Dream Synchronicity - The Great Wave

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    This was a dream that I had, that was followed by several startling synchronistic events in the next few days.

    7/22/18

    The dream: "Wall of water"

     

    Something about mountain goats [?]. A wall of water, towering high over a place where people are, like a huge wave just about to break, but held in some kind of suspension. People wondering where that wall of water will first give way and come crashing down to sweep everything away. Some people in a car ask for a flashlight to point in the direction where they will best be able to survive the deluge. The flashlight falls down the slope of a hill. The mountain goat takes it somewhere, and some other animal does something else with it. There is some kind of a moral to that part of the story.

     

    7/23/18

    The next day, I was listening to a classical music radio station, and the announcer mentioned that Debussy's "La Mer" was inspired by a famous Japanese print called "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". I was familiar with that print, and suddenly realized that the wave in my dream resembled the one in that print.

     

    I looked the print up in Wikipedia and found some information about the scene that seemed to relate to my dream in an interesting way:

     

    Wikipedia: "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (Image attached)


    "The image depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the town of Kanagawa (the present-day city of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture). While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large rogue wave.

    "In the scene there are three oshiokuri-bune, fast boats that are used to transport live fish

    "There are eight rowers per boat, clinging to their oars. There are two more passengers in the front of each boat, bringing the total number of human figures in the image to thirty. Using the boats as reference, one can approximate the size of the wave: the oshiokuri-bune were generally between 12 and 15 meters long, and noting that Hokusai reduced the vertical scale by 30%, the wave must be between 10 and 12 meters tall.

    "The waves form a frame through which we see the mountain. The gigantic wave is a yin yang of empty space beneath the mountain. The inevitable breaking that we await creates a tension in the picture.

    "The small fishermen cling to thin fishing boats, slide on a sea-mount looking to dodge the wave."

     

    7/26/18

     

    A few days later, I received an e-mail announcement from the Eckhart Tolle organization about an upcoming program. The background of the message was a photo of a huge wave that looked very much like what I saw in my dream. (Image attached)

     

    Later the same day, I was playing a game called Syberia 3 on my computer. In the game there was a scene in which a boat was swamped by a huge wave. There are two views of the wave. One of them resembles the wave in the Eckhart Tolle e-mail, and the other one resembles the Great Wave off Kanagawa. (Images attached)

     

     

     

    The synchronistic appearance of these images of waves in the days following the dream, and how closely they resemble each other and my dream, seemed quite uncanny. If it were just one image, I could shrug it off as a simple coincidence. But four of them?

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