Dear Brian, 

I came across your website a long time ago when I was doing a search for a missing Ohio Statue University student named Brian Shaffer. (Case number 175)

You and I are a lot alike - I was pleasantly surprised to see that someone else who dreams like me has posted their dreams up on a website! I think that is very cool and I particularly like the fact that you state you are not always right, yet you still post the information anyway. I know I would do the same.

I'm sure you must get bombarded with emails from lots of people, but I really do hope you give mine some consideration for a few reasons: 1) I can help with the Brain Shaffer case as I live in Columbus, Ohio

                    2) As I said, you and I are a lot alike in the way we dream

                    3) I think we could do well in a joint effort on particular things. 

Allow me to elaborate: This morning before I awoke, I had a very odd dream where I was at a rest stop and this car pulled up next to me and the door opened and out of the passenger side waddled 3 ducks, one of whom was on a leash!

I thought that was very funny that people had pet ducks.

Amazingly enough, I only just now went through your entire website and was quite surprised to see that, among all your other pets, you also have some pet ducks!

And not just one or two, but THREE! 

I know enough about my dreams that this was no accident.

I've been thinking about writing for a while, so I guess this was my sign that it's time.

 I also can't draw very well, but my Dream Diary is filled with little sketches, mostly of locations I have never visited and specific directions on streets I have never seen.

I spare myself from trying to draw people and instead describe them in graphic detail.

I can see my dreams very clearly, even years later.

If I ever were to see someone I dreamt about, I would be able to recognize them very easily.

Sort of like a mental polaroid, I guess. 

I want to tell you a little about me, in case you would like to work with me on anything or perhaps there is something we can teach one another. I have been having dreams, both premonitory and precognitive since the age of 8.

That is the earliest I can remember. I remember this specifically because it was at this time that I had a very graphic dream, with a lot of blood...It was the first time I'd had a dream like that and it was to be the only time I would ever see the victim after the death had occured.

I didn't know what I had dreamt until years later, as I was shielded from it at the time, but it was of a local 8 yr. old girl's murder. Her name was Asenath Dukat. I only just this year discovered the full story of what happened to her. Her killer has never been found. Since then, I have had dreams mostly of murders, very rarely of natural disasters and only an occasional warning of assisinations of political figures. I am also capable of lucid dreaming and am a big follower also of Edgar Cayce.

I can do nothing to bring on these dreams, however. They come to ME, not the other way around.

When I dream, sometimes I am in a body, sometimes I am not. Sometimes I am just a witness to an event, sometimes I am actually the victim. As in, I see through the eyes of the victim, as though what is happening is happening to me.

Sometimes I have no body yet I move into various ones, so as to experience each individuals moment in time.

Yet, I always see clearly and with great clarity. I can pick up information and can see in the darkness as though it is light.

A particular dream of interest I had was of a girl from OSU who was killed back in 1994. Her name was Stephanie Hummer.

Though each dream I have along these lines is haunting, there are only a few which stand out and catch my attention.

The Asenath Dukat dream is one and this dream is another. (The Nicole Brown Simpson murder is the last.)

Most of the time, I have these dreams before the event happens. I do not know who it will happen to or if it will truly even happen at all. It is only after the fact, when I hear about it or read about it, that I put the pieces together.

Before Stephanie Hummer was murdered, I began having a recurring dream that lasted about 5 months. I knew it was seriously trying to tell me something. I paid attention to every detail. In this dream, I was the victim. I felt what she felt and I saw what she saw. I could describe the area where she was in perfect detail. I could describe the man who was after her very accurately. I did go to the police to tell them what I saw but I think they thought I was a quack and just swept what I said under the rug, so to speak. I turned out to be comletely wrong about the guy. They found him finally through DNA just this year, I think. But I was right about everything else. Everyone who knew me knew about that dream - this was before she got killed. The area in my dream reminded me a lot of an area I would use as a shortcut. After the dream, I refused to go through that way, as it reminded me so much of the area I had seen in my dream. This is of particular importance as I will also send you an email to your other address regarding a place I think should be checked out about Brian Shaffer. This particular area makes me think of him, just as that particular area made me think of the murder in my dream at the time. When my recurring dream stopped, it was about 2 months later that Stephanie Hummer went missing and was murdered. When I read about where she was found in the paper, I couldn't even finish the first paragraph. It completely described the area I had seen in my dream and it gave me chills. I am not scared by these dreams, I don't want them to go away - I know some people don't like it when they have dreams like this, but I don't mind it. I write every dream down, even the silly ones, even the ones that I know are pointless dreams. I write them all down and date them. Unlike the Asenath Dukat dream, I never see people after they have died or at the moment of death. I only see them right before the moment comes. Or I am shown a sort of movie in my head, sometimes it comes across as a newscast on tv, and I can pick up information that way, without really being there.

I am always shown things and I always have the feeling while I am dreaming that what I am being shown is just for me and that I should pay very close attention.

 I wish I could go into a sort of trance while I am awake, I've tried, but I am unable to do it.

The only time I can empty my mind successfully is when I am playing jeopardy!

Ha Ha

It never ceases to amaze me how I can answer things I don't even really know!

The answers just come into my head...

I'm still working on being able to do that in other circumstances. 

I've never practiced Remote Viewing and I'm not even sure I'd be any good at it.

I seem to do well in the areas of ESP though. I know that is vague, but I've scored very high on ESP tests and on sensitivity tests. I do believe I am an empath, not sure if I'm capable of being a medium, though.

I'm always interested in furthuring my abilities with more practice, however.

 In my waking life, I am extremely interested in metaphysics and the paranormal - ghosts, more than anything.

I have an EVP collection and routinely take my recorder with me to places where I am trying to gather information.

I also love to travel and photograph cemeteries.

I have always been interested in the other side of life, as I know I have been there in my dreams and I do not fear it.

All this is just a side thing, however, as I earn my living as a massage therapist.

 I do realize you have a full schedule, juggling pets, a wife and a family, along with your daily dreams and the website, but if anything I have said here strikes a note of interest, I would love to hear from you.

Again, if you need any help on anything or would like some assistance in any particular case, just let me know.

 I am not embarrased or ashamed to talk about these things, but I will say you are the first person to whom I have ever sent an email like this.

Thank you for reading, I know it was long.

 : )

 - Allison

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Hi Allison, thanks for the help, and working together is a great idea.

Brian