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It seems that my mind would not accept the precognitive inference of a heart attack. This seemed impossible. Therefore, it selected a catastrophe that was possible in its memory experience, i.e., an airplane crash. (The mind takes the nearest seem-alike.) Thus the heart attack came through in the form of an airplane crash, which was acceptable as a possibility. The four weeks in the hospital were eased by use of suggestive therapy on recorded tape, which worked wonders with my morale and seemed to speed my recovery. No experiences of a psychic nature came about in the hospital, which I finally deduced was caused by the sedatives (barbiturates) which were given to me every three hours. At home, my. recovery followed a standard procedure with no recurring symptoms to date. It goes without saying that I observed very intently after that when the "valve" decided to open. Each time the vision presented fitted exactly with events that occurred days, months, or years later. Examples of these include a visual description of the interior of a house, including paint and trim, that was selected by my wife for us in a Southern city. I recognized it immediately and it was identical to the description in the notes made two years previously. Most unusual was the fact that at the time of the precognition we had no plans or intention of moving south. Another was that five minutes before the broadcast of a recorded program, the valve opened and I "saw" the tape breaking sharply and the reels running wildly. Some ten minutes later, during the broadcast, the tape did break and was hastily reset. Such breakage had never happened before during a broadcast, so this was not a common concern. Further, I had made all editing splices myself, and knew they were tight. The break was caused by a splice made by someone else who had used the tape previously. A third: In the office, the valve opened, to reveal a red light with the words "Oil Pressure." An hour later, driving home in a nearly new car, the red Oil Warning light flashed on. Again, this was not a subconscious worry. The car had less than five hundred miles since it was new, and had just been checked. The new car had an oil leak—something one does not expect or worry about with a new automobile. There are some eighteen more, all of which are personal incidents of varied magnitude, previewed via the valve and later coming to pass exactly as noted, allowing for minor errors in interpretation. To date, a pattern of consistency has been established: H (Hissing sound) + V (Valve-opening sensation) = F (Future event vision).