Dreaming Ahead of Time: Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicity and Coincidence

Yet philosophers are just as baffled as we are. According to one authority, philosophers that have ‘grappled with the problem of time’ have ‘ended up in perplexity’.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687 and generally known as the Principia, Isaac Newton announced what for us is the ‘common sense’ understanding of time. ‘Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external,’ Newton wrote.15 And this flow remains

Catherine Crowe’s The Night-Side of Nature, first published in 1848 to great success (and repeated printings) and still very readable today. According to Colin Wilson, Crowe’s book was the ‘first sustained attempt to treat paranormal phenomena in the scientific spirit that would later characterise the Society for Psychical Research.’64 And among th

means is that our intellect – or left-brain consciousness – is useless when we try to grasp the nature of reality.

REM Yet all dreamers owe a debt of thanks to Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago who in 1953 established that REM sleep is associated with dreaming.42 REM stands for ‘rapid eye movement’, the apparent movement of the eyes under the eyelids while we are asleep and dreaming. One of the lyrics to my song ‘Presence, Dea

interesting thing that Hall discovered is that after spending some time with the Hopi, his own time sense began to change. Hall writes of going on a long ride to help a friend bring his horses from New Mexico to Arizona. They could travel only fifteen miles

Sleep paralysis When we dream, our muscles become torpid, that is, slack and unresponsive, and this is the physiological explanation for an experience that I have had on many occasions, what is known as ‘sleep paralysis’. Sleep paralysis happens when for some reason you – that is your conscious self – ‘wakes up’ but your body is still asleep. It ca

Dreams may fade away on our waking, but with practice we can capture them sufficiently to write them down. No matter how hard I try, I cannot do the same with ‘now’. Manufacturers

Time, as Colin Wilson says, ‘is an invention of the left brain.’47 It is a very helpful invention, which aids us in our mastery of the world. But if we try to understand reality through it, it leads to a muddle.