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Reader Stories: Visions and Premonitions of the September 11 Attacks

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Many people have reported having predictive dreams, visions and premonitions of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Were you one of those people? Or perhaps someone you know? Tell the story.

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Dead cat

Everyone says that 9/11 began just like any other day. To some extent, it did start out just like any other day for me, except for seeing a dead cat on the side of the road on the way to school. (Not…More

Repeating dream

I kept waking up panicked. I saw the buildings come down. People were running everywhere covered in white dust. I could feel the fear. I kept telling my husband I really felt something bad was coming…More

Listen to what is being told to you

I was in a dream, unknowingly of course. Two close friends of mine were there and accompanying one of them was his unbelievably irritating girlfriend. I was upstairs at the local Barnes & Noble (that…More

High Tower Dream

I dreamed about the phone call, tv and radio stations. My dream started in the top of the towers. I was dreaming that I was someone looking up at this man. He looked to only to be in his earlier 20s …More

Skyscraper Dream

I was standing in a skyscraper in a business meeting and saw an airliner crash into the building next to me. It was one of those "oh my god" moments and I fell to my knees and sobbed. The image was s…More

Terrifying dream

During this time I was in my undergradudate studies at a school in Southern California. I lived in a dorm with my roommate. After going to bed for the night, at some point I had the most unexplicably…More

Vision of a plane

when my partner pointed out the twin towers and explained that was the WTC, I instantly saw and voiced out loud, that they were targets. I actually had the vision of a plane coming into them. I ended…More

Tall buildings on fire

9.11 : Tall buildings on fire, chaos among people, heat, awoke terrifiedLast Week : earthquake had taken the front of our apartment down and the bed was leaning out.. My girlfriend and I were sliding…More

Dream

Part 1 dreamI have a dream that me ,my friends and others go to our school festival then there are ride’s like octopus,horror train feris wheel ,roller coaster then me and my friend’s was…More

A dream two weeks prior

I was first aboard a flight. I could see and feel the tension aboard but it was like I could only watch and not help or change anything. The facts were unclear but people were scared. The plane was h…More

September 10 Dream

i was dreaming that there was a huge castsrophey, and everyone was running in one direction saying " He is here, he is comming, run for your life" i had alot of children in my care in my dream at the…More

Had a flash

I just had a strong feeling that the WTC was a target. I kept wondering how it would be torn down, how all the asbestos would be dealt with. My spouse at the time wrote books and I helped him. We wen…More

Two Premonitions

In the first dream I was driving along a country road and came to a highway. I knew I needed to turn right to drive north. I was driving to Washington. Overhead I heard an airplane and looked up to …More

Series of dreams

The first dream I had, I was in a tall building. I was someone employed there. I walked around as though the building were shaking, stumbling and unable to keep my balance while all those around me s…More

Husband and wife premonitions

In July of 2001, I had a dream of a plane crashing behind my grandparent's house and vanishing, then I saw two huge (tall) walls of fire moving past my grandparent's home. Their home was in the middl…More

Disturbing dream

I have inherited the ability to forsee world events in dreams from my mother. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to utilize this ability. In my dream I saw myself along with my co-workers, we were vie…More

Colossus of New York

I observed a man standing profile to me along the road to the north. He was tall, slim, grey-haired and dressed in a long tunic of blue-grey colour. He held something crooked in his left arm. In an i…More

Horrible feeling

Well it wasn't so much of a vision, but more like a feeling of a horrible event, and i didn't really know what it was, i just knew where.... I had all 3 locations almost exactly.... my boyfriend at t…More

Many dreams

I had been having dreams that culminated on Sept 10, 2011. I saw about a dozen men training in class, talking about it amongst themselves, praying in another language of their immenient deaths upon p…More

Awful nightmare

On 1st September 2001 I had the most awful nightmare. I dreamed that I could see a very tall glass building (similar to the one where I was working in Paris at the time) on fire on the upper part of …More

Wrestler metaphor

In my dream there were two wrestlers in a ring and I knew they represented the united states. One of them was chastising Yasser Arafat who was standing outside the ring. The wrestler was telling him…More

Heard a voice

I was dreaming of the NYC skyline and I heard a voice saying it will all end on Tuesday. When the attacks began, the dream returned to my mind and I thought this must be what I dreamed about. The end…More

Dreams of crashing planes

She had a dream that planes were crashing into very tall buildings. There was lots of fire, people screaming and running away from something. She woke up very disturbed and later told a few of us abo…More

Urged to call loved ones

I felt the words were commanded to me. It was a silent voice and urgent. Because of it urgency, I felt that something was going to happened to me and I must call my family. I did not understand why t…More

Night Shift

In my dream I was in a crew, and we had the task of getting into a tall glass building. But we were hampered by thousands of people running out of the building in a panic. We ending up having to scal…More

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