Lisa's Dreams
| August 22, 2011, 5:32 PM Another Death Dream |
| I had death dreams frequently when I was in high school, but haven't had any since. Up until a couple weeks ago anyway. I was a little surprised by it, to be honest.
It was a while ago, so I'll try to remember as many details as possible. There was a small room that looked like a miniature version of the recital hall at Greenville College, and I was up in the balcony observing things. There was a hallway that went through the upper portion of the building, and it just went right through the top of the recital hall, in the back, creating the balcony. There was a small, wooden stage, upon which there had been a table and four chairs set up. Two chairs on the left, two chairs on the right, angled properly so the audience could see. Only there was no audience. Aside from the stage and where I stood in the balcony, the room was empty. Then there was this man. He was sort of a strange mix between what I might imagine the devil to look like, and Voldemort. Very pale. Not much of a nose. A long robe of some indistinguishable dark color. And a small, dark-haired female assistant. He was calling members of the GC Choir down, four at a time, to kill them at the table. I knew they were being killed, I just didn't know how. Or why. And then I was called down with three other girls. I remember we decided to try and fool him by putting on sheets and putting our hands together in an imitation of Mother Mary, but it wasn't successful. I don't recall what sort of logic we were using to form that plan. At some point around here, I recall taking a black lab puppy and placing him outside.... Anyway, we went down, and then suddenly I was sitting at the table by myself. The sheet was gone and so were my friends. Just me. I was sitting... well, hold on. Here's kind of a diagram of the table and chairs, with the end of the stage and the audience off to the right. The X's are the chairs. TABLE is where the table was. X ? X TABLE X ? X It was a small table, and looking at that diagram, I was sitting in the bottom left chair, with the non-existent audience to my right. And the man was behind me. And the assistant sat down to my right and I tried to explain to her why I couldn't die. Not because I was afraid my life would be over, but because I was worried about my family. I had a small family, I explained, and they wouldn't be able to handle it if I died too. I just couldn't imagine putting them through that kind of pain. But neither of them would have any of it. So I requested a piece of paper so I could write my family a letter. I wrote them in a very elaborate, scrawly cursive script that would be difficult for me to recreate in real life. And as much as I love to write, I can't remember ever writing anything in my dreams before this. So the assistant takes the letter and I face forward. I feel the man place his hands on either side of my face, along my jawline. I'm more anticipatory than afraid, really. But then he doesn't kill me right away. He just stands there, with his hands on my face. And I think for a moment, maybe he won't kill me? Maybe he's having second thoughts? There is music playing in the background. A fairly even-tempo-ed piece that is quickly coming to an end. And I suddenly realize he's just waiting to sync up with the music. The second to last measure comes along, and then: ONE two three ? SNAP. And he breaks my neck right on the last beat of the song. I fell over immediately and just kind of landed with my head facing to my right, unable to move. I could taste blood on my tongue; my throat was pretty full with it and I knew if I started breathing again, I'd have a hard time of it. I couldn't move my eyes. The man and his assistant left. And, lying there, I suppose my brain decided it didn't know what to do next. So I woke up. |
Interpretation/Comment by Jaron Davis on August 29, 2011, 7:57 AM Freaky Wow, this is a really freaky dream! I don't know that I've ever died (maybe once) in my dreams before. That's truly bizarre. Have there been any big changes in life recently? Stress about the new job? I know that my dreams seem to kick up in high gear whenever there's a big change in my life. |
Interpretation/Comment by Lisa Gines on August 29, 2011, 3:36 PM I wondered about that. But I can't think of anything major that went down about a month ago other than that I was starting to get a little stressed about finding a job. Though I've been reading a lot of news headlines this summer, for lack of anything much else to do, and have been keeping fairly abreast of what's going on in the world. I started getting frightened/depressed about the amount of issues going down, whether political or natural disasters or whatever. I don't know. |
Interpretation/Comment by Jaron Davis on August 31, 2011, 8:11 AM The News Right, this dream came from a few weeks ago; my bad :) Out of curiosity, what sort of things have been particularly concerning? I've been keeping abreast of these sorts of things to (Mr. Obama has actually entered into my dreams a few times...I probably need to post one of those...), and there's plenty out there that concerns me--most recently the brinkmanship and posturing that we had to endure this month that destabilized the markets and the uncertainty of the new governments that may or may not form in the middle east. On the other hand, I feel that there was also plenty of things to worry about in the past few decades as well (some of which didn't come to fruition); the escalation of the cold war right up through the 80's would have been particularly frightening to think about and live through. |
Interpretation/Comment by Lisa Gines on August 31, 2011, 9:17 AM Re: The News Combining a recent renewed interest in a Revelation course my dad taught at church a couple years ago (I couldn't attend but he sent me all his notes and powerpoints) and the fact that, from my point of view, there seem to be an uncanny frequency of "unusual" natural disasters, my subconscious is pretty convinced that Armageddon is coming in the next century, despite how logical I try to be about the whole thing. My dad's class wasn't a gloom and doom prophecy-matching kind of class. It was an educational walk-through of the passages in the Bible that refer to the end times and Jesus' return. It helps people know what prophecies have to be fulfilled and what sort of things have to line up in the world before Armageddon comes without actually making predictions. Because no one is supposed to be able to predict Revelation anyway. Just be ready for it and educated about what needs to happen beforehand. |
Interpretation/Comment by Jaron Davis on August 31, 2011, 1:06 PM Re: The News Gotcha, I can certainly identify; well, I could go on at great length about the subject of Revelation/end times, because the topic absolutely fascinates and confounds me, and I'm not sure what side of the aisle I come down on (in a broad or narrow sense), but I don't wish to drag out a potentially worrisome topic. Thanks for posting, Lisa :) And if you do wish discuss further, beware; the potential windfall of narrative from my side could enormous :) |
Interpretation/Comment by Lisa Gines on August 31, 2011, 9:34 PM Re: The News Will keep in mind :) And maybe some day, when the medium is appropriate, we can discuss Revelation together. It fascinates me and I love hearing different opinions on the subject. |