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We’ve done a number of posts on precognitive dreams, one of the areas that Jung placed under the larger umbrella of synchronicity. Now a Scottish filmmaker has made a documentary on that very topic.
Here’s the synopsis from PBS, which will show the documentary on August 24. Mark your calendars!
Synopsis
Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie has built a career making science documentaries that reflect her rational temperament. When she dreamed one night that her horse was dying, only to wake the next morning and find the horse dead, she dismissed the incident as a coincidence. Then she dreamed she would die at age 48 — only one year away. When Hardie does get ill, just as the dream predicted, she visits neuroscience experts and eventually a shaman. The Edge of Dreaming is an evocative, intimate chronicle of that year and a fascinating investigation into the human subconscious. (75 minutes)
And the trailer:
Cole- that WV. Too funny! You didn't spoil anything!
Oh no! Ha that is funny. Well sorry that I now have spoiled the ending. I actually expected something more or just different I guess with it. Yes, Christopher Reeve's life and end of life is full of irony. Have a good day.
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Cole – thanks for the review! After all this, we forgot to watch it. I'm hoping we can pick it up in reruns.
That's interesting about her illness as a possible manifestation of her thoughts. This sort of goes along with christopher reeve's last role before his accident, in which he played a paraplegic.
Just thought I would voice a comment over last night's film "Edge of Dreaming."
I watched the show last night, it was interesting. I did think the whole thing was a bit creepy though, aside from her dream over her horse, which proved to be accurate, followed by the dream of her own death. Artistically though, the way she filmed the piece and the music she chose combined with the isolating environment she lived in, just gave me goosebumps.
It seemed to me that she was really taken back by her experience with the horse and that, in and of itself might have triggered memories and subconscious fears surrounding those who have died and of death itself.
It obviously seemed to play so much on her mind that she made a film of it and spent many hours creating a look and feel to the film. So was her illness a manifestation of her thoughts then, or was her dream really a premonition?
Just as the shaman provided her with a sense of control and somehow that seemed to help her mentally and then physically. We are powerfully, strange human beings. I am glad she survived she had a beautiful family. Thanks for letting us know about this film. Any thoughts?
Speechless about it all……a bit spooky really, but SOOOOOinteresting.
We should all share our impressions of this documentary on the 25th. Nancy – be sure to tell your daughter about it!
Mike – death as symbolic of change. I don't think I've ever heard it expressed that way, but it sure is apt.
Cole – what a remarkable story about Sasha. She really wanted to be with you and your family.
Gypsy – looking forward to this story about your son!
incredible story – loved the video – a must-see for sure – and loved yours as well, cousin! – the thing about being a changed person afterward – physically mentally emotionally intellectually – this happened to my son in one of the most marked ways i've ever known of [after his near death/death experience in 1999] – also not something to go into right now except to mention it as an incredible experience of my son – in any event, have now "inked" in the 24th on my desk calendar!!! thanks so much for a fascinating post!
I will mark my calendar. My daughter is the one that has precognitive dreams, I can rarely remember them unless they are very unusual. Thanks for the heads up on this film.
I am definitely marking my calendar.
I have been really trying to understand this whole concept/biology/spirituality of clairvoyance. As you know, having experienced so many intuitive experiences myself, yet not really embracing the ability until recently, now would love to know from those who are "seasoned" sensitives how this has effected them and their belief systems. And how they feel this ability is even possible. Too scary though, the idea of knowing an age of possible death.
The closest I came to any vision over an animal was my cat, Sasha. I had her for about 12 years when my oldest daughter had developed a severe allergy to her, so we gave her away to an elderly woman who had recently lost her cat to illness. Through phone calls to the woman we kept tabs on Sasha, to see how she was adjusting. Sasha wasn't bonding at all with the new owner, but the woman was patient and wanted to keep trying to care for her.
Eventually we stopped talking to the woman thinking that Sasha must be doing well, as she was slowly coming around and warming up per our last conversation with the new owner. We continued with our life.
Five weeks later, I had a dream that came across more like a burning image behind my eyes, it was of Sasha's eyes. Her face and large green eyes were up very close to mine as if her nose was touching my face. I felt discomfort and that she needed me.
That very next morning the woman who had Sasha called me and told me that she could no longer tend to her since Sasha wouldn't come out from under the bed and had been refusing to eat. I picked her up that day and took her back home and arranged an area for her to live in within our home, out of reach from my daughter's allergies and Sasha is purrfectly happy. Me too.
Two remarkable stories – your post an the cj comment. Death can be symbolic of change – after all, this is what it is. Will being interesting to see the movie.
I am really anxious to see the movie! And I hope Amy's dream will have a similar interpretation and will not be as it was with her beautiful horse. I hope her own physical death, if it comes as her dream predicts, will be perhaps some necessary event accompanying transformation and she will come back out on the other side of the experience in whatever manner her soul has chosen for her. Look at this WV: recolo "Recollect"?
cj
Wow, connie, that's some story. I thought of you when I found the PBS trailer on this movie.
What a remarkable story, and so insightful about precognitive dreams! But so sad about her beautiful horse. For many years I had a recurring dream that at age fifty I would die. So I never made preparations to live beyond that age. When I was 49, I gave my close friend notarized instructions for my wishes. On January 2, I turned 50. I was fine. But one month and 2 days later, on Feb 4, I came home from six weeks of having done private duty for an in-hospital elderly patient who had finally been discharged. I was extremely tired. More tired than I could ever remember being, and I attributed that weariness to having worked twelve-hour shifts…difficult shifts. But it turned out that I had a fever of 105. No symptoms. No flu, stomach, respiratory, nothing. Subsequent blood work determined nothing. My temp wouldn't drop below 103 no matter what we did. I never developed symptoms other than the headache from such a high fever, and the fatigue so terrible that I couldn't move. The docs diagnosed everything from cat scratch fever to lymphoma, but nothing materialized. On April 4, I was laying on my chaise lounge at home, and simply stopped breathing. I literally felt too tired to continue to breathe. Didn't have the energy to breathe. I don't recall the details of that NDE except standing outside my body, beside the chaise, and watching them pound on my chest. I whoosed back into my body with a horrific crash, from a paramedic doing CPR. I survived, but for another year and a half, until I was almost 52, I continued to have late afternoon and evening low-grade fevers. The most significant part of this true story is that when I crashed back into my body and regained full consciousness, everything about me had altered. Permanently. I was, quite literally, a completely different person. Won't delve into this. But suffice it to say that perhaps this will happen to Amie. Perhaps she will "die" and the death will be temporary; some inexplicable part of a total spiritual death and rebirth of some kind. It happens. I know. cj