ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the dreams in three groups: those that prevision a future tragedy; first, for strangers; second, for those near and dear in family ties or friendship; and, third, for one's self. There seem to be not nearly as many cases reported in which disaster or death is previsioned for a total stranger in dreams. Whether one searches among the records published by the Societies for Psychical Research in Europe or the United States, or collects dream experiences to be found in autobiographies, or takes down the experiences of one's friends, the striking fact is that the great bulk of them are either perceptions of present danger or of death connected with someone near and dear to the dreamer. The final group of premonitory dreams consists of those in which one sees a picture or gets a conviction of one's own fate.