The character Gerald Tarrant from CS Freidman's
Black Sun Rising:
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It's hard sometimes for myself to believe this was all real and not just something I dreamed up.
You just read it in a book. You can write well, it's a writer's imagination. It's all from a video game. You're just a fantasy-prone individual.
From Season 3 of the X-Files:
Mulder (reading Rocky's abduction account):
Before I knew it, I was aboard the 'hovervessel' and heading not into outer space, but to innerspace, towards the earth's...molten core...for that is the domain of the third alien, whose name, he soon told me, was 'Lord Kinboat'.
Scully:
Mulder, he's nuts, and you're nuts for believing him!
Mulder:
Look Scully, I'm not saying he isn't delusional, I'm merely suggesting that his delusional state was brought about by something he actually witnessed...
Godbless agent Mulder.
.....
The bhm came to visit me one night.
Kol said:
..I could feel a very strong presence and strong impressions: something very holy, very authoritative, something that defends, something that is next to you and personally yours, something that is your personal stock, something that is true, something that upholds or defends (again with the 'defend' thought), something that is the way it should be. It's so hard to put it into words...
I had a handheld recorder, and had begun to make notes of my dreams and experiences whenever I could remember them.
Alright, this is the 13th of June, 1999...I'm...I was laying here sleeping, letting some music play and all, and all of a sudden, I, I had a dream that had that man in it, and it kind of hit me...and...I'm not goin' to say too much about what I think it means, but...right now I'm just going to uh, to talk about the dream so that I won't forget it and if I do forget it, then I'll remember it when I listen to this tape...
Whatever he was, I was definitely not.
"You are not making the choices you want to make in life, David."
I told him I would make whatever choices I had to, and that 'the darkness' had to be embraced to make my way to the light. (This sounds completely nutty here and now, but a lot of people in that way of life think the exact same way.) I told him I was sorry I couldn't be some sacred errand boy like him, and that as opposed to floating around in the sky, I had to fight just to stay alive on earth. A lot of hate I had back then.
"You're going to cause yourself a lot of pain and misery, and it doesn't have to be like this. You still have a choice. A lot of people don't anymore."
He seemed to be talking about people I knew.
"Let me tell you a story about someone..." he said, as always.
It was nighttime, and it was raining and thundering, and the ground was shaking. I was gazing out a window...
Kol said:
I began to have dreams about a very beautiful woman with blonde hair who would come to see me...we were always in a classroom, and a blonde-haired man was teaching us things. All the classes were about the end of the world... Something very evil was coming and because I had inside knowledge, I was being taught to help. In other dreams, I was looking for a glowing orb like from one of my games, and the beautiful girl was trying to help me find it. This was something I'd had a long time ago but lost, and was determined to get back.
And it's *embarrasing* to get so personal, but it's really part of the story, so...13 was the first time I ever masturbated...but as soon as I started, I remembered having sex before. Which made no sense. But I remembered it plainly... My subconcious was sending me all kinds of information..memories. But none of them made any sense... The only one that made any sense was an image of a beautiful, blonde-haired woman. She was small, not fully grown, but a little older than I was. She was afraid, and it was raining, and we were beneath some trees. She was extremely cute and just..unbelievable. And I remembered entering her body, the literal feel of it, and I remembered it raining, and I remembered her being afraid and not really knowing what was going on. And none of this made any sense to me.
And the very first time I had sex with her, I had yet another strange, bizarre 'memory'...the experience seemed to awaken different parts of my mind, and one of those parts was saying that something was different for me. ...I realized it was because I was circumcised. I didn't think I should have any reason to miss or even think about what I'd never really had, but somehow I could 'remember' sex without being cut, and even with a condom and all, tell the difference. And I had no idea how or why I should be able to tell this, let alone right away.
...
The last dream that I remember having around this time was that I was in a castle...I didn't know what a castle was yet, so I thought the dream was about a cellar. The only cellar I knew was the one beneath my granddaddy's patio, so I figured the dream must be about that place.
...everyone had turned the cellar into a fort, because monsters were coming and it was the end of the world. The monsters looked like dogs, but they were all black and mean. There was a woman, and a man, and a lot of other people, and they were all my friends. I remember walking around and talking to a bunch of people and going flying sometimes to see if anyone was coming after us. In the dream, something was wrong with my voice. It felt like I had rocks in my throat. The woman had blonde hair, and I was in love with her...
...
For some reason I'd originally thought of the place as a castle, but I could see now that it was panelled with pure white, plastic-like walls. Everything seemed hightech, and from this I concluded it must relate to my would-be life as an OSI agent. Originally I had connected these dreams to pre-existence, but I realized then that the two castles were different; what was more, the people in the second castle weren't celestials-they were all human. Both memories took place on earth (I'm shaking as I'm writing this!), but the second one didn't have the same people involved as the first. So despite what I had previously thought, they weren't connected.
So I realized then that the "them" the bhm kept referring to was the people in this second, human castle, and that my bad choices in life were leading me to being in that situation, as this unhappy OSI agent.
...
...I had already lived once before...
...I figured she must have been my wife in a past life. That was the only explanation I could give...
The monsters are all gone and no more are coming, ever again. The windows are recessed into the walls, something like stained glass windows, but..not like anything else I've ever seen. I am sad, because I know what's going to happen. I've been told, warned. But there is nothing I can do, and it only makes me sadder, because we had been fighting so hard, and for a moment it all seemed to be right again. But not anymore. Never again.
My advisor, one of my best friends, is standing next to me, and I tell him quietly to do what he has to do. He nods gravely and walks away. And so I turn away myself, because I don't want to see outside anymore, don't want to look at the world, don't want to see what is happening any more.
I turn to my right and walk towards a staircase leading up to the next floor. The beautiful golden-haired woman is walking down to me, and I can see that she's aware of what's happening. She knows that something isn't right, although she doesn't know what. And she knows that she's about to be taken away from me. She tries to not be afraid, but it's
so hard... A normal person would not be able to do it anymore, wouldn't be able to deal with (aliens) and the monsters and the fighting and the war. But none of them are normal people anymore. They haven't been, not since any of this started, centuries ago.
I tell her to go up to the room, and I'm afraid to tell her goodbye, both for myself and for her.
I couldn't have handled it, because I love her too much.
...this is my wife, and God Himself has decided it to be so.
The dream/vision ended, and the bhm seemed to think. "That is your wife. She's been taken away from you for a while, but God is keeping her safe for you. He will give her back to you." He seemed hesitant, almost uncomfortable. "It's best if you don't try to replace her, at least not right away..."
...
In the morning, I tried my best to sort it all out.
There was indeed a woman already picked out for me and being held by God, protected for me. Because of the things I had done (Keesler?) she had been taken away, but I would be given her back.
This is apparently what I was "remembering", my dreams. It wasn't that I had already experienced these things in real life, or that I had lived before; really, I had known from my pre-existence memories that I had never before been incarnated.
I had dreamed since I was 9 years old that "aliens" were coming to start a war, and apparently this vision from the bhm was telling me how it all would end: with us losing. I would become a captain and have an advisor, and would fall in love with this incredibly beautiful woman. I figured the "monsters" must be some kind of genetic engineering gone wrong, and that the future would be like Nostradamus had predicted, chaotic and senseless. There were still a lot of choices I had to make, and I wasn't convinced that following the bhm so blindly would change things for the better. But these things
would happen, and if I wasn't careful, I would mess them all up again.
This is what I decided, because it was the only thing that made sense. But some of the pieces still didn't fit, no matter how hard I tried to hammer them in place.