Our daughter Megan, recently told us a chilling story involving Liberty University. This university was begun by fundamentalist Jerry Falwell, a man whose entire platform is built on extreme religious doctrine and dogma.
So Megan met a young man – let’s call him John – who attended Liberty. The following story was told to John by his closest friend, Rick, who was a residential advisor in the dorm in question.
Three days a week, students were obligated to attend a church service and the RAs checked the dorms to look for students who skipped out. One evening, Rick walked into one of the dorms and found a student standing in the shower with the shower curtain wrapped around him. Rick asked him if he was going to be attending the church ceremony and the boy said no. When Rick asked him why, the kid answered, “I can’t cross the barrier.”
Several weeks later, a similar scenario played out. Curfew at the school was midnight, and Rick was doing rounds making sure everyone was in their dorm. This time, he discovered the same student standing in the middle of his bed, dressed in a suit and tie and clutching a briefcase, saying he had things to attend to.
This time, Rick reported the incident to the powers that be, who called the student’s parents. The mother remarked that her son was always a bit anti-social, but became concerned and removed her son from the university.
Weeks passed and a new student moved into the same dorm room. Once again, it was a church service night and Rick was checking the dorm for students who had skipped out. He walked into the same room and found the new student standing in the middle of his bed, wearing only his boxers. When Rick asked what he was doing, this new student glanced up at him and said, “I can’t cross the barrier.”
So Rob and I are listening to this story and at the end, he said, “You aren’t going to believe this. I had a dream in which a dream character couldn’t cross a barrier.”
In the dream, Rob was in an RV with 2 young guys and they were watching a very strange video involving Donald Trump. A man was squatting in the middle of a road wearing only a t-shirt. Trump, meanwhile, was lighting firecrackers and tossing them along the ground between the man’s legs. However, the fuses burned out on the first few and Trump was getting annoyed. Finally, he succeeded and the firecracker blew up beneath the man, who howled, jumped up, grabbed his crotch and ran down the street.
Other people were watching him and tried to help him, but they were prevented from crossing the street, as if an invisible barrier blocked their way.
I agree with Natalie – creepy!
Totally off subject, Trish and rob….please check your trash bin for emails. I know some of your incoming emails have been landing there by mistake, and I just sent you a really stunning one about numbers. THANKS! Re this election, I have pretty much decided I won’t vote. My husband and I would cancel each other’s vote out, so it would be useless and a waste of time. If I don’t vote, he won’t either, so that’s better than the alternative.
2016, being a 9, is the ‘end’ of many, many things. Hopefully it will usher in a great 2017, which is a 1….the birthing of fresh new beginnings. Fingers and toes crossed.
That one didn’t go to trash, CJ. Very stunning!
If this were my dream; “Can’t Cross the Barrier” here are a few things that come up for me: 1. Anytime I’m watching a screen in a dream, I’m alert for precognitive possibilities. In our waking life, I see Trump acting very much like this mean, schoolyard bully. Who’s the poor guy he’s tossing the firecrackers at? The Republican party? I’m fascinated by an invisible barrier in both the dream and the waking story synchro; in dream experiences I’ve had and read about, especially lucid or out of body, it seems a common occurrence. The question is what is my personal fear that’s manifesting thus and how do I move beyond it, or what consensus reality am I dealing with here and how do I get around it? In waking life, I’m scratching my head about the consensus group who want to elect Drumpf, so maybe this dream has some info on how to break the barrier that keeps those who want to help from succeeding, not only in not electing Drumpf, but in moving our culture forward in consciousness. Firecrackers to me are quintessentially American, independence day, and also bad boy, in a sense. I guess there are so many questions for me that I’d journey back into this dream to see what more I can get. Also, if I were a writer of stories, I might be interested in using this barrier theme somehow:-)
Thanks, Adelita. I’ll make sure Rob sees this!
Creepy!
Very!