I have had strange dreams that seemed really connected to reallife events. I once woke up screaming from a dream that was so real, I had to call my parents who were 700 miles away to make sure they were okay. I dreamed I drove in slow motion by a car accident and I could see my father dead on the engine of the demolished car. I couldn’t get my car to turn around and go back to the accident.
In real life, my parents were driving to see me soon after the dream and I thought my dream was based on their upcoming trip and my anxiety and emotional distress over car accidents. I couldn’t shake the dream from my head.
Well, within days of the dream, my parents were behind a car that made a left-hand turn directly straight across in front of a tractor trailer doing approximately 60 mph. The tractor trailer driver slammed on his brakes, jackknifed and came head-on toward my parents’ car. My dad veered off the right shoulder, road against the guardrail and missed the headon collision.
Sadly, the car behind them was hit head-on killing two adults and a small child instantly. A little boy playing with toy trucks in the floor board of the car survived. My mom wouldn’t tell me until she saw me in person. She said the male front seat passenger in the car was dead on the the engine.
It was always troubling to me and haunts me to this day.