01/04/2023
According to American scientist.org, “From 1940-1942, Major Kenneth Hopkins had gathered dream accounts every morning from 79 prisoners being held in Laufen Castle in Bavaria. Hopkins planned to use the data for his dissertation research, but he died of a lung ailment in the camp. These dreams sat unread for decades. The biggest surprise in the Laufen dreams lay outside our statistical analyses. A small number of the subjects reported dreams about escape (opposed to a larger number dreaming of food, death, sickness, etc.). The men who had such dreams (of escape) usually did so just once, typically expressing a negative attitude toward the idea. Three prisoners recorded several escape dreams, each, however, and their dreams were predominantly positive. Some were explicit, as in the case of one who dreamed he and three others snuck out of the prison dressed as N**i officers and found a car to drive over the Czechoslovakian border, whereupon the dreamer “woke up sweating although with effort not with fear.” In researching the Laufen camp, I came across references to the “Laufen six,” a group who escaped from the camp, which N**is had been touting as escape-proof. We were amazed to realize that the escapees managed this daring getaway on the same day that three dreamers disappeared from being subjects in Hopkins dream data. Three of the six widely celebrated heroes were in the data set, and all three had dreamed repeatedly about escape before they had successfully broke out of prison in real life!” According to Job 33:14-18 God gives dreams to instruct us, keep us from pride and to keep our souls from destruction and death!
