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One of the "givens" of the Paranormal is that sleep at least seems to be closer to the psychic world than the waking state and that some dreams appear to offer limited peeks into the future and/or the greater world beyond our bedroom walls. Now exactly how much truth there is in the above sentence is still up for grabs, but surely only the Ultra-Materialist would dogmatically insist that it contains absolutely no truth at all.
But if sleep and dreams are to any extent psychic, why don't sleepers dream of great disasters while they are occurring?
Surely if there is anything which can even be remotely described as a "psychic ether" the attacks of 9/11 would have sent shock waves through it.
And one would at least expect that that would have some effect on the dreams of people asleep at the time.
Yet I've never encountered a single example of a dream experienced by a late sleeper on the morning of 9/11 which could in any way be related to the tragic events of that day.
And, yes, I've researched this and asked.
I myself had been on the Internet until an hour of so before the attacks and thus slept peacefully through them all.
But if sleep and dreams are to any extent psychic, why don't sleepers dream of great disasters while they are occurring?
Surely if there is anything which can even be remotely described as a "psychic ether" the attacks of 9/11 would have sent shock waves through it.
And one would at least expect that that would have some effect on the dreams of people asleep at the time.
Yet I've never encountered a single example of a dream experienced by a late sleeper on the morning of 9/11 which could in any way be related to the tragic events of that day.
And, yes, I've researched this and asked.
I myself had been on the Internet until an hour of so before the attacks and thus slept peacefully through them all.