So far, I haven’t talked too much about a certain type of dream that is fairly common. I call them “visits”. In these dreams, I observe someone as they are doing whatever it is they were doing at the time. Sometimes I know who the person is, other times I don’t.
When I do know the person, have their contact information, and am on good terms, I sometimes tell them of my dream. Usually, they are able to confirm they were doing what I dreamed they were doing the day of (but not the night) of the dream.
I don’t know why the time is off a bit, usually by a few hours or even a day or two, but as far as I can tell after looking into around a hundred of these, that is usually the case.
Some people would describe these dreams as “out of body experiences” or OBE for short. I don’t see why that would have to be the case. I could simply be telepathically tuning into their day, even if that means going slightly backward in time, or maybe they are thinking of it while they sleep, and that causes me to see it as if it is happening in the present.
The time element doesn’t bother me too much when it comes to dreams because the events I dream about are normally so mundane yet particular, and so far distant from me physically that there is no way I could have known or guessed what they were doing that day. The other reason is that time doesn’t seem linear in dreams. This is what makes it possible to dream of future events, as I have several hundred times that I know of.
Recently, I had a dream of a friend of mine that he was able to confirm. A mutual friend recently confirmed another, and before that, the first friend confirmed another one. For reference, friend #1 lives in Arizona, the other lives in California, and I live in New York.
I was thinking of these dreams the other day and decided to share them, as well as a bonus dream involving both friends. There isn’t anything earth-shattering or even newsworthy about them, unless you don’t think dreams like this are possible. Then, you might think it worth a paragraph or two.
Here they are, in chronological order. I’m going to use pseudonyms for the sake of privacy. California friend: Basil, Arizona friend: Clive
Bonus dream and related events 8/16/2022
I was on the phone with Basil when he said “Have you taken a vow of poverty or something? You’ve got so many marketable skills and yet you aren’t doing anything to capitalize on them.”
That night, I had a dream where I had to make a decision about making money with my skills instead of volunteering, or being so cautious about making deals fair for everyone that I negotiate against myself.
When I woke in the morning, my daughter told me she’d had a dream on the same theme as mine, where I was telling her I needed to get money.
I mentioned my dream to Clive after I’d had breakfast, and he said he’d been thinking the same thing about me off and on the previous day and into the night.
This is a mundane example, but it shows a consistency of ideas across three states and in the minds of four people, most of whom don’t know each other ad had no reason to spontaneously think of the same subject regarding me. Except, that is, for me. After Basil said what he did to me, that could have influenced my dream, but not Clive or my daughter..
Visit 1: Clive 10/11/2023
This was pretty simple. I was outside and wanted to talk to Clive, but he seemed unaware of my presence. He was running on a short, straight, track. It was about 30 meters long. There was something odd about the surface. It was soft somehow.
I sent the dream to Clive by email. This is his response:
I did not tell you, nor mention in social media or any other communication, public, semi-public or private, other than one between my wife and I, that I have been running straight line sprints in the sand of a rectangular shaped volleyball court area (to the side so I don't have to duck the net) that is approximately 30 to 40 meters long. I go as fast as can from one end to the other. Stop fast and then pivot 180 degrees to go back the way I came. Repeat, repeat for three minutes. Then take a one minute rest and do it again, etc (simulates boxing rounds). This is part of a fitness training regimen I do for boxing. I just started doing these sprints a week and half ago.
Visit 2, 8/8/2024:
Here is my journal record of a dream segment, which I sent to Clive when I woke:
It just occurred to me you may have been watching the Olympics on television. This is because I remember one very long pool with several fast swimmers in lanes. Also, when I was looking for you, I found myself at a lounge or bar. I thought I saw you, but the guy I identified as you was bigger around the chest and waist than I remember you being.
This is Clive’s response:
Now that is interesting to some extent.
Yesterday, after boxing, it occurred to me to sneak off to a small neighborhood bar near the gym, and have a beer. I only stayed for one pint of beer, but I watched Olympic swimming while there. It was a big screen TV.
The bar was not crowded. There were just some old dudes who drink too much and I didn't want to interact with them. However, two stools over was a very athletic black guy. Big guy. Very fit. Looked like he could be a college football player (UofA). I was going to strike up a conversation with him, but he finished his ice water and left.
Note to the curious: Neither Clive nor I had any interest in the Olympics or swimming this year. Neither of us were paying attention to it, or had any idea when certain events would take place.
Visit 3, 5/10/2024:
This dream concerns Basil and his wife. However it starts out with a car. My impression is that Basil has borrowed the car. I have the distinct impression of a borrowed car. It isn’t his car, but he is in the driver’s seat.
Basil has changed a bunch of settings on the car that are driving him crazy. I forget which settings I'm talking about. I just have this distinct impression of Basil having changed the settings.
Next, I get the idea that Basil’s wife, Sara, is annoyed with me for some reason.
I think Sara wants to be present when I talk to Basil. It has very much the feel of wanting to be able to screen anything I might say. Because, and this is my interpretation, but because Sara seems to think that I would say something she objects to and she wants to have the opportunity to object.
It may also be that Sara thinks what I have to say is interesting and wants to be there for that reason. I'm not sure. So there I am with Basil and there's another man there too. A black man, and my impression is he doesn't want to be there. And it has to do with the fact that he doesn't believe in psi. I see him investigating things, like a detective or researcher.
This other man thinks that psychic abilities don't exist. Either that or they're very difficult to prove or there's a scant evidence for it but my impression is that he's skeptical. I also think that he's there because of Sara.
Sara comes across as very very focused mentally. She reminds me a little bit of the Amazing Kreskin. I had a dream with the amazing Kreskin a long long time ago where he was trying to get me to say something about my dream about the 9/11 attacks that I had on May 17th 1990.
The strongest impression I have of Kreskin from that dream is of his intense mental focus. It is very very strong. In this dream, Sara comes across very much the same way.
When I was talking to the black guy, I was saying to him how difficult it is to to prove psi to people, primarily because they don't want to hear the evidence.
I said that that I was quite skeptical at one point also and it was very difficult to prove to me that I was having these kinds of experiences. This conversation seems to be Related to Sara and paranormal experiences. I don't understand why she would be interested in that, why she would be critical of it, and why she would be want want to be present. And yet, that seems to be the case.
When I was in the car I was thinking about you and how you had all these settings in the car that were different from what I'm used to. It's kind of like getting in your car after somebody's been working on it and everything’s different. These days there are all the digital readouts on the steering wheel where you've got one set of readouts that are available but somebody else has changed it to a completely different set of readouts so now you don't know how many miles you've driven or something because the odometer is not being displayed.
Here is Basil’s response:
Amazing. See below...
-- My wife bought a new BMW a few months ago. I rarely drive the car, but when I do, I find the factory settings for things like locks and windows annoying. She acknowledged that she did as well, so I decided to change them. I did this 2 days ago!
-- last night at dinner My wife and I were chatting about what we might watch on TV. We had started a series called The Devil's hour that used PSI and particular the influence of spiritual entities as the prominent story element. I told her I wasn’t interested in watching any more of it. She was kind of peeved cuz she really liked the show and she asked me why I didn't want to watch. She said something like, " you believe in all that stuff" and then she specifically said, " you have your friend [Andy] who has all those dreams of stuff that comes true."
-- later we were talking about how her day went. She said she had made a new friend within her forensic psychology circle. The guys are retired NYC homicide detective who after 9/11 became part of a NYC special unit for investigating 9/11 and terrorism.
-- this is an ongoing discussion between my wife and I. Her training as a psychologist makes it hard to uproot her neurological leanings :) Neil deGrasse Tyson is my usual punching bag since he is famously said "Consciousness is nothing at all"
amazing dream!!! Thanks for sharing it with me.
From Basil on Telegram 5/11/2024:
I talked with my wife about your dream. The changing the settings in the car thing was even a bigger hit than I originally thought. She said she was really frustrated and pulling her hair out that she couldn't get her Spotify to work after my changes😀 I'm sure you run into this all the time but I think this is a one in a million hit. I have never in my life made these kinds of changes to car settings. The fact that you would hit on this defies any kind of reasonable explanation and would completely challenge my worldview if my worldview hadn't already been completely blown away by everything else I know about you 🤣 As for the New York City Cop who was on the terrorism unit he was not African-American but I don't think that is at all relevant I think you were actually picking up on something else. Which is the other interesting part of this because I'm convinced that you were picking up on this intersection of topics related to the Amazon series The Devil's hour in Neil deGrasse Tyson, but there's no way you could interpret this. It's bits and pieces of information that are deep inside of my 30-year marriage with my wife. There's no way you could have any insight into this. Anyways it was very cool being a part of one of your dreams 😃😃😃
One of the tricky things about receiving a report of such an amazing dreams is that words never capture the experience. Your description of the events surrounding changing my car settings, and my chat with my wife was like a mini-STE. My world stopped for a minute as I re-experienced what the NDErs always say -- we are in the dream.