Mark Ruffalo once had a dream and unlike ordinary ones it felt unusually real and uncomfortable, with a very specific message. Mark got so rattled by it that without wasting any time, he walked straight into a doctor's office and told them, I dreamt last night that I have a brain tumor.
Now at this point Mark didn't have any tell tale signs of brain tumor like headaches, visual disturbances or pain. He was just battling an annoying ear infection. The doctor at first told him it was just a dream, but when he insisted, they ran tests and the results ended up shocking everybody in the room.
Mark really had a mass the size of a golf ball behind his left ear. The dream had somehow warned him.
The Doctor told him to get the surgery immediately. Mark hesitated, his wife was 9 months pregnant and just days away from giving birth. Not wanting to worry her, Mark silently went ahead with the surgery.
The surgery had its risks, the doctors told him it had a 70% chance of permanent deafness in the left ear and a 20% chance of facial paralysis. Mark went ahead anyway and it ended up saving his life, though he lost his hearing in the left ear permanently. But he stated he has no regrets about it.
It’s pretty amazing that the guy who plays Hulk in reel life got saved by a dream in real life. Even superheroes have a guardian angel.