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Precog Tunnel

Dreamed 1984/1/1 by Chris Wayan

I'm riding a slow train on a sinuous track through suburban hills. Suddenly I have a vision of a tunnel ahead, with colored images all over the walls--strangely, the colors are in combinations I wouldn't dream of using! They look okay--just not my palette.

We round a bend, and there the tunnel is, just like my vision. Its walls are all cartooned with Disney animal-people having archeological adventures like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Though the colors are dimmer than in my vision. Or is it just bad lighting?

Staring at the murals in the tunnel, I wonder if my vision was a precognitive dream [sic]. Could I be mistaking coincidence for precognition, by selecting only the similar elements? Weigh the similarities and differences between the two mural-tunnels--vision and reality.

Cartoons on a train-tunnel wall. Animal archeologists? Dream sketch by Wayan. Click to enlarge.
As I ponder the possibilities (and it still looks like prediction to me), a bandit with a bomb climbs forward to the engineer's cab and yells "Stop this train, or I'll blow it up!" I'm upset because I had my heart set on reaching San Francisco. The train slows and stops--in faint daylight. We're right at the tunnel mouth! The bomber doesn't seem to care about us, just the train itself--so we passengers get off and walk out. I'm sad we've lost our transport, but at least we're alive.

I'm still uneasy--we're near a nuclear power plant. If mad bombers try to blow THAT up...

But then I spot the twin towers of Golden Gate Bridge, just a mile or so south! This is Rainbow Tunnel on Waldo Grade, in the Marin Headlands. I can walk to the City from here. Train-hijackers can't stop me now.

NEXT MORNING

Write the dream down thinking that's a rarity--not a precognitive dream, but one where I contemplate precognitive dreams inside the dream. Weird.

I go into the kitchen for breakfast and find the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle has a photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin Headlands. Next to it is an article on Salvadorean rebels blowing up the most important bridge in that country.

Okay, okay, maybe it WAS precognitive as well as contemplative. Next time I assume I'm just wilfully selecting similarities in chance patterns... I'll wait till the whole pattern's in. Day and night.


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