Seattle and Vancouver

[DRS]

I'm just reporting what I experienced; not making any claims as to their legitimacy.

I have never had predictive dreams before but I have a lifetime of lucid dreams, astral projections, and regular dreams shifting from one to the other.

Two dreams, two days in a row.  These dreams were not in response (even remotely) to anything I had been focused on in real life.  They just hit out of the blue.

January 24 (Saturday morning): I'm visiting a woman (who I don't know in real life) in her apartment in Seattle.  In waking life I live in a suburb of Seattle - Kirkland - and I don't particularly care for the downtown area; I have no reason to go there so it's been 9 months since I've even been there.  I'm sitting on a couch and she gets up to run next door to talk to her friend about something.  I'm looking at the wall that separates her apartment from the one next door, and the wall is all glass.  As soon as she walks out, the apartment next door fills with water in the space of about one second.  There are no violent waves or anything; it just fills up almost instantly.  The apartment I'm in remains dry.  The scene cuts to me and another guy (who I don't know) on the roof of a 2-story house outside; we're climbing to higher ground.  All around, the flood waters are maybe 4 or 5 stories high and people everywhere are trying to climb up on something stable to get above the water.  I'm helping a guy I don't know to climb up, but I know I'm in no danger (although I don't know why) and I'm really only there to help him. 

January 25 (Sunday morning): I'm with a group of 3 other people, maybe 4, on a rural highway somewhere.  Nothing but flat green fields as far as the eye can see.  It's dark, maybe an hour or two before dawn.  We're disussing a huge earthquake that struck.  Four "markers" were given in this dream, none of which I have ever hears of in waking life.  "The Tejon Temblor," "Robinson Road," "Timberlake Subdivision," and "Lake Garibaldi."  Robinson Road was either the epicenter or the boundary of the affected area; I suspect the latter over the former. 

When I woke up, having never heard of any of these "markers," I Googled them all and pieced together that they were all likely to be in the Vancouver area.  Vancouver is about two hours north of me by car; I have never been there and I have absolutely no attachment to the place.  I don't particularly like it or dislike it; it's never been somewhere I really thought about.  Lake Garibaldi is in the mountains, about 60 miles north and slightly west of Vancouver in a Canadian provincial park.  North Vancouver has a Robinson Road and a Timberlake Subdivision.  The "Tejon Temblor" is the most interesting; mostly because I had never heard of that term yet in scientific circles it's THE landmark reference for the San Andreas fault "going."  Although that fault does not run into Vancouver but I was not able to find another Lake Garibaldi anywhere.  The Tejon Temblor itself occurred in 1857 along the San Andreas Fault.  In the dream I know it's "close to Christmas, 2009."

Just under a month later, I had another first: just before waking, in a dream, in blue, print-quality, brushstroke font, was a slightly curved (like the newsreels of the 40's) headline written across my field of vision:

January 29
Earthquake Coming!
Superwave Coming!

I was snapped awake; I looked around my room for a second, put my head back down, and went back into the dream (which I have never done before; once I wake up, I'm awake).  I heard a woman's voice talking very clearly: "Well, we had our perfect storm, and they didn't evolve from that, so ... earthquake coming!"

That's all I was given so far.  I don't consider myself any kind of messenger and I am the LAST one to buy into the "we all need to become more spiritual" way of thinking because it's too collective-oriented and I HATE the rhetoric that everything in our physical reality is inferior, broken, and a mistake.  I didn't ask for these dreams, and I have to balance this by saying that this forum should make it very clear, we can and do experience anything and everything "beyond the physical" so this could be something that never relates to our real world - or it could be a dire prediction for January 29, 2010.  The only way to know is reach January 30, 2010 and see what happened yesterday.

[Skyalmian]

Such dreams / visions of a major earthquake coming to the Pacific Northwest (with Seattle / Vancouver specifically noted) are becoming more prevalent, I have noted over the last few years. Many are having essentially the same dreams and visions. I first heard about it from Stuart Wilde, who (to roughly paraphrase) talked about a major underwater volcano off the coast of Washington going kablooie. At this forum, a person named MCYoung/Tx has given many detailed recurring dreams of earthquakes, and the one of Seattle as well. The future predictive linguistics project at HalfPastHuman was alarmed at an earthquake/tsunami warning that vaguely indicated the Pacific Northwest. They dismissed it when there was a panic about Hawaii rumblings not long after but I personally was not convinced that that was it... Hopefully those living in / around that area are sensing the impending change and are leaving asap before it manifests.

[volcomstone]

   Interesting.  A volcano  near anchorage alaska was just raised to orange level.

   I am interested in how you acquired the specific dream knowledge. Either you are a good story teller or else you have some very informative dreams.

Anyway, the pacific northwest has always been active, so predicting an earthquake of considerable magnitude will occur within the next two years is not too difficult.

   A magnitude 6.5 earthquake occured offshore of Vancouver island last fall.  No one felt it.

[DRS]

I agree completely - Alaska is very seismically active and so is California; as such it stands to reason that, lying directly in the path between these two areas, the Pacific Northwest will naturally be as much of a target for this type of activity as either of the other two areas.  Predicting "a major quake" in this area is more common sense than precognition.  We have Rainier (supposedly dormant but it's one huge volcano) and St. Helens so we know quakes are coming.  What strikes me about these dreams is more derived from the core nature of dreams themselves than anything else: in the vast majority of cases, we create our dreams with our own subconsious, using symbolism that's very personalized in nature.  It takes time and effort for the subconscious to concoct a dream, especially an involved one.  These resources are not typically used lightly.  The two dreams I wrote about center around subject matter I just don't care about.  I know where Vancouver is on a map and that's the extent of Vancouver's looming in my life.  Quake, no quake, I'm just not affected and I don't run around all day thinking about it.  My specific house is about 400 feet above sea level.  The layout of Puget Sound precludes any real tsunami from hitting Seattle; it could certainly see a sea level rise but not the impact of a full-on tsunami.  I had never contemplated the subject before; it never occurred to me that it could happen.  And the dream had a rapid, steady rise in water level but no "wave" per se.  I don't particularly like ANY downtown area and I will probably make one or two trips downtown in a year.  So there's no emotional attachment to what does or doesn't happen in downtown Seattle (I'd just as soon see it flooded out as not) and even less to what occurs in Vancouver.  Further, it has always been a foregone conclusion of mine that specific dates are never, ever given in any kind of precognative experience.  To achieve accuracy within one year, give or take, is a milestone, as I always understood it.  So when I'm given a specific date, it violates everything I assumed to be "reality" at the time I had the dream.  Nothing adds up as far as me creating these dreams.  There is no incentive to do so and I derive nothing from having done so.  I am not selling my house and moving to Schenectady in response; really nothing changes in my day-to-day life over what it would be had these dreams never occurred.  Also, the term "Superwave."  I never heard of that term and I don't particularly like it.  More evidence against "I made up the dream."  Anyway it's hard to argue with a specific date: January 29.  Either it happens or it doesn't, and as I said at the beginning of my post, I'm just reporting on the dreams, not declaring their accuracy.  They will do that on their own.

Then we have the issue of Lake Garibaldi and the Tejon Temblor; a place and an event I had never heard of before, showing up in my dreams.

Also I've been through my share of 6.5 quakes in California.  No big deal unless you're within a block of the epicenter.  A lot of noise, a lot of shaking, and then everybody forgets about it and goes on with thier lives.