an Angel of the Lord : Response By: advil

double, of sorts. To repeat what I said there, you definitely want to read the entry on dreams in the skeptic’s dictionary, as well as the entry on the law of truly large numbers. A relevant passage: "If the odds are a million to one that any given dream is truly prophetic, then, given the number of people on earth and the average number of dreams people have during each sleep period (250 dream themes a night, according to Hines, p. 50), we should expect that every single day of our lives there will be more than 1.5 million dreams that seem clairvoyant."
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