Ok, here it is. I was born and raised Catholic, and even though I attended 12 years of Catholic school, at about age twenty I stopped going to mass and began to live a very sinful lifestyle. About ten years later, I had met the love of my life and we decided to get married. I felt the Lord tugging at my heart to come back to Him, but I did not have the courage to do so, since I was away for such a long time, and in a state of mortal sin. So, I got married without going to confession, received Communion (which by doing so, I committed a sacrilege) and got busy with married life. About three months into our marriage, I had a dream which involved the Blessed Mother (although I didn't know that it was her at the time). In this dream I was speaking to a very beautiful woman dressed in white (who wore a veil and was surrounded by a cloud). In this dream I knew that she was one of the saints, but I did not know who. I remember asking this woman, "When I die, will I go to heaven ?" She then looked me directly in the eye and spoke to me with all love and sincerity, saying, "You must repent."
With that, I found myself going through a dark tunnel at a tremendous rate of speed. In this dream, I knew that this tunnel was taking me to hell and I woke sitting up in my bed terrorized and screaming.
This dream shook me up so much, that within a few days, I was attending daily mass and having true repentance for my sins, went to confession for the first time in over ten years.
About a year later, I realized that the woman in my dream was indeed the Blessed Mother, when someone gave me a holy card with our Lady portrayed as she had appeared at Fatima, and I said to this person, "That was the lady in my dream."