Interference in Dreams from Movies

Interference in Dreams from Movies

In 1998, two movies opened on the same topic: an asteroid hits the earth. Deep Impact and Armageddon both hit the silver screen less than two months apart from each other. Deep Impact opened May 8th and Armageddon opened July 1st.

More than a year before the movies opened, and long before any trailer hit the screen, I dreamed about a major disaster on the earth involving a giant meteor collision. I saw heroic shuttle pilots going out to somehow intercept the asteroid. I even included in my notes how one of the astronauts was a woman. I recorded several details. All the details appeared in one movie or the other. Most, but not all, of the details were from Deep Impact. These were actually several different dreams related to the theme of an asteroid hitting the earth. I thought it was a persistent dream, an important message attempting to push through into my conscious knowledge.

On the night of October 20, 2011 (2 days ago, as I write this) I dreamed about a man who belonged to God, but who left his post and was living to fulfill his own desires. I saw he did not understand where he was. Then I saw a body of water. I heard the word, “Livermore” (a town 40 minutes from Modesto). In the end of the dream, I saw he was killing fish.

This dream really bothered me! Although the man did not look like me at all, I really worried whether the man might be me. I wondered, “What am I doing wrong in life?” I even talked it over with my wife.

Last night, I went to the Red Box in the super market to rent a DVD movie. There are two boxes, and I scrolled through the options in the first rental kiosk until I selected “Black Death”, a film about knights, a monk, and some soldiers who ride out to investigate rumors of a necromancer. After receiving that movie, I checked the second kiosk. I took, as a backup, “Peacemaker” with George Clooney.

At home, we first inserted Peacemaker, and began to watch it. Nicole Kidman, wanting to know the radiation output of a nuclear blast in Russia, asks, “What does Livermore say?” I looked at my wife, “Livermore. Can you believe it? That was in my dream last night.” After a few minutes more, we both realized that we had previously seen the movie, and replaced it with the Black Death DVD.

The main character in Black Death is a monk who leaves the monastery to help the knights and soldiers because he is in love with girl. The body of water which appears is a swamp surrounding the town where the necromancer lives. In the end of the movie, because the necromancer witch tricks the monk into killing the woman he loved, the monk becomes a swordsman, killing young women accused of being witches.

So, the bothersome dream was actually a movie! This has happened many other times. I suspect this is somehow facilitated by the fact that dreaming and watching movies both find the brain in a Delta wave state. However, it may also be that some percentage of dreams are simply the dreamer seeing beforehand what he/she will personally see at some future point in space-time.

Summary:
So, I have three examples shared in this article of how a precognitive dream was actually a scene from a movie: asteroid impact in Deep Impact and Armageddon; The word Livermore from Peacemaker; scenes from Black Death; and even a cartoon scene from a Play Station game.

I have previously written about how a cartoon dream was actually a precognition of playing a Crash Bandicoot game:

Dreaming in Cartoon

Types of Dreams