A Parisian journalist, M. Henri Buisson, sends to "The Annals of
Psychical Science" an account of three premonitory dreams all of which
were told to others before they were fulfilled. In the first, which
occurred on June 8th, 1887, M. Buisson saw his grandmother "stretched
dead on her bed, with a smile on her face as if she slept." Above the
bed, in a brilliant sun, he read the date, "June 8th, 1888," just a
year later; and on that day his grandmother died quite suddenly, with
her face as calm as he had seen it in his dream.
On another occasion M. Buisson saw his mother, not dead, but very ill,
and attended by a doctor, who had died more than a year before, after
having been the family physician for thirty years. The next day M.
Buisson received a telegram saying that his mother was ill, and, in
fact, she died during the day.
In April 1907, M. Buisson dreamt that he received notice to quit his
house on pretence of a message from the Prefect of Police, and that on
looking out of the window he saw the Prefect in the street, dressed in a
leather jacket, with a soft hat, and a slipper on one foot. He also
dreamt that a fire had broken out. On the evening of the next day he
heard the fire-engines, and on following them he found the Prefect on
the spot, dressed just as in the dream, having hurt one foot, he had to
go about in a slipper.
Of still another type is the clairvoyant dream. The following is
related by Mr Herbert J. Lewis, of Cardiff:--
"In September 1880 I lost the landing-order of a large steamer
containing a cargo of iron ore, which had arrived in the port
of Cardiff. She had to commence discharging at six o'clock the
next morning. I received the landing-order at four o'clock in
the afternoon, and when I arrived at the office at six I found
that I had lost it. During all the evening I was doing my
utmost to find the officials of the Customs House to get a
permit, as the loss was of the greatest importance, preventing
the ship from discharging. I came home in a great degree of
trouble about the matter, as I feared that I should lose my
situation in consequence.
"That night I dreamt that I saw the lost landing-order lying in
a crack in the wall under a desk in the Long Room of the
Customs House.
"At five the next morning I went down to the Customs House and
got the keeper to get up and open it. I went to the spot of
which I had dreamt, and found the paper in the very place. The
ship was not ready to discharge at her proper time, and I went
on board at seven and delivered the landing-order, saving her
from all delay.
"I can certify to the truth of the above statement,
"HERBERT J. LEWIS,
"THOMAS LEWIS
"(Herbert Lewis's father).
"H. WALLIS."
(Mr E. J. Newell, of the George and Abbotsford Hotel, Melrose, adds the
following corroborative note.)
"August 14th, 1884.
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