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	Robert Moss WAY OF THE DREAMER	mossdreams.com JULY 2007

The Secret History of Dreams
THE DREAM THAT MAY HAVE SAVED CHURCHILL'S LIFE
Winston Churchill was an ardent proponent of early aviation and loved to fly planes himself, doing so repeatedly in his first months as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1913-14. Two of his flight instructors crashed and died within days of flying with him - in the same planes he had flown with them. His wife Clementine pleaded with him again and again to give up flying. She was terribly nervous in June 1914, when she was expecting their third baby - especially when she learned that Churchill's latest flight instructor, Lt Creswell, had crashed and died in the plane Winston had been flying six days before. Clementine sent Winston an urgent telegram...[more]

HOW DREAMS SAVED JOHNNY CASH
By Kym Chaffin
I always thought there was something Lincoln-like about Johnny Cash. I could almost imagine them standing side by side, heads bowed together in deep conversation, two melancholy men dressed in black. Cash said he wore black as a sign of mourning for prisoners, the poor and the downtrodden. Both men were totally committed to solidarity with the underclass and both were strong dreamers, visionary guys who took their dreams seriously and spoke openly about them. [more]

THE QUOTABLE
DREAMER

“From a dream [Vespasian] learned that when Nero Caesar should lose a tooth, he himself should be emperor. This prophecy about the tooth became a reality on the following day; and Nero himself in his dreams once thought that he had brought the car of Jupiter to Vespasian's house.”

- Cassius Dio, Roman History Book LXVI

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