"Have you ever had any dreams and somehow known at the time, that they were only dreams?" asked Ann.

“That almost happened to me once,” said Wendell, “But in the dream, I wasn’t really sure.”

"No, and I do not think that things like that would be true dreams anyway. A dream is deceptive enough that you think it's real. What you asked would be like us sitting here now knowing that we're not real. This could be a dream, in which case we wouldn't know what our real selves would be doing with their lives when they awoke. They may not live in a world like this; but I think that this is the reality from which all dreams are derived or experienced.

"Still I did have a dream once, where the opposite happened. I was out on a farm standing by a wooden fence, and I thought to myself 'I know that this is real. This is not a dream. It has to be real. I can see the fence posts and lean against them.' Later I woke up and of course it had not been real. My dream self had been wrong. The other significant dream I had was about that 'Warp flight' science fiction television series four years ago. I had watched all of the episodes on television and then one night I dreamt of an ultimate episode, where the Warpflight spaceships went out on a special journey, and the narrator's voice said that they were going 'right through a black hole'; which they had never done in any of the television episodes I had seen in real life.

"Last month that movie came out, a Warpflight movie which had not been shown in the cinemas for three years. I had never heard of it before last month. I went to see it, and they did indeed go right through a black hole. I guess that's all the dreams with weird developments in real life that I can remember."

"They seem to all be about either people or television shows or places. What do you think about all this, Butler One? How does Arella have these special powers with her dreams?"

"I shall search my memory banks for possible relevant information, Miss O’Malley..."

The two girls waited, while Ann O’Malley's computer robot examined its own electronic programming in search of a clue.

"The most likely answer is that Arella Kayne is the only known survivor from a race of specially gifted earthlings called the Dream Sensitives. All of them have special powers with either having extraordinairy dreams or interpreting the dreams of others. However, a true dream sensitive infallibly dreams the future. Arella can only do that sometimes. Her other dreams are irrelevant to reality."

"We don't know that yet," said Ann, "She's had some rather delayed revelations. It may be that some of her dreams have not come true yet, but they will come true some time in the future, or it may be that they won't."

"The conclusion suggests that Arella Kayne is a mutant half breed. If a dream sensitive had married an ordinairy earthling, their offspring would be most likely to have the levels of mental subconscious energies exhibited by Arella Kayne."

"Of course!" said Arella, "I would inherit a mixture of my mother's normal dreaming habits and my father's dream sensitive sleeping, or maybe it was my mother who was the dream sensitive."

"Where did the dream sensitives live, Butler One?"
"No known places of origin or residence, Miss O’Malley. They were simply known on earth in the nineteenth century because of their special powers. Few people had heard of them, but my former owner Jeradd programmed me with a limited degree of knowledge of the dream sensitives."

"It might be a special power which depends on the type of mind one person has," said Arella,           "I have been reading lots of books about dreams, and apparently, the heavy dreaming that you do in the night is called the R.E.M. phase of dreaming or sleep. R.E.M. stands for Rapid Eye Movement. Some people think that it's just a wishful thinking and subconscious fantasizing time of the night. However,  the books say that if you wake somebody up during their rapid eye movement phase, you are likely to make the person upset and tired for the rest of the day.”