DREAMS CAME TRUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 18

DREAMS CAME TRUE.

REMARKABLE INSTANCES. FATAL AEROPLANE CRASHES. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, October 21. Some remarkable instances of precognition—dreams and super-normal activities of the mind which cannot be explained by coincidence or telepathy —are given by Dame Edith Lyttelton, a former president of the Society of Psychical Research, in her book, "Some Cases of Prediction." She describes two dreams, one six month* before the RlOl disaster in 1930 and the other only three da-ys before, in which the details of the crash were vividly foreseen. In these and other cases Dame Edith has secured independent testimony that the dreams did in fact occur before and not after the event. A naval commander's wife, watching x 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, he's going to crash." She indicated the only figure in naval uniform, who two or three weeks later was killed in a practice flight. Here again a large measure of confirmation is forthcoming. Prevision about accidents to aeroplanes appears to be not uncommon. Four days before the Meopham aeroplane disaster a Cheltenham woman witnessed in a dream the crash almost exactly as eye-witnesses described it. Dame Edith does not confine herself to gloomy previsions. One of her instances of supernormal vision concerns a woman who dreamed that Kellsboro' Jack would win the 1933 Grand National —and backed him, too! A schoolmaster's wife, before every move to an unfamiliar town, dreamed in minute detail of the house she was going to live in. Sure enough, she and her husband found an identical house as soon as they began to look for a new home. "Does the human mind sometimes travel beyond sense perception and mental exercise." asks Dame Edith, "and reach a different relativity to space and time!" Whatever the explanation, these cases are curiously interesting.