Plane crash

[trollm1965]

Hi, I want to tell everyone about a dream I had 20 yrs ago. I cannot predict anything and have not since. I live in Ypsilanti, MI, about 30 miles from Detroit. One night I had a dream that my sister and brother in-law were flying somewhere. I got a call that a Northwest plane had crashed a Metro Airport. At that time I was a reserve deputy with the Sheriff's department. I dreamt that I was call to go to the scene of the crash. In my dream, I was walking through the terminals at the airport and I ran into my sister and brother in-law. From there I was searching for people but all I found was body parts inside of coca cola bottles. Not plastic ones but glass ones. The dream was short. I told a few people including my mothe in-law to be. A few days later I was working. The phone wrang and my mother in-law to be was on the other end, she was loud and she asked me if I heard about the plane crash at Metro? I said no i haven't. She said, "remember the other day when you told me you had a dream of a plane crash", I said yes. She said one crashed. I asked her immediately, what airline, she said Northwest. I was freaked i guess you would say. Not an hour or so later I got a call from the Sheriff's Deptartment telling me to be ready at 7:00am that next moring to go to the crash sight for security. I did go and that was something I would never want to see again. Flight 255, Metro Detroit. How could I know this, I have proof from my mother in-law about what I told her. Why was my sister and brother in-law in the dream? I don't talk much about the dream anymore but anyone's thoughts about this would be appreciated. By the way, only one child survided. Not true, The Detroit cops we were talking to saved a parrot in a bird cage stuck in a tree.

[resin8love]

Hi I remeber this, thats true a child did survive, the plane crashed like into a freeway bridge or something close to the Metro in the 80'S OR EARLY 90'S YES? I live in this erea. I had dreams like this too. God Bless

[LauraAnn]

Well my theory on this is that when we have dreams where they are so horrific and could absolutely be real, sometimes things are thown in so our brains can handle all of it and pass it off as not being something that would happen. Ok that sounds odd so let me put it this way, if you had just had the dream about the plane crashing and not your sister and brother in law it would have seemed VERY possible that this dream could become reality but to make it less real you added them into the dream and since you knew they weren't flying out or anything it makes it less likely that the dream has anything to do with reality, you know what I mean? I think also that some dreams- prophetic dreams, prepare us to handle things that are going to happen, seeing body parts in coke bottles, is a horrific thing, much like the actually crash scene was probably horrific to you, so it kind of already introduced you to that. Those are just my thoughts.

[Wolfjk]

Originally Posted by LauraAnn

Well my theory on this is that when we have dreams where they are so horrific and could absolutely be real, sometimes things are thown in so our brains can handle all of it and pass it off as not being something that would happen. Ok that sounds odd so let me put it this way, if you had just had the dream about the plane crashing and not your sister and brother in law it would have seemed VERY possible that this dream could become reality but to make it less real you added them into the dream and since you knew they weren't flying out or anything it makes it less likely that the dream has anything to do with reality, you know what I mean? I think also that some dreams- prophetic dreams, prepare us to handle things that are going to happen, seeing body parts in coke bottles, is a horrific thing, much like the actually crash scene was probably horrific to you, so it kind of already introduced you to that. Those are just my thoughts.

Hi LauraAnn,
A very interesting take on this dream! However "prophetic dreams" are limited to probability, so the plane crash would have been a coincidence.
Dreams sometimes indicate their own cause and this dream does very graphycally:

I dreamt that I was call to go to the scene of the crash. In my dream, I was walking through the terminals at the airport and I ran into my sister and brother in-law. From there I was searching for people but all I found was body parts inside of coca cola bottles. Not plastic ones but glass ones. The dream was short.

From the quote you can see that this was a short waking nightmare caused by something in the bottle the sleeper consumed before the sleep!
My guess is that the poster - TrollM - drinks coke and likes it however it often gives him heartburn and indigestion. This together with the stressful job coused the dream.
Cheers Wolfjk

[LauraAnn]

Wolfjk, I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at? Are you saying the dream was just coincidental? And where in there does it say anything about him drinking cola before bed, or at any time for that matter? I'm assuming you're just a skeptic unless you inform me otherwise. I think it's unwise for you to dismiss my own interpretation for your less factual one, however everyone is entitled to their own opinions so I will not negate yours as a possibility, but I still stick with my own.

[Wolfjk]

Originally Posted by LauraAnn

Wolfjk, I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at? Are you saying the dream was just coincidental? And where in there does it say anything about him drinking cola before bed, or at any time for that matter? I'm assuming you're just a skeptic unless you inform me otherwise. I think it's unwise for you to dismiss my own interpretation for your less factual one, however everyone is entitled to their own opinions so I will not negate yours as a possibility, but I still stick with my own.

Hi LauraAnn,
I am not a skeptic but a realist! Symply dreams that seem to foretell the future always rely on past experiences. We plan ahead and often think on what might come to pass in the future. The dreams recall our thoughts, hopes,fears and dreams draw on the thoughts we past remembering. So many believe they can dream the future. Others find ways to associate their dreams with things that happen after they dreamt it. In reality times arrow points forward and if we look back what happened in the past, we can anticipate what may come to pass in the future but no one really knows.
I have been studying dreams for a very long time, actively, objectively and subjectively.

And where in there does it say anything about him drinking cola before bed, or at any time for that matter?

From there I was searching for people but all I found was body parts inside of coca cola bottles. Not plastic ones but glass ones.

My experience with dreams suggest that the subconscious mind can only refer to what causes the dream in an abstract way. In trolls dream the reference to body parts in glass coacola bottles might suggest that cocacola together with the adrenalin flow caused by the stressful job can cause indigestion and heart burn. That was the real cause of his nightmare.
Your interpretation I leave for others to judge.
Cheers Wolfjk

[LauraAnn]

Then I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I wonder how you take a "realists" approach to when multiple people have a dream of an event that takes place, such as the many people who cancelled their flights or didn't go to work on the day of 9/11 when the terrorists flew the planes into the world trade center, would so many people "coincidentally" dream of things to keep them from going on the plane or to work? I have such issue with this because I have had prophetic dreams myself, one of my mother's voice saying " Grandma passed away this morning" and seeing my grandmother waving to me, and when I awoke I had a missed call on my phone from my mother, I called her and she said those exact words but I had already known she was going to say them. How is that coincidence? I didn't think my Grandma was going to die, nor did I imagine how my Mother would tell me or in what words. SO from personal experience I have to reject your theory of indigestion or sleeping position being the sole reason for a "prophetic" dream.

[luckybunnymd]

That is scarey! Maybe your dream included your sister and brother in-law because you'd hold significance in someone who is personal within your life being there, to help you remember the dream of a plane crash and feel the need to tell someone. I bet you're more than thankful that you don't have predicting dreams all the time, or maybe you do...

[trollm1965]

Thanks to all who have responded. I can only tell you all that the plane crash and dream is not one tha I ever want to experience again. No, I do not want to ever see what lies in the future, whether it is good or bad. The crash was a total nightmare. We were all offered help to deal with it. I never accepted the help. What I saw in my dream and what happened I can never explain but I will never worry about dreaming. If only I knew for sure that I predicted a crash. Not sure I would have even done anything because I am so unsure of dreams and what they mean. Dream does haunt me, especially the smell. God Bless all who parished on that plane.

[resin8love]

Last week I was talking to my girl friend about this post. She lived in the city Taylor when this event took place. Taylor is close to the airport, well anyways, her girl friend in high school found a wedding ring on the ground that belong to one of the victims of the crash the girl that found the ring her name is Sarah. She turned it in obviously. She and her family still remember this it effected the whole community. I am miffed somewhat too as I collect all kinds of coke bottles.