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I asked what it was. "Why, whenever she was happy or grateful, she took your hand in both of hers, palm to palm, and gave a little squeeze. Does that help?" That helped. With experience, I became a little more convinced that I could take such chances in areas that were certainly unusual. A very close friend, Agnew Bahnson, was about my age and we had much in common. I had known him for about eight years. He was a pilot, among other things, and flew frequently in his company airplane. One of his research interests was antigravity, which we discussed many times. He had a laboratory where he conducted experiments in this field. Among matters we discussed relative to his gravity studies was the question of how one or even two people could demonstrate any effective results in antigravity in this age of massive research teams and extremely expensive instrumentation. On a business trip to New York in 1964, I found myself in my hotel room with an hour to spare in the afternoon. I decided to take a nap. I lay down on the bed, and had just started to drop off to sleep when I heard Mr. Bahnson's voice. "There is a way to prove antigravity. All you have to do is to demonstrate it yourself, and you have been trained to do it" I sat up, fully awake. I knew what the voice was referring to, but I had not had the courage to try it. But why did Mr. Bahnson's voice sound so real in this dream? I looked at the clock by the bed, and it was just about three-fifteen. I was too wide awake now to sleep, so I got up and went out When I returned home two days later, my wife was very quiet I asked her what was wrong. "We did not want to upset you with all you had to do in New York," she said, "but Agnew Bahnson is dead. He was killed trying to land his airplane in a small field out in Ohio." I remembered Mr. Bahnson's voice in New York. I asked her if he had been killed two days ago, at about three-fifteen in the afternoon. My wife looked at me a long rime before she said, 'Yes. That was when it happened." She did not ask how I knew. She was past that long ago.