Premonitions

Have you ever had a vivid dream which in the future became a reality? Perhaps you were awake and "just knew" something was about to happen. If so, you are not alone. Premonitions have been reported for centuries by all types of individuals from all walks of life.

I have yet to come across one scientific study proving that this phenomenon exists. Hopefully in the near future this will change. What I have come across are some well known, documented cases which made a believer out of me.

One of the most famous cases of this phenomenon involves a former United States President Abraham Lincoln. Shortly before his death, Lincoln told of his chilling "dream".

"About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front. I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber, for I was weary. I soon began to dream. There seemed to be a death-like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room; no living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. I saw light in all the rooms; every object was familiar to me; but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break? I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.' Then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which woke me from my dream. I slept no more that night; and although it was only a dream, I have been strangely annoyed by it ever since."

Another famous person who foresaw his own death was the legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Less than one day before his death, Stevie woke from what he described as a "horrible nightmare" and shared his dream with his bandmates. He recalled being present at his own funeral and witnessing thousands of mourners attending in his memory. Just a short 20 hours later, Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash.

Here is one more incident for you to ponder about.

14 years before the Titanic sank, Morgan Robertson published a novel called Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan. Interestingly, "the novel seems to tell the exact disaster of the Titanic. The number of similarities go way beyond coincidence. In the novel, the ship was named Titan. It was the same size as Titanic, and carried the same number of passengers. In the novel, the ship also struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic in mid-April and sunk with the loss of over half the passengers due to insufficient lifeboats." Preston E Dennett

Are these true accounts just coincidences???