Tom Kando
It’s been a stressful period. Most people would probably agree. My desire is that we can resume our lives and return to some degree of normalcy and harmony. Let us also continue to hope for the best, for America and for the world.
For now, I present this brief anecdote, in an attempt to provide some levity and some entertainment. This experience did truly happen:
I recently had an experience which curiously seemed to be a case of time travel..I dreamed something which happened later. This happened a few weeks ago:
One morning, when I got up at my usual time, I could remember a few details of a dream I had just had that night: I had dreamed about Tom Jones, the famous Welsh sixties popular singer. I only remembered one thing about this dream: Tom Jones was singing his famous 1965 song “It’s not unusual”
(It's not unusual to be loved by anyone
It's not unusual to have fun with anyone
But when I see you hanging about with anyone
It's not unusual to see me cry
I wanna die
Etc.)
I hummed it for while and got on with my daily life.
Now here comes the mystery:
On the evening of that same day, some fourteen hours later, my wife and I were doing our usual after-dinner TV hour. Sometimes we like to watch reruns of old classic shows such as the Honeymooners or the Ed Sullivan show.
And guess what happened: Here comes Ed Sullivan on our TV screen, and he introduces Tom Jones, who then starts crooning “It’s not Unusual to be loved by Anyone.”
Coincidence? Of course. I am a rational person, I have never believed in mysticism or the supernatural of any sort. But how could I dream about something which I saw fourteen hours later?
It would be so much fun to believe that I had somehow experienced a “timeskip.” That I had anticipated in my dream the exact singer and song I saw on TV fourteen hours later.
There was no way that I could have known those things in advance. I had not seen any articles or TV programs or heard even the remotest mention of this Ed Sullivan rerun, or Tom Jones, or that particular song... weird, don’t you think?
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