precognitive dream?

[Eagle of Light]

Hi,

some time last week of July, can't remember exactly which day it was, I watched an interview of Chris Robinson (I guess it was a replay). He claims to be able to get data in dreams about events occuring the next day in waking life. He allegedly got interest from the police too.
Intrigued, I remember reflecting at night on this fascinating subject, and thinking that it would be great to experience a precognitive dream. Not for the data itself, but to get some validation about the reality of this phenomena. Anyway, it was just a thought, I never had one and didn't plan on trying to get one.

Monday 1st August in the last REM period, I have the following dream
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I'm in the bathroom of a public institution, presumably a school, with my brother. I know somehow that the room has been neglected by administration (lack of budget?). My brother and I volunteer to get it back to a usable state. I'm standing in the middle of a giant bath and start wiping out lots of dirt off it. My brother points to the siphon [not sure of the term in english, basically the point where water gets evacuated out of the bath] and tells me that "it's all broken down there". He dives and disappears quickly through the siphon to do the repair. Someone from administration comes in. He's very happy about our work, and tells us that we deserve a reward.
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Monday 1st August, at around noon (waking life), I'm going on holiday and I take a train to Gatwick airport. The train unexpectedly slows down just before East Croydon station, until it comes to a halt for a long time. Finally the train driver gives us bad news: a water main has burst, flooding the tracks! The train eventually resumes its course slowly and reaches East Croydon, at which point we are told that no train will go further and we'll have to seek an alternative route. Just for the story, people were stranded there in a long queue to grab a cab, I was lucky to hop soon after into a cab with 3 other people, but missed my flight anyway and ended up waiting 6 hours in the airport...
It stunned me when I remembered the dream I had earlier that morning. About the diving theme, I can explain it easily: my brother and I did scuba diving during our holiday, this was planned and known to me before the dream occured. But why did I dream about going through a siphon in a public institution to do repairs? I could have dreamt many other things that would make more sense, such as finding a ship wreck, or a monster underwater, finding gold, colored fish, maybe a siren etc.
Obviously, the fact that I also reflected upon precognitive dreaming shortly before seems to give weight to the idea that this dream was indeed of a precognitive nature. That woud be my first! As I said, I did not try to get one though. Me wondering what conditions lead to such occurences...

Yours,
EoL

[astraladdict]

When you have visions, it's easy to tell them apart from a dream. By the way it feels and the clarity. Also in a vision, there are going to be some weird things happening in the vision, but over all you need to find the deeper  meaning of it. In your case, you kept thinking " oh man i want a vision" "how cool will that be?" and so on and so on. Which sent that affirmation to your sub conscious. Thus giving you that precognition.

~astraladdict

[Eagle of Light]

Hi astraladdict

Thanks. To be honest, the dream had no special quality that I can remember of. It was just a dream, which I found clear and easy to recollect as it happened in the last REM period.
I agree with you that emotion (as you say 'how cool will that be') must definitely play a role. There seems to be some paradox though between the logical need for willpower (keep on trying) and at the same time a certain detachment... I suppose that's why someone can have its first LD/OBE/Precognition spontaneously after discovering about the subject, and then have a hard time replicating it: the first time, the person was excited and detached of expectation (I sure did not have an expectation in my case since I did not even try), but then tries to 'push through' another occurrence with willpower...

EoL