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My blog is based mostly on my experiences with Lucid Dreaming, among other things. During the course of my life, certain things have happened to me to get me interested in the subject and start to research it.    This story is about one of those times...

June 6 1966,  I was living in New Jersey in a lakefront community.  It was summer and all the families who had Summer homes were there, so all my friends from around the area were there too.    There was a Lake Catering Hall/Recreation center/game room building there that actually had it's own Drive in Movie Screen outside it, where on 2 nights a week there would be a feature movie there for the residents.  It was actually kind of a sit outside and watch place with the big screen, but no cars.     It was on one of these nights that something interesting happened to me. Something that changed my life.

OK, long story short.    The movie was playing on the screen. It was,  "The Devil At 4:00".    I had seen it already, so I was inside the Rec Hall in the Kitchen talking to my friends who worked there.   I was sitting on a big floor freezer against the wall in there talking.    The weather began to get nasty outside, and the movie was halted due to it, so people were coming inside and ordering stuff in there.   Normal thing happened all the time.  So I'm sitting there and outside the window, there are flashes. Lightning. real close too.    I remember the lights going out, and Me looking out the window, saying  "Saint Elmo's Fire", cause the lightning seemed to hit close somewhere and bounce around. Never saw anything like it at the time.

No sooner did I say that, but I remember another flash coming.  I remember seeing the Lightning hit outside in a tennis court, Then I remember waking up in the back of a car. As I remember, it was a Police Car.     It was a strange feeling.  I remember opening my eyes and looking.  I had absolutely no idea of where I was, what happened, or who I was, or anything else for that matter.

I don't know how long I was actually like that, it's kind of fuzzy now. It was a long time ago.  So, I will skip to the next day.  I went up to the Rec Hall that morning and saw this 10 foot hole in the wall in the kitchen and the top of the freezer was not attached, but had hit the wall on the other side of the Kitchen.   The freezer I was sitting on.     I found out that a Lightning Bolt had  come in from the SIDE somehow.  Like it hit the ground and bounced sideways, and then struck the wall directly behind me. Knocked that wall out, knocked the power out, and knocked me out too!   I got hit right in the back by both the Lightning and the the wall blowing up, and thrown across the room.  It looked really nasty...

Now I start to remember.    I had to be revived somehow in whatever car that was the night before.  I was out cold.  Very deep.  I was OK now, but at the time I was not.   I'm not going to try and say Near Death, but It COULD have been that.  I say that because of the DREAM I had while out.

  I'm not going to claim it was near death.  It is just difficult to describe it. It was most likely some kind of neural biological thing in my head from the Shock of the lightning. Anyway, it was strange.   Now, everybody in my family knows about this, but not about the dream I had.
I remember this.  I remember standing in some Hallway. Very bright light all around.  I remember walking down the Hallway and meeting some person standing next to 2 doors.  One I saw had a stairway going up to bright light, and the other was just dark.  I didn't have much choice of which one I had to take, cause this person took my arm, pointed me to the dark door, and said "You are to see this", and the next thing I knew I was going down this kind of tunnel slide. Like the ones at water parks you know?  That is about as close as I can get to describing that.     So I'm going down this thing and I get to the bottom.    The bottom consisted of Something like water, maybe 2 feet deep, only the water was actually some kind of fire in the form of water.  Fire that did not burn me. I don't remember even feeling it.
I start walking, and these things started jumping on me. All over me. I didn't feel them either but they were on me.  They were these small nasty looking things yelling out about things I have done, or places I had been, and things like that.    I remember picking them off and throwing them.  I remember walking forward and grabbing and punching and throwing them aside.  I was not afraid.  Something was telling me I would not be injured by them.  So I walked through this fire water. Grabbing, punching, and throwing these things.  Then I saw something I will never forget.    I came up to this big like block thing right in front of me, with no way around it, so I stopped.  So did the things around me.   I stopped, looked up and heard a voice. The voice said "The face".   I was thinking,  "the Face?  The face of what?"   I kept looking up and there were these  things like the bottom feet of a bathtub standing on an old floor, only made out of some Kind of Gold color.
I looked up higher and It was actually the feet of a Big Seat sitting on the big base I told you about.  There was someone sitting in it too!    Now I was getting a little uneasy.  cause I had no idea what was happening, or why, or how I got there.   The higher I looked up, the brighter the person in the chair got. I remember hearing in my head, or whatever it was, that voice again.   I don't remember the exact words, but it was something about  a face.  (Now,I know this is going to sound strange enough, without me making something up, so I'll just leave it at that)..
I kept looking up.  and got about halfway up. This form was made out of some kind of transparent Gold  Liquid, that looked like water.  kind of moving around.  Like the water in a pool with the wind blowing on it, making it circulate around.  That is as close to what it looked like as I can relate.  I can't think of the words to describe this.  The only word would be "Living water".  maybe "living creature".  I say that because I could feel that and see that in this.  Just living moving transparent Gold with deep moving colors of..."Life".    Totally beyond description.  It was more..real,  than I was.  Even that doesn't explain this.  Try to imagine anything You have ever seen, felt, or imagined. This was something on a totally different level.   Like a blind person. Blind their entire life, suddenly getting sight standing by a huge waterfall with a rainbow.    He wouldn't be able to explain that, or even comprehend what it even was.  Something that was always felt, but never seen. Now being seen, impossible to describe.    This  Gold colored water was flowing around, peacefully.Like a River.  I stood there just staring. I heard more being said, but don't actually remember every detail. Something encouraging, not frightening. It made me feel safe. I knew I would not be harmed by this. It was just something my mind was seeing. And the higher I looked,  the brighter it was getting. I really wanted to see this now.
So I'm staring and trying to look higher, when the next thing I knew, I was saying..  "where am I"..    in the back of a vehicle.  
I had no Idea of where I was, what anything around me was, or who I was.  Totally a blank.   This did not last too long, thank Goodness, because the next day I was able to remember a lot.  Eventually it all returned.   I remembered the dream too.  I have been trying to piece it together for decades now.  I'm fairly certain it was just a case of being zapped with lightning  and remembering things.  Like you remember those abstract things from a Dream, or if you pass out.  That's why You always say, "Where Am I", when you wake up, cause your mind is very active during those times. Probably jumping from scene to scene, until you wake up, and you think it's the next "scene" of your dream.   It was like that  only clearer.
OK that's enough for now.   This has happened to me twice in my life.  Both times from being struck by lightning.  I was actually hit by it twice, and shocked by it a third time.    The second time? even stranger than the first time.   That's for tomorrow I guess.
Remember this.  This actually happened to me.  You don't need to believe that, It's up to you.  I do however, appreciate you reading this, and always do.    Wait till you hear the story about the next time I got hit later in Life.
Till then     Peace  G