Can't resist posting another yet story to illustrate what I said about dreams above ...

It was the morning of Sept 11, 2001. The world was reeling at the horrendous events unfolding in the US; my phone was busy all morning with calls from friends and family members re the tragic news. Including a call from one of my sisters. One of my very grounded, most logically-minded and decidedly 'un-psychically-inclined' sisters.

Told me she'd had a godawful dream the night before -- something about watching a bald eagle being attacked by big angry dogs. The eagle got away and had taken flight, circling high above the continent and plummetted back to the ground, attacking the dogs. Then the air was full of blood, raining blood, the ground just flowing with rivers of blood ... and she woke up.

Precognitive? Or coincidence? As my sister is not one to remember her dreams, least of all to report them! -- and has never been interested/obsessed with international politics or American foreign policy -- I'd say it was precognitive. And so vivid and emotionally-laden that she couldn't help but remember it. When dreams are so vivid they wake you up, you're sure to remember them!

I just called her now, to get the details of that dream again before I posted here. Guess what? She remembers that day, but she doesn't remember the dream at all. Says she didn't write it down at the time, and so she can't remember the details. She says I remember more of the details than she does!

And that figures -- unlike my sister I've always paid attention to dreams - my own and other people's. I think they're important and fascinating, and I've worked on techniques to remember them better.

Maybe that's the only difference between people who have precognitive dreams, and people who say they don't.