In 2005, I attended a talk by Sally Nelson, author of Night Wings: A Soulful Dreaming and Writing Practice. Nelson talked about foreshadowing life experiences in dreams. She suggested we track the things that surprise us in our dreams and that we are really foreshadowing real life events. She said dreams come from some place beyond the ego and to try to understand our dreams, we can ask, “What is the ego grappling with?” Nelson kept a dream journal for years and had several dreams that didn’t make sense. Then, in December 2004, she, her fiancé and their combined children took a trip to Thailand. Her son had been injured before the trip but they decided to go anyway. They were supposed to return home on a certain date, but decided to stay a day longer. Sally, her fiancé and one of the daughters were on a boat at sea…