Sep 20 2008
How many people dreamt about 9/11 before it happened?
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I did.
But I didn’t understand what it meant.
I was at an airport. On the tarmac. I was in one of those cars they use at the airport. And I remember going past a wired fence.
On the other side was the broken tail end of a plane.
At the top of it was the logo ‘AxA’.
I had no idea what that inscription meant and I forgot about the dream. I have a lot of dreams about planes (mostly not good), so I brushed it off.
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Later that year, in August 2001, my sister-in-law and I decided to go to America (Philly). I was to join her a week later.
I’ve always liked Virgin Atlantic so that’s what I booked. But before that, when I was trawling through the different offers online, I came across American Airlines (they were offering a cheaper price at the time) and their logo.
I remembered the dream.
I asked my sis-in-law which airline she was taking and she said she’d be taking American Airlines. I didn’t know what to say to her. I didn’t think she’d take me seriously. I didn’t want to take myself seriously. It was just a dream. I’ve read somewhere that dreams don’t literally mean what they mean.
So I said nothing.
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We were OK. We had a great time. I didn’t realise how close New York was to Philly, so I went there too. We both came back end of August.
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I was planning to go back to NYC in September, but couldn’t get my funds together.
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I remember where I was when 9/11 happened. Most people do.
It didn’t really click til later - the dream I had. The broken tail on the airport tarmac. The AA logo I couldn’t recognise. Was there a connection? Was 9/11 what it was all about? And if so, what was the point of having it if it only made sense after the event?
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How many other people dreamt about 9/11 before it happened? If the dreams could have been deciphered before it happened, could it have been prevented? Could more lives have been saved?
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I had the same kind of dream the night before the July 7th bombings happened in London. Will write about that soon.
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There are a lot of things I don’t understand.
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I did. Of course I didn’t realize it until after the event happened though. I remember the horror, the plane, a fiery death. I woke up shaken like I’ve never been before after having a dream of this nature (I dreamt of the challenger ss disaster in the 80s, I was even in tune enough on that one to know one morning that “today was the day” but I didn’t know what I might when I saw the sky that morning and said that until I saw the footage later that replicated a dream I had). I felt the evil and knew that whatever happened to the plane in the fiery crash in my dream was taken over by pure evil. I couldn’t easily get back to sleep but told myself it was ridiculous since I had never flown and hadn’t planned a trip on a plane, as such I was safe. I don’t think we could make a difference if we put it together, who would believe, although I don’t know then the purpose of this “gift” either.
Thanks so much for your reply, violetteb. That’s what I’ve asked myself - what’s the point of having these dreams if it can’t make a difference to the outcome because no-one will believe? Even I put it down to just a dream ’til it happens. And even if people would beleive, I’m not sure I’d want the responsibility of such insight - such a gift.
Perhaps it just is what it is.