Who had this premonition and when did it take place?
I had this premonition on 9/11/2001.
What was seen in the premonition?
During this time I was in my undergradudate studies at a school in Southern California. I lived in a dorm with my roommate. After going to bed for the night, at some point I had the most unexplicably terrifying dream that felt real in my life.
The dream started with my old childhood home. For some reason, I was trapped behind the front door's screen and was looking out into the front lawn. There, I could see my mother and my siblings standing there. Suddenly, a creature (resembling a bear) appeared and started to attack them. I could only silently yell and hit the door, powerless as I watched my family be destroyed by this beast, right before my eyes.
I've never had a dream similar to that and I awoke in a cold panic. There was a feeling of darkness and dread that filled me. I thought about waking up my roommate for company, because for the first time in my adult life even the darkness of the room was terrifying me. I could not describe the feeling in any way but fear, dread, panic, like a killer was in your home and you knew there was no way out.
I got up from my bed and sat in the bathroom, trying to distract my thoughts and sitting in light. It did not work. When I finally went back to bed, I stll did not feel settled. There was something very wrong and I had no idea where to even beging to understand what was happening.
Eventually daylight came and at some point I had managed to calm and drift back to sleep. My roommate and I had the same early lecture period and walked to class. We arrived a few minutes late and when we walked in, thought a movie was playing on the lecture hall's theater screen. It was no movie, but 9/11 news unraveling. At that point, my mind made the slightest connection (but not as now) about what all had happened to me in all the hours of the night before.
Advice
- The lessons I learned from this I still search for this day. I strongly believe in faith and that if at that point in college I were more spiritually sound and aware, I would have said a prayer for whoever a darkness may have been coming to. To this day I pray for the lives affected by the tragedy and wish before it had happened, I could have had the forsight to do similar. Why I had this premonition, I still do not know. I've had other dreams and experiences that are of an insightful nature into spirituality and things that may be unknown, but directly tell the nature of a person or situation.
