This was kind of uncanny.

Last night I dreamed I was walking through a dark neighborhood with my friend, watching rainbow colored lights in the clouds. He said "That's the aurora borealis!" and I corrected him. "We're in the south, and aurora borealis happens at the north pole. Those are just auroras." (In real life, we're in the southern US.) That's not the uncanny part.

This morning, we were talking and he saw a news segment on CNN about solar flares causing auroras in the south and was quite surprised. "Dude! I had a dream about those last night!"

In his dream, he was in Alaska with his family so technically he DID see the aurora borealis. I kind of freaked out with excitement at that point, both because of the shared dreaming and the real auroras.

So: Crazy coincidence, or are our minds picking up solar flares subconsciously? This morning was the first time I had heard anything about auroras for an extremely long time.

Also, has anyone else had any dreams about auroras over the past couple of days? That would be even MORE awesome.