July 13, 2005
After writing about Monday night's dream yesterday in which my mother was in the woods digging large holes in the ground to live in, I have to report that last night my sister called to tell me Mom's been checked into the hospital. She appears to be dehydrated, probably from not eating or drinking much if anything for the last couple weeks. We were aware of this to some extent, but not how much, and she became unresponsive, etc.

Anyway, this is not the first time that "feelings of dread" and intense, bizarre dreams have coincided with actual events in my life, as if psychic phenomenon. The rationalist in me feels that it's the kind of coincidence that happens all the time, that I often have dreams of these sort (not exactly, in this case) that don't coincide with anything and I forget them, and these strange emotions also happen, etc., but don't coincide with related events. On the other hand, I'm a firm believer that there's more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of (no pun intended) of in my philosophies.

I suppose it's good to know that should this writing gig not work out I can always go to work for the Psychic Hotline.

Best,
Mark Terry

p.s. Well, I called my sister and Mom--to date--has been diagnosed with atypical pancreatitis. Atypical in that all the symptoms are there except pain, which is probably why things got as far as they did.