Okay I have waited almost a year before ‘putting this out there.’ Here’s the thing: In September of 2000, I had this very vivid dream that I was in Brooklyn looking at the Towers, as they fell down. It was a lucid dream (I was asking questions like, ‘why am I in Brooklyn?’ and ‘whose house is this?’), but at the time I didn’t know much about lucid dreams, so I didn’t ‘realize’ I was having one. In the dream, several days passed. I was suddenly at City Hall, picking up debris. I was very angry because I wanted to be on the ‘decision panel,’ which would decide whether or not to rebuild the Towers, and ‘they’ had put me on cleanup instead. After I awoke from the dream, it stayed with me for a week or more, and I had discussions with friends about what would happen if the Towers really fell. Now comes the strange part. In June of 2001, I had a sudden job change, and began working directly across the street from the WTC. Lower Manhattan has always been my ‘neighborhood,’ but I had normally just been at the WTC to get various trains and do shopping. After September 11th, I was, in fact, half a block from City Hall, cleaning dust (not concrete blocks like in my dream). I have mainly kept my mouth shut about all of this, because I figure people will think I’m lying…and also because I lost so many people in the attack, it doesn’t seem right to focus on some crazy dream I had. Two things have changed my mind: first, in that creepy Bin Laden tape that came out last winter, there is much discussion of many people having dreams about a year before Sept 11. It made me really wonder what I had tapped into. And, finally, I found out very recently that I will be somewhat involved in the ‘forums’ to decide what is to be placed where the Towers once stood. After I came home from the clean-up, I said to my husband (who knew all about the dream from a year before), “Okay, they fell down, and I had to clean them up. If I get put on the committee to decide what happens next, I’m just not going to f*****g believe it.” Sorry for the swear, but it’s what I said.
This is the first posting I’ve ever made to any kind of ‘discussion group,’ and I’m not sure exactly how this works. Sorry if I’ve overstepped my bounds by making this so long, I’m not up on the do’s and don’ts of this type of conversation. Mainly I’m wondering if any of you people have heard stories like this, or had some kind of WTC dream. In short, ‘What the hell?’