Several weeks ago, I started recording what I remember of my sleeping dreams. This past Saturday morning (June 19, 2021) I dreamed I was at a party. On TV, was a speech by the late civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis about threats to the Constitution. Although he had passed in July, 2020, in the dream he was alive and the context seemed to be the January 6 Capitol Attack.
Upon waking, I wondered if it was a callback to the movie I had seen the previous night, J. Edgar, which was in part about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's obsession with destroying Martin Lutehr King, Jr. It was also, perhaps, a recognition in my subconscious mind of Juneteenth.
That's similar to a lot of dreams I record. Something in the dream seemingly refers to something I had seen or experienced the previous day.
But something else happened in the dream. At the same party,a stranger seemed to have common interests with me, and I told a joke I had heard about the Space Force.
"Trump dates porn stars and wants to create a Space Army and I still don't like him.."
I recorded these dream memories when I woke up, but didn't think much of them. Later that morning, however, This Facebook Memory from 2018 appeared on my feed:
2020, gala event in Washington DC.
A Space Force General, formerly of the Air Force: "Welcome to this celebration marking the 70th anniversary of the Space Force."
Reporter: "Don't you mean 1st anniversary?"
General: [pause] "Correct."
The post was a Space Force "joke," insinuating that the Space Force had a top-secret existence since well before NASA's creation.. My first thought was that the reference of the Space Force in my dream was a premonition that I would encounter a reference to the Space Force that day.
Then I thought, what if my subconscious, instead remembered that I posted about the Space Force three years ago to the day? And then I wondered, why did I post about it on that particular day?
It turns out that on the previous day President Trump formally announced his intention to create a Space Force as a separate branch of the military. It was in the news, which prompted my post.
I don't believe my choice in the dream to tell a Space Force joke was random. I also don't believe it was accidental that the Space Force Facebook Memory showed up on my timeline for me to see.
It's possible that time is a construct of the conscious mind, and isn't real. The subconscious exists outside of time, connecting past and future in synchronicities. As the sleeping dream state is the realm of the subconscious, it may as well bring up future events and people I haven't met yet, as it would people and events in my memory.
Was this synchronicity regarding the Space Force a life-defining event? I can't say that. It seems trivial. But it's interesting to me as I'm the one who had the dream and the corresponding conscious experience.
The question is, would I have experienced the synchronicity if I hadn't recorded the dream? That's an open question. Before I started recording my dreams, something would happen during the day and, only several hours later would I remember that I had dreamed something similar the night before. But even that was rare. I suspect that I missed out on a lot of what could be premonitions or synchronicities because I never remembered the dreams, and I didn't remember because I didn't record them.
I'm not advising that you should record dreams. But if you do, I think it really does have to be the first thing you do when you wake up. Before any breathing exercises, stretching, or any other healthy start to the day. If you need to use the toilet, stay focused on what you remember from the dream but be aware the memories fade quickly. (When that happens, no worries: when you need to go, that's always the priority.)
What I find is that things emerge in dreams that frequently relate to the previous day, but like this Space Force synchronicity, sometimes real life mirrors the dream. That's what makes it fun and worth doing. Each has an added flavor of adventure.
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