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Can your dreams predict the future? The intriguing book that examines the psychology of the paranormal
By RICHARD WISEMAN,
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Last updated at 2:11 PM on 26th February 2011
Aberfan is a small village in South Wales. In the Sixties, many of those living there worked at a nearby colliery that had been built to exploit the large amount of high-quality coal in the area.
Although some of the waste from the mining operation had been stored underground, much of it had been piled on the steep hillsides surrounding the village.
Throughout October 1966, heavy rain lashed down on the area and seeped into the porous sandstone of the hills. Unfortunately, no one realised the water was then flowing into several hidden springs and slowly transforming the pit waste into soft slurry.
You have an average of about four dreams each night. They take place every 90 minutes or so, and each one lasts around 20 minutes
Just after nine o’clock on the morning of October 21, the side of the hill subsided and half a million tons of debris started to move rapidly towards the village.
Although some of the material came to a halt on the lower parts of the hill, much of it slid into Aberfan and smashed into the village school. A handful of children were pulled out alive during the first hour or so of the rescue effort, but no other survivors emerged.
In all, 116 schoolchildren and 28 adults lost their lives in the tragedy.
Psychiatrist John Barker visited the village the day after the landslide.
Barker had a long-standing interest in the paranormal and wondered whether the extreme nature of events in Aberfan might have caused large numbers of people to experience a premonition about the tragedy.
To find out, he arranged for a newspaper to ask any readers who thought they had foreseen the Aberfan disaster to get in touch.
He received 60 letters from across England and Wales, with more than half of the respondents claiming their apparent premonition had come to them during a dream.
One of the most striking experiences was submitted by the parents of a ten-year-old child who perished in the tragedy.
The day before the landslide their daughter described dreaming about trying to go to school, but said there was ‘no school there’ because ‘something black had come down all over it’.
In another example, Mrs MH, a 54-year-old woman from Barnstaple, Devon, said the night before the tragedy she had dreamed that a group of children were trapped in a rectangular room.
In her dream, the end of the room was blocked by several wooden bars and the children were trying to climb over the bars.
Another respondent, Mrs GE from Sidcup, Kent, said a week before the landslide she dreamed about a group of screaming children being covered by an avalanche of coal.
Two months before the tragedy, Mrs SB, from London, dreamed about a school on a hillside, an avalanche and children losing their lives. And so the list went on.
Abraham Lincoln (left) reportedly dreamed about an assassination two weeks before being shot dead. Mark Twain (right) dreamed of his brother's corpse lying in a coffin just a few weeks before he was killed in an explosion
Been there, done that: DREAMS where I have helped lost souls to the bridge crossing over to the other side:
– dog run over the night before it happened (1977)
– the space shuttle Challenger, 5 days prior to explosion after lift off (1986) – 7 dead
– day dream: took my grandfather to show him the bridge to the other side, he pushed for me to lead him across (obviously, I didn’t go) – he died three days later
– the Bam, Iran earthquake, (the night before), (~50k dead) (2006) – ugh, channeled some really ugly ones away from the bridge, etc.
– (the time of occurrence) December 12,1985 a military chartered Arrow Air DC-8 left from Gander, Newfoundland to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Upon leaving the Gander airfield, the plane crashed killing all 256 people aboard. Two hundred forty-eight members of the 101st Airborne Division and eight crewmembers died. ( I told the stewardess I was sitting next to “not to worry, I will be with you on the other side”)
History is a “rug” being woven as we fly through the psychic abyss. Some threads enter the weave and leave a “hallway rug” of history behind. Some threads are more or less permanent – some may or may not enter the pattern. It really is all about what WE think, so be positive.
There is a bridge we all may have a chance to cross – IF we live our life in a positive way.
Be Blessed~!
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