A practitioner asks: “Remember that dream I had where you were pointing out interlopers inside the machines, and I didn’t understand why? You kept telling me to look closely and to listen to you. I did look closely, and I did see them, even so I was very confused. This was multiple years back. Who knew back then that you were describing AI?” Is she correct, or is there another explanation for the origin of this dream?

As strange as it might seem, this dream was indeed prophetic. She frequently has such dreams and this is a good example of the fact such visions are not always immediately useful, because dreams are symbolic, largely, as acted out within the resources of the mind. They represent an inner knowing being displayed according to the inner wherewithal and the vagaries of what the mind is thinking and doing during the particular dream state giving birth to a particular vision. That will vary as to precision, duration, and whether the meaning can even be deciphered. In this case, the meaning at the time was obscure and only figured out recently, because you have come forward with such a warning about AI, and she is putting two and two together and coming up with four, being the correct answer.