Dreams That Came True

Dreams That Came True

[1] On the night of November 7, 1965, Mary Daughtery had a nightmare. She cannot forget that dream nor can her husband, George. She tells of it like this: “I dreamed I was on a hill at night. Lightning flashed and thunder

rolled. Then I saw a bright light in the sky. There was a loud impact and I heard screams everywhere. ”

[2] Mary says that then she saw a hand lying on the ground. She had a sense of dread, but she went closer. Then she saw an arm and then the shattered body at the end of the arm. She says that in her dream she screamed, “Somebody please help!” Then she saw some men with a large basket made of wicker. They put the body into the basket and went away.

[3] Mary was still screaming when she woke up. “Mary!” George was bending over her, shaking her. “What is the matter?” he asked.

[4] Mary told him, “I just saw you killed in a plane crash. Oh George, please don't go on that plane to Cincinnati.”

[5] Mary begged him not to go, but George would not let her stop him. But as he drove to the airport, George began to feel strange . Then he saw a plane flying

overhead, and his heart began to thump with fear. Then he knew he could not get on the plane. He called the airport and told them to cancel his ticket. Then he called Mary and took the train to Cincinnati.

[6] That night, Flight 383 ran into a bad storm when it tried to land in Cincinnati. The plane crashed into a hill. Mary saw the news report on television. It was just like her dream. She saw men with baskets come to carry

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away bodies. But she knew George was safe. He was safe because of the omen of her dream.

[7] John Bradley also had a dream like this. He lived in England and was a teacher. He was also a naturalist. He liked to take his class on field trips to learn about nature.

[8] One night he had a dream. It came to him a week

before one of the field trips he had planned. He dreamed he was leading his class along a country lane beside a churchyard.

[9] In his dream, Bradley told two of the boys to lead the way through the churchyard. He would walk at the other end of the line to keep the small children moving. But as they went through the churchyard, Bradley felt the ground shake. Then he heard a loud cracking and ripping sound. Then something huge and dark rushed towards him. It was a huge elm tree. It crashed down right on top of the line of children.

[10] Bradley was very upset by his dream. He thought he should cancel the trip. He told his class about the dream, but they laughed at him. And they did not want to call off the trip. Even the other teachers laughed at him and told him he should not spoil the children's fun. So Bradley agreed that they would go. “But you must

promise,” he told them, “to go only where I tell you to go.”

[11] So the field trip went ahead. When they came to the lane, Bradley would not let the children take a detour through the churchyard. Some of them thought this was silly, but they did what they were told.

[12] At the end of the lane, they came to a bridge across

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a river. The older boys came to a halt and asked, “Which way shall we go, sir? Shall we cross the river or stay on the path beside it?”

[13] Bradley stopped. He had a funny feeling about the footpath. “Cross the bridge,” he told them. So the children began to walk across the bridge. Then Bradley heard the same terrible cracking sound he had heard in his dream. He looked back. On the very edge of the footpath, he saw a huge elm shake and tremble. Then it fell to the ground. His premonition had come true. The children stared at each other and then at their teacher. If they had walked along the footpath, they would have been at the very spot where the tree had fallen. ( 713 words)