Okay, I teach high school psychology. Dr. Francis Crick, winner of the Nobel Prize and the co-discoverer of DNA theorizes that dreams serve as a helpful mechanism to clean up the clutter of unneeded memories, a housecleaning function, if you will. Now, when Freud wrote his treatise on dreams in 1900, he theorized a manifest content that comes from the day's experiences and a latent content that comes from the person's unconscious wishes. Freud was particularly interested in in wishes concerning childhood psychosexual conflicts. Very few folks today use Freud's system of dream interpretation, but it opened the door to the scientific study of dreams.
On average, a person spends 75% of his time in stages I-IV with stage IV being the deepest sleep of all, it is often very difficult to waken a person in this stage. At this point your mind begins to emit Delta Waves and your eyes begin a rapid sideways movement called REM sleep also called "active sleep." Stages I-IV are NREM or quiet sleep for the lack of eye movement. REM sleep lasts only 10 min or so. Stages I-IV will continually cycle through at 90 min intervals. Each cycle the deepest sleep (IV) decreases and REM sleep increases and this continues until you wake up.
You dream throughout all the stages, but evidence shows the dreams in REM sleep and particularly in the last vestiges of REM before you wake are the most vivid and often disturbing. Some dreams are benign, but a large percentage feature negative emotions: anger, anxiety, sadness. Contrary to popular belief, dreams do not take place in a split second. They correspond on a realistic time scale. The brain is never inactive.
Quix is requesting that folks relate what he refers to as visions that people experience in which a precognitive element seems present. This is covered in parapsychology and is not a field with which I'm deeply familiar.
Actually, I'm talking about Holy Spirit breathed Biblical sorts of dreams and/or waking 'visions' which are instructive from The Lord for some reason--and in this case, predictive regarding terror attacks etc. in the month of Oct.
There are counterfeits of all kinds of things from the evil one. I'm not talking about any of such 'new age' or other similar counterfeits. I consider the counterfeits to be part of parapsychology. I don't consider Biblical, authentic Holy Spirit experiences to be from the field of parapsychology though I recognize that secular persons would not make such a distinction.
I also recognize that most dreams seem to arise out of some kind of mental processing of the day's activities and thoughts and as such can easily reflect anxieties, concerns, events real and fiction from TV, thoughts or whatever.
I'm struck in the case of the dream at the beginning of this thread by at least a couple of things.
1) It was sent via a close friend who tends to be above average in her Spirit led discernment. She considers the source to be way above average in her reliability.
2) When I sent it to my personal network of those who I perceive to walk closest to God amongst those I know, Each of the most prayerful and 'in tune' folks came back with a statement--a firm statement--that it bore significant witness with what they've been feeling for some time.
3) My own impressions have grown in the same direction the closer we've gotten to the election. The feeling of something 'looming,' 'impending' has deepened and intensified more than at other times. Oddly, I've also felt closer to God and less anxious personally.
4) This is amidst a call by the very well respected Frances Frangipane for 40 days of prayer and fasting up to the election.
5) The election process has gotten more and more bizarre. The lies from SKERRY's side have gotten more and more brazen. Lehrer's part in the debates was brazenly evil with a smile.
6) I keep feeling we may well have martial law by the election or shortly thereafter.
7) The feelings of some that our way of life as we have known it being over soon--may well be conservative.
8) Part of me has had various levels of such feelings off and on for most of 30 years. So, part of me is still skeptical. It seems lesser and lesser parts of me remain skeptical. Regardless, THE NATION AND THE WORLD HAVE MOVED WHOLESALE ENORMOUSLY CLOSER to such things. And dramatically so in the last few years at an increasing pace and at an increasing level of disorder and trauma.
9) Part of me thinks that SHRILLERY'S comment about an OCTOBER SURPRISE may have come from inside knowledge from the puppet masters of plans already in place.
10) Look up; pray; walk with God; our Redemption is increasingly at hand in dramatically overt respects.
inho, of course.