous, I know, but I have a
reason for suggesting it.  The dream the I recall most vividly is one that I had
many years ago.  In it, I remember "seeing" someone walking up to the door
of my house and press the doorbell.  At the exact moment that they pressed
it, someone in reality pressed the bell.  Now, I remember that you generally
could not hear people outside, so I don't think I heard them approach the
door.  This kind of forseeing the near future and having the dream fit it
has happened to me several times since then.  Has anyone else had this sort
of experience?

Andrew Draskoy
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