I agree with Paul that probability is important here for the purpose of evaluating evidence - a rather cold, but important task. As I have already mentioned, I had one seemingly informational dream that turned out not to connect with reality. If that dream had turned out to be true, it would have been hard not to be convinced.
However, it is a bit too easy to just wave the word probability around whenever somebody reports something strange. How often did Paqart (or anyone else) get rebuked by his cat in a dream? My guess is that this might only happen once in a lifetime, and when you couple that with the fact that the dream conveyed the fact that the cat was dead, and coincided with the time when his cat had to be put down, I would say the probability of that happening by chance is very low indeed.
David |