I stand in the mudflat junkyard peering up at both moons. A peel of crust unrolls like a scroll, a rind off the melon moon. The lunarpeel unwinds like moviereel, reveals Earth's cloud-fingerprints: our weather soon to come. The moons fleet-shadow, dapple Earth's sea-face. Cool our winds, lure our tides, in a waltz of three. So we can the next ten days foresee. The moons will team to make the next two days turn dark: swallow one full-noon. Eclipse. Then two days with nearly no night at all--the twins full glow! Then little sistermoon will hide; the world bereft, as unimooned as that lonely waking Earth I undreamed I lived upon. What then, past ten? Unknown beyond.

NOTES TEN DAYS LATER

• Twin moons cause eclipses but sometimes bright nights: predictive!
  1. Next day I stumble on Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel The Bloody Sun, set on Darkover, a world with two moons (and wretched weather: a worldwide Britain).
  2. As predicted by the moons, my next two days ARE dark. I get quite sick! And the next eight are as good as those were bad.
• Note that the dream's not just predictive; it announces that fact at the time. Self-flagging! This intriguing type isn't limited to fringe-science stuff like ESP. Say a dream figure warns "That nightmare of your brakes failing didn't mean you can't say no. It was literal--fix your brakes before you DIE!" That's self-flagging. Or a dream character discusses lucid dreams with you, prompting you to test and prove it's a dream--that's self-flagging too.
• Is the dream just making a point about the dreaming mind's abilities, or does it offer advice? Well... yes. I've been sick a lot, and it implies my health is a function of at least two independent variables, tugging, shadowing and lighting my life.
• ACTION: I've been looking for simple cause and effect. From now on, look for interacting multiple causes of illness.

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