Abraham Lincoln had the following dream a week before his assassination, this is the dream he recalls:
About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front. I could not have been long in bed when I feel into a slumber, for I was weary. I soon began to dream. There seemed to be death like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were enviable. I went from room to room; no living person was in signt, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. It was light in all the rooms, every object was familiar to me, but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break? I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards, and there was a throng of people, some gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. “Who is dead in the White House?” I demanded of one of the soldiers. “The President” was his answer, “He was killed by assassin” Then came a loud burst of grief from the crows, which awoke me from my dream. This was a recollection of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865, 1911.
So what does this dream mean? This dream is clearly an overview of the future. Abraham knew that he would be assassinated, and he was actually seeing what I call a window into the future. The mourning that he heard shows that he knew that when he passed there are people who care for him. This dream is strange but does show us that we can predict the future, especially death.
