When dreams occur days apart, precognition and retrocognition
can be explanations of such time gaps. Retrocognition (also called postcognition)
occurs when a dream responds to events in the past, about which the dreamer
does not know. Precognition is the dream's recognition of information before
an event occurs in the waking state.
I am in Bob Trowbridge's apartment looking around his living room. I
notice many heads of stags laying about. They have magnificent sets of antlers.
They have brown fur, some of them being mounted on wood like trophies. Bob
doesn't seem to quite know what to do with all of them. However, he accepts
them as belonging in his home.
I go lucid and recall my incubation of our mutual dream group and topic.
These heads and horns must be the topic: Bob reads my mind. Looking at me
while standing next to me on my left side he says with a smile: "These
things seem to be popping up all over."
Jill Gregory, 11/11/88 |
I'm at Y's house. We see some animals, about three or four of them, which
go through some rather rapid metamorphoses, so that I'm not sure of the
sequence. The first thing that happens is the sprouting of a small unicorn
horn sticking up in the middle of their backs. Then the horn moves to their
foreheads. The final transformation is into horses with a small stylized
unicorn horn on their foreheads.
In the next scene, I'm sitting at a rectangular table, with a little
girl. I'm telling her about the unicorns. Actually it feels like the two
dream happenings are parallel or simultaneous. I am telling the little girl
about the animals at the same time I'm having the experience.
Bob Trowbridge, 11/13/88 |
These two friends had their dreams about "heads and horns"
some two months before the event that triggered their dreams. On January
29, 1989, Bob Trowbridge and Jill Gregory went to the first meeting of the
Nexus Shared Dreaming Project at the apartment of another team member. Bob
found himself sitting underneath a pair of deer antlers hanging on the wall
of the apartment. He took the antlers off the wall and playfully placed
them behind his head. Since Jill had her camera with her, she took a photo
of Bob. The picture looks as though Bob has antlers growing out of his head.
Neither of the dreamers had remembered their previous dream content until
I brought it to their attention once again. |
