# What odd dream/real life coincidences have you experienced? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-dream-real-life-coincidences-have-you-experienced/560875 "2010-11-16T17:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-dream-real-life-coincidences-have-you-experienced/560875/1 "2010-11-16T17:30:09Z")
Like…something from a dream later happens or coincides with something in real life. Last night I had the most awful dream…I have no idea what prompted it…but I dreamed that a girl I’d gone to high school with had died, I went to her funeral, was very upset, but I didn’t know how she died. So I was trying to find out, and I discovered that she had been hit by a stray bullet, running away from gunfire in Times Square, and that a former co-worker of mine was a witness. So I wake up, think “what a weird/awful dream,” re-assure myself that she’s still alive, and go look at her Facebook page for further confirmation. Her status update is, “Happiness hits me like a bullet in the back.” I just thought it was an odd coincidence considering the dream I’d just had. I also dreamed about George H.W. Bush’s passing (in a non-violent manner) last night, but he remains alive. Not sure why I dreamed about the deaths of two people who I wish no ill will toward. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-dream-real-life-coincidences-have-you-experienced/560875/2 "2010-11-16T17:47:47Z")
I shared it here the day it happened, but it’s been [a while](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5929185&postcount=160) (zombie babies in that thread; don’t post to it!): > [@](#): > > So early this morning I had a dream. > > Which is in itself pretty unusual for me. I don’t dream much at all. > > In this dream, the nurses from the hospital called and told me they were going to take [my premature daughter’s] vent (breathing tube) out RIGHT NOW. Well, I begged them to wait just 10 minutes, so I could get to the hospital and take her picture. “I haven’t seen her whole face without all those tubes and tape!” my dream self pleaded. The nurse said OK, and I raced to the hospital and got there just in time. > > Weird dream. They’ve repeatedly told me it will be a few weeks before she gets the vent out. I’m sure they won’t do anything like that so quickly without letting me know. But, just to be safe, I resolve upon waking to talk to the nurse today and make sure she knows I want to be there when they extubate (remove the vent.) > > This morning I walked into the room and found Caileigh on a CPAP. No vent. WTF? Turns out Little Miss pulled out her own tube this morning at 2:00. > > And there are two Polaroids taped to her isolette. Of her face with no tubes. > > [cue Twilight Zone music here] > > Following this “self-extubation” as the nurses like to call it, they decided to just try the CPAP and see how she does on it, rather than shoving a new ill-fitting tube down her throat. So far, she’s tolerating it. It’s not certain she’ll keep tolerating it, but for the moment, it’s OK. > > And I got to see her mouth for the first time! And her cute little tongue! > > How’s that for a birthday present? (She’s one month old today!) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-dream-real-life-coincidences-have-you-experienced/560875/3 "2010-11-16T17:53:35Z")
When I was a bank teller, I got robbed. Two weeks later, I had a dream that the guy came in to rob me again. That day, he did. A week later, I had a dream that he came in yet again to rob me, but the cops were waiting there for him and arrested him. That day, I got a call from Cambridge police saying that they caught him robbing a bank in Cambridge. A few weeks after that, I had a dream that a whole bunch of robbers came into the bank, but the didn’t want to take any money, they just wanted to fondle it. When I got into work that day, the auditors were there. I haven’t had any prescient dreams like that before or since. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-dream-real-life-coincidences-have-you-experienced/560875/4 "2010-11-16T20:13:01Z")
Nothing serious here. I dreamed that the soda vending machine at work took my dollar and did not return a soda or any change. Needless to say, I was pissed. The next day it almost happened the way it did in the dream. It did dispense a soda can but it shorted me a quarter for my change.