Mysterious dreams foretold disaster

The famous psychiatrist John Barker arrived in Aberfan village in southern Wales just after the landslide disaster in 1966. At that time, half a million tons of garbage being processed had collapsed into this village 116 students and 28 others were killed. Especially, there are a lot of people who dreamed about this tragedy beforehand.

Doctor John Barker wrote a post in the newspaper to ask any readers who dreamed of the disaster in Aberfan village. After that, he received more than 60 letters from across the UK saying that they had a premonition in this dream. One of the most prominent dreams was the death of 10-year-old parents in the garbage.

" There is no school. Something black has fallen on it " - the mother and father described the dream.

People can dream about future disasters and disasters

A 54-year-old woman in Barnstaple, Devon, England, said that the night before the disaster, she had dreamed of a group of children trapped in a rectangular room, the back of the room with some wooden sticks and other I'm trying to climb over.

And Mrs. GE from Sidcup, Kent said, one week before the landslide, she dreamed of a group of children screaming and covered with piles of peat.

According to Dailymail , surveys by research groups show that about one-third of people on Earth can dream of the future at some point in their lives. US President Abraham Lincoln dreamed of being murdered two weeks before being shot to death. Writer Mark Twain dreamed of seeing his brother's corpse lying in a coffin a few weeks before his brother died in an explosion. Writer Charles Dickens dreamed of a woman wearing a red dress named Napier, who was visited by a woman in a red dress named Napier.

Scientists have found that humans have an average of about 4 dreams per night, each dream taking about 20 minutes or longer. Then people will forget most of their dreams after waking up. However, there are many cases where people can remember dreams. Studies have also shown that about 80% of dreams are about negative events, because bad news is likely to trigger better memory. That explains why so many dreams are predictions of death and disaster.

Dreams also reflect people's worries about something in life. Like 3 years before the disaster in Aberfan village, engineers wrote to the authorities to reflect on the insecurity of the garbage disposal plant located just above the school. It is possible that many people have also been bothered by this and worried throughout the dream.