Signing Magna Carta

I awoke, stating in a forceful way that “you must sign the Magna Carta”

I have lived with my wife now for many years and she has become accustomed to the fact that I occasionally ‘wake’ in the night to talk to her, usually about total nonsense. I have my eyes open and appear to be fully lucid, yet I only have vague memories of it the following morning and it is evident that I was doing some kind of ‘sleep-talking’.

In the summer of 1995 an instance of this occurred that has left me intrigued ever since. I awoke sometime after midnight to shake my wife until she awoke, stating in a forceful way that “you must sign the Magna Carta”. Somewhat bemused my wife told me to go back to sleep and took great pleasure in reminding me of the incident the following morning.

At this time my wife and I used to share a drive to work, a 45-minute trip during which we would occasionally listen to the radio. Two days after the sleeptalking incident we were listening to a radio programme in which the presenter ran through a list of anniversaries for that day – one of which was the signing of Magna Carta at runnymede. My wife and I looked at each other in total surprise, having immediately recalled the events of the night two days prior.

So what was this phenomenon that I experienced? Could it simply be coincidence, or part of some greater synchronistic picture? Maybe even a past life memory. Some people have suggested that I might have heard of the forthcoming anniversary and subconsciously noted it, thus stimulating the dream; but I find it hard to believe that such an insignificant anniversary (bearing in mind it was only a day and not a year) would have been broadcast prior to the event. Doug Overton Hampshire