OTHERPLANE

I have just finished reading a few of the stories on your site (along with just about every page I could find on other web sites about near death experiences and death bed visions....). For some reason, I have become facinated with these experiences. There had been a period, right after my daughter was born and, so I could stay home with her longer, I took a per diem or on call position with an organ recovery compnay. This was the first time I had EVER encountered death. For a few months after that, I read all I could about NDE's and attended the Salt LAke City IANDS meetings until one day, I just stopped believing in it any longer. Now, inexplicably, I am reading these stories again and becoming almost anxious, for some reason, that when I die there is nothing. So... my reason for writing? I have had a few strange things happen to me in my life, some of them terrifying. I have suffered night terrors my entire life and heard "voices" in my ear telling me various things.

The two things that stand out these past few weeks of my searching the internet for NDE stories is my memory of a few things that happened before I was an adult. The one, is a recurring dream in which I am in a white vehicle (or silver) that, at the time I didn't know what it was, but now that I speculate as being a SUV. (they didn't really have them much in the early 80's when I started having this recurring dream). In this dream, I was the passenger of the vehicle and we were driving in snowy conditions and taking a sharp curve when we wreck. In this dream, I don't actually SEE the wreck, but see myself, like I am looking through the drivers eyes, looking at my dead body in the snow with blood coming out of my mouth... it is almost like I AM the driver because I can actually FEEL the dispair and disbelief that I (or DeAnna) is dead. I have had this dream, not while sleeping, but when in a "trance"... like when you suddenly start to stare off into space and have to mentally shake yourself free from this state. As well, I have had this "dream" over 3 times. To the point where I refuse to own a silver or white vehicle.

The next interesting thing is a dream I had once where I knew I was visiting a place I had been before. It was all green... the greenest I had ever seen (in some of the NDE's I read, the person describes almost exacly what I "saw" in this dream). There were Greek columns all around and these ponds with fountains. I was talking animatedly with a man dressed in a white robe and I knew this man in my dream well... like he was a mentor. He was telling me lots of things, but the one thing I remember was him telling me I needed to let go of my anger and then, out of this dark cloud comes these red demons that had the faces of cherubs. They were taunting me and leering at me and laughing. I was getting increasingly mad and knew I needed to clam down as my mentor had JUST finished telling me I needed to do something about my anger. I ended up attacking these demons when they said the one thing that I couldn't ignore. (I don't know what it was) and I started to rip these demons apart. I heard a sorrowful sound like a tsk tsk from my mentor and he said (in my mind) that I had failed my test and I had to go back. Then I was thrown into a whirlpool and sucked down until I woke up from the dream. I never thought of that dream until this SECOND time I started reading about NDE's. I guess I am wondering if anyone else has had these vivid waking dreams, of the purpose they might have on this earth or maybe of their demise as well. I wonder why I suddenly have this unusual fear of death.

I don't know if ya'll still have this web page as active or if you still take e-mails. I have written one other web page and they never wrote me back. I would appreciate ANY feedback. Thanks!

Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Otherplane's reply:

One can have dreams (as you mentioned), and more. There are no limits to the kinds of dreams one can have while asleep (dream) or awake (day-dream). Dreams are usually borne from a past event/activity. Dreams may also arise from an idea/thought... day-dreams often occur this way. Dreams may also take form via emotional feelings an individual is going through.

Dreams may provide a... solution, sense of comfort and security/peace, warning of an action/event taken in the future and what the outcome may be. Dreams often influence how we behave or do things (in the future).

Everyone has entertained the thought of dying, sometime during their lifetime. The initial response is that of fear because the word "death" conjures up a meaning that if "final"... terminated, dead and end. To the religious believer, being in Heaven with God, is glorious and eternal. To a non-religious person, death probably is "final"... and it is these persons who would "fear death".

However, there is another side to death...

Believers of the Paranormal... understand that there is "life after death", and this accounts for the various labels given by mankind... i.e., spirits, ghosts, entities, demons, angels, etc. These entities were once human and after death, their soul/essence leave their now lifeless physical form and move into a (paranormal) dimension. As the living progress or mature through life, entities also progress through these dimensions... whether there is a "final" destination or Heaven... is still or may never be answered/verified.

Another side of "Life After Death"...

During a person's lifetime, they have interacted with other people. Their impression on others, their contributions and legacy (good or bad) to humanity, their picture(s) lovingly or affectionately kept by someone... may be read about for all-time, debated, seen, heard, mentioned, remembered and/or honored. Everytime this person is thought of, talked about, their picture is looked at... that person's existence continues (life after death)... which can be infinite (immortality).

Those that have thought of, understand, accepted and prepared themselves for death... will embrace death when the time comes and there are no options (reason or medical assistance) left to live on. When you hear a person say, "When it's my time, it's my time", then you will know that person had prepared themself.

Time is but a point-to-point term. We are born somewhere along that point-to-point line, exist for an known number, and then we are gone. All living entities undergo the same process.

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