Some time ago, an old man came to me because of my interest in dreams and cancer. His wife had just died of cancer, and he wanted to tell me something that he thought might be important.
Prior to his wife’s diagnosis, she began to have terrible nightmares filled with conflagrations and vicious, pursuing animals. She woke in the night screaming in response to dream images of dogs tearing at her stomach, fires burning her flesh, and other horrors.
These nightmarish experiences lasted about two weeks. Several months later she was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. and within three months she was dead.
The old man told me: “You know, those dreams were the beginning of it. The cancer was announcing itself. I felt the truth of it in my bones. But people won’t listen to an old man.”
Source: Cancer in Myth and Dreams; Russell A. Lockhart, in Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Cancer Patients, edited by Jane G. Goldberg, Page 18.
Source of Image: Sidney Goodman Night Burn
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