Many years ago I had a dream. I dreamt I was in a shop and saw a CORGI TOYS ASTON MARTIN DB5, but in a bigger scale than its previous two releases. I opened the box, took out the car, looked at it, and was quite impressed by this new model. Then I awoke and realized I'd only been dreaming, and was slightly disappointed by the fact.
A couple of years later I'm upstairs in JOHN MENZIES, and my eyes fall upon a familiar object. A JAMES BOND Aston Martin by Corgi toys, and it's the bigger scale model that I saw and handled in my dream. I'm astounded. Had I had some kind of prophetic vision, or was it simply a coincidence? Surely the latter, because there's no such thing as being able to see into the future, is there? Tell me, is there?
That was back in the '70s. The car was issued in 1978, so my dream must have preceded the actual event by a year or two. But such things don't happen, do they? Tell me, do they? It's because of my doubt over such things that I've begun to consider other possibilities. Could it be I'd seen the car, but forgotten it, then had a dream about it as if I was seeing it for the very first time? Perhaps that's why I believe that the dream came first, but that I'm simply mistaken.
Thing is, I had the dream more than once before I saw the car for what seemed like the first time in real life. So now I'm in the position of wondering exactly what to believe. Did I see the car first (but forget), and then have the dream - or could it have been precisely as I thought for many years afterwards before the doubt set in? Obviously it's got to be either one or the other, but which one? Tell me, which one?
Or maybe there is another explanation. Perhaps it was only in my dream that I felt I hadn't previously seen the car before discovering it on sale in a shop. That's to say, I'd seen the car in a shop, but dreamt I hadn't spied it until after seeing it in a dream; a 'dream within a dream' in other words, that never happened despite me believing it had. (I sure hope that makes some kind of sense to you all.)
Ever had anything similar happen to you? Something you think you dreamt about that seemingly came true, but now you're not quite sure if you remember things as they actually happened, or whether time is merely playing tricks with your memory. Tell all in the comments section.
