Today's post is going to be simple. I don't have a lot of time, but feel guilty for not posting for the last two weeks or so. I've been very busy working on a sequel to my book about my dreams. this has ironically meant that I have been doing more writing about dreams in the last two weeks than at any time in the last couple of years.
However, I haven't been posting it on this site, because I'm trying to get the book done. What I'm really doing is going through the dream journal, which is over 1 million words at this point, trying to find the dreams I want to talk about. Some will be familiar from the last book, but there will be new ones as well.
The difference is that in between the first book and the new book, I've written 5 scientific papers that were published in peer reviewed journals on this subject and earned a PhD. I know a lot more about research and the subject matter that I did before.
That knowledge will be used to inform the new book. The downside is there is less time for this column.
With that said, here is a dream from 2005:
From the journal, 2/12/2005
In this dream, I see an angel suspended over a city. My impression is that the city is New Orleans. She's been there for a very long time. My impression is for the entire history of the city she has protected it with a dome of some kind, and it has prevented all sorts of disasters. Then one day the angel drops the dome. She does it on purpose.
A deluge falls from the sky and destroys the city. I asked her if she had become too weak to continue holding back the destructive forces around the city. She responds, “I was not permitted to continue.”
August 29, 2005
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall a few miles east of New Orleans. New Orleans is located between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River, and bordered on the south by the Gulf of Mexico. Because the city is below sea level, it is constantly under threat from the waters of these three great bodies. A complex system of levees and pumps have kept the city dry for its previous history, but when Katrina hit, the levees failed, the city was deluged, and it was largely destroyed.
The question raised by this dream and Hurricane Katrina is whether the levees and pumps worked in previous years thanks to divine protection, then failed due to its withdrawal, and why New Orleans lost that protection at that time.
Of some interest, in a first draft of my first book on dreams written before Katrina made landfall, this dream was included. I sent it to my agent, who reviewed it and made many suggestions. As I was working on those changes, Katrina hit New Orleans. My agent, Stephanie, hadn’t noticed. When I pointed out she had edited a manuscript containing that prediction prior to its realization, she said, “oh yeah…”
In a more current example, I had several dreams that my deceased mother was trying to reach me. I dreamed of missed phone calls, letters from her in the mail, notes left around by her, etc. Finally, she appeared in person and said something like, “look, there is some money left in my estate that you didn’t find. It will time out soon and become unrecoverable.” My impression is that she was talking about some kind of insurance.
My mom was far from wealthy, so I wasn’t that interested in pursuing the matter, but did mention it to my sister. She went looking and discovered that the estate was owed a little money from social security. Just yesterday, I received my half of the money (thanks Deb!), a little under a thousand dollars.
It’s funny what happens when we pay attention to our dreams.
Thank you.
I do love your dream journal posts.