THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE
DEEP in the night of 29 January 2012, Fatih Ozcan had an unusual dream.
Then 27, and a waiter in a Turkish restaurant in York, England, Fatih dreamt he was holding “loads of cash” while standing in front of his boss.
When he arrived at the restaurant for his 5pm shift the next day, he was impatient to speak with his employer.
“I was saying: ‘Where is he? I need him.’ I was telling everyone I had to play the lottery with the boss,” Fatih says. After two hours of pestering, Fatih’s boss agreed to play. Two days later, the winning EuroMillions numbers were drawn – the pair won £1 million (then about R8,5m).
“I’ve had loads of dreams that’ve come true, but they were little things, like travelling somewhere or having a nice day,” he says.
Fatih was certain this dream was prophetic and that he and his boss would win money together, because a month earlier he’d prayed for wealth for the first time.
“My boss and my colleagues didn’t believe it, but I believed it and that’s why I pressured him for hours.”
Every month premonitions hit the headlines – from the (ironically predictable) claims of Uri Geller to the countless celebrities who claim they foresaw 9/11 (including British actor Michael Caine and TV presenters Christine Lampard and Richard Madeley). Like Fatih, several lottery winners claim they predicted their wins. In May last year a man in Australia and a woman in Maryland in the United States both
