ved the melody for The Messiah in a dream, have used the super-conscious to find information (89). Edgar Cayce is one of the most successful people who used dreams to learn about the future.Knowledge of the future derived from dreams has effected the lives of many people. Mark Twain had a dream about his brother Henry lying dead in a metal coffin with white flowers across his chest (74). A few days later Henry died when his boat blew up. At the funeral Twain saw a woman come into the room and place a wreath of white flowers on the coffin (Innes 75). His dream came true but this is also proof that “ many predictive dreams are about bad things that will happen to people that we know or that are close to us” (Guily 49). Hirsch gave an account of a dream received by Abe Lincoln that predicted his own death (27). He said that in the dreams Lincoln heard two men talking about the president being assassinated (27). In real life Abe Lincoln was assassinated a few days after having this dream. One ten-year-old girl also had a dream about her own death (Innes 79). She woke up one morning and told her mother she was not afraid to die because she would be with her friends Peter and June. Later she had a dream about going to school and seeing that it wasn’t there “something black had come down all over it” (79). The next day she went to school, which stood in a mountain of black coal mining waist, the mountain collapsed and killed everyone in the school (79). The girl was buried next to her friends as she predicted (79). This is evidence that regular people have the ability to have prophetic dreams. Dreams can be used as a tool in telling the future. This is so because we can see how they have worked for our ancestors. We can also look at research performed by Dunne. And we can look at the success of Cayce’s prophecy from dreams. If all of this isn’t enough to convince you that dreams are p...
