I continue to get dreams that seem to symbolize life after death (or directly refer to it) in astonishing numbers, a phenomenon that has occurred to me for many months. My post listing my dreams (entitled "I Keep Dreaming of Danger, Death, the Deceased and Life After Death") now lists more than 160 dreams I have had (since November 2020) that either directly referred to life after death or seemed to symbolize the idea of life after death.
Today I noticed something very strange on my Samsung tablet device. I was surprised to see that my device was displaying full-size (in the Firefox web browser) an archive.org page from the interesting book "Life After Death and the World Beyond: Investigating Heaven and the Spiritual Dimension" by Jenny Randles and Peter Hough. What was surprising was that I have no memory of having summoned such a page today. I had read the book online about 30 days ago (using www.archive.org), and had not looked at it since then.
There are two possibilities that I considered to explain this, but neither is credible.
Possibility 1: I could have searched for information on life after death, got a list of search results, and clicked on a line in the search results, forgetting that I had done such a thing.
This activity would have produced a trace on the History tab that I can view in Firefox. For example, below is what that tab shows if I go to www.archive.org, search for "parapsychology," and then click on one of the titles in the search results:
Something similar would have showed up on my History tab if I had done a Google search for "life after death" and then clicked on one row of the results. Directly before the History tab row recording the access of that row, there would be a row listing www.google.com and the search phrase I had used.
But looking at my History tab I saw something different:
The page showing the life after death book had come up not after I had searched for some related topic on www.archive.org or www.google.com, but apparently just after I had been looking for some totally unrelated information on a video game I am playing.
So apparently Possibility 1 is ruled out, because if I had done such a thing and forgot about it, I would not see the History tab rows as shown above.
Possibility 2: It was just an old tab used long ago, and still showing because of "tab restoration."
If you have a browser that restores the tabs when you bring up a web browser, there is a possibility of seeing an old tab you didn't bring up today. For example, you might access a web page on Monday, leave it up in a tab of your browser, and shut down your computer. Then later in the week, you might be surprised to see that tab still hanging around, even though it was days since you accessed that page.
But this cannot explain what happened, because it occurred on my Samsung tablet, which I turn off every night, and which does not restore old tabs or pages when I bring up the Firefox web browser after starting up the device.
None of my blogs had a link to the afterlife-related page that mysteriously appeared. About 30 days ago I had created a Firefox bookmark for the "Life After Death and the World Beyond" book. But the bookmark was neither the first thousand of my Firefox bookmarks, nor any of the bookmarks on my last page of Firefox bookmarks I have made. To use the bookmark today, I would have had to do about twenty or more big long finger swipes on my Bookmark tab to reach its end, and then swipe in a different direction to reach the bookmark. To the best of my knowledge I did no such thing today, and did not even use the Bookmark tab today before mysteriously seeing the web page showing the life after death book.
This has happened before. Long ago I bookmarked a page for a life after death site. Then many days later my tablet mysteriously accessed the page in a way I can't explain, creating a "how did that page show up?" moment for me. I may reasonably wonder whether some mysterious reality out there is trying to remind me in different ways of the concept of life after death.
Postscript: A similar event just happened today (April 21, 2021). I went to www.archive.org, and I distinctly remember I intended to see whether I could find a book by a writer named Du Potet. There mysteriously came up search results for Baraduc, including a book Hippolyte Baraduc wrote entitled "The Human Soul: Its Movements, Its Lights and Its Iconography of the Fluidic Invisible." I formulated a hypothesis to explain this: maybe I accidentally typed "b" rather than "d," and maybe if you type just one letter, www.archive.org does some auto-complete, using the last search phrase you used beginning with the letter typed. But the hypothesis failed, because the site does not behave that way. A check of my History tab showed no record of a search on www.archive.org for "Baraduc," but if I go to the site and manually search for that name, a record of that does show up on my History tab. Very strange.
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