I am now 62 years of age, when I was 25 years old during child birth I had a major fit, eventually diagnosed as temporal lobe epilepsy. I had always been a little 'fey' knowing that somethings were going to happen before they happened. I thought most people had similar feelings and really gave it no importance. After the fit strange things happened I could be wide a wake and suddenly 'see' what was about to happen before the event took place. I was always left with a feeling of agitation and depression after such a fit. Without exception my 'foresight' always occurred. It happened at night with dreams too, if I had a dream and felt miserable the next mooring sure as eggs were eggs the dreamed event happened. On researching temporal lobe epilepsy this was common and from these feelings the term 'de ja vue' arose.
One night a few years ago I dreamed that I was a young girl of nine years of age and on a big boat with my family, when something happened and everyone was running around. My mother put my coat on me and also a brown bonnet that matched my coat and in all the confusion lowered me into a boat. The lights of the large vessel were blazing and were reflected onto the cold water. With my mother was another young woman, very beautiful who I knew as 'Ruby' I am uncertain if this was her proper name or just a pet name she was called.
I knew I was nine years old and my name was Mabel. As my mother lowered me over the side of the boat I slipped and gradually slipped into the water, which was very cold. An older man in uniform with a grey beard who was also in the water caught me and smiled down at me offering comfort. I did not know what he was saying as this wasn't clear within the dream. Gradually we both sank down into the depths of the water and everything went back.
I awoke the following morning with the full knowledge that this had happened to me and as a child I had drowned. I knew I was nine, my name was Mabel and I had died that night. I wondered what had happened to my mother and Ruby who I loved very much.
After a few days the agitation left me and my mood became 'normal' and I thought no more about Mabel. I put it down as 'one of those strange things that happen'.
Last year on the annerversary of the Titanic lots of programmes were shown on television and I became a bit agitated, and the dream came back to me as clearly as the night I had it. It was then I began to research the passenger lists and I then found little Mabel Skoog.
Very strange, happenings but if anyone knows anything about little Mabel and also Ruby I would be very interested.
