On Sunday (May 19, 2013) I took a nap, and had a dream about a TORNADO.  In the beginning of the dream I was in a house; my cell phone rang and it was a guy named John. The reception started breaking up and I looked out the window to see a tornado. I realized I had better take cover. I scrambled all over the house looking for a safe place to hide, but all the rooms had windows, even downstairs, and I couldn’t find a solid closed basement/concrete type room. Pretty soon I saw out a window that we were in the middle of the tornado. The next thing you know I am lying flat on my stomach, and the tornado ripped the house down. I felt shards of glass hitting my head and the wind was whipping my hair with an intense force. I had a coat on and wanted to pull my hood over my head but something told me it wasn’t over yet.  Sure enough, another blow came and completely tore the entire house down to nothing. I felt more glass shards hitting my head, more wind blasting my hair.
I woke up horrified. This dream seemed out of place with how I felt at the time.  It didn’t fit for regular interpretation, and usually I can get that pretty quickly.
I don’t usually watch the news, but tonight (Tuesday night) something made me tune in for a few minutes. I saw the devastation of the tornado that hit Oklahoma on Monday. Just like the dream I had on Sunday afternoon.
Scientists believe that precognitive dreams like this are actually a survival mechanism. If we lived in a tribe and someone had a dream like this, we might actually take it as a warning, and have more time to prepare  and get ourselves to safety.
The key is not to assume all bad dreams are warnings. I think this is why so many people are afraid of dreams; perhaps they have had a ‘warning’ dream, and then become afraid that any and all unpleasant dreams will actually happen. The truth is, all dreams are there to HELP us – whether to prepare us, warn us, or show us potential outcomes, or current life dynamics. Maybe we can’t stop a tornado, but we can do everything in our power to get to safety, and the more notice we have, the better. Other warning dreams may be of scenarios that are indeed preventable. It is important to listen to them, and start to recognize your own dreaming patterns. This one didn’t fit with my life at the time or seem to have a solid ‘interpretive’ value.  That is one clue that it might be an extra-ordinary dream.