A Worrisome Dream

The night before the Paris attacks, I had a worrisome dream. Other dreams occurred that night in which great commotion was taking place involving many people, but I could not specifically relate them to the situation in Paris. This particular dream probably does not relate to the Paris attacks either, but it causes me concern for other reasons. First, I will relate the dream.

In the dream, I was in a plane that was coming in for a landing. The plane appeared to be a small commuter plane. I was walking down the aisle when a flight attendant instructed me to take my seat for landing. I couldn’t seem to locate it, and the attendant pointed to a seat next to a large, overweight man. 

In an instant, I found myself above him squished against the ceiling. I thought, I can’t stay here like this. I then seemed to realize I was out of body and not a normal passenger. As the plane taxied into the gate ramp, I was already walking toward the front exit. 

Suddenly, a huge explosion occurred that seemed to come from the rear of the plane. A wave of fire and debris blew the entire front of the plane and me away. I think it affected the terminal building as well.

Obviously, as I have stated many times in my posts, I first look at current and planned events in my life to see if the dream fits any of them. I have done that and at least as of today cannot find any relationship. Of course, this could change over the coming days and weeks, but right now I don’t have an interpretation that fits my life.

The worrisome part of the dream is what appears to be my out-of-body visit to this plane. When this happened in the past, within a few days planes crashed just like in the dreams. In one dream, I can still recall the terror of the passengers when they realized the plane was going down. I experienced it with them.

I certainly hope that this dream is not precognitive of an actual event. However, with terrorists targeting so many nations, it is conceivable that this could happen. ISIL has already claimed responsibility for the downing of the Russian aircraft, which some airline safety experts believe was due to a bomb. 

I don’t know why I found myself on that particular plane. If one is destroyed in a similar way, perhaps the answer will become clear. I have flown on a number of commuter planes during my working career; maybe the plane in the dream relates to one of those. 

I want to emphasize that I am not predicting that a plane will be destroyed as in my dream. But I do make associations, and my past associations with this type of dream were disturbing. Perhaps this time it will be different. As always, use caution wherever you are. If you are traveling and see something that seems out of place, report it.

What do we fear?

During the summer months, I often walk at a mall in the morning for exercise. It is not busy, so I can get in a good, brisk half-hour walk. The heat and humidity make walking outside quite unpleasant here in Florida.

One day this past summer, I was walking in the mall past a jewelry counter in the middle of the aisle. A young man works there who has often stopped me to inquire about my walking. As he learned about me, I made him aware of my interest in dreams. He asked me many questions, and we had some good discussions. 

On this particular day, he waved me over to the counter and introduced me to a young woman behind the counter. He told her I had written a book on dreams and could see the future through my dreams.

She immediately shrank back with an almost terrified look on her face. Then she said, “That’s scary.” She wanted nothing to do with me, and she kept her distance. Soon after this encounter, I left. The display is close to where I complete my walk anyway, and I was done for the day.

I don’t think we fear the unknown. After all, if something is unknown, what is there to fear? I think we fear what we think might be there to harm us in some way. I think we fear our own projections of things we are afraid to face, thinking we may see them in our dreams.

Maybe this person, like many, has a view that dreams only reveal our repressed, unsavory desires, and she had no wish to see them. Or perhaps she is a pessimist and thinks there is only bad in the future, and she has no wish to see it in the present. Regardless of the reason, her initial reaction was one of fear.

When I first encountered the possibility of seeing my future in my dreams, I saw many positives. I found the prospect very exciting. But many of the people I encounter do not see it that way. They see the negative and think bad things will happen soon enough without seeing them now. They fail to understand the benefits of seeing the probable future.

The probable future is not cast in concrete; in many cases, it can be changed. In some of my early posts, I give examples of a probable future that can be changed. And if it is negative and cannot be changed, we can prepare ourselves mentally and emotional for the future event. Either way we are better off.

I think few people work with their dreams because most would like them to be meaningless nighttime fantasies. Then they don’t have to face their fears. They don’t have to face themselves. Because of this, they are cut off from the enormous potential of their inner selves. They are cut off from their real identities.