In December of 1980, to a class of about forty kids, and a Doctor of Psychology, I told a 'weird' dream that I had that previous night, for us to interpret "properly" in a Jungian style.
It was the assignment, actually. I was on the phone with MJ going over the details (again) when Z came in to tell me that Lennon had been shot.
Now, 'acts of God' aside, I just realized something fairly salient.
I was in a school of what was *supposedly* psychology (though that asshole Romanyshyn lost our accreditation because he didn't buy any psych books for the library).
It was a fairly famous psychologist who oversaw History of Psychology II.
We had that lame-brain Hillman re-re-re-re-re-visioning things all over the place.
You would have thought that *one* of these geniuses would have noted perhaps the most important event (in psychology) perhaps *ever*?
I mean, how often is it that you get a test bed of forty people who all knew that a dream came true?
Oh, and the dream was that John Lennon was shot, if you hadn't heard. I had it before eleven AM; he wasn't shot till three PM Dallas time; and class ended at two-thirty.
I spent most of that night trying to 'prove' that it *really* happened before eleven AM Dallas time so that my dream was made up from a news report.
Obviously, that could never have worked.
Anyway, I was a kid. I couldn't have been expected to have realized that this was a *significant* event in the whole *idea* of psychology (confirmation of 'para' psychology).
I might try to look them up to see what they might have to say about that now.
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