Dreams
I've had one or two little paranormal occurences but the weirdest one I had involved what I believe to be a dream which turned out to be true. It was quite a few years back and I can never totally rule out that it wasn't a dream at all but remember what was real and what was a dream had never been a problem for me, and I don't think I would have been so freaked out had there been a reasonable chance the first part had not been a dream at all.

The dream was very mundane, I was just having breakfast reading a newspaper next to the chair before school. I didn't intently read the paper, it was just there and I was glancing at it. It was a rather weird story about a chimneysweep (didn't think they still existed!) whose wife had gone into a labour at home and he'd delivered the baby. I remembered a couple of key phrases, the name of the baby and what the photo looked like.

A few days later I was going through some newspaper to put in the guinea pig hutch and saw a little article saying that a chimneysweep who had delivered his wife's baby had been nominated for some award for his outstanding efforts. WTF?? I spend ages going through the pile of old newspaper until sure enough, there was the exact article I'd seen in the dream! I think it was backdated to a couple of weeks before when I thought the dream had occured, so it would already have been in the recycling pile. I don't know the family and have never met them, why can't I dream useful things like lottery numbers??

A few less spooky dreams have happened since then. I once dreamed there was a public footpath going through my back garden from the back fence behind the wendy house to the front drive. After much fighting through bushes to get behind the wendy house, there actually was a gap in the fence right where the path in the dream was! More recently I dreamed a lift at university went down to a secret basement deep below, when chatting to some lecturers a couple of days later it turned out the lift is an unusual hydrualic design which does actually go down below floor level, and I've been relaibly informed that there is a (small and uninteresting) secret basement corridor down there.

I've only had one useful "prophetic" dream but it was fairly minor and personal and would probably scare the crap out of my housemate if any of my friends read this, guessed who I am and told him! It kick started me into getting something done which would have left me very pissed off for a very long time had I left it even a day later.
(GothicTechie, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:17, 2 replies)

You read the article
but promptly forgot about it.

You then had a dream about it and subsequently saw the article again.

The end.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:36, closed)

^
this.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 15:10, closed)