Precognition? Coincidence?

By Leca
@lecanis (16647)
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
March 20, 2007 8:13pm CST
When I was a little girl I dreamed I was drowning in Lake Superior, on a fairly regular basis. At that time, I had never been to Lake Superior, and I wouldn't have even been able to tell you where it was if you asked me. I do still dream I'm drowning a lot, largely probably because of breathing problems I have. However, I didn't remember that I had dreamed of drowning in Lake Superior until my grandmother told me, after I moved to Upper Michigan, where I swim in Lake Superior fairly often. When she found out (after I moved actually) where exactly I was living now, she was really amazed. Has anyone else ever had this kind of experience? I've had other experiences that I would definitely consider "precognition" but in this case I wonder if it could just be a weird coincidence. I do swim in the lake, and if I really thought I was going to drown in it, that would be some pretty weird behavior. Why did I dream of that as a kid though, far from Lake Superior, and without any real knowledge of it?
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5 responses
• United States
21 Mar 07
Coincidence has followed me most of my life. I will give the most recent example. My hubby and I were eating at restaurant we had never been to before. I try to do this often becuase I like eating a new places even if I do not like eating a lot of new food. I'm a steak kind of girl. Anyway, the wait was at least an hour but we decided to wait anyway. We milled around the very crowded restaurant clutching our beeper, waiting for it to go off. We walked to nearby shops and sat in the car. After hearing several people complain loudly about the now two-hour wait, I decided we should actually just go into the restaurant. The minute we crossed the threshold, the beeper went off. I know it doesn't seem that big a deal but you combine that with the fact that as long as I don't play the lottery I can recite the numbers with the TV as they are drawn with my eyes shut, I always move my chips of the number just before it hits on the roulette wheel, and I always seem to have a jacket handy for the cloudy afternoon that ruined the sunny morning you get pretty wary of the word coincidence.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
22 Mar 07
Wow. That's pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing!
@sigma77 (5383)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I believe there are no coincidences in life. For some reason, you created the lake and eventually found yourself swimming in it. Your thoughts go a long way toward creating your life. It may have been precognition. I am not surprised by this series of events. The drowning part of the dream is probably some childhood fear you picked up. It could mean a lot of different things. You might have heard of Lake Superior when younger and don't recall it. But I am amazed that you swim in that lake, because as I remember it is always FREEZING...lol. The other Great Lakes are always warmer.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
23 Mar 07
Sorry, I somehow missed your post earlier! "Your thoughts go a long way toward creating your life." I love that. =) It is freezing in Lake Superior, pretty much year round. But since I live on the Keweenaw Peninsula, which actually juts off the "Upper Peninsula of Michigan" into Lake Superior, it's pretty much all around me. And it is wonderfully clear and beautiful. I only swim in it during the very height of summer, all the same.
@onabreak2 (1161)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I had a dream when I was a teenager that I was kidnapped and taken to this place not too far from our house. It was a very real dream and I was tied to a chair and could not escape. I told my Sister, if I ever disappear you might find me here. I told her of my dream. Well the place got torn down and was built into something else. I never was kidnapped. It was a real dream , but it did not come true. I'm happy it didn't. Everyone has scary dreams. That doesn't mean they are going to come true. So I think you are safe to go to that Lake. Unless you don't want to.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
21 Mar 07
Thanks for your response! Well I'm glad that dream didn't come true! How scary. I don't really think the drowning part is going to come true, I just wonder whether I knew somehow that Lake Superior was going to be a big part of my life in the future.
• China
21 Mar 07
Thats a scary dream.. drowning. A lot of unexplainable things happen. Yours may be just one of them. I did have one experience with dream. One nite, i dreamed that I was in a hospital waiting room with my bestfriend. The hospital was not so far from my place. The next day, i got into an accident. A motorcycle bumped into my car. The rider injured his foot pretty bad and i had to bring him to the hospital. The dream became reality. I waited for the rider in the waiting room with my bestfriend -i asked her to come with me though-
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
21 Mar 07
Thanks for your response! What an interesting example here.
• Singapore
21 Mar 07
Probably your previous life lol. :P But nah, it is possible too that you are just overly imaginative, and that you are feeling stressed. So your subconscious mind took 1 and 1 together and make it your dream.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
21 Mar 07
I thought the same thing for a while, that it was a previous life. =p I am overly imaginative sometimes, and my young life was VERY stressful. So I could have just dreamed I was drowning because of that. It's just weird to me that as far as I know I hadn't even studied Lake Superior in school at that time, so why my subconcious would make me drown in that lake repeatedly seems weird to me. I guess instead of thinking of it as "I'm gonna drown in the lake" I more think of it as "I was supposed to come here." But then again, I think that's just reading into the dream what I want to say anyway. =p