I used to have a recurring dream that someone was backing a tractor over my dog and wouldn't stop, even though my dog was crying in pain. Then my dog died suddenly of kidney failure. If it had been detected earlier, it might not have taken him so soon. Last year I had a recurring dream that something horrible happened to Alfalfa, one of my ferrets (I won't repeat the dream, it was too horrible). Al, as it turned out, had a life-threatening tumor on his spleen, which, fortunately, was detected by his terrific vet during Al's anual exam and successfully removed. But I had no idea Al was developing a tumor, he seemed perfectly normal. With the tumor in him, according to my vet, Al had only a month or two before the tumor would have burst and killed him with internal bleeding. I really think that these dreams were warnings, which may not be the case for everyone, but I now have learned to pay attention to them (at least recurring dreams). How to interpret them is a challenge for me, though. [Posted in FML issue 3559]