Have you ever had one of those dreams where you just cannot wake up? Seriously, you try desperately to open your eyes and move your body but to no avail; you are stuck in this nightmarish situation or maybe I should say reality?

The first time I experienced this I was a little girl and had no one that I could talk to. My mother was a very religious person and my father really was no help at all. Maybe I should add that this was back in the sixties, not that I want to give my age away; oh what the heck I am a very youthful 54 years young woman, and I have been experiencing weirdness all of my life.

I digress, back to the issue at hand…So just recently I had another one of my nightmarish episodes and as always it is weird, strange, but also awesome. Yes, I said awesome.

I am asleep, but awake within my sleep. This state is referred to as lucid dreaming or an out-of-body experience; as I was saying in my sleep/awake state I am being flown in an invisible craft all around this planet. I am being shown town after town homes that have been ravished by fire. All the homes were either partially or totally in ruins. I could smell the smoke that lingered in the air, and I could sense sorrow and anguish coming from what I believed were the survivors, but not too many of them. Land after land was all the same scenario, it was complete devastation.

I wanted out, I wanted to be awake, but the nightmarish reality needed or wanted me to continue; it told me so telepathically or maybe my mind was playing its usual tricks out of sheer desperation trying to make sense of what it was seeing. Finally after what I thought was hours of a horror show I was able to open my eyes and move my body; I jumped out of bed, and splashed my face with water.

As a hypnotist I am curious and need answers not later but now. I did what I do best and hypnotized myself, after all “all hypnosis is self hypnosis”; what I found was amazing, disturbing, frantic, bizarre, but the truth nonetheless. I had been given a gift and it was to see what will happen if we continue on our path of self-destruction.

I am but one person and apparently I belong to a group of people who have been shown the same images; yet we do not listen, we do not heed the warnings or even bother with the signs. Our weather is erratic, our leaders are paralyzed with fear to do anything because they do not want to offend their constituents, and what is left are corporations that only care about their bottom line. Yes, we are literally up the creek without a paddle…

Now the conclusion, blah…blah…blah…; yeah there really isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said and frankly I am not interested in becoming the “Norma Rae” for our planet’s future. I had a nightmarish dream/reality/weirdness and I wrote about it here. Take from this what you wish.

Next time I am demanding a golden sunset.