Can a dream show us the future and give us the opportunity of changing it? It
is hard to believe. If we can see the future in a dream, then surely the future
already exists. If it does, then we are not free to act in the ways we wish to; we are
Hot responsible for our own lives.
Before I tell you the dream, I must explain a little about the context. It was
the summe r of four years ago, and I was driving my family back from Italy
through the south of France. My son had not yet learned to drive, my daughter
was too young, and my wife doesn't drive at all. I had been at the wheel for the
best part of three weeks. Perhaps I was tired; perhaps I could think of nothing
except cars. We spent the night of the dream in a town called Tain l'Hermitage.