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Here's a case of weird synchronicity if ever I've experienced it -
Years ago Channel 4 I think it was, had a Fortean TV Weird Night where they hosted many fine programmes on a wide variety of subjects. A part of the evening involved 'ordinary' people recounting the strangeness of everyday occurances.
I was watching this programme with my wife of the time and this brought up many stories of strangeness that we'd experienced or heard of. My ex started to tell me about a dream that she'd recently had and which had clearly upset her a lot. She'd dreamt that she was sat in a cafe with an old friend of hers whom she hadn't seen for many years and that they were chatting away about what had happened in the intervening years over a cup of coffee. She dreamt that she's looked away for a moment and that when she looked up her friends face had been replaced by a black void of nothingness. At this point it all got a bit spooky and she became distraught, worrying that this dream meant that he friend had met with an accident and died or somesuch. I spent some time reassuring her with the usual 'it's only a dream and they rarely mean much etc....'.
We returned to watching the excellent programming on TV. More spookily still the very next set of interviews with 'ordinary' people who had experienced the paranormal featured a young man who recounted how he had been sat with an old friend in a cafe drinking coffee and chatting when he had looked away for a moment only to find when he looked back that his friends face..... you know the rest.
Could this be the first case of forteana arising from the Fortean Times itself?
I know that it freaks me out everytime I re-tell the story.
As for my ex-wife - she had a long history of brushes with the unexplainable and inexplicably left me for another man a couple of years later!
Go figure......
Years ago Channel 4 I think it was, had a Fortean TV Weird Night where they hosted many fine programmes on a wide variety of subjects. A part of the evening involved 'ordinary' people recounting the strangeness of everyday occurances.
I was watching this programme with my wife of the time and this brought up many stories of strangeness that we'd experienced or heard of. My ex started to tell me about a dream that she'd recently had and which had clearly upset her a lot. She'd dreamt that she was sat in a cafe with an old friend of hers whom she hadn't seen for many years and that they were chatting away about what had happened in the intervening years over a cup of coffee. She dreamt that she's looked away for a moment and that when she looked up her friends face had been replaced by a black void of nothingness. At this point it all got a bit spooky and she became distraught, worrying that this dream meant that he friend had met with an accident and died or somesuch. I spent some time reassuring her with the usual 'it's only a dream and they rarely mean much etc....'.
We returned to watching the excellent programming on TV. More spookily still the very next set of interviews with 'ordinary' people who had experienced the paranormal featured a young man who recounted how he had been sat with an old friend in a cafe drinking coffee and chatting when he had looked away for a moment only to find when he looked back that his friends face..... you know the rest.
Could this be the first case of forteana arising from the Fortean Times itself?
I know that it freaks me out everytime I re-tell the story.
As for my ex-wife - she had a long history of brushes with the unexplainable and inexplicably left me for another man a couple of years later!
Go figure......