Some 15 years ago I had a dream experience that stands out as the most memorable in my life. I had two concurrent dreams (but had no trouble telling them apart). I was female in both (!?) and

1. One dream was set in 16th century England. I was a young girl of noble birth. I was offered some great honor that I regarded as a "poisonous farce" but was unable to refuse it. I became queen of England for a short time and was arrested and beheaded at the age of 16.

2. The second occurred in the future. I was the last member of a very wealthy and secretive family (my parents died in an auto accident when I was 14). "Secretive"= my parents believed my grandfather had a Forbes editor murdered to prevent him from writing a piece on our family.

At the age of 16, I was almost murdered by two associates of my grandfather who wanted to take over the company --- but I escaped.

In that dream, I believed in reincarnation and had a past-life regression in which I "remembered" the life I am living now (but not how it ended)!

The death in the first dream and the near-death in the second occurred at exactly the same moment. My identification with the two female versions of me was complete until then when I shouted at the girl in the future dream to get up and do something.

Having two dreams at once is fascinating, and I love that one was a "future" self having a past-life regression, and recalling this lifetime! You sound like a very proficient dreamer.
Love, Cyn

Yes, it was very interesting. The past dream corresponds to the life of a minor British historical figure, Lady Jane Grey. Was that a past-life of mine? I don't know --- I might have read about her as a child (I spent every waking hour of my life in libraries, reading everything I could get my hands on).

Not too minor - there's a tea named after her, after all!

Thanks for sharing your dreams...

Love,
Mike.

Wow! I didn't know that! So she IS famous after all!

I made the "future dream" into a novel whose protagonist wrote novels with a pen-name of Jane Grey. Then I did a web-search on all the names in the novel (to see whether I'd be insulting someone real) and the story of Lady Jane Grey leapt out at me --- and was like the "past dream" (the few things known about her).

One nice thing about these dreams is that they triggered my writing ability. I had trouble graduating from college because I couldn't pass an English course (35 years ago). Most of my life, I'd never imagine reading fiction much less writing it.

The novel was almost like channeled writing (it took two weeks to pound it out) and the protagonist was an eccentric girl who wrote poetry.

Cheers!
Justin

Congrats on the book, Justin! Are you familiar with www.nanowrimo.org ?

Love,
Mike.