I made a throwaway for this as I have told a few people in real life my strange coincidence story!! (It's a bit long!!)
When I was 17 in my last year of school I had a very strange dream one night. I was somewhere in America by myself and trying to cross a huge busy highway, 4 lanes of traffic going each way. Loads of people were crossing ahead of me, running across the road when there was a gap in the traffic, but every time they got to the middle a beam of white light would come down on them and they would fall to their knees, look skyward and be hit by cars and lorries. It was really scary. I eventually made a run for it and halfway across the road the light hit me, I could feel it almost physically slowing me down and pulling me to look up but I resisted and ran on, making it to the other side.
On the other side of the road was a lovely, quiet and peaceful park, no noise from the traffic. Full of beautiful trees and flowers and a big pond. I was tired from running across the road so I sat on a bench looking towards the pond. While I was sat there an elderly man approached and asked if he could sit beside me, and I said yes. We began talking and he said his name was Arthur Miller - well, I got very excited then as we had studied one of his plays for A-Level English Literature. We had a chat about that and after a while he said it was lovely to meet me but he had to go, and he got up and left.
The next morning the first thing I did when I saw my mum was tell her about my weird dream, she agreed it was strange and I thought no more of it. Later on I was checking my email and when I signed out I got the usual MSN news page. One of the headline stories that day? "Playwright Arthur Miller Dies" - my jaw nearly hit the floor. A noise of shock came out of my mouth that I hadn't made before, or since
I shouted on my mum and she came through to witness what I had just saw - the WEIRDEST feeling ever. The time he died in Connecticut would have been while I was asleep at home.
I used to get really vivid dreams a lot when I was younger, but only do occasionally now. I recently had a dream that I was staying in a hotel and had to walk through a wedding reception which was taking place in the hotel to reach my room. As I walked through I noticed my mum's friend and all her family sat at one of the tables. Again, I told my mum I had a funny dream which her friend had appeared in. Just a few days after I had seen them in my dream my mum told me that her friend's mother had passed away