I have a lot of odd dreams. Most of them involve me being in a classroom or else being in a hospital helping people to heal emotional issues, but this dream takes the cake! I will warn you in advance this may be disturbing, but I needed to get this out because it felt SO real I woke up physically (and emotionally) exausted. I dreamt that I was standing on an old bridge overlooking a ship that had capsized. It was laying on its port side and took up about half of the channel that it was resting in. There were hundreds of bodies floating everywhere. There were buildings on either side of the channel, so it appears to have happened in a city. There was also people scrambling to help the people in the water. There was a tug steaming over to help also. Intuitively, I 'knew' that my job was to help those that had died to come to grips with what had happened so that they would be able to 'cross over'. I would go down into the water and find people (souls?) who had died yet were frightened and confused and were still down in the ship and bring them up to the bridge to help them understand. I remember passing through one compartment where there was a young woman of about 17 who was still alive but her compartment was rapidly filling with water. I desperately wanted to stop and try and help her but was forcefully told by the voice of someone I could not see that that was not my job and that I could not help her yet. So as difficult as it was, I moved on and found someone I could help. One of the most vivid memories I have is of having what amounted to an argument with a man who refused to believe that he was dead. I remember looking over and seeing people putting planks down so they could walk to and on the side of the ship. They brought in welding equipment to try and cut the hull but it was too late. I finally had to take this man back to see his body before he would begin to accept what had happened. Even now, the hair on the back of my neck is standing up just thinking about it. One thing I haven't mentioned till now is how everyone was dressed. They were all dressed in very old fashioned clothes. The man I was arguing with was wearing a bowler hat and a brown suit. I remember towards the end of the dream thinking how familiar it all looked. It reminded me quite a bit of what I had read about the Eastland disaster. It was a ship that capsized in the Chicago river. I looked up the Eastland this morning and almost had a heart attack. A few of the photographs I saw showed the same scene I had witnessed in my dream. I have to wonder now if it was really a dream or exactly what it was. All I can say is that if the real Eastland disaster was as horrific as my dream, I would not wish the experience on anyone. It was bad, very bad. I suppose I should look for the silver lining. As difficult as the dream was for me, at least I was doing something to help the people who were there.

Snoopy,

That is definetly bizzare! But cool...I wonder what this could mean? I'm not very familiar with dream interpretation and I'm not really into the whole past lives things...so I really can't help you on this one. All I can say is that is sounds really neat. And scary too...

Christine

Hi Snoppy and everyone!
Although,, that must have been a real shock to find that accident did happen and I would tend to think that you were there helping those poor lost souls. And Snoopy, you were helping.
As horrible as it was......you helped many. Please remember that.
Have you ever had dream any where near something like this before, water, accident, helping lost souls?
I am very interested Snoopy.
Take care kiddo!
Piggster

P.S. Please do let us know of any other dreams related or memory. (((((hugs))))

Wow, what a dream you had there Snoopy! As I was reading your post the Eastland incident came to mind, even before I got to the end of your post, as I'd read about it in ghost books. Maybe you were really there in a prior life, or died on the Eastland, and really did use your gifts to help others cross over. A lot of people needed your help that night.

Maybe you should do some more research, and try to find a passenger list. You might find your prior self on it!

[ September 15, 2003, 07:45 AM: Message edited by: Kevin P ]

Hi all! This was the first time I can remember having a dream like quite like this one. I mentioned the hospital in my previous post. This hospital is the site for many dreams in which I am helping people. It is a BIG run down, dirty, extremely overcrowded hospital with many floors. A big hospital in a big crowded city. It is so overcrowded that people are waiting in the halls for treatment for a variety of things. Most of the time I can only remember walking through the halls or riding the elevator to get to my next 'case'. Sometimes, I will wake up and remember what I needed to do in the dream. For example, I walked into the room I was supposed to be going to and in front of me was a young man who was big into running and bike riding. He was sitting in a wheel chair with a broken leg. I intuitively knew that what I was seeing was not accurate. He had been hit by a car while riding and was now a paraplegic. It was my job to help him understand what had happened and help him begin to come to grips with it. Another 'case' involved a woman who kept telling me about how wonderful things were going to be when she got home. She said she'd gotten a clean 'bill of health' and was being released. I unfortunately, knew otherwise. She was terminally ill and in denial about the situation. It was my job to make her see so that she could begin to grieve. That way she would have begun the healing process and not have such a difficult time adjusting when she passed on. All of these dreams are very difficult, and I always wake up the next morning more tired than when I went to bed. I must admit that having these dreams has made me a much stronger person because after the things I have experienced in my dreams I feel I could tackle anything in the real world! I am planning on trying to look up pictures of some of the victims of the Eastland to see if I recognize anybody. I am especially interested to see if I can find the guy I was having the argument with.

Snoopy,
I am getting the feeling that this is what you do, you help people. In the present, in the afterlife your there for people.
And I am assuming these dreams are hard on you mentally, draining is more what I mean.
Did you ever get in the discussion about regression, am I remebering correctly that you couldn't be put under like me? Maybe this is why?
Take heart in all the good you must do Snoopy.
Just from your words I am getting a very deep feeling of what you do in this big picture of our lives.
Lately, I can relate to unerving dreams, I have been getting them nightly. I never really dreamed much before, now it is every night and I wake up remembering every detail, as if I was really there!
Keep us posted on your dreams. I think somehow they are all going to fit in together and you will then know, the why.
Take care kiddo!
Piggster

Everytime I read a dream I start with a psycho analysis and intuition until the psycho analysis gives all appearances to fail.
I don't think your dream can be 'interpretted' as a manifestation of you subconscious. I get the impression that you tied into something that was real. Maybe it was you not in this life or maybe the dream was given to you for a reason. Say to help you focus on your trying to help people.
I tend to agree with Pigerita. You seem to have found your overlying purpose.

As horrific as it sounds it still sounds like a pretty fantastic dream.
I get a lot of odd and super realistic dreams too.

Snoopy,
The Travel Channel did a show this afternoon on hauntings in Chicago. It covered the Easterland Disaster and apparently the area is still haunted as well as the buildings where temporary morgues were set up. One morgue was set up in a building that now houses Oprah's Harpo Studios.

That was such a terrible disaster! I went last night and read up on it.
And until you mentioned it, I had never heard of it.
I read quite a few links on it. Some have it listing to wave goodbye to friends, others say they ran to the other side of the boat to see a fireboat?
Wow, what a dream? Yeah and they say Ophra's studio is haunted from being used as a morgue.
It is a very sad story. I got so involved I went through the passenger list. Just saying a blessing as I read a name.
Hugsssss........Piggster

More people died in this disaster than in the Great Chicago Fire. Here's a site for the Eastland Disaster Historical Society. The personal account of survivors and witnesses are chilling:

http://www.eastlanddisaster.org/default.htm[/URL]

That is quite the site. It is really eerie looking at the pictures. I feel like I was just there. I have definitely got to go to the spot where that happened. A friend of mine told me about a guy named Richard Crowe who gives ghost tours of Chicago. The Eastland is supposed to be one of the stops. I think I'll have to check it out.