Ulalume
tart of darkness
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Dear Forteans,
there is some weirdness happening in my life and I really could use your wonderful, collective wisdom to shed some light on it. Certain details will have to be excluded for privacy's sake, but I will try to explain as clearly as possible.
Some years ago now, there was a case in which a woman died under mysterious circumstances. The story was in the papers at the time, but since it happened far away and was unrelated to anything in my life, I didn't think about it much besides feeling it was a tragic accident. The case was investigated and later closed. I noted this, but again, didn't give it much further thought.
Cut ahead many years to just a few months ago, when I had the most blood-curdling nightmare of my life during an afternoon nap. (I've actually had two nightmares about this subject, but only have the strength to describe one right now) The dream was so frightening I can hardly bear to remember it, but since it must be described, here it is (in italics just to separate it from the rest of the text):
In the dream, I am walking through a series of darkened rooms. One of the passages leads to a closed door, and I can hear noise coming through it. Someone is knocking and banging on the other side. There are muffled shouts. The shouts become louder and more desperate. I'm moving toward the door to open it when an unseen, female presence stops me. Very quietly, she says "you can't go in there. That room belongs to the ghost." Alarmed, I ask, "what ghost? Whose ghost?" The presence says - indicating the person calling for help - "that's (name of the dead woman mentioned above)".
At that point in the dream, the terror in the screams and the banging and scratching at the door overwhelms me - I hate to use phrases like "paroxysms of terror" but that's really what it was like.
It was as if the terror had seized control of my body and was crawling through it. Horrible. Suddenly, there was relief as a sort of deafness came over me. Everthing was muffled as if underwater. I understood in the dream that I'd been granted deafness because I could not tolerate the level of fear in the sounds. I could still feel the vibrations from the pounding and screaming, but the final part of the dream takes place in this eerie, whooshing silence.
I'm still standing in front of the door, wondering what to do now that I can't hear. To my surprise, a white, blinking cursor appears in my field of vision, like an old-fashioned computer screen. Just as if someone is typing, words begin to appear in front of my eyes.
The first set of words say: "You don't know why you are so frightened."
The words disappear, leaving only the blinking cursor. After a moment, another sentence is typed: "You don't understand what is wrong with the story." Again, after a moment, the words disappear. Then a third sentence: "You don't know what really happened to (the dead woman)."
I jolted out from this dream a trembling, shaking wreck (I've got the shakes and palpitations just writing it.) It's hard to explain how disturbing it was. At any rate, it did drive me to do quite a bit of research on the woman in the dream, and found what the typed words said was true - I didn't understand what had happened to her, and yes, there seems to be something wrong with the story of her death, through I can't put my finger on what it is. That's not what's weird through - a really bad dream and some upsetting research does not weirdness make.
No, what's weird is that in the few months since having the dream, due to a convoluted set of circumstances that has little to do with me - or the unfortunate woman, for that matter - I've now met several people who are directly linked with that particular case. I wish I could be more specific but can't due to privacy concerns. They just kind of...turned up. This seems an unusual coincidence, especially considering just how removed we are from the time and place of the incident.
I haven't asked any questions about that case and don't plan on it, but I can't help but wonder if there was any meaning to the dream. could it have been an actual message or warning from beyond? Could it be something like retro-psi, wherein my future self, knowing I would meet these folks, sent a message back in time which just happened to scare the bejeebus out of me? Simple coincidence? Maybe, but it feels like something more, somehow fated.
Any opinions would be welcome.
there is some weirdness happening in my life and I really could use your wonderful, collective wisdom to shed some light on it. Certain details will have to be excluded for privacy's sake, but I will try to explain as clearly as possible.
Some years ago now, there was a case in which a woman died under mysterious circumstances. The story was in the papers at the time, but since it happened far away and was unrelated to anything in my life, I didn't think about it much besides feeling it was a tragic accident. The case was investigated and later closed. I noted this, but again, didn't give it much further thought.
Cut ahead many years to just a few months ago, when I had the most blood-curdling nightmare of my life during an afternoon nap. (I've actually had two nightmares about this subject, but only have the strength to describe one right now) The dream was so frightening I can hardly bear to remember it, but since it must be described, here it is (in italics just to separate it from the rest of the text):
In the dream, I am walking through a series of darkened rooms. One of the passages leads to a closed door, and I can hear noise coming through it. Someone is knocking and banging on the other side. There are muffled shouts. The shouts become louder and more desperate. I'm moving toward the door to open it when an unseen, female presence stops me. Very quietly, she says "you can't go in there. That room belongs to the ghost." Alarmed, I ask, "what ghost? Whose ghost?" The presence says - indicating the person calling for help - "that's (name of the dead woman mentioned above)".
At that point in the dream, the terror in the screams and the banging and scratching at the door overwhelms me - I hate to use phrases like "paroxysms of terror" but that's really what it was like.
It was as if the terror had seized control of my body and was crawling through it. Horrible. Suddenly, there was relief as a sort of deafness came over me. Everthing was muffled as if underwater. I understood in the dream that I'd been granted deafness because I could not tolerate the level of fear in the sounds. I could still feel the vibrations from the pounding and screaming, but the final part of the dream takes place in this eerie, whooshing silence.
I'm still standing in front of the door, wondering what to do now that I can't hear. To my surprise, a white, blinking cursor appears in my field of vision, like an old-fashioned computer screen. Just as if someone is typing, words begin to appear in front of my eyes.
The first set of words say: "You don't know why you are so frightened."
The words disappear, leaving only the blinking cursor. After a moment, another sentence is typed: "You don't understand what is wrong with the story." Again, after a moment, the words disappear. Then a third sentence: "You don't know what really happened to (the dead woman)."
I jolted out from this dream a trembling, shaking wreck (I've got the shakes and palpitations just writing it.) It's hard to explain how disturbing it was. At any rate, it did drive me to do quite a bit of research on the woman in the dream, and found what the typed words said was true - I didn't understand what had happened to her, and yes, there seems to be something wrong with the story of her death, through I can't put my finger on what it is. That's not what's weird through - a really bad dream and some upsetting research does not weirdness make.
No, what's weird is that in the few months since having the dream, due to a convoluted set of circumstances that has little to do with me - or the unfortunate woman, for that matter - I've now met several people who are directly linked with that particular case. I wish I could be more specific but can't due to privacy concerns. They just kind of...turned up. This seems an unusual coincidence, especially considering just how removed we are from the time and place of the incident.
I haven't asked any questions about that case and don't plan on it, but I can't help but wonder if there was any meaning to the dream. could it have been an actual message or warning from beyond? Could it be something like retro-psi, wherein my future self, knowing I would meet these folks, sent a message back in time which just happened to scare the bejeebus out of me? Simple coincidence? Maybe, but it feels like something more, somehow fated.
Any opinions would be welcome.