DREAMS COME TRUE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 3

DREAMS COME TRUE

Remarkable Instances FATAL AEROPLANE CRASHES LONDON, Oct. 21. Some remarkable instances of precognition — dreams and super-normal activities of the mind which canhot be explained by coincidences of telepatby — are given by Dame Edith Lyttelton, a former president of the Society of Psychical Researcli, in her book, "Some Cases of Prediction." She describes two dreams, one six months before the R101 disaster in 1930 and the other only three days before? in» which the details of the crash were vividly foreseen. In tlxese and other eases Dame Edith has secured independent testimony that the dreams did in fact oecur befure and not after the event, A naval commander's wife, watching a news film in which the members of the British Schneider Trophy team of 1931 were depicted, suddenly started violently and said to her companion, "He's going to be killed, lie's going to crasli." She indicated the only iigure in naval uniform, who two or three weeks later was killed in a. practice fiight. Here again a large measure of confirmation is forthcoming. Previsfon about accidents to aeroplanes appears to be not uncommon. h'our days before the Meopham aeropiane disaster a Cheltenham woman witnessed in a dxeam the crash almost exactly as eye-witnesses described it. Dame Edith does not confine herself t« gloomy previsions. One of her instances of supernormal vision concerns a woman who dreamed that Eellsboro' Jack would wrin the 1933 Grand National— and backed him, tool A schoolmaster's wii'e, before every move to an unfamiliar tcnvn, dreamed in minute detail of the house she was going to live in. Sure enough, she and her husband i'ound an identical house as soon as they began t.o. Jook for a new kome. "Does the human mind sometimes travel beyond sense perception and mental exercise," asks Dame Edith, "and reach a different rfelativity to space and time " Whatever the explanation, these cases are curiously interesting.