I hope you don’t mind my sharing occasional vivid dreams that come along. Granted, they are weird, but they sometimes offer hints of what’s to come so I pass them on.
I mean like my January 13 dream about the “big quake in April” or the Gulf Horizon dream, where I posted a dream very well-fitting of the Gulf oil disaster was posted fully 18-hours in advance of events.
Had another one overnight which I thought you might get a kick out of.
As this dream opened, it wasn’t clear whose perspective it was being seen from. It obviously wasn’t mine – and there was no one I knew in the dream, except for the world leader part. Vladimir Putin is hard to mistake.
It was as though I was either a journalist or a very high-level administrative person, and the dreamer was on a ship that was heading from Europe to the United States.
On this ship was – of all people – Russia’s leader Vlad Putin. And since it was a leisurely sea-crossing, I was looking forward to interviewing Putin at some point in the trip, likely it would be in a day, or two. Though the ship had already been at sea fully a day or longer in the dream’s timecode..
The dreamer was wearing odd clothing (a women, perhaps?) with what seemed like a rich – just darker than sky – blue shirt (or blouse?) and a gray jacket over it – a kind of Civil War Confederate gray, if you know the color.
The sense was that Putin was coming to the U.S. to hold talks with president Obama, and there was some sense of excitement because there was a sense that the talks MIGHT take place on the ship and there was anticipation that this could turn into a very key meeting, just as the Yalta meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill was at the end of World War II.
Coming on a large yacht/cruise (naval?) ship was interesting. After the dreamer’s actually meeting Putin briefly – and being promised the later interview – the next day at sea had a couple of interesting features.
One was walking the ship, early in the morning and stumbling into the wrong meeting room on the ship. This one was full of naval officers who were poring over a map which was displayed on a wall behind them. It wasn’t particularly dangerous-feeling, at least at the moment, but the dream was highly embarrassed stumbling into thre wrong room in search of breakfast and press facilities.
The sense was that crisis was not imminent but the developments on the ground somewhere were being followed closely.
The next odd feature was the dreamer ordering a pizzas to go – back to the room for work. Ship’s company screwed it up and the wait was much longer than anticipated.
And that was about it.
Except for the overwhelming notion running like a thread that while there might be troubles between the US and Russia now, there would likely be a Yalta-like meeting where the place that this (dreamed) Putin-Obama confab will gain some degree of historical notoriety from the meeting, as did Yalta.
Timing on this dream was terribly imprecise. There was little to indicate a date, but it seemed like early fall, but that’s only based on the sun position in the sky when the dreamer burst into those navy dudes’ meeting.
The timing from dream date to event date is all over the place. The most accurate ones have been within 24-hours, or so. The Gulf Oil disaster dream was 20-hours from writing and 18-hours from posting. The Arizona road closure/traffic death and detours dream was a matter of less than 3-hours.
But the January 13th dream about the big April earthquake was on the order of 14 1/2 weeks or 102 days. (Ignoring dateline issues). So, all over the place.
Speaking of dreams and such, there may be a big quake in the period now through May 21, so a heads up on that one.
I’ve been thinking about what could cause these dreams to take place and frankly, nothing seems to come to mind. There’s no common foods that I can think of, alcohol use doesn’t have any effect. But I may be looking at the wrong variable: It could be a subtle electronic or electric effect, or along a different line, it could be a blood-sugar level, amount of daylight/sunlight…the number of variables when doing personal dream work like this becomes absolutely stunning.
When you come down to it, there’s no way of telling what the trigger is: It might even be a seldom-used word or new concept sets off some kind of mental process. Elaine happened to use the word vertiginous yesterday…not an everyday word for here. No telling.
Another possibility (if you don’t mind the really personal stuff) is the one thing the dream states all have in common is they seem to occur within 24-hours after sexual activity. Is it possible that some hormonal change, or other, changes the human propensity perchance to dream?
OR could it be something as simple as the right amount of coffee? Again, each of the dreams seems to follow a period when I’ve had coffee (decaf) but that narrows it down to every day, so toss that one…or not?
The payoff some lucid – precognitive dreams is a glimpse of aspects of the future. Occasionally, you will run into departed loved ones, and such, but they seem mainly preoccupied with the odd things they are doing with their existence since passing.
And again, we circle back to the psychological basis of dreaming: Are all these things stubs of long-ago incomplete thoughts that just all get tossed into the blender with only a very tiny pinch of “future” to them? Or, is that how the whole future of humankind works: through the common denominators of some critical mass of people dreaming a dream…
I’d sure encourage you to follow Chris McCleary’s work at the www.nationaldreamcenter.com site. Since I started having the occasional glimpse of existence outside of the confines of our shared human timeline, back when I was 45, oir so, it has been a marvelous work to experiment with – and gives purpose to sleep.
What I suspect is that the process of opening up to such dreams comes from connecting with a loved one in a moment of extreme emotional stress.
Years ago, when I was sailing up in British Columbia on my old sailboat (2004 youtub e video here) so this was before then, I was overnight in Nanaimo B.C.
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