First, a brief background:
A friend of mine is in his mid-60's, and is a life-long atheist and skeptic. Both of his parents were atheists. Most members of his family, male and female, worked in the field of science. My friend told me that while he was growing up, his parents not going to church, spent Sunday's either taking the kids to cultural events, or had people over to discuss science, politics, atheism, etc.
But something happened recently that has been unsettling and contradicts his life-long belief system.
This Summer he went to stay at a cousins flat in New York for a couple of weeks. His cousin had vacated the flat after he and his wife discovered their 20 year old son dead last May. They had been gone a few days and the coroner estimated their son had dead shortly after they left. No cause of death was ever determined. They found him on the floor of his bedroom with no signs of trauma, and an autopsy did not provide any clues.
My friend had only met this young man once, years ago, when he was about 5 years old. All photographs of him had been taken down.
O.K. For no reason inparticular, my friend decided to stay in the young mans bedroom. Being a bit neurotic in an anal-neat-freak way, he had brought his own bedding, and changed the sheets and blankets on the bed. Though he said the room was quite clean, he still vacumed and put things away before going to sleep.
In his dream that night he was walking along an ocean, and a young man with bleached, spiked hair, was skipping and dancing along side of him, looking like "the happiest person" he had ever seen. The young man kept eye contact with him throughout the dream, and though he didn't speak. he just exuded a "pure joy".
In the morning when my friend woke up, he felt something on his forearm. It was the passport of his cousins son. A recent photo, and the young man had bleached, spiked hair, and looked just like the man in his dream.
We have been talking about this quite a bit, and when I brought up dream editing, he admitted that it may explain part of the experience. The part that he is still having difficulty with is how the passport came to be on his arm. He had changed the bedding and cleaned the room, never seeing a passport.
Beyond the dream editing, I am at a loss what to suggest to him.
Any ideas?
A friend of mine is in his mid-60's, and is a life-long atheist and skeptic. Both of his parents were atheists. Most members of his family, male and female, worked in the field of science. My friend told me that while he was growing up, his parents not going to church, spent Sunday's either taking the kids to cultural events, or had people over to discuss science, politics, atheism, etc.
But something happened recently that has been unsettling and contradicts his life-long belief system.
This Summer he went to stay at a cousins flat in New York for a couple of weeks. His cousin had vacated the flat after he and his wife discovered their 20 year old son dead last May. They had been gone a few days and the coroner estimated their son had dead shortly after they left. No cause of death was ever determined. They found him on the floor of his bedroom with no signs of trauma, and an autopsy did not provide any clues.
My friend had only met this young man once, years ago, when he was about 5 years old. All photographs of him had been taken down.
O.K. For no reason inparticular, my friend decided to stay in the young mans bedroom. Being a bit neurotic in an anal-neat-freak way, he had brought his own bedding, and changed the sheets and blankets on the bed. Though he said the room was quite clean, he still vacumed and put things away before going to sleep.
In his dream that night he was walking along an ocean, and a young man with bleached, spiked hair, was skipping and dancing along side of him, looking like "the happiest person" he had ever seen. The young man kept eye contact with him throughout the dream, and though he didn't speak. he just exuded a "pure joy".
In the morning when my friend woke up, he felt something on his forearm. It was the passport of his cousins son. A recent photo, and the young man had bleached, spiked hair, and looked just like the man in his dream.
We have been talking about this quite a bit, and when I brought up dream editing, he admitted that it may explain part of the experience. The part that he is still having difficulty with is how the passport came to be on his arm. He had changed the bedding and cleaned the room, never seeing a passport.
Beyond the dream editing, I am at a loss what to suggest to him.
Any ideas?
