In my previous post "Can You Know in a Dream Some Fact You Never Learned When Awake?" I discuss two interesting cases in which I seemed to know something in a dream that I had never previously learned while awake. In one of the dreams Betty White rejected a romantic overture from Allen Ludden, something that happened in real life, but I had not learned about before having the dream. (The two eventually married.) In another dream someone seemed to know that a marmoset was a tree dweller, even though at the time I had the dream I did not know this fact, and could not even identify what a marmoset was upon waking from the dream. In another post I describe a similar dream of this type. I seemed to know in the dream that pi (the ratio of the circumference and the diameter of a circle) is important in solving a particular problem, although I did not know this fact before the dream.
Last night it was a similar situation. I dreamed I had borrowed two books from the library: a novel, and a biography of the late novelist Toni Morrison. I did not know before the dream that anyone had written a biography of Toni Morrison. After awakening, I confirmed that someone (actually more than one person) had written a biography of Toni Morrison.
