What's the explanation of this?

Coincidence? Probably.

Our dreams are an expression of who we are. They reflect our daily experiences, expectations and aspirations. During dream time, we wrestle with problems, and explore our mental images of the world we think we live in. Dreaming of flora in all its varied forms isn't that unusual, neither is it unusual to find trees in floral shops. With the passage of even a short time, the dreamer's memory of the dream fades and blurs into more generalized types, so if the dream sees a tree that in some other respects conform to the dream they might easily see it as the particular tree dreamed of. I imagine that seeing her dream "realized", she may have suggested that a photo be taken and that filled in the missing detail.

Undigested potato chip?

The explanation is probably that she tends to forget the numerous dreams which don't come true.

Can she offer any reliable evidence that her dream and her subsequent experience were identical? Really, this is too, too naive. It is entirely possible that she had a confused memory of a dream, which she has now retroactively related to the flower shop incident. A strong desire to believe in the supernatural can lead to all manner of self-delusion.

I knew a woman when i was at university who was very much taken with notions of the supernatural. I once told her that i thought the house in which i was living was haunted (i didn't, but several other people insisted upon it, which amused me). She immediately responded that she had driven past the house shortly after i moved in, and she just knew it was haunted. Funny, she had never mentioned that to me in the eight months in which i had lived there before i told her it was haunted.

It's probably not even "coincidence." The mind plays tricks on us regularly; we think we saw something that isn't there and visa-versa. Our wanting something will produce that result - only in our imagination; not for real.

Either that or the potato chip.

This incident explains why so many see and fly off with aliens.

Either that, or what Brandon said, or what Setanta said, or the potato chip.

Once I dreamed that I took a picture of myself in the mirror. Then I woke and took a picture of myself in the mirror... Wow.

Anyway, the initial story of this thread sounds as though it might be either coincidence or just mixed memories. But I do not presume to know that the human mind has no way to make such things seem very real. For all I know they might even be real, but I find it very unlikely.

Either that, or what Brandon said, or what Setanta said, or what CI said, or what Asherman said, or the potato chip.

Maybe she had a genuine premonition. People do that you know.

Either that, or what Cyracuz said, or what Brandon said, or what Setanta said, or what CI said, or what Asherman said, or the potato chip.

Sorry Neo... I think I stole your thunder there.