Same dream

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I shared a flat in Hannover with a good friend 25 years ago. One evening we were both sat having a drink in the local corner bar when a man entered, approached the bar and started chatting with the barmaid. We both recognised him from somewhere but couldn't immediately place him. It then dawned on me that he'd been in my dream the previous night. I recounted the dream to my friend. In the dream the man had been hostile to me in the bar so I had left. Outside was a car waiting for me with the door open. I stepped in and the car began to drive itself without a driver at the controls. The windows were misty but as they cleared I saw I was driving along a road with a hill to the right and a drop to the left. After a while the car pulled off the road and stopped at a farmhouse where a woman was standing at the doorway. The strange thing was as I recounted this dream my friend filled in parts as he had had exactly the same dream on the same night! The only difference was that in his dream the man at the bar had been friendly and the woman at the house had been violent to him, causing him to wake up. My friend now lives in Holland and I live in England. We still keep in touch and have had occassions where one of us is aware that the other is about to call on the phone without notice.
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Date submitted:Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:21:06 +0000Coincidence ID:5705