(09/02/64)"psychic?" While I was getting my orange juice this morning, our daughter said what a mess David was, that he stunk. This recalled a fragment of a dream last night in which David had had a bowel movement in his diapers. I can still see the scene, with David having smeared feces from his diapers onto the front of his belly and onto his chest, near the armpits. Someone else in the dream (I don't recall who) and I were remarking that this was a new phase for David, to be so terribly messy as this. David had actually smeared feces all over himself and his crib when my wife went in this morning. I think the coincidence of the dream and event is significant. I almost never dream of David, that I recall, and do not believe I have ever dreamed of him having dirty diapers. Two explanations are possible. One is some sort of telepathy or clairvoyance. The other is subliminal perception and subsequent stimulus incorporation. Twice I got out of bed last night to see why David was crying so -- each time I gave him a bottle. I have no conscious recollection at all of the bed having been smeared, or David smelling dirty (he always smells a little uriney at night), but perhaps he was.... my wife tells me that a long time after my second trip to David (around midnight was my trip, she thinks), she had to get up to tuck our daughter in. She had climbed into our bed and my wife had later sent her back, and when she cried, had gone to tuck her in. Anyway, my wife doesn't remember David smelling dirty, and this was considerably later than my visit. Another possibility is that the smell spread through the house and affected my dream. I don't know how plausible this is. Certainly David's room smelled pretty nasty while my wife was changing him, but I did not consciously smell it in our room or the living room when I got up. A psychological factor: I had played with David a lot yesterday, and thus was closer to him than usual.