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I spent 4 years in the US Navy during the eighties. One night off the coast of California during a training cruise, I was asleep in my bunk after a long watch. I woke up the next morning remembering a disturbing and vivid dream. In the dream someone on board ship had been badly hurt, though I did not remember any details.
I took a shower, had breakfast and went about my normal routine. Nothing on board the ship seemed amiss. Everyone else was also going about their normal routine, and I quickly forgot about my dream. Shortly thereafter I was back on watch. That was when another watch-stander asked me if I had heard about what had occurred the night before. I said no and asked what had happened.
He told me that one of the enginemen had slipped on one of the steep, metal ladders in the middle of the night and had suffered a compound fracture to his leg. He had been air-lifted by helicopter to a hospital on the coast. I expressed my shock but did not say anything to anyone about my dream. I kept it to myself and just added it to my list of unexplained experiences.
Even back then the rational side of me wanted to think that I must have somehow unconsciously overhead the activity or people talking about the incident while I was asleep. But the berthing area in which I slept was towards the front of the ship while the engine room was amidships. Also, the emergency team would have had to transport the victim to the helicopter pad which was even further to the rear and therefore they would not have passed anywhere near where I slept. Of course, there is activity onboard ship day and night, and there is also a roving watch. So it is very possible that I did unconsciously overhear conversation. Yet, I am a relatively light sleeper and do not recall having woken up at anytime during that night. To this day, I am still not sure if there really was a rational explanation to it all, or if I did actually receive non-local communication through my dream.
I took a shower, had breakfast and went about my normal routine. Nothing on board the ship seemed amiss. Everyone else was also going about their normal routine, and I quickly forgot about my dream. Shortly thereafter I was back on watch. That was when another watch-stander asked me if I had heard about what had occurred the night before. I said no and asked what had happened.
He told me that one of the enginemen had slipped on one of the steep, metal ladders in the middle of the night and had suffered a compound fracture to his leg. He had been air-lifted by helicopter to a hospital on the coast. I expressed my shock but did not say anything to anyone about my dream. I kept it to myself and just added it to my list of unexplained experiences.
Even back then the rational side of me wanted to think that I must have somehow unconsciously overhead the activity or people talking about the incident while I was asleep. But the berthing area in which I slept was towards the front of the ship while the engine room was amidships. Also, the emergency team would have had to transport the victim to the helicopter pad which was even further to the rear and therefore they would not have passed anywhere near where I slept. Of course, there is activity onboard ship day and night, and there is also a roving watch. So it is very possible that I did unconsciously overhear conversation. Yet, I am a relatively light sleeper and do not recall having woken up at anytime during that night. To this day, I am still not sure if there really was a rational explanation to it all, or if I did actually receive non-local communication through my dream.