Dr. Lou isa E. Rhine Earapschology Laboratory C o lle g e S ta tio n Durham, N. C. 8, S a fsa f sokak Emirgân Istan b u l Turkey March 19th 1954 Dear Madam,
I read the a r t i c l e e n t i t le d , MDo dreams come true ?" in the March issu e o f R eader’ s D ig e s t. Answering the wish expressed th ere I am c o n fid in g to you the fo llo w in g / e x p e rie n c e s which occured in the course o f a lo n g and ^very-unhappy l i f e . /Person al
1 . I was a g i r l o f seventeen. My s is t e r n earest in age to me was two yea rs younger. We li v e d in a la r g e , sunny house otithe A s ia t ic shore o f the Bosphorus, and we had gardens f u l l o f b e a u tifu l flo w e r s . We d id a l o t o f b o a tin g .
One sxxmmer n igh t I dreamt th at a l l the fa m ily were assembled in the h a l l , in d ir e confu sion and d e s p a ir, and a l l was dark around. A v e ry few
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days afterw ards my s is t e r was/drowned as/ were coming home from a b oa tin g / a c c id e n ta lly
excu rsion la t e in the even in g , and the scene in the h a ll occured e x a c tly as in my dream.
2. I was tw en ty-tw o. I had been m arried f o r a y e a r, and I had a b e a u tifu l baby g i r l . I dre^mt^that I was dressed a l l in b la c k , w alking in a*<£rowded
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s t r e e t , w ith my l i t t l e g irl-, who was b ig enough to walk w ith me. She was dressed a l l in w h ite , and I was h o ld in g her hand.My husband was p reced in g us, t r y in g to open a way f o r us in the dense crowd. Suddenly he disappeared, and I sighed, "Oh £ how can he abandon us in such d i f f i c u l t y 1"
E igh t yea rs l a t e r I Ws a widow, w ith th ree small c h ild r e n , and I d id have a v e ry d i f f i c u l t tim e.
3. A v e ry few days befcle my husband was taken w ith h is f a t a l i l l n e s s , in the bedroom which I then shared w ith him and our baby son I had s e v e ra l tim es the impression th at one o f the th ree bedsteads th ere a|s to be emptied by death. I was always awake when I had th at im pressinn, but i t was as m ysterious as a dream*
4. During World War I w^e were l i v i n g ih a b e a u tifu l house w ith e x te n s iv e grounds, at Buyiikddre, on the European shore of the Bosphorus. As the p la ce i s near the entrance to the Black Sea and expend to be
attacked from th ere i t was inclu ded in the m ilit a r y zone. We fonnd l i v i n g n -such c o n d itio n s rather- d i f f i c u l t , and*t1aok another house nearer town. Then I began to dream th at ouXhouse was burned down, and a l l around dusty and d e s o la te . That dream octured p e r s is t e n t ly s e v e ra l tim es, and always made me v e ry unhappy.
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One day I went t o Buyukdere t o c a l l on some people who thought they could endure the disadvantages o f l i v i n g in a m ilit a r y zone. A l*»rg e house
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ummer r e s o r t was d e s o la te . The quay was no lo n g e r w atered. The wind blow ing rom the Black Sea r a is e d clouds o f d u st. I t heigh t ^ ^ T h i s i s my dream come ru e, but h a p p ily air house i s s t i l l s ta n d in g ." W e £ i/ th a t f a t a l dream had O tyet come tr u e . Vie had to s e l l the house I lo v e d , and a f t e r th at I heard
th a t i t was burned down.
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5. Although I c lin g to -thanplace I l i v e in I had to change houses « e v e r a l tim es. Each tim e, be^oredfe was\a q u e s t in 'o f moving I dreamt o f
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Cl-- . i n . B efore I came to l i v e in my present house,
b e fo re I knew o f i t s e x is te n c e I dreamt of i t in the actu a l ianes surroundings.
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Now I no lniger dream of a new hooee, so I am hoping th at I s h a ll be lowed t o d ie h e re »___________
Here ends my exp erien ce o f dreams. I wonder i f i t would be ou tside your sphere o f in t e r e s t tojadd $avt.##tbeen brought up unused to
e lig io u s p r a c t i c e ^ t was only la t e in lif ^ J t h a t I f u l f i l l e d the longtim e c ra v in g o f my sou l, and lea rn ed to pray, and/ th £ ttfh re e tim es, in the fe e »- - o f an impending c a la m ity , the p ra yer I offered ai a h oly n ig h t, was answered>each time«,
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T H E P A R A P S Y C H O L O G Y L A B O R A T O R Y June 20, 1955 C O L L E G E S T A T IO N D U R H A M . N O R T H C A R O L IN A U .S .A . D e a r Mrs. M ora ll: The r e s p o n s e to the R e a d e r 's D ig e s t a r t i c l e , "D o D r e a m s C o m e T r u e ? " has been so gen erou s (now o v e r 3,500 l e t t e r s ) that I am f o r c e d to g iv e up m y o r ig in a l d e s i r e and intention to w r i t e a p e r s o n a l r e p l y to each l e t t e r r e c e i v e d . I am tr u ly s o r r y that it is p h y s ic a lly im p o s s ib le to do so. In fa c t, each co m m u n ic a tio n is so in te r e s tin g that it is only with the g r e a t e s t re lu c ta n c e that I have y ie ld e d to the n e c e s s it y of w r it in g this g e n e r a l le t t e r . But at le a s t I have r e a d your l e t t e r c a r e f u l l y , and I do a p p r e c ia te it v e r y much.I think you would be in t e r e s t e d to know that having now r e a d m o r e than a thousand of the r e p l i e s I can say that m o s t of them t e s t i f y to d r e a m or waking e x p e r ie n c e s that " c a m e true " under c i r cu m stan ces s t r o n g ly su ggestin g e x t r a s e n s o r y p e r c e p tio n (E S P ), s o m e t im e s telep a th ic and s o m e t im e s of the c la ir v o y a n t type, but m o r e often p r e c o g n it iv e or p ro p h e tic . T h e y a r e valu ab le data f o r r e s e a r c h on these m en tal p r o c e s s e s that a r e s t i l l so lit t le understood.
I want to c o m m e n t too on the s p ir it of e a r n e s tn e s s and s i n c e r i t y that p e r v a d e s these le t t e r s . A l m o s t without e x c e p tio n they s e e m to have been p ro m p te d in part, i f not w h o lly , by a d e s i r e to help in an in v e s tig a tio n f e l t to be n e c e s s a r y and w o r t h - w h ile .
I hope that we who r e c e i v e this m a t e r i a l you have so kindly co n tribu ted can put it to good use, and that b e f o r e too long you m a y g e t at le a s t s o m e g e n e r a l i z e d in fo r m a tio n f r o m it, w h eth er in the sam e m a g a z in e , or e ls e w h e r e .
If you would c a r e to know m o r e about the books and p e r i o d ic a ls that t e l l about w o r k in our f i e l d of study, I would be glad to send you som e in fo r m a tio n about them .
S i n c e r e l y y o u r s , ►
I*m very glad to have your l e t t e r . You seem to have had pre- c o g n itlv e impressions, the type in which by some means the mind trans cends the time b a r r ie r and sees in to the fu tu re . I t i s now being shown that many people have such experiences, and by s c i e n t i f i c exper iments too we have proved t h e ir p o s s i b i l it y . I t i s odd that f o r so long th is a b i l i t y should not have been suspected even though people l i k e y o u r s e lf through the ages have been dreaming in to the fu tu re .
I must comment on the fin e l e t t e r you wrote in what c e r t a in ly must be to you a fo r e ig n language. Perhaps you would be in te r e s te d a ls o to know that yours i s the f i r s t l e t t e r I have had from your
country.
