I wonder why
I was attending a public appearance by the president. As he walked onto the balcony, a sniper fired two shots directly into his face and he collapsed instantly. My first instint was to send a quick SMS to my mom (“Bush is dead.”). When I woke up, I had the feeling that would be my reaction in real life, too.
I read this post a couple days ago and it immediately evaporated from my mind like most things that I read on the Internet but then this morning I woke up from the most realistic dream I have ever had in which I survived a plane crash. My immediate reaction once I realized I was still alive was to go over to my floating backpack find my camera and take a video of my friends and what this shared experience meant to them. I was prioritizing the nostalgia of looking back on a situation prior to living it for the first time and when I awoke I also had the feeling that this might be my reaction in real life too.
It later occured to me that I had read of a similar situation on someone’s tumblr, hence the quoted article. Now what really worries me is whether I had that dream because I read the article or whether it was just by chance that I had a similar dream and I remembered reading the article after I woke up.
