Should Utah Pay Attention to Dreams of California Tsunami?

Government Agency Set Up to Collect Premonitions 

In 1967 a British Psychologist named John Barker set up the Premonitions Bureau in England as a place people could report their dreams and visions of future disasters. The Bureau was a a result of a tragedy in 1966 where a landslide covered part of a village in Wales killing 144 people. 

A school in the town was buried and many of those who died were children. In researching the disaster, Barker discovered several people had felt it was going to happen beforehand. A bestselling book by Sam Knight details the events and the short time Barker’s Bureau was functioning.  

18 Months of Collecting Premonitions 

In the book, Knight tells of some of the reported premonitions that proved prophetic, and you can see them here in the BBC article. One was a speed boat driver that predicted his own death while playing poker.  

Others included a train disaster, a plane crash, the death of an astronaut, as well as a woman who kept seeing Robert Kennedy’s assassination. The Bureau only lasted 18 months as Barker died suddenly and it was closed down. 

Many People are Having Dreams of the End of the World 

A post on Facebook here in Southern Utah said that many people have had dreams of a tsunami in California. There was much eye rolling and frankly hilarious posts, but it turns out the number of people having dreams part, might be true.  

This woman runs a site about dreams and talks about all the people reporting end of the world dreams in the night. She says it is not uncommon when people feel unsettled about where the country and the world is headed and that our dreams become an outlet for anxiety over these things. 

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I don’t know if I am ready to start heading for the hills because lots of people are dreaming about water flooding California. However, if John Barker were still around, he would probably be taking notes.