She was in a state of emotional strain when the dream came. She was going into a hospital for major surgery, and had been told that her hospitalization insurance did not apply. She needed more than a thousand dollars, and had nowhere to turn for the money. On this particular night she had dreamed of a number--4-11-66--and was musing about it, when she looked out through the window of her store onto the street. There, standing idly, where she had never seen him before, was a man named Charlie, a runner for the Italian lottery, which was big in the neighborhood.

She went to the door. "What are you doing out there, Charlie?"

"I have the day off," he said.

She took out three one-dollar bills. "Here," she said, "are three numbers, will you play them in the lottery for me?" She considered his appearance a "sign."

The lottery was decided at the end of the week, and this was a Monday.

"I'll be back Thursday," Charlie said.

She didn't care to explain she was going into the hospital. "Take it now," she insisted.

He finally agreed.

"That weekend," the dreamer recalled, "my brother phoned me at the hospital, and said, "Charlie's looking for you--he's got $1500 for you."

The numbers had come through.

SOURCE: Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, by Jess Stearn, 1967, p. 212.

EDITOR'S NOTE

Stearn doesn't say whether Coty explicitly asked for a dream to solve her problem, but as worried as she was, this surely didn't happen by chance; I'd class it as an incubated dream. A concise one. Could it be more brief and elegant?

--Chris Wayan

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