Oh man, before I start, nobody say anything negative, please.
It's a little strange sounding, but this is still my mom, so ya' know. A lil' respect.
Supposedly, my mom had a recurring dream while she was pregnant with me, and in this dream she saw me as both a baby and a fully grown man with the name David. She interpreted it as a religious event and insisted that I be named David.
My dad, being agnostic, severely doubted any religious occurrence and wanted to continue the tradition of naming all the firstborn sons in the family Anthony, so I would have been Anthony Brancato III. But he settled for my middle name being Anthony. My mom, like many other women, always wins arguments.
The freaky part though, is that my mom said that I looked exactly like I did as a baby, and almost like I do now in her dream.
You can take that story with a few teaspoons of salt, but my mom's not the lying type.
She also had a dream around five years ago that my uncle was in a plane crash, and when she called to tell him in the morning, she found that his flight for that day had been canceled due to an engine malfunction. She literally woke up, told me about her dream and called my uncle only to find out later that day that his flight was canceled.
It could be coincidence, it could be a carefully fabricated story between the two, or it could be something a little more telepathic.
I dunno, and part of me doesn't really care to know anyways. But it makes for some interesting conversation!
