In the posts below I have given many examples of dreams, visions or eerie voices that seemed to foretell a death:
When Dreams or Visions Foretell a Death
More Dreams or Visions That Seemed to Foretell a Death
Still More Dreams or Visions That Seemed to Foretell a Death
Still More Dreams, Visions or Voices That Seemed to Foretell a Death
In a 1951 edition of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, page 81, we read the following account of a dream that seemed to foretell a death:
"1. Mrs. Henrietta Block: Percipient had an unusually vivid dream that the manager of the bank where she was a depositor died suddenly of acute indigestion. 'I knew the manager by sight, but nothing of his personal or business characteristics.' She had seen him casually at the bank a week prior to the dream, at which time he seemed to be perfectly well. Because this dream was so vivid, she told her mother about it next morning. Two days later she learned that the bank manager had in fact died very suddenly of acute indigestion at about the time of the dream."
On page 89 of the same document we read another case of a dream that seemed to foretell a death:
"Mr. C. A. Nash: ... I will relate an occurrence that happened to me thirty-four years ago, which I believe saved my life or at least saved me from serious injury. In July, 1916, I was working on the Soo Line wheat elevator which was then being constructed and I worked on the steel gang which did the reinforcing, and most of our work was on ladders and scaffolds, as the elevator rose to a height of 200 feet....I am usually a sound sleeper, but that night I dreamed that I was back on the job and I saw the ladder to the 75-ft. scaffold break and a number of men killed and injured. I told my folks about my dream Sunday morning and they asked me what 1 had eaten to give me such a nightmare. I even told Clarence Farber, a chum of mine, who worked with me, about the dream, but he laughed it off. We did not work Sunday, but on Monday I heeded the warning and stayed on the ground where I bent rods on the bending table. At 11:45 the foreman ordered me to go up on the dryer tank scaffold and help the men, but I told him that I had only a few rods left to bend and that the noon hour was only 15 minutes away. He excused me and got someone else to help. When the whistle blew for dinner at 12 o’clock, 14 men hurried to come down that ladder. It broke and 2 or 3 were killed and 6 or 7 badly injured. Dr. Noonan, who is still living, was called to the scene. He said that one man had his neck broken and another every bone in his body...The accident happened to the ladder I dreamed about.”
In the book The Voice Within : Premonitions of Sudden Death in Children by Richard Hardoin, we have some remarkable accounts of dreams, visions or voices that seemed to foretell a death. We read this account of a mother whose child died of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome):
"When I was carrying her, late in my pregnancy, I had a dream. I was asleep, but suddenly I seemed to be awake. I was floating above my body, and a woman wearing all white clothes was next to me. We looked down at my body and swollen belly and she said to me in a voice I will never forget, 'You know, you will not be allowed to keep that baby.' "
The mother reported later seeing the same woman at the foot of her bed, saying, "It's time." The woman immediately rushed the baby to the doctor, who found nothing. That night the baby died suddenly at home, from SIDS. On page 35 we read this account by a mother whose child died suddenly:
"I was wide awake, working in my baby's closet, when I saw her image in a small white casket at the front of our church...The image went away, but recurred ten minutes later...When my daughter died and I went to the funeral home, my baby was placed in a small white casket identical to the one I had seen."
The account on the next page is similar:
"In dreams that followed, Fran had sensations of a baby going up in the air whom she continually pulled back to earth. In her visions, this occurred in the living room of her own room. Fran's son did die in the exact location predicted in her dreams."
On page 45 we read this account from a mother identified as HD who lost a child to SIDS:
"She viewed her son's funeral during a dream which occurred one week before her baby's death. She stated, '(I) saw a casket being lowered. The top opened and the infant (my son) was inside.' When HD went to the the funeral parlor following the death, the only casket available was one identical to the one in her dream."
On page 51 we read of a mother who on the night of her child's death saw a vision of the child's name on a tombstone. On page 63 we read of a man troubled by "nightly dreams of planes crashing" shortly before discovering that his daughter had died in a plane crash. On page 72 we read of a mother who had a dream of her son dying a week before the son died. On pages 73-74 we read of a mother who had a dream of someone taking her baby, who was wrapped in a dry cleaning bag. On that day her child suddenly died of SIDS. On page 75 a parent says this: "Three days before Brian died, I had a dream that he would die on the bed at the babysitter's house -- exactly where he did die."
- "7 reported unconscious or confused residents who unexpectedly became lucid enough just before they died to interact with relatives and carers," a phenomena sometimes called "terminal lucidity."
- "6 reported dreams that help to prepare for death, and 2 reported dreams or visions that held significant meaning for the dying to help with unfinished business." The "Dreams" section of the paper on page 200 gives several examples, some involving dreams that seemed to foretell a death.
- "5 reported the dying seeing dead relatives visiting just before death, and 4 reported the dying seeing dead relatives sitting on or near the bed."
- "4 reported the synchronistic appearance of birds or animals around or just before the time of death."
- "4 reported a change of room temperature around the time of death," with one saying, "sometimes the room is freezing," and that "at other times it is really, really hot."
- "3 reported synchronistic events at the time of death, such as clocks stopping and bells ringing in rooms of those who had recently died."
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