PREMONITIONS, PROPHECY, and INTUITION (in dreams and wake life)

Your marvelous story reminded me of something that happened to me several years ago, that I had forgotten. It wasn’t precognitive, but the experience did give me a feeling that I couldn’t shake for a long time. It was in '68, when I reached my first military base and was assigned a room in one of the older barracks. I didn’t have a roommate and was thankful for that, being new and just trying to fit in I didn’t want to face the inevitable harassment that usually comes with being the newbie. Trouble was I couldn’t get a good night’s sleep because I kept dreaming I was shaking, or being chased, and once even fell out of the bed. Too much to drink?

About ten days after I arrived one of the big shot sergeant supervisors visited my room and when he came in, started to search the walls until he found what he was looking for. It was a hole that had been filled in and repainted over to match the rest of the wall. He looked at me and smiled and said that’s where the bullet hit the wall—the previous occupant had killed himself in that room and this sergeant had been assigned to clean and fix up the room after the body had been removed. Yikes!

I was totally shocked when I realized that this poor guy had blown his head off but had never left the room. I later learned that no one wanted to bunk there, even though everyone else was doubled or tripled up in other rooms. Luckily I knew a Yogi in my pre-military days and I called him up and asked him what to do. He said it was not uncommon for people who commit suicide to not realize they’re dead and stay where they are. He recommended that I communicate with the poor fellow and let him know he was dead and that he had to move on. I followed the Yogi’s instructions and from that night I had no trouble sleeping.

Interestingly, the same sergeant grabbed me for a similar “cleanup” detail in base housing about a year later, when a very drunken man blew his head off after catching his wife in bed with a “friend.” It was a gruesome experience cleaning out that house, but I used the same technique from the previous year to let the deceased person know that he had passed on, hoping that he would find some peace in the next world.

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