Shortly after writing ORBITING DESTINIES, I awoke early one morning with a vivid dream
still fresh on my mind. In the dream, I had walked into a small T.G.& Y., but
it looked more like the Woolworth's 5 & 10 on Essex Street in Lawrence, the store I
had visited so frequently as a teenager.
In the dream, a popcorn
machine stood directly in front of me. Its big glass box was half filled with
popcorn. Large brown empty shelves stood floor to ceiling against the north wall.
Approximately six feet off the floor, and six feet across the center of the
shelves, stood a large, flashing, electric white sign. It spelled out in individual
letters, "SOON TO BE ON THESE SHELVES… ORBITING DESTINIES … BY JOAN H.
CARTER … CLAIRVOYANT." The letters lit up individually and ran across the
center of the sign in synchronized, circular rotation. Mystified, I woke up Eddie and
asked:
"What's a clairvoyant?"
The meaning was
unclear. He gave an approximate definition, so I sought the exact meaning in the huge
dog-eared dictionary downstairs on the dining room table.
Clairvoyant:
a. Discerning objects which are not present to the senses; pertaining to clairvoyance.
n. (Fr. clairvoyant, lit, clear seeing.) One having, or pretending to have, the gift
of clairvoyance.
n. (Fr. Clair, clear, and voyant, ppr. of voir, to see.)
Literally, clear sightedness, a power attributed to persons in a mesmeric trance, of
discerning objects which are not present to the normal senses.
It was approximately 7
a.m. The entire day was filled with a new thought clairvoyance!
I had written a lengthy
poem named ORBITING DESTINIES, but certainly it was only a poem, and not a book.
Therefore, the dream wasn't considered precognition. What tickled me was the word
"clairvoyant."
After that day, the
thrill wore off, and it was basically filed away in my memory until the day the dream came
true.
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Revised: December 29, 2007.