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September 14, 2005
Odd Dream
I had a strange dream last night. I don’t remember most of it but here’s what I remember from the end of it.
I am in a bus at the base of a huge cliff next to the ocean. Some force grabs the front of the bus and begins pulling it up the cliff elevator-like, so the length of the bus is now vertical, wheels against cliff. I am desperately clinging to the back of my bus seat so that gravity doesn’t hurl me into the back window of the bus.
The bus keeps going up and up and it’s a long way. I’m looking down at the cliff and ocean below and have that horrible sense you do on a roller-coaster when you’re going higher and higher and you’re thinking “wow, if I fall from here it’s really gonna hurt."
Someone is telling me that there is a paradise and that the only way to get there is through this terrifying, seemingly dangerous route of raising the bus to the top of the cliff, then dropping it. So we get to the top of this very high cliff, then the force drops the bus and I am in free-fall, scared but trying to believe that there is paradise down there instead of certain death.
I wake just before the bus hits ground/water. Isn’t that always the way it is with dreams?
It’s not hard to see what the dream is about. On one level, it’s just about how sometimes to get what you want, you have to take a big risk. But on another level, it’s about the question of whether there is paradise after this life, or just death. It’s about faith. I do believe that there is paradise. And I’m really glad God doesn’t make me get dropped from a cliff to get there.
Posted by Selena at September 14, 2005 10:04 PM