By Michael Avery
Perhaps the most common object linked to waking dreams is a clock. In his book, Man and His Symbols, Jung writes: “There are numerous well-authenticated stories of clocks stopping at the moment of the owner’s death; one was the pendulum clock in the palace of Fredrick the Great at San Souci, which stopped when the emperor died.”
Jung goes on: “Other common examples are those of a mirror that breaks, or a picture that falls, when a death occurs; or minor yet unexplainable breakages in a house where someone is passing through an emotional crisis.”
In Coincidence or Destiny? Phil Cousineau includes a clock story from Winnipeg, Canada. A grandfather clock stopped when its seventy-two-year-old owner died. Nobody could fix it. They couldn’t even pinpoint the issue. According to family tradition, the clock was supposed to be passed down to the oldest son, but the owner had neither a son nor a grandson. His widow kept the grandfather clock but made no further attempts to get it running.
One day, she returned home and was astonished to find the clock ticking loudly. Somehow, it had wound itself up and was running for the first time in years. No more than a few moments later, her telephone rang with news that her first grandson had been born fifteen minutes earlier!,
from Seven Signs from the Universe, pp. 162-163, by Michael and Pichaya Avery
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