First is what happened this morning. I came downstairs this morning at around 6:30. After little Robert came down I fell asleep. I slept until after he left for school. (about an hour) While I was asleep my mind was very active. I know I was lightly dreaming but of what I can�t say for sure. When I woke up I was very certain that I was aware of things around me while I was sleeping. Not on a direct or conscious level, but aware none the less. Things I was certain of were as follows: Kristen was in the chair behind my head. Robert had left. One of the cats had been moving around me. The television was on nearly the whole time.
When I awoke I could see that the T.V. was on. I reached over my head without looking and felt Kristen take my hand. I told her how I was �aware� of the things I mentioned and she confirmed, even telling me that Jasmine (her black cat) had been playing around my feet while I was asleep. I doubted for some reason my awareness, but a nagging feeling within me bore testament to my certainty. Strange I thought, and how similar this certainty was to an occurrence only a little over a week prior.
It was my last day working as a nanny for Cliff and Dawn, the third of this month. I had a headache so I put a cool, damp cloth on my forehead and laid back on the couch after putting the baby down for her afternoon nap. I had a strange feeling in my eyes and mind and I opened them both to see the ceiling in a flash of reddish orange. Sort of like molten lava splattering and there were thoughts of numbers in my head. The numbers were 707 and 14. I also thought of the open skies and got a vague impression of an airplane, but that was more of a guess on my part. That same nagging certainty was there but I did not understand any significance then. That day I told Cliff, Dawn and Kristen of my experience. The next day Kristen told me that she heard on the morning news that a 707 airplane had to make an emergency landing because of an engine that caught fire.
Now perhaps it is coincidence or maybe I am making something out of nothing. I did not hear of this plane myself and the number 14 did not seem to come up. And besides, why would this of all things happening nearby impose itself upon my awareness? It makes little sense. I can honestly say though that I did not know there was even such a thing as a 707 airplane, though I did wonder at the time. I though perhaps a flight number. So now I find that I am curious. I suppose I could search the net for more information on this plane to gain some insight into the matter, but I doubt it will make things much clearer. I can say that I become more and more aware of different levels of awareness as I get older however. Perhaps I should try harder to explore these intangible planes of thought.
I have come to believe that it is the unknown levels of awareness that fall just barely on the realm of consciousness that can be attributed and credited for my sense of sympathy and intuition toward others and animals. And I can�t help but think that if I can raise these levels even more into the realm of consciousness then I would be able to utilize this ability to bring a higher understanding of myself and the behavior of other life to my present knowledge. It seems like a very intriguing proposition.
Unfortunately I only have my own experiences to draw from and these are of course fleeting and few on any sort of large scale. Mostly they are subtle experiences. But regardless, I shall endeavor to document any experiences which do come my way. I hope by doing so these occurrences will become more clear. And who knows? Maybe in five or ten years from now I will have reached some interesting if not definite conclusions. Only time will tell. And hopefully, God willing, I will have that time.
~FIN
