A night or two ago I had a shipwreck dream, the ship I was on going down in the Irish Sea. I didn't think anything about it. We don't have papers here as the usual thing, and it was not till yesterday, looking at an old paper, I saw about the sinking of the Rowan in the Irish sea. This made me quite excited and when I got back I looked at my dream diary and found that my dream had been Saturday night. The accident had happened just after Saturday midnight.

DATE: Scottishshipwrecks.com dates the sinking of the Rowan to early morning Oct 9, 1921. World Dream Bank convention is to date a night's dream(s) as part of previous day, hence one-day discrepancy.)

SOURCE: Letter to his mother, quoted in The Life of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry, v.1, p. 106.

Curiously, after quoting three such apparently clairvoyant or telepathic nightmares--one about the Titanic!--Norman Sherry simply drops the subject. Yet if Greene's unconscious did sense others' terror this effectively, this explains much about Greene's life--from his notoriously painful childhood (he attempted suicide to escape boarding school) to his adult reclusiveness.

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