Just before I woke up today I had a strange dream. All I remember is a truck had lost its load and there was piles of twisted metal lying along the roadside. As I stood looking at it with someone a smaller truck suddenly rolled backwards and slipped off the road through some small bushes taking a parked motorbike with it as it slipped down and disappeared in to what was either a ditch or river or valley. At that point I woke up.
Later driving to work I heard that the Sumatra earthquake for which I had received an email alert for and had seen online at breakfast time had actually been felt by people in Phuket among other places. Luckily no tsunami had occurred. It was then that it suddenly occurred to me, my dream had presumably been triggered by the quake and had been a kind of subconscious tsunami or earthquake warning but, as the shaking had stopped, I was unaware that the tremors had reached Phuket and had no reason to be aware of the warning.
I never felt the 2004 earthquake as I had been outside in an open space at the time and the first earthquake I experienced here in Phuket, when a small quake hit Koh Yao, had woken me up but I had, in my blurry state, thought it was a truck driving past my house. The second time an earthquake hit I didn't put it down to passing trucks but grabbed my phone and checked Twitter!
http://www.earthquake.tmd.go.th/inside-info.html?earthquake=3376
Now I know that the next time I dream about trucks or piles of twisted metal it may be better to wake up and head for the hills!!
Amazing what the brain can do!
Later driving to work I heard that the Sumatra earthquake for which I had received an email alert for and had seen online at breakfast time had actually been felt by people in Phuket among other places. Luckily no tsunami had occurred. It was then that it suddenly occurred to me, my dream had presumably been triggered by the quake and had been a kind of subconscious tsunami or earthquake warning but, as the shaking had stopped, I was unaware that the tremors had reached Phuket and had no reason to be aware of the warning.
I never felt the 2004 earthquake as I had been outside in an open space at the time and the first earthquake I experienced here in Phuket, when a small quake hit Koh Yao, had woken me up but I had, in my blurry state, thought it was a truck driving past my house. The second time an earthquake hit I didn't put it down to passing trucks but grabbed my phone and checked Twitter!
http://www.earthquake.tmd.go.th/inside-info.html?earthquake=3376
Now I know that the next time I dream about trucks or piles of twisted metal it may be better to wake up and head for the hills!!
Amazing what the brain can do!
