14 year-old Deer Creek Victim Says He Dreamed About School Shooting

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Fri Feb-26-10 08:22 PM
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14 year-old Deer Creek Victim Says He Dreamed About School Shooting

Thieu said months before the incident, he had a chilling vision of a chaotic shooting scene and paramedics taking him away. "I knew I was shot ," he said. "I just saw bits and pieces of it."

Thieu said his dream was eerily similar to the school shooting on Feb. 23. Witnesses said a gunman walked onto the Deer Creek Middle School campus, asked a few students whether they attended the school and then fired into a crowd of children. A bullet hit Thieu in the side and another student, Regan Weber in the arm. The shooter was subdued only after math teacher David Benke and several other staff members wrestled him to the ground.

Thieu's mother Pattie praised Benke's quick thinking and said she believes there is a reason why her son was not killed. Pattie said she does not know when her son will go back to school, but said she worries about how he will face the campus where his life changed forever.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/22687155/detail.html

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Fri Feb-26-10 08:26 PM
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1. With the number of school shooting happening, this probably isn't an uncommon dream.

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Fri Feb-26-10 08:31 PM
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Dr. Lenore Terr found that traumatized kids often came to believe they had premonitions

Her theory is that the brain re-writes a little and projects the idea of a "warning" as a way of imagining some control over the event: "I could have avoided it if I'd listened!" and as a way of imagining having some warning to protect oneself from trauma in the future: "Next time I'll listen to my dream!"

This is not an uncommon claim for traumatized kids, and it seems to protect the psyche in some ways.

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Fri Feb-26-10 08:31 PM
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2. I dreamed of a motorcyle accident months before it happened

Then when the accident happened I was confused about whether or not it was the dream happening.
Very weird, but I think it took some of the fright away in the accident.

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