The numinous dream — a dream that announces something the dreamer could not have known. A lecture course of the 1890s devotes a section to reports sent in by its readers, each with a name, a prefecture and a date. A man in Kumamoto dozed twenty minutes one afternoon in 1890, dreamed of a postcard, and received it an hour later. A man in Mikawa was told in a dream where his missing brother had died seventeen years earlier, wrote to the village office of the place named, and received a written reply from a clerk and the headman confirming the facts.