The dream and the possessed

[Sirii]

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I am a prophetic dreamer. I always have been. Sometimes, it's minor stuff. I will dream the neighbor will arrive home with a lot of groceries and need help, and I can go out and help her.

Sometimes, it's big things. I had a bad feeling in the days before the Columbine shooting, and I dreamed about two crumbling towers in September of 2001, even though I didn't know where or when.

I also preface this with the information that I suffer from pretty bad insomnia and hypnogogic hallucinations (which I made mention of in another thread) so this makes this story particularly odd to me.

It takes me hours to get to sleep. I lay awake in bed, staring at the ceiling, until finally sleep takes me.

I woke this morning at 905am, but I had a strong feeling I wasn't done sleeping. Normally, I am up around 7am, but I just *had* to go back to sleep. I woke at 944 after an intense dream that I knew I had to look into.

I dreamed while I slept for such a short time.

There is a place, a town that was once a logging town, perhaps around the turn of the century. At the time of the dream, the town had waned, and it was a place to be from, not the place people moved to. The old-timers still gathered at the general store for morning coffee, the flag was run up the pole the little post office every day, but after the logging boom, the town was quiet.

Within this town, which I believe is called Cedarville, a stately old home built in the late 1890's, and had passed through dozens of owners and caretakers. It had spent time as a convent for nuns, a boarding school, and a brothel among other things.

A young man that had been born in the town, then moved away and gained some fortune. Whether he was famous or he inherited, it was unclear in my dream how he came into this money. Regardless, he returned to Cedarville and purchased this house, how in disrepair, to have as a kind of retreat. After it was renovated and furnished to keep the look of the home as close as it could have been in the 1890's, he settled in.

Then it started. Window blinds would open and close, doors would suddenly and violently slam or move. Objects and books would fly off of shelves at people. Then the voices started. He could hear them at all hours, louder and clearer at night, ceaseless.

When he would leave the home, he would dread returning.

I get a phone call. (For the record, I do not live close to, or have any knowledge of, a Cedarville near where I live) Now, this part must by my imagination filling in the gaps, because, while I am known as clergy among my friends, I keep a very low profile as a pagan. However, this young man said he had had a Catholic priest over to bless the home, and this priest left the house within minutes, scared so badly he was sheet white and shaking.

The priest's blessing did nothing, and now he was calling me. I arrived and started to do some research.

The city was a logging and silver mining community. Once the reserves dried up, so did the city, and only a few tenacious souls still resided. Of course, as is the way of these industrial towns, there were many deaths among the loggers and miners.

I came and did a house cleansing, calling four corners and on respective protective deities, and even went to far as to peg the house.

But it continued, it intensified.

I got another phone call, this time from a longtime friend of the home owner. He said that since the day of the Priest's blessing some weeks before I arrived, he noticed that his friend's behaviour was changing. Specifically, he was withdrawn, moody, angry, sometimes even violent; throwing possessions about. At first, the friend thought it might be because the homeowner was not sleeping well, frightened in his own home, but when the odd, flanging voice and odder languages started, that is when the friend was afraid.

It wasn't the house that was possessed, it was the homeowner.

The next time I came to enter the home, this time I would be working side-by-side with a Catholic Bishop from the closest diocese, I knew something terrible was happening. Whatever it was, this evil, sensed and felt that I was a danger. I could not enter the home at all, as if an invisible wall were there. The Bishop could enter, and through the sliding screen door of the homeowner's bedroom, the Bishop and I started a very unconventional Catholic-Pagan exorcism.

It wasn't like the movie, but it was terrifying just the same. We held our ground, and as the beast inside uttered its name (which I did not hear) everything in my vision went black and I woke up 40 minutes after I had gone back to sleep.

With a quick look at wikipedia, I found a Cedarville, WA. It is in Stevens County, at the north-east corner of Washington State, whereas I am in Pierce County (Tacoma Area, south of Seattle). It is a ghost town (pardon the pun) and was, get this, once a silver-mining town that boomed in the 1890's. There is a general store, like the one in my dream where the old folks would enjoy morning coffee and conversation.

It could be just coincidence, of that I have no doubt, but if anyone has any input, I would like to have a second head thinking about what I might be missing.

[K2M]

Hi there, nice to meet you!!!! I also have very vivid dreams to the point the i see colors and feel pain. This type of dream seems to pull me in and i cannot wake up, although i struggle to. I have always thought that this is a little bit like night terrors, although they can happen at any time. Many times after a rough dream, i wake up exhausted, barely able to breath, and in pain. There have been many nights that i just got up after one of these dreams, as i did not want to go back into the dream.

There have been times that the dream followed me after waking for a few seconds. I have woken many times, still talking to the person. I also have premonitions in dreams, but am used to it.

Just keep the faith, and stay strong. I have been fighting the bad dreams for years now and i am still alive. Yes, dreams are very interesting. You never know, you may save a persons life in the future. We just have to be careful how to warn people.

Hope to see many more posts!!!!!!