by O.Grimstad

Created on: January 23, 2009   Last Updated: February 19, 2009

I have an earthquake application stationed on my PC desktop showing the latest and biggest quakes. Usually there are lots of small circles around the globe representing minor ones. I pay attention when big circles appear representing seven or stronger quakes. One morning I had a very vivid and realistic dream, in which I was at a cold place by a fjord with glaciers going down into the sea. There was an earthquake. Parts of the glacier fell into the fjord and made big waves that I barely got away from in time. I remembered the dream well when I woke up a few hours later. I turned on my PC and could see a big circle far south in the Atlantic Ocean by what was called "South Sandwich Islands". I wasn't even aware of islands there. I found them on Google Earth and could see fjords with glaciers going down into the ocean, as in the dream. It was recorded a couple of hours earlier.

In another dream I was lightly asleep one morning dreaming that I was alone driving a car on a straight road in a forest. I didn't focus on the driving for a while and went off the road, the car turned around into trees, and I died. I was somehow aware of being in my bed and in the car at the same time, so I had to spend some time separating the realities and get fully conscious in my bed. Living in a small community on the countryside with about two thousand people, the next day I saw that an internet newspaper reported that a young man had died of a car accident in my community. He was alone and had gone off a straight road, before it turned around into trees. When I saw the picture of the car I got a very strong feeling that it was my car and my accident.

That's two examples of a lot more, not to speak of daytime "dream sights. I understand people trying to find answers in probabilities and statistics, but as I see it such a search depend on a paradigm that shapes the conscious experience of reality itself. As I have changed my views about reality these kinds of experiences have turned more frequent and consciously available.An objectivist may still be able to fit it into her paradigm as I can fit it into mine. I am a part of her subjective world as she is part of mine. The experiences are inclusive and both experience aspects of the other one's. What annoys me a bit sometimes is when somebody believes so strongly in their own world view that they deny subjectivity and belief as an integral part of it. It is the basis of experience whether one believes in some kind of independent supreme substance 'out there' or not.

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