William Sommerwerck said:
Well, you might very well be right. Let us know what you find out.
Some years ago I discovered that some things I thought were true, or had
happened, were actually dreams.
For example, I remember reading some philosopher's statement that "All
systems fail by excess of their principle." Yet I've never been able to
locate it. I apparently dreamed it.
If this is true (and I think it is), this type of dream-becomes-reality is
probably common. I don't know if psychologists are aware of it, or if any
studies have been done, but it would explain a lot of things -- such as
alien abductions, etc.
OK, I just spoke to my friend, and he absolutely confirms the story, as I
told it. He actually knew the pilot and the family. He was unable to attend
the funeral himself, but several other close friends and fellow pilots, did.
His explanation is that it was all down to "100 hour syndrome", where a
private pilot with 100 full-license hours up on a machine, gets complacent,
and careless. Apparantly, it is absolutely laid down in the safety rules
that the pilot must remain in his seat, hauling on the rotor brake, until it
has come to a complete stop, when it must then be chained down. Such was his
excitement at seeing his little girl waiting for him, this all went out the
window, and this hideous accident was the result. He believes that it was
reported in one of the local papers, but not in the nationals, so either I
did read it as I believed, or I heard it directly from him. He reckons it
was about 2002 / 3.
I know what you mean about dream realities. It's sort of like the more times
you tell the story, the truer it becomes. I think that such stories are
often based in reality, but come about as a result of added embellishments
to improve the entertainment value. Further, I think that if you really
examine what you're saying at the time you are saying it, deep down, you
*know* that it's a 'story' you are telling. I know that I have such stories
that I've got used to telling in a certain way over the years, and as I tell
them, I know that particular events in the story didn't actually happen in
the way I am telling them, so I think that they have probably 'developed'
that way to elicit the sorts of reactions from the listeners, that please
you in the way that you want them to.
Arfa