In "Man's Search for Meaning", Viktor Frankl recounts what
happened to F., a fellow inmate in Auschwitz: "I would like to
tell you something, Doctor. I have had a strange dream. A voice
told me that I could wish for something, that I should only say
what I wanted to know, and all my questions would be answered...
I wanted to know when we, when our camp, would be liberated and
our sufferings come to an end." "And when did you have this
dream?" I asked. "In February, 1945," he answered. It was then
the beginning of March. "What did your dream voice answer?"
Furtively he whispered to me, "March 30." When F. told me about
this dream, he was still full of hope and convinced that the
voice of his dream would be right. But as the promised day drew
nearer, the war news which reached our camp made it appear very
unlikely that we would be free on the promised date. On March
29, F. suddenly became ill and ran a high temperature. On March
30, the day his prophecy had told him that the war and suffering
would be over for