In 1966, a 10-year-old girl in Wales woke up and told her mother she had dreamed her school vanished under something black; her mother had no time to listen, and 24 hours later a coal tip collapsed onto the building, killing 116 children in one of the most chilling recorded premonitory dreams in modern history

In 1966, a 10-year-old girl in Wales woke up and told her mother she had dreamed her school vanished under something black; her mother had no time to listen, and 24 hours later a coal tip collapsed onto the building, killing 116 children in one of the most chilling recorded premonitory dreams in modern history

Every so often in recorded history, someone’s sleep seems to reach further than sleep is supposed to reach. A scientist wakes up with the answer to a problem that had nothing to do with dreaming. A songwriter wakes up with a finished melody he’s certain he must have heard somewhere before, except he hasn’t. And, much more rarely and much more unsettlingly, someone wakes up having seen something that hasn’t happened yet, and then it happens anywa…