SYNCHRONICITY AND DREAMS
Dreams are often harbingers of synchronicity. Jung analyzed his patients’
dreams, paying particular attention to the symbols they contained. He looked for
connections between dream images and waking life, like the scarab beetle. These
turn up with surprising frequency.
Dreams can change the course of our lives. They’re often filled with symbols
and events that contain synchronous links to the real-life challenges we face.
They give meaning to our experience and can provide information far beyond
the abilities of the waking mind.
One category of synchronous dreams are those that carry information about
our health. In dreams, people often gain knowledge about their bodies that
transcends the scope of ordinary consciousness.
Radiologist Larry Burk, M.D., has been collecting and studying breast cancer
dreams for years. Analyzing stories from women around the world, he finds that
many of these dreams are life-changing experiences (Burk, 2015). They also
share common characteristics. Among these are that the dreamer senses that the
dream is important (94 percent of cases). In 83 percent of cases, the dream is
more intense and vivid than other dreams. Most dreamers experience a feeling of
dread, and in 44 percent of cases, the words
cancer
or
tumor
appear.
In over half the cases Dr. Burk has collected, the dream resulted in the woman
seeking medical consultation. Dreams led directly to diagnosis and frequently
highlighted the precise location of the tumors.
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One of the participants in Dr. Burk’s study is named Wanda Burch. She
had a series of dreams about a tumor and followed up by getting a physical
exam and mammogram. Neither definitively showed the existence of a
exam and mammogram. Neither definitively showed the existence of a
tumor. Her physician, Dr. Barlyn, was an open-minded clinician and willing
to consider her story. As she tells it:
“Dr. Barlyn listened to my dream and handed me a felt-tip marker. ‘Draw
the location on your breast.’ I drew a dot far underneath the right side of the
left breast and told him that another dream had shown me a ledge, with the
‘dream debris’—or tumor—hidden underneath the ledge. Dr. Barlyn
inserted the biopsy needle in the area I designated and felt resistance, an
indication of a problem. The surgical biopsy gave Dr. Barlyn the details of
a fast-moving, extremely aggressive breast cancer whose cells were not
massing in a fashion that allowed them to be seen on a mammogram.”
This led Wanda to successful treatment and to sharing her story with
other women in the form of a book called
She Who Dreams
(Burch, 2003).
A friend of Dr. Burk’s was not as fortunate in her interaction with her
doctor. Sonia Lee-Shield had a warning dream and described her symptoms
during a consultation:
“I had a dream that I had cancer. I went to the G.P. complaining of a
lump and spasm-like feelings on my sternum. The G.P. concluded it was
normal breast tissue, and the feeling in my sternum was dismissed, a
devastating mistake. A year later, a different doctor diagnosed stage 3
breast cancer.”
At that late stage, treatment was unsuccessful, and Sonia did not survive.
Her tragedy gave Dr. Burk the impetus he needed to publicize the
importance of synchronous warning dreams. He has found cases in which
the diagnosis of many other types of cancer was preceded by dreams. These
include skin, lung, brain, prostate, and colon cancers (Burk, 2015).
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