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Teleportation is projection to a distant bedside, where the dreamer in that bed actually sees the dream visitor standing there. This vision may be a false awakening or it may appear in a dream, but either way, evidence exists that this experience does take place. A mother who dreamed her daughter in Australia was seriously ill had this confirmed when she telephoned her next morning. She also discovered that her daughter had seen her mother standing by the bedside. Her daughter had been asleep during the day so the times of the two dream experiences coincided exactly.

This phantom vision, the ghost of a living person, is known as a ‘fetch’. Although most teleportations occur between those closely related, it is not always so. The experience of Tudor Pole, a well-known radio broadcaster, archaeologist, writer and philosopher in the 1930s, was a classic example. When excavating in Egypt he was taken ill with a severe fever. One night, as he restlessly dreamed, he thought he heard a tap on the cabin door. He awoke, or so he believed, and standing by his bed was a doctor dressed in a black cloak and wearing a top hat. The hat fascinated him because he could see right through it. The doctor placed this on a small table then proceeded to tell Tudor Pole that he was in practice in Britain but on some nights he travelled all over the world to visit those who needed his help. He then left, after giving the patient a special potion, which he drank. Next morning, Tudor Pole had recovered completely. The sequel to this was that when Tudor Pole returned to Britain, he appealed on BBC radio for this ghostly healer to come forward and, as a result, a Scottish doctor contacted him and confirmed that he did, in fact, travel during his sleep to those in need.