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Feb 21 2006 - recalling 'The Dream'; Day OLYMPIC SHORT Prog. changed my life
Topic Started: Feb 21 2007, 11:39 PM (536 Views)
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One year ago today I had a dream--no a vision or FLASHBACK. It was a flashback to when I was a kid. As I was writing poetry to a girl named Martha, my sister and brother made a prediction--a prophecy which in my mind was UTTERLY nonsensical. It was dumb and meaningless to me as an 11 or 12 year old kid, that I just rejected it as sheer NONSENSE.
I find it hard to share this as most will think I am crazy.
I've had a few dreams along this line and they are hard to share. They are impossible. Maybe I can share one later--not this flashback or faded memory but a real dream I recall.

Anyway the flashback was a prediction that would happen the year before my birthday, now a few short months away. The prediction is that I would be friends with someone SPECIAL and famous? named Emily and the only Emily I ever read of or knew those many years ago, was EMILY DICKINSON.
Did I read that Emily H. was named after Emily Dickinson? [see the NY TIMES Magazine article on Emily] Others have said Emily was named after a song??
Still what a coincidence. There's many more...

I forgot that event...it was so silly I either blocked it out or just forgot about it for the most part.
This was a flashback to the past and not a crazy normal dream or nightmare and after various strange feelings, winks, and other coincidences, the name was EMILY. The year was May 2007. But it is not necessarily Emily Hughes. It's gotta be somebody else... A friendship, a relationship seemingly was included in the prediction to me.
I've had other dreams--well one real dream--I was dreaming in 2003? about Sarah Hughes and a voice interrupted the dream--was it GOD or the devil?? Anyway it was an unbelievable utterance. Of course it can't be true. If it is GOD then it will come to pass...yet it is impossible...how can it be...

Emily is rich....I am poor
Emily is beautiful...I am not
Emily is youthful...I'm 2x her age
Emily is Eastern...I am West
Emily is a star...I am an average Joe

But I am devoted to truth, to peace, to God, to the ancient mysteries of humanity--most unsolved, to love of history, of poetry, of philosophy, of theology, of health and of sport (once I could run like an antelope)...well I still can but like an old antelope...
I hate that crazy 'dream'-- that flashback. Why would your siblings predict a future special friend/mate? and name the year?? It really happened but maybe it was inspired by satan. And I guess the convergence of the Olympics and everything else made me think it might be Emily--the skater. But maybe there is an Emily to meet in the next couple of months--just NOT Emily Hughes.

Anyway Emily Hughes has inspired me and made me want to be the best person I can be!!! Athletes really don't do that for me but her spunk, her ENERGY, her en-THEO-siasm [the word partly means "full of God"]!, her focus, her EXCEPTIONALNESS, and her fresh innocent joy and lovely soul have blessed me to LOVE GOD and others. Her charity work and her bright mind INSPIRE me.
--One year ago my life changed...I had another dream in March 2006--there was a golden thread from my spirit and I followed it and it went to the East Coast, to New York, to Long Island...to the North part, then it was a fog...I couldn't tell where it went, though in my mind maybe? the connection was to Emily? Maybe that is wishful thinking. Yet I do BELIEVE we have a connection, though not romantic.
I love KNOWLEDGE...I love sport...I love classy people. I love good music, esp. jazz and gospel and CCM and World musics. Maybe Emily does too...
What a year since that 'Dream'.......


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I'm one of the people that believes that psychics exist (although there are many frauds out there) and that people can experience past or future events through dreams, flashbacks, etc. It will be interesting to see if (and how) the prediction comes true in the coming months.

When you mentioned Emily Dickinson, you reminded me of an ad that's been showing on the forum for the past few weeks:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9844/edxn2.jpg

It's great that Emily has inspired you like she has. She's a wonderful person and I hope you continue to strive to be the best person you can be.
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Fantasies are healthy and god knows I have them. (Not what that might sound like though.) I guess they take the place of what we don't have in reality. I also believe in psychic occurences, but that the genuine ones are rare, and most people that call themselves "psychics" are either cracked, or exploiting people. Just be careful about getting too caught up in fantasy or expectations of future events. Especially if they carry any negative overtones or consequences, when they do or don't happen. I used to frequent the Sarah McLachlan newsgroup, and one guy on there, who is clearly disturbed or manic depressive, always talked about "connections" to Sarah, like really loony stuff. It just made me afraid for both of them...

I would say I'm open-minded, yet firmly rational. I believe in the possibilities of "supernatural" things, but only consider those explanations when more logical ones are eliminated. Had your brother and sister displayed psychic ability on any other occasions? Or had they ever tried to screw around with you? Seems like some kind of kids' goofiness to me.

Alternately, maybe Emily will win at Worlds next month. That would be a huge thrill for you (and her), and although it won't be a "friendship", given your existing interest in Emily, it could be a big enough event to fulfill your "premonition." It could bring a lot of new "friends" to the board as well.

(Or, maybe she will post on the board? :D )
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I've been somewhat of a skeptic over the past few years in regards to psychic powers and things, but I respect the beliefs of those that embrace them. Regardless of whether people believe in psychic occurrences, it's a wonderful thing when such ideas inspire some to live better, more fulfilling lives.
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I really don't believe that psychics exist at all those who claim to be are frauds. I believe in God and only God and I know that He will show people things that He thinks need to be seen if necessary. He will also reveal things through His prophets or through The Bible which is His word. He will do this usually to bring that person closer to Him.

He has shown me certain things with my life and they have come to pass. He has also led me to do things that would be better things for my life. For the past couple of months God has been trying to get me to start attending services at this other church in my area. Initially I didn't think it was Him and I kept going to the place I was at. Then recently He basically turned everything in my life upside down so I could see that He was leading me towards this other church. I started attending services at this other church two weeks ago and I love everything about this place. It has re-awakened my Spirit and God seems even closer to me than He was before.

What I know is that if something is coming from God and He has something planned it will come to pass in His timing. No one can push God to go faster or slower. I know that God knows what He is doing and He knows what He wants to do. We just need to trust Him and get that He knows what is best for our lives.

And God may have brought Emily across your path so He can bring you closer to Him. God will use whatever He can to do that. With me it was a new church.

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HI to everyone!
First I want to thank each of you for your good thoughts and feedback. I put my comments in this section so they wouldn't distract from the main subjects.
I want to say that I RESPECT each and every one of you here, and value your opinions and I think every comment has offered very valid truth.
Also I really like everyone on the forum. Each person has much to offer, though we are of different ages, interests, parts of the country, etc. Many of you I really consider as friends thogh I've never seen what you look like, and in many case don't know if you are 18 or 78!
I believe that there are many thing we do not understand or that we can explain. Personally I am very careful as to what I accept as a psychic event or miracle. I think most 'psychics' are frauds and much phenomena is fraudulent. Also realize that there are false healers and 'prophets' in the Christian world. An example is PETER POPOFF who was they guy with the receiver in his ear, claiming to hear from God. This 'evangelist' hurt the name of God with his con jobs.
Yet I do believe in miracles and true supernatural events. As a Christian I believe that the GOD is able to do anything. I don't believe things on blind faith but on EVIDENCE and there is much evidence for my faith, yet most people have no idea that actual evidence exists that I base my faith on.
Psychic events may be from unknown causes or misunderstood things or may be demonic. But I don't believe all events are necessarily occultic.
My siblings and I are not 'psychic' BUT my own brother predicted his death. A few months after my brother became a born-again Christian he told me of a vision where he saw the reaper angel walk out of the closet. I told him it was just a dream. He was adamant that it was a vision--he said it was a real figure. I told him if that ever happened again to rebuke it in the Name of JESUS. I was in Chicago when I got news of his death--in a car accident with a friend of his, who was also killed. My Mom told me days later my brother had told her that he didn't have long to live and thot he would die. This sounded as nonsense since he was just 19 years of age. He had even bought an insurance policy! I can't explain that.
A Christian friend of mine had a friend named Stan who claimed he could see things inside buildings, etc. He was what we now call a remote viewer. In summer of 1984 he wrote down the two team he thot would be in the Super Bowl the next year, and the game score. He then put that in an envelope and gave it to my friend Mike. Mike put the envelope away in a drawer and forgot about it. About a month after the Super Bowl, now some 8 months gone by, Mike found the sealed envelope and thot that Stan would be lucky to even pick 1 of the teams. Mike told he he was staggered when he opened the envelope. Stan had not only predicted the 2 teams but the actual score!!!! correctly.
Stan makes a LIVING working for oil companies by sensing where oil is. He flies over certain terrain and tells them where to drill. Stan is not an occultist--he is just a weird guy. I could tell other stories about Stan and Mike but I'd go on page after page. All I am saying is that there are more mysteries than we can barely begin to understand.
Even the Apostle Paul said that "we see through a glass darkly." Yet I KNOW that God has used this flashback and a strange dream years earlier to bring me closer to Him. I don't need to go into my story except to say that I was in a couple of religious sects and saw both good as well as manipulation of people. I have studied Comparative Religions, American Cults and Sects, Church History, Philosophy, SouthWest history, and lots of other stuff. Yet the DIVINE I once knew seemed far away. All of us experience "life" and often is is not very bright.
My personal life has been filled with tragedy, disappointment, sadness, and many other kinds of problems, from health to financial. In moments it doesn't make much sense. Yet I know I was called by G-D and could write a book [and maybe will] about my life. I've met famous people as well as worked with the poor. I've counseled people trapped by many things--addictions, cults, bitterness, etc. and always I want to help more and learn more. Still God has blessed me more than I am grateful for.
There's something about Emily and my soul just vibrates when I even think of her. Maybe it is longing for once I was ENERGETIC, HAPPY, CAREFREE, and a good athlete. I almost feel like I have known her...like a missing part of me. Maybe I'm foolish--I don't know Emly and who knows if there really was an important Emily right now. Or may be it is a self-fulfilling 'prophecy' wishing to bask in her JOY and glory.
I told an unbiased friend about this flashback/vision and the dream...and many many coincidences--"winks"? I highly recommend a book called something like "When GOD Winks." These are stories by athletes, celebrities and ordinary people about how God guided their lives. I was given this book by an elder in the church I go to and didn't read it for about a year. After last February I found the book, read it, and was blown away. My friend said he was blown away and that I should trust GOD for whatever he has and to let God do whatever he wants...he said it differently but I would be saying too much if I quoted him.
There's so many strange coincidences like getting a phone call [at work] just after thinking about the Kwan Olympic situation last year from an "Emily Kwan." I said is that your real name I asked. Yes she said. How strange I thot. There's so so many more winks. I was VERY happy to get a photo from her--but it wasn't the photo that made my day--it was something ELSE, a special touch...a UNIQUE flair she put--uh, but I won't say.
I decided to try ice skating last summer--the falls were pretty bad folks, but I actually was able to go around the rink by myself the 2nd day. My RESPECT for all skaters and EMILY grew so much. This is hard stuff and to think she is up 2 or 3 feet in the air doing turns!! Wow! I now admire all skaters cause this is really hard stuff. One of the hardest things I've ever done.
So whether you think this is fantasy, madness, or something else. I want to BELIEVE in the dream. Is Emily a 'soul mate' or something else? Anyway if somehow one day we end up friends and fellow travellers and more, well surely you will know that GOD did it. But in a way I want to forget about her. All I know is that I want to see her truly joyful--in loving GOD, her family and fellow humans, and that she will find someone to love and who will truly LOVE and cherish her, as she deserves the very best. Whether J-Zee or whoever... May GOD bless her and guide her always I pray. If you believe join in...
I wish everyone here GOOD and HAPPY times and life and peace with God.
In the Master's service,
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I feel that same way about Clay Aiken that he was brought into my life for a reason. I became of fan of Clay's shortly after I became a Born-Again Christian and what made me love and respect him was his faith. Clay is also Born-Again and that spirit of his just radiates off of him every time he performs and in all that he does. Listening to his music was very healing for me and it helped me get through a lot. That is why today I am not ashamed to say that I am a fan and not only that, that I am a huge supporter of his. Nothing could make me change my opinion on him or make me think any differently of him. I want the best for him because he has done so much for me. He has such an amazing spirit and I know that he will be around for a while to make his mark. God is using Clay for His purpose and I know that God is not finished with him yet.

Also all of those things you said about miracles and the supernatural I believe all of that too. I witnessed someone healed of cancer and the Pastor at the church I used to go to was in a major car accident and he was told he would never walk again. But today he is living proof that God is the healer and He can do all things because that Pastor is walking and healed!
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I feel that same way about Clay Aiken that he was brought into my life for a reason. I became of fan of Clay's shortly after I became a Born-Again Christian and what made me love and respect him was his faith. Clay is also Born-Again and that spirit of his just radiates off of him every time he performs and in all that he does. Listening to his music was very healing for me and it helped me get through a lot. That is why today I am not ashamed to say that I am a fan

I like Clay A too. My favorite act is probably PLUMB. She is awesome. Her music is so powerful and when I heard her last CD a year ago, a couple of weeks after I had that 'Dream' I was more than blown away...
I reviewed a CD for her [Tiffany Arbuckle and back then her band PLUMB] in around 2000 and then I lost track of her and her music. When I listened to the new CD I had Emily somewhere on my mind and simply looked forward to the great (new?)sounds of PLUMB, not anything else. When I heard the album I was so STUNNED, almost freaked out when I heard 2 or 3 of the songs. Here was music that seemed to address some aspect of my dream and maybe some questions---I was shaking when I read the lyrics.
I know that the songs were about Tiffany Arbuckle finding not just healing in Jesus but about finding the love of her life and how a 'fairytale' became true so that she would "Blush" [ONLY YOU] when she saw how God sent her her perfect mate.
This RARELY happens to people...even to believers. I have seen my friends go through some good as well as terrible times in their relationships. Sometimes I wonder why God seems to 'play' with us when He could so easily do so many good things if He wanted to.
Music really soothes and ministers to the soul and I've been immersed in it since I was a kid. I've met many many singers/producers/etc like PETRA, The ALARM, Barry McGuire of NEW CHRISTY MINISTRELS, MICHAEL OMARTIAN, REZ, Leslie "Sam" Phillips, and many more.
I love music and great deep true lyrics...I really like the song Emily skated to, "I Believe." The words were so true and told a great story....

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Yeah music is amazing and can be very soothing and healing. I love Clay! I also love MercyMe, Third Day, and Casting Crowns.

I love this song "Rescue" by Desperation Band such a great and powerful song. It allows me to know that Jesus is always with me and I can just cry to Him and He will be there to help me. Great song I also love Mark Schultz's "Back In His Arms Again." Another amazing song that makes me realize that no matter what God will always be there with arms open to comfort me and let me know that He loves me. So powerful and amazing.

Their are so many songs and I could go on forever especially about Christian songs and music related to God.
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Yeah music is amazing and can be very soothing and healing. I love Clay! I also love MercyMe, Third Day, and Casting Crowns.

Their are so many songs and I could go on forever especially about Christian songs and music related to God.

Yeah...MUSIC...I like Mercy Me too. I've always liked AMY GRANT. Music and life leads us into many HIGHS and LOWS and what Michael Omartian called "the Seasons of the Soul..." I am at a low season--a season of sadness, loneliness, sometimes feeling empty, confused, and at times I feel angry--at myself and at GOD. Yes I get angry at God all the time...and I am sure HE gets angry at me.

I am a WRESTLER like Jacob. Jacob and I are VERY similar in character and God cripples me as I wrestle with Him. Yes God wins all the time. But I hope one day I will be healed--in every way--not just in my spirit, but SOUL, MIND, and BODY--a new awesome rez'ed body that we all look for that one fine day...maybe, just maybe in this life and in this DIMENSION but FOR SURE when His Kingdom comes...

PS--I also love BJ THOMAS...his Christian stuff was awesome but Christians treated him like garbage and unfortunately he backslid and turned his back on most Christians but not on JESUS....
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....don't believe dreams, don't believe prophecies, don't believe predicitions, don't believe feelings, don't follow emotions....it is all deception...be very careful. You will be broken hearted.

For me there is no dream, there is no fulfillment...only sadness. How stupid could I be to think that a vision--a "prophecy" and feelings could ever 'flesh out.' No, maybe just subconscious wishful thinking. My dreams were LIES.

I will share these to show how foolish I was. The dreams were very REAL and I hoped that maybe somehow they just might come true. How dumb I was.

I feel very sad, very empty...and I wonder if even GOD can lift me up from my depression. I feel sad at myself. Not angry at anyone...well maybe THE GOD who is supposed to CARE for me. "Cast your cares upon me..." sounds hollow. Does he really care????? I just feel sad.
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Wow, that was quite the long and deep read. I'll respond to your story more directly in your other topic.

A couple of my buddies and I recently had a long discussion about psychics, time, and other big Universe questions after watching the movie Deja Vu (great movie by the way). For psychics we came up with a two main hypotheses. First is the common theme that these powers are God sent. This is simple enough that I won't get into it.

The second, and the one we talked about the most, is the idea that these psychics' brains have in some way warped to view the world completely differently than most the rest of us. Scientists are currently working on technologies that read brain waves so we know the brain does emit external waves of some kind. One of my friends is currently in his 3rd year studying Electrical Engineering and he's very interested in studying the brain because the signals in the brain are in some way electrical. (not my forte) Anyways it’s potentially possible that some people’s brains developed a way to read or see these external brain waves or even different time periods. See, we only experience the world through limited senses so it's very difficult to think about drastic variations in what can be sensed or in how time is viewed. This kinda parallels the saying "Think outside the box."

Oh! and Emily herself says in this video that she is named after the song "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her" by Simon and Garfunkel.
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