Fairy Tale

Last night I dreamed I was was inside a fairy tale. I was getting ready to leave to go into the city with the queen and and some other folks, but I needed to go the restroom. I went back into the castle and was looking for my room.

Confused, I entered the wrong room. For a moment I felt lost, but then some voice directed me into my room. Somehow I realized that this castle was under a curse. I saw in my mind's eye a couple escaping the castle. The man's head had shrunk and the woman had a beard. Both were fleeing the curse in the castle.

I knew that my reason for being in the castle was to break this curse. As I entered my bedroom, I remembered my experiences from the night before:

The room was uncomfortable and in my search to find somewhere more comfortable to sleep, I had found a hidden chamber off from the room. It was sort of a play room filled with toys, stuffed animals and more. I remembered that even though I was older, I still enjoyed played with the toys.

As I played with the toys, I noticed a loft that encircled one side of the room. At the end of the loft was a door leading outside. Then I noticed what appeared to be a boy sitting near the door, but when I went closer, I realize it was a wooden figure of boy.

Now as I stood in the entrance to the chamber, I looked for the wooden figure and the door: both were still there. I climbed up to the loft and found some clothes I had laid out from the night before. I climbed around the loft to the door. As I drew near to the figure, he came to life. It was a little boy. He was so excited and began to play and laugh.

When I approach the door, he looked scared. The door had a window and I looked through it to see the UT campus and the TN river. Then I climbed down the loft and was going to open the door. The boy looked terrified. As I climbed down, the color left his face and soon he was wooden again.

Immediately I climbed back up the loft and he came back to life. I was trying to figure out how to help him, when Kelly came up behind me and said, "Break the curse off him."

I laid hands on him and commanded the curse to leave "in the names of Jesus!" When I carried him down from the loft he was completely normal. We went back into the main bedroom and I told him to hide while I checked out the castle.

I realized he was a childhood friend of the prince--and had apparently been cursed since childhood. As I walked through the castle I met several allies. The butler had a skin condition which I knew was a curse and broke it off him.

Soon it was safe for the boy to come out. When he saw the prince, he immediately was restored to his normal age as a young man. Both of them embraced and immediately bonded again. Then I asked the prince about his mom. He said she wasn't very close to him because she had a nursemaid raise him.

I brought out the nursemaid and knew that she was the real king and mother of the prince. Then I exposed the false queen as a witch and she immediately turned into an old hag and ran out of the castle.

Exploring the White House--Again!

Well, for the second time in one week, I had a White House dream. While I've had many house dreams, these are the only two White House dreams I've ever had.

At first I didn't realize that I was in the White House. I was exploring this large mansion, and I saw tours of people all around. One older guard told me to follow him and he took me down to the basement, and we explored a variety of rooms down in the basement. Then he led me up to the highest part of the house. I literally had to walk on beams to explore the various sections of this part of the house.

Later I met up with Kelly and the rest of the group as they had been viewing other parts of the house. I suggested they come with me to see the basement. But then another guard stopped us and told us that no one is ever allowed in the basement or the attic. I said that I had just come from there, but he didn't believe me and sent us away.

I was so frustrated! As we walked around trying to figure where to go next, I saw the older guard sitting off to the side by himself. He was blowing bubbles out of his mouth. When the bubbles came out they were shaped in a variety of objects and colors. The first set of bubbles appeared to be a series of yellow butterflies that kept springing from his mouth. As the butterflies landed on the floor, they popped like ordinary bubbles.

Then a ship bubbles came out of his mouth. It was very detailed.

After that bubble came out, I spoke to him. He looked at our group and asked if we were wanting to go to the basement. Yes!

I bought sodas for everyone before we went down. Then he led us down a stairway off to the side. At each level down, we saw bedrooms where various famous guests had stayed. We eventually stumbled into one bedroom That had been set up during JFK's presidency. It looked perfectly preserved in the decor of the period and was filled with a variety of objects and household items from the 1960s.

After we left this room I woke up.

After waking, I realized that in the White House dream from earlier in the week I was exploring hidden wings of the White House. I was exploring the White House on its horizontal plane. In the dream I just had, I was exploring the hidden parts of the house on the vertical plane.

Mystery in the White House

On Sunday night, I dreamed Kelly and I were at the White House. It was much larger and shaped in sort of a semi-circle. We saw Jim there and asked him about the possibility of staying in this one condo. He was going to check for us when we found out the condo was about to be auctioned off. The man we talked with said that Chuck and PJ had tld him about the condo.

So we started to leave. Then a man who looked like a young Perry Mason walked up and suggested we go back to the White House. "There is more going on there then you realize." He proceeded to tell us about a mystery at work there since the early 1940s. After listening to his story about some type of attack on the White House in the 40s and quick cover-up, we decided to return and explore a little.

As we walked down one wing, we noticed the walls started looking more worn and aged. This wing seemed to be in disrepair. Somehow we sensed we might be moving closer to the source of the mystery. Suddenly an older women appeared and inquired about our presence. I spoke almost perfect German to her and began asking her about this mystery.

Once she trusted us, she exclaimed that the attack really did occur and then volunteered to show us some of what happened. She led us out to the perimeter of the White House and showed us a train track that actually came into the White House. When the attack occured two sections of this track were suddenly twisted out of shape.

Who were the invaders? Some type of spiritual beings. "They've been fighting us ever since." She showed us a room full of people on their knees. We've had people fighting against this in prayer ever since. The lady offered us a condo to live in if we wanted to help. We agreed and continued our investigation.

Next our exploration took us outside the White House around to another section, where we noticed a man that looked somewhat like Bill Murray. At first we thought he was bad and followed him. He drove his car into an underground parking lot. Many of the parking places were blocked with snow and the spot where he expected to park was already occupied.

He took this a sign someone knew he was there, so he drove deeper down into the lot. The lower levels were covered with a dark black water, and he parked right at the edge of the water and made some adjustment on the numbers of his car to make it look like he belonged there. Then he walked down into the water.

A few moments later and two other people appeared. They were apparantly following him. We watched them search through the water looking for ways he might have climbed out of the garage. Soon they came to a section they thought he had used and climbed out.

After they left, he came up out of the water. He had been hiding down in the water near his car. At this point, we felt like we could trust him and that we were both on the same side. So we talked with him and he led us out of there.

Following him, we continued to walk around the building. Every few moments, we noticed what appeared to be a person hiding in the shadows. Then he darted into a door and caught this elusive person. It was a young man with red hair and white skin. He looked a bit terririfed. In fact, he didn't look fully human. Somehow we knew he moved between both worlds.

He agreed to help us as we sought to uncover more about the secret forces that continued to attack the White House. We let him go.

Then I awoke.

Timeless Descent

Jeremy and I were with our families on vacation and we decided to get dressed to go to a movie. We were going to see King Kong and Narnia. While I was waiting on him, I went outside and decided to fly up into the trees. When I did, everything changed.

I flew high, high up into some pine trees. The higher I flew, the more timeless everything became. Instead of flying, I seemed to be merely drifting around the trees. There were four trees planted in a square.

As I circled the first two, I saw squirrels all through the limbs and started throwing nuts to them. They didn’t seem startled but just laid on their limbs. Everything seemed motionless. The third tree did not have normal branches. Each branch provided a floor for a room without walls. Each room contained a large wooden table. While circling the tree, I noticed one table had several large cats sprawled across the table relaxing.

I circled the fourth tree and decided to fly down across the field to some even large trees. I was so relaxed and peaceful, I forgot about the movie, about my brother, about everything. I simply glided through these enormous trees and enjoyed.

When I got up close to the next tree, I realized it would have no wildlife. This time the branches formed long flat trays, and upon each tray sat finely carved figures in jade. They were all different colors and shapes and there were many on each limb, so the tree contained thousands. It looked as though it had been there for ages.

At this time, I decided to fly to the bottom of the tree. When I hit the ground, I was in the middle of a giant hall and realized these trees were inside a humongous hall. Way up high in a windowsill, Kelly sat reading with the warm sun surrounding her.

I knew I was through exploring so I flew outside and began descending into a valley below. As descended, I noticed this community with several layers of living quarters and gardens stacked on top of each other. I knew these were poor people living in the shadow of the great hall. Part of me wanted to fly over and investigate, but I couldn’t. I knew I had to fly down lower.

At the bottom of the valley was a great lake. As I got closer to the earth, I could see people getting out of the water. Then at an even closed point, I noticed they were wearing fancy robes with bright colors and they all were some kind of Chinese warriors. Their faces were painted white and their hair was tied in the back.

When they noticed me flying overhead, they started shouting and then began trying to shoot me out of the sky with their arrows. I knew they might hit me, so I landed. As I hit the earth, I left a trail of fire and slid into the water. Knowing they had sent their dogs after me, I began swimming as fast as possible.

Eventually the dogs caught up with me but ran right by me, because they didn’t seem to notice me. Then it seemed at though all the warriors ran over me. When I finally sat up, I realized I no longer in the water but in the middle of a busy interstate with cars zipping past me.

Dream Redeemed

A father moves his whole family to an ocean inlet because he believes one day this will be a place of opportunity. The houses and land around the inlet are rundown. He dreams of ficxing up this land and making it a beautiful place, but he doesn't have the money to build a nice house, so they live in a small "kit house" with thin walls, a tiny kitchen, a den, and two bedrooms. The parents sleep in one bedroom and the three children in the other.

He ends up working so much to support his family that he never gets to spending as much time restoring the land as he would like. But he talks about his vision. He tells anyone that comes by. One day he can see people come from all over to visit this little inlet. He sees boating competitions and beautiful homes and interesting shops.

But all his words seem just like words to his children. They cannot understand their father's dream. The mother tries to support him but she doesn't really get it either. As they grow up tensions develop between the mother and the daughters. She doesn’t understand them and they don’t understand her.

One year the mother decorates her den for Christmas. She never really had an eye for décor and when she decorates the den it doesn’t look very nice but she leaves it up year round. This dries the daughters crazy. Eventually all the children move away.

As they become young adults, one daughter is creative and has an eye for making beautiful things. The other daughter is smart with money and investing. One year, they decide to spend the money to completely redo the mother’s den. They turn it into a beautiful room, but the mother is hurt, feeling that they rejected her by changing the look. This drives a greater wedge between them.

Then the daughter with money convinces the other daughter that they should go into business together. She provides the business expertise and the other one provides the creative flair. She rents a building along the inlet, and they fix it up. Soon it is a thriving business. Then they start another business. Soon they own several buildings along the inlet and they have single handedly begun reviving this area.

Somewhere along the way, the one money daughter finally understands how the mother felt and she returns to the home, restoring the den back to the old Christmas decorations. Turns out she has an eye like her moms and it look almost like it did in the past. The mother is deeply touched and the relationship is healed because they find some way to connect.

People in the area begin taking interest in their homes and land and begin fixing them up. Soon people come to visit. Gradually the whole inlet is transformed. The father’s dreams are ultimately realized in his children and there is healing in the all the relationships.

Flying

I am in a class on writing and have attended several meetings, always sitting in the same place at the front right corner. The professor knows me by name. I am sitting at long black desk with a partner. Both of us actively participate in class.

As I look back over the class, I see a lot of people I know. Friends from high school that I haven't seen in many years, old friends from other churches and some current frinds.

The professor starts walking back across the class talking to students. He stops at one desk and begins making fun of a particular student. I can see in this guy's mind and know that this is a dangerous thing for the professor to do. The guy is about to snap! But the professor is relentless in mocking.

I leave my body and enter to the guy's mind. Somehow I end up talking with him in another part of the building and encourage him. I tell to relax that the professor doesn't mean to hurt him. He calms down and we return to our bodies in the classroom. The class ends.

I am talking with the professor after class and I look out side and see the guy standing on the ledge. I talk to him with my thoughts and ask him what is he doing. he says that he wants to leanr to fly. So I am come outside and we start flying up into the heavens. Soon we fly beyond all land and we begin flying down toward the water. Splasing in the water we keep flying down.

Now the guy has changed into my nephew Samuel. He says that he is having a hard time breathing underwater. I encourage him to relax because shortly it will seem normal and he'll breathe just fine. Then I tell him that soon the sater will grow clear and it won't even seem like he is underwater. And soon we will descend into deeper waters. Everytime we enter a new level it will feel as though he plunging from the air the water. Each time he will have to adjust to the new enivronment in both breathign and seeing.

Eventually we come to the edge of a black island. The hoizon is purple. Now instead Smauel I am with Jeremy, my brother. I him that he needed to see this island becuase he will need to come back here and expore. Part of his destiny is on this island. While we are talking little Jeremy climbs on the shoulders of big Jeremy. He reacts at first and I say, "Don't worry that's just little Jeremy."

Soon we decide to return home and we return through water. Whem we resurface, we are in a lake swimming along what looks to be Dollywood. Eventually we fly up out of the water, through the trees and back home.

Terror Two

Last Thursday, I wake up and start getting ready to go meet my friend Larry. Although I'm not really in my house. The kitchen is not like any kitchen I know, but the window looked out over the back yard. As I was cleanign my dishes from breakfast, I looked out into the back yard. It has snowed over night, and this was unusualy because it seemed way too warm to snow. In addition to snow I noticed a snowmobile sitting in the yard. Then under the window I saw a human skull. It had been painted black.

This was eery and yet part of me wondered if it was some kind of prank. Before I left the house I had to package up these loaves of freshly baked bread sitting on top of the refrigerator. The skull was still bothering me.

At the same time this was going on, I was also sitting in a film festival watching movies that related to the current world problems. In one film, we were watching the devestation in Haiti, but instead of flooding it was fires. The whole country was burning or had burnt to the ground. A French diplomat was touring the damage. On every corner, he saw groups of Al Queda terrorists in masks shouting and threatening. It was bit terrifying. As I watching I couldn't tell if I was there or still watching a film. At the end of the film, the French diplomat signed a form, indicating his willingness to support the war on terror.

Back to the house. This film made me uneasy Between it and the skull, I didn't want to leave Kelly at home alone. I was concerned that the country was filled with terrorists. Kelly and her friend Michelle would planning to stay togther, so I got ready to leave.

Rocket Ship

I'm a little behind. A couple weeks ago I dreamed I was at my folks house. it was late in the evening and everyone was going to bed. My sister, Michelle, slept in her room. My brother Jeremy slept int eh back room, and then little Jeremy (the same brother only about 15 years younger) slept in my room. In the dream it didn't seem strange that there were two incarnations of the same brother at different ages.

I decided to sleep in the den downstairs. I was looking for a flashlight in the cabinet when I knocked over some things and woke up my mother. She came downstairs to find out about the noise. Then we started talking. I noticed a flashlight outside and was startled. She said that it was probably the neighbor, who sometiems checked on them late at night.

He knocked at the door and sure enough it was the neighbor. We spoke a moment and then he turned to leave. As he was leaving a convocade of vehicles came down our road. In the midst of the lines of cars and trucks was a flatbead trailer truck hauling a a short fat rocket. They drove across our yard and into the neighbor's field.

My mother and I climbed into a hovercraft and floated around the house watching them. Their yard was filled with vehicles and then a someone dug up all their bushes to use the space somehow. We decided to go wake my dad and floated around to his bedroom window. Turns out he was already awake and covered in mud. He had already been down there arguing with them and they assured him that they would fix everything after the launch.

The whole family woke up and decided to watch the launch. We were standing in their front yard and look up the hill in the neigbor's field. The rocket launched but then seemed to get off course and started heading for us. Everyone started running away. It crash landed in my folks front yard and all of us went flying due to the blast.

Next moment it was morning and we were in the house. We ran outside to check the damage and there was no evidence the rocket had ever been there. The flower beds were in perfect condition. We went to the neighbor's field and saw a military post on top of the hill. We went in and asked about the rocket but they denied having any idea about a rocket or a rocket launch.

The Cane

Dream 9/5/04

I can't remember how the dream starts but at some point I am given a cane. It has been sent to help me and alert me to the presence of foes as well as to protect me.
Kelly and I are supposed to meet a group of friends. We're supposed to meet at a restaurant, but there are three of the same restaurants in the area and we have to
find the right one. We drive past the exit and pull into some area (not sure where). But we don't feel completely safe there. We are waiting to meet someone there and then
we can go. Eventually Jose calls me and he is around the corner in the same area. We walk around the block and find him but there is an evil force waiting for us.

"Come on Joe, we've got to go!"

We circle the block again and then start running down the street. The cane lights up and I use it to drive away the evil person, so we can leave. I tell Joe to drive us, just in case I need to us the cane again.

Soon there is a group of us running toward the car. We get in and start driving toward the restaurant. There are two restaurants on the left side of highway and one on the right side. I figure out that we're supposed to go to the one on the right.

We start heading that way but never make it. Soon we are led back into a forest and find a big lodge there. It is filled with zombie like children that are being held captive. They cannot wear shoes and somehow the evil ruler taps their feet at night to keep control. We act like we are a part of them, but soon as it gets dark we

But as soon as it gets dark, we slip out. We explore the grounds. There are several buildings there. Soon we are discovered and a fight start between us and the
evil forces. I am reminded somehow not to be surprised when we meet the real evil ruler--he won't look anything like we are expecting. Sure enough, he looks more
like a little tiny guy. Totally powerless. But he begins to fight with us and it is clear he is very powerful. In fact, we come to realize that we are fighting against
satan. The cane seems virtually powerless and he is about to destroy us. We cry out to God for help and suddenly a whilrwind come and changes satan into a little sheep.
His power seems completely destroyed. God lets us know that satan is not destroyed but has lost this battle. We will face him another day. Then a whirlwind picks him and
his assitant up and carries them away. The spell is broken over the children. I leave the group there to help the children but the cane seems to be calling me to move on.
I leave the forest and start walking through a building when the cane leads me through a bathroom. A couple janitors are trying to fix a stopped up commode to know avail.
The cane turns into a plunger and I know I am supposed to help them. I go in and ask to help. They agree and are surprised I've brought my own plunger. Instantly the commode comes unstopped. They are impressed and ask me to help them. Turns out I am in a school and I become a janitor. I become real popular with the kids(not sure how long I am there but apparently time goes by). The principal is jealous of me but I think he is my friend. He calls a meeting of all the students, teachers and
parents. I think his going to teach them some songs I wrote for the kids. So I start handing out song sheets. He is doing just the opposite--he is going to ban the songs.
IN the middle of the meeting, Satan shows up in the hallway. Every time he appears, his eyes turn totally black.

I call on assistance and two other people show up to help me. We are dueling and I drive him into an office. The cane lights up, he falls backward and disappears. A little child appears in his place--crying. She wanders out to meeting. Then I come out. It looks like I've hurt her with my cane. The principal starts accusing me.

In the midst of the confusion, I slip out down a hallway and into an alley. It is raining hard outside. I hold the cane up and begin to fly. I am flying away. I think I am running away but the cane is leading me. It leads me right to a jeep in the parking lot of the principal's condominium. There is his wife in the jeep with another women. They are getting ready to leave. It appears I've been sent there to stop them and somehow help him. Ask I begin to talk with them, the dream ends.