8220;Texasbookpress” notes on an important study on dreams by J. W. Dunne, who was British aviation pioneer. His life was going great except for the fact that he often had dreams of disasters and a couple days later read about them in the newspaper. He was determined to figure out what was happening. Dunne decided to perform an experiment to answer that question. He began by studying his own dreams and the dreams of his friends and family. He recorded his dreams and then examined them by looking for any futuristic evidence. At the same time he also looked for events of the past in his dreams. From his observations he discovered that his dreams had the same amount of past and future references. Now Dunne began to ponder about time. He came to believe based on his research that in sleep we escape the linear, one-direction time, which we think of as reality. He compared time to a railroad. He said it was like traveling on a train along a line that represents time. Other lines run parallel to it and carry a train that may be moving at a different speed. Looking out of the window an individual maybe see events taking place on other trains, which are occurring to what to him/her is the future. So in other words when we are awake there is a barrier formed by our mind that doesn’t let us see into the future, but when we are asleep the barrier is broken, and we can freely see the future. Edgar Cayce, a famous American prophet, is another important key in our understanding of precognitive dreams. Cayce says that when we are awake we only use five senses, touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. But when we are asleep, we are able to use “the sixth sense which is super-conscious” (Logan 78). When we are in this state we are able to reach into our subconscious “where exist records of all experiences”, including the future (Logan 79). Logan tells us that many people, such as George Handel who recei...
