Between 1969 and 1980 my first husband and I lived in an old
house on three acres near Harrisonburg, Virginia -- in the heart
of the Shenandoah Valley. On our three acres we kept two horses.
At this time in my life I was aware that I occasionally had odd
experiences that I had no particular explanation for. From time to
time I would read a library book about some aspect of the
paranormal but although it was all interesting I had no firm
opinion about it one way or another.
Our house sat out on a small paved county road. About 200
yards or so before our driveway, this road had a blind
right-bearing curve in it. One night in the Fall of the year, I
dreamed that I was coming home from work in the early evening
dark. In my dream, just as I came up to this curve, I was met by a
large 18-wheeler poultry truck that came barrelling toward me --
it was travelling without headlights and thus appeared without
warning from around that blind curve, and taking up most of the
road. Fortunately, the driver saw me (with my headlights on) and
swerved in time for me to go by without actually having to leave
the road. It was a near miss, though, and I arrived at my driveway
feeling a little shaken.In my dream, as I drove up the driveway, I
realized that there were horses wandering around loose on either
side of my car...I had to go slowly. It seemed that someone's
horses had gotten loose and had come onto our property perhaps
attracted to our own horses.
I thought nothing of the dream until, the next morning,
upon coming downstairs to make coffee, I happened to glance out
the back window and see my husband's mare -- she was outside the
fence, loose! Fortunately, she was just standing there asleep, and
it was not too difficult to shoo her back into the pasture and put
up the fence boards she had apparently pushed
down. I thought it was kind of strange that I had dreamed
of our horses being loose and then one actually was, but it seemed
a small thing.
That evening after work I was delayed in town because I had
to do some grocery shopping. By the time I left to drive the five
miles home, it was dark enough to use my headlights.
As I approached that blind curve on our road, I was
surprised to see traffic flares lining the curve, and of course I
slowed down. Came around the curve to see flares all over the
place and a big 18-wheeler poultry truck parked on one side with a
partially bashed-in front fender, while on the right side of the
road a car was upside down in the ditch.
The accident had just happened moments before -- no one was
hurt, but they were waiting for the police. I asked one of the men
placing flares what had happened.
He said that as that big poultry truck was approaching the
curve, the car suddenly appeared coming toward it. The car had no
headlights on. Both vehicles swerved but the truck had clipped the
car and thrown it into the ditch.
To say I felt extremely "weird" does not describe the
sensation. The night before, I had dreamed of horses being loose
and upon waking had found one loose. I had dreamed of meeting a
truck with no headlights on that curve and narrowly missing an
accident, and this same day a truck of that same exact type had
met a car with no headlights on that curve, precipitating an
accident.
This is obviously too close to be a coincidence, the
truck/car matter being the most striking part. What I've always
thought odd is that I clearly received in my dream foreknowledge
of the truck/car confrontation on that curve, but I got it in
"mirror-reverse". There is no way I can think of that I could have
done anything to prevent the accident. Like having some sort of
"psychic-dyslexia".
Shared by: Barb Piatt
This definitely seems to fall into
the "Precognitive" dream category. Although the dreamer obviously
could not have prevented the accident, it did give preknowledge of
an incident that actually occurred later. What do you
think?
