One night I dreamed, I go through a museum. I look at a sculpture display of a mobile that is labeled at the bottom, "Minnesota." I note this and decide that the museum is indicating the state of origin, rather than the artist. The next day, while working in my front yard, the mail truck arrived with an "Air Mail Special Delivery" letter for me from a printing firm in Minnesota, containing galley proofs for a book review that I had written (a display of mine, I presume). I know of no way "Minnesota" could have been anticipated, because I had sent the typewritten copy to the editorial office in New York, and I had not expected that the journal would send galleys for just a review. Nor did I know that the journal was printed in Minnesota.

I once dreamed, I am hiking with my father on a hill and then driving into a small town. A strong wind comes and blows everything around. Almost two weeks later, a tornado struck the small Midwestern town where my father lives, missing his house by about a half mile.

On November 3,1975, on another occasion, four nights before I was to introduce a speaker at a lecture, I dreamed, I’m at the lecture and the microphones do not work right, requiring me to get the custodian. Then, in the middle of the talk, a rock band begins to play, and I have to find them in the building and quiet them. At the first of the lecture the microphones did present problems. The amplifier picked up another speaker at a meeting elsewhere in the building, requiring the services of the custodian to readjust them. During the lecture, the lights were turned out for some slides. In the middle of the darkness, band music blared out. Someone apparently had pressed the wrong button on a tape recorder and the lecture was indeed interrupted with loud music, just as in my dream. However, I did not have to trace down the band because the owner of the recorder quickly turned it off. The problems with the microphones were not especially surprising, because that was always a possibility and had happened before in the series, but the band music was a unique event.

These cases illustrate the effects of events with emotional significance. Not all such waking life events are reflected in my dreams. Sometimes the event will be reflected only in trivial elements that are associated with it, which will appear in various dreams on many nights, and then all will have correspondences during a particular day or around  the  event.