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4/23/2013

 
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I still don't know whether to believe in them or not, but I have dreamed in strange ways several times. Those dreams have predicted the future. I don't think they jump-started a change in my live—they were too weird. It's only afterwards that I saw the significant message. This is how it all happened.

After my 27-year support to a needy man, my marriage came under so much pressure that I knew I would crack if I remained. I experienced one dream during the time when I questioned the morality of breaking my vow and saving myself. I guess, my emotional state pushed the dreams to the forefront of my mind and gave me total recall.

One fateful night, I sank into slumber.

Wearing a red cape, I walked with a slow measured pace past round dwellings made of shaggy hide and twigs. People went about their daily chores without noticing my proud bearing. When I reached the coast, I stood on the sand. From the sea, three unrecognizable beasts emerged and came toward me. I stood unflinching until the dream dissolved.


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The memory is burned into my mind thirty years later.

Now, after following ancient history with a passion, I know that similar Celtic dwellings were made by early man in Britain. I think the three beasts might represent those from the bible, Revelation 13. The fact that they didn't frighten me showed I could be brave when standing alone.

About five years after that, I made the decision to leave Australia and find a job in England. I knew nobody in the country, but my grandparents had lived there. First, I had to face my fear of leaving loved-ones behind and coping alone. I made the move and have since remarried and live a happy life.

What important dreams can you remember?  Have any come true?


Paris Franz link
4/22/2013 11:05:47 pm

I sometimes feel a bit hard done by because i can never remember my dreams. The closest I've come is a minute or so after waking, after which they're gone. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing, or a bad thing!

Francene Stanley link
4/22/2013 11:40:43 pm

I don't remember most of mine. But this one made a great impression.

Gwynne Montgomery link
4/22/2013 11:34:14 pm

Too many of mine come true. It's unsettling at times.

I remember very clearly one dream in May 2011 in which I sat down with some man that I didn't recognize and had a conversation with him. He told me that my grandmother would pass soon, and I argued and argued with him. "No, she's fine. She's got many, many years to go."

She passed away two months later.

Lately, I've been having dreams about my own troubled marriage, and I'm still trying to figure out what they mean.

This post just hit me hard, because I do have the dreams, and I have been trying to ignore them. But I know I need to pay attention.

Francene Stanley link
4/22/2013 11:42:08 pm

So sorry these dreams cause you concern. Please, appreciate them for what they are. You need to take note of something.

Mary Muse link
4/22/2013 11:35:13 pm

I've had some pretty strong dreams where I've had conversations with my father who passed away some time ago. It's always felt good to have a connection with him through my dreams. I find its the powerful dreams that really help us shape our lives into what we desire.

Francene Stanley link
4/22/2013 11:43:06 pm

Dreams of talking to a loved one must be wonderful and bring you peace.

Kathy Hadley link
4/22/2013 11:38:56 pm

Interesting story.

I believe that dreams are just the conscious mind and the unconscious mind running rampant.

They have no real meaning for you except may how they felt to you.

Also, except, that everything has the meaning to you that you give it.

If it helps you, go for it. :-)

As for my dreams, good thing I don't try to interpret mine and learn not to try to do so. LOL

They are crazy. :-) Happy, but crazy. :-)

Kathy

Francene Stanley link
4/22/2013 11:44:33 pm

I know what your mean. My dreams usually include me talking and laughing with people, wheras in real life, I don't speak to anyone but my husband or a neighbor.

Kama link
4/22/2013 11:48:38 pm

Dreams can be so powerful can't they. I remember dreaming that I was on a cruise and I fell overboard. I was drowning and my husband was just waving at me. I found the dream so real yet at the time it made no sense. A year later his behaviour led to us being separated. I realised with hindsight that he had not given me support during our marriage and the dream was my subconscious telling me so. I pay more attention to my dreams now.

Francene Stanley link
4/23/2013 03:19:58 am

Wow! That's a really powerful message. I had similar ones about my first husband.

Diane link
4/23/2013 12:55:37 am

When I was younger I used to have a dream that we were at our old house, and that a strange man walked up to the kitchen door while my dad was cooking and shoved a yellow device into his stomach and it appeared to be shocking my father. I had that dream multiple times over the years. My father was eventually diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer (16 year survivor now!!!)

The night before I flew back home to visit my best friend who was in a terrible car accident and in a coma, before I went to bed I prayed she would give me a sign she was ok. That night I dreamed that her and her fiance were at a yankee game (her favorite team) and she had lots of kids with her. She walked past me in the stands and said she was ok, and she was happy. It was super sunny where she was standing. As she turned the right side of her head I realized was shaved. The next day, when I saw her in the hospital, the right side of her head was shaved. She ended up passing a few days later but She loved children, although she didn't have any of her own. I like to think she is in heaven taking care of all the children that have passed.

Francene Stanley link
4/23/2013 03:24:05 am

These dreams are amazing, Diane. I guess you realized there was something wrong with your dad after that dream even if you didn't acknowledge it.
The second one brought tears to my eyes. You could be right about seeing your friend in heaven doing a job. My daughter had a similar one about her brother, which has always given me comfort. They might be doing the job together.

Alana link
4/23/2013 10:11:48 am

Some amazing dreams in the comments. Some of mine have been unforgettable including one I had that was from nearly 30 years ago - three scenes of my life after some kind of disaster that impacted civilization. It might have made a good novel. Now, my mother in law has had some fascinating dreams - in one of them her late mother came to her to warn her that a condition her then-doctor was poo-pooing needed to be checked out and quickly. It scared my mother in law so badly she immediately went to another doctor - and it was cancer. She's alive today because of that dream.


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