A Poets View

In keeping with yesterday’s post I thought I would pose this question.  If our dreams hold pieces to past lives can they also hold the key to our future and perhaps change it in some way?  I remember about 20 years ago I had a vivid dream about my Brother.  I dreamt that he was driving along Chestnut and Van Ness avenue in San Francisco with me as the passenger.  We were hit and the next thing I saw was him lying in the street across from me on the ground. I was breathing heavily and he was lying there looking at me with his eyes crossed.  I then woke up.  The dreamed scared the you know what out of me.

I called him, my sister-in-law, my Mother and told them about the dream and begging my Brother not to drive.  Of course my begging was as a result of my fear, he had to drive to go to work etc… But I could not shake this feeling of something horrible was going to happen.  Long story short a few weeks later in the middle of the night my sister-in-law called telling us John was taken to the hospital and we needed to get there ASAP.  She didn’t give details and I didn’t even think about the dream at that time.  We rushed to the hospital to find that he was not able to walk, move or talk and that his eyes were crossed, just as in my dream.  He was in the hospital for a couple of months and it was found that he had a form of encephalitis.  He had to undergo physical therapy to learn how to walk and feed himself again.  I remember the doctor telling us at one point that it was a 50/50 chance he would live.  He is perfectly fine now but it was a horrific and very scary ordeal for all of us.

So, keeping in tune with the dream posts I always wondered if we are able to see into the future through our dreams.  Was what I experienced a premonition of sorts or seeing into the future via my dream?