London Olympics 2012 Magnitude 5.4 - A dream

First I must tell you that generally I do NOT remember dreams, and indeed it is a VERY rare thing for me to even be aware that I have had a dream. If it happens once in 10 years that is unusual. In addition I sleep almost the minute I hit the pillow.

It is like 6 hours, rarely more or less pretty much regularly, of total oblivion. I have no idea of anything that has happened during the night - I don't wake up for thunderstorms, aircraft or the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse!

This morning I remembered a dream - that there was a magnitude 5.4 earthquake with an epicentre in the London area during the Olympics 2012. This is about it, and the fact that someone from somewhere (actually someone in the BGS) said that I had predicted it. No details of any effects, although I doubt there would be many.

The only reason I am going completely and totally out of character and posting this here is because it was so strong that I thought there should be a record for the one in 10,000,000 chance that it happens.

I have no geological evidence or theories that might have triggered this. A 5.4 in Britain is a pretty rare occurrence. I am totally not interested in sports of any kind, let alone the Olympics, so I find it rather odd that I should have dreamed this.

That is it - on record where I can't change it.

Perhaps you had your dream after reading this in the UK papers:

www.telegraph.co.uk...

Map of tectonic plates in the UK:

snapshotscience.co.uk...,2,Slide 2

reply to post by bluemirage5


Seeing as I live in Ireland and never look in the papers, or on the web sites of papers unless specifically directed to them, that is very unlikely.

Interesting however!

PM fair play to you for logging this...I know it's not your usual bag as you are quite the scientist (with an open mind too!)

It's not unfeasible....a while back I stumbled across an article about a quake which affected London and the link below makes reference to it ...1580 , of course building standards weren't quite in place back then , but nevertheless a big enough jolt in the Dover strait has the capacity to affect London ...

www.bbc.co.uk...

reply to post by slidingdoor


Thanks for posting that link.

We tend to concentrate on the more 'spectacular' (potentially) area and forget that a large quake in a not so normal location could be very devastating.

reply to post by PuterMan


Only time will tell, I personally don't believe we will witness the 2012 Olympic games.

reply to post by Gexi1992


Now that is an interesting statement. I have no idea when they are but I assume they are before the end of the world date so what makes you say that we won't get to see them?