During the late 1970s, a fully laden DC-10 passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff, killing everyone on board.

The disaster shocked the nation, prompting investigations, headlines, and a long search for answers.

Yet in the days leading up to the tragedy, something quietly

unsettling had been unfolding elsewhere. One man, living hundreds of miles away and with no

connection to the flight, began experiencing a series of vivid, disturbing dreams. Only after the crash

would he realize that what he had seen in his sleep

was not imagination at all, but a chilling premonition. The

The What are dreams?

It surprises most people to learn that even in this modern age of relentless

discovery and technological advancement, we still don't fully understand what these brief,

drifting episodes of unconscious awareness truly are, or why they occur in the first place.

Many theories have been proposed over the years.

Some people are convinced that dreams act as doorways to parallel universes,

fleeting moments in which the mind slips sideways into an alternate reality,

one strikingly similar to our own, yet curiously distorted,

as though viewed through imperfect glass. Others argue for a far more grounded

explanation, that dreams serve an essential biological purpose, a kind of nightly housekeeping in which

the brain sorts, processes and untangles the complicated emotions and stresses we accumulate

throughout our waking existence.

Whatever their origin, it is said that we experience a great many things while streaming,

and often we find ourselves wandering through a private realm populated by our most carefully guarded fantasies.

In sleep, the barriers we place around our wishes seem to fall away. We imagine becoming

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