Precognitive Warning Dream
Lara, a professional woman in mid-life, had the following vivid precognitive dream while on holiday.
I was due to have oral surgery in five days to have my front tooth extracted. I was quite anxious about it but not letting on to anyone. I had a sense that there might be something missing, but when I rang the dentist to ask if there was anything else I needed to do, I was told, “No, just go to the periodontist.”
Dream report: Missing Tooth
I am sitting in the periodontist’s chair, gowned up. He is masked, and drops the chair down, and pulls out my tooth. He then goes away and says he is looking for the replacement “false tooth.” Then he stands over me and says, “Oh no, I can’t find the tooth, it’s not here! You will have to come back tomorrow.” The gap feels HUGE in my mouth and I feel so terrible. I say, “But I phoned the dentist and he said just to come to you.”
I woke up then - and told my friend about my dream. We laughed about what I would look like with no front tooth!
Five days later, on the day of the extraction, still anxious, I was in the dentist’s chair, gowned up, ready to have the tooth pulled. The periodontist was all ready and trying to keep me calm. He walked around and out of the room. He came back saying, “I can’t find the false tooth!”
I think to myself, “I dreamed this?” I said, “But I rang the dentist.” We joked about it, how funny it would have been if he had already pulled it. He rang my dentist and found that the false tooth hadn’t even been made! Fortunately for me he didn’t pull my tooth first.
I rang and told my friend, and we discussed how I had dreamt it.
This is a very clear example of a precognitive dream warning which almost came true. Lara knew there was something not quite right but she had rung to check, and assumed it must be okay. Her dream then created the scenario that she was afraid of (like anyone who is anxious about losing a front tooth) – but in such precise detail that she was struck with a sense of déjà vu as it began to happen. She had in fact lost a front tooth in a car accident over twenty years earlier, so the “huge gap” was based on a real emotional memory of going a week without a replacement.
Reflecting on it afterwards she realized that she must have known sub-consciously that her dentist had not done the colour-matching step that had been part of the earlier process. This dream could then be understood as a warning based on sub-conscious memory of the steps in her earlier experience.