In 1858, two brothers, Sam and Henry Clemens, joined the Mississippi passenger steamer Pennsylvania as a pilot's apprentice. The work of a pilot in the middle of the 19th century provided honor and respect, and most importantly - a decent income, so the brothers, who had not had a penny before, were happy to receive such a promising position.
UNFANTASED STORY
One day Sam caught a bad cold and was forced to stay on the shore. Henry went on another flight without him. At night, Sam's temperature jumped, he was shaking, and he managed to fall asleep only in the morning. But the dream did not bring relief to the patient, but turned into a real nightmare. Sam dreamed that he was in a large dark room. Suddenly, the hall lit up with a ghostly light, and Sam saw in the center a shiny metal coffin, standing on two chairs. He felt scared, but at the same time something irresistibly attracted the young man to the coffin. On stiff legs, Sam approached him and recognized the dead as his brother Henry, on whose chest lay a bouquet of white roses.
The picture looked so real that, waking up in a cold sweat, the guy did not immediately realize that it was just a dream. Jumping out of bed, he went to the door in full confidence that he would now again enter the same hall and see the coffin with his brother's body. However, there was nothing like it outside the door. Hastily dressed and grabbing his hat, Sam ran out into the street in search of a hall, but only after running a few blocks, he realized that he was impressed by the dream he had seen. At that moment, the forces left him, and he collapsed onto the pavement.
Sam soon recovered and returned to work. He did not say anything to his brother about his dream, and as a sane person himself, he did not attach much importance to it. You never know what can dream in a fever. When the training ended, the brothers were sent to serve as pilots on different steamers, and a few days later Sam received a message that a boiler exploded on the ship where Henry served, and it sank a mile and a half from Memphis. Throwing all business, Sam rushed to Memphis. The city hospital was overflowing with the wounded, and the morgue with the bodies of the dead. He managed to find his younger brother, but he was in critical condition. For a long time Sam sat at the bedside of his dying brother and held his hand until one of the compassionate townspeople took him to his home for the night.
Barely heartbroken, Sam fell asleep when he had the same terrible dream. Jumping up as though stung, he again rushed to the hospital, but Henry was not there. He learned from the doctors that his brother had died of burns and injuries and that his body was in the city morgue. Sam immediately went to the indicated address. The morgue was overflowing with the bodies of the victims of the tragedy, lying in hastily put together coffins. But suddenly goosebumps ran down Sam's spine - there was a shiny metal coffin on two chairs right in the middle of the room. At the same time, someone opened the back door, and the semi-dark hall was filled with a ghostly light. Approaching the coffin, Sam saw the body of his brother, on whose chest lay a bouquet of snow-white roses …
Later, Sam learned that the organizers of the funeral, for some reason, spent $ 60 - a huge amount at that time - and bought several metal coffins for the dead officers. Among the organizers was one venerable lady who saw in the deceased Henry a striking resemblance to her deceased son. It was she who put that very bouquet of roses in the coffin.
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It is worth adding that just a few years after the events described, the civil war in the United States put an end to passenger shipping on the Mississippi, and Sam Clemens changed his occupation, becoming a successful journalist and writer. Today he is known to us under the pseudonym Mark Twain.
PROPHETIC DREAMS
The desire to know the future has been inherent in man since ancient times. At all times, people have used the services of fortune tellers and clairvoyants in an attempt to find out what lies ahead. However, nature has given everyone the opportunity to lift the curtain of time and look where we have yet to visit. Each of us, at least once in his life, experienced what he had previously seen in a dream, usually in the smallest detail. All sorts of dream interpreters and countless dream books try to interpret the symbolism of dreams in order to unravel the mechanism of foreseeing the future. However, truly prophetic dreams, as a rule, do not require decoding. The picture of future events appears in such a dream very realistic, which does not require decoding. Most often, we forget the content of a dream a few minutes after waking up, but a truly prophetic dream remains in our memory,allowing the waking brain to fully comprehend it. Moreover, when people wake up, they do not immediately realize the line between dream and reality. Another feature of truly prophetic dreams is their recurrence, sometimes for decades.
PSEUDO-THING DREAMS
Do not confuse truly prophetic dreams with pseudo-prophetic dreams, which do not so much predict as program our future. They are a continuation of our daytime experiences and often paint us the darkest picture of the story. Imagine a student preparing for an important exam. The student understands that during the entire semester he was openly playing the fool and now, during the session, he can pay for it. His imagination paints vivid images of a failed exam, expulsion from the institute and an inevitable meeting with the military commissar. In the dream, his brain continues to work, and the student dreams of how he fails the exam. Quite naturally, drawing out a ticket, he recalls his dream and it seems to him that it will certainly come true. Instead of being distracted from extraneous thoughts and focusing on the assignment, the student becomes nervous and forgets everything he has learned. The result is deplorable, but it is not the dream that is to blame, but the anxious and suspicious state of the student, which caused both the dream itself and the completely natural result of the exam.
TWIN DREAMS
Twin dreams, as a rule, are as vivid and memorable as prophetic dreams, but, unlike them, they do not predict future events, but help in solving certain problems of today. So the great Italian artist Rafael Santi saw images in his dreams, which he later embodied in his paintings and frescoes. The same can be said about his compatriot Leonardo da Vinci, who used the psychotechnical practices of the Pythagoreans and slept for 15 minutes every four hours, thereby deliberately causing twin dreams that helped him solve the most difficult problems.
Its creator Rene Descartes saw the foundations of analytic geometry in a dream, and in a similar way wonderful rhymes, lines and whole quatrains were revealed to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The periodic table of elements appeared almost ready-made in a dream to Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev. The twin sleep mechanism is very simple and easy to explain. During intense daytime work, the brain is at the limit of concentration. The combination of focus and distractions creates a pronounced obsession and obsession with minor details (remember how many times you reread the same line when you are distracted from reading at home). During sleep, the brain continues to work, but at the same time it is freed from external distractions. This leads to an effective solution to the problem that he could not cope with during the day.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Modern science still cannot provide a convincing explanation for the nature of truly prophetic dreams. Physicians, psychologists, philosophers, and biophysicists have their own versions of how these dreams are described. However, none of them stand up to criticism. Nevertheless, it is foolish to deny a person's ability to look into the future in a dream. Too much evidence, including documented, confirms the phenomenon of the existence of such a biological "time machine".
This fact forces modern physicists to reconsider the nature of time as linear and continuous. After all, if there is information about the future, then this future has already arrived somewhere. It is likely that quantum physics today is on the verge of revolutionary discoveries in the field of space-time structure. And this gives us hope that someday we will be able to look into the future of our own free will and consciously manage it.
Oleg NANCHAYANY