Living our Dreams before Leaving | A 5-Minute FreeWrite
What do people dream about the night before they die?
Do they get a revelation? An epiphany? A warning? An omen?
Do they remember what they dreamed about?
Do they even have a goodnight sleep?
Inevitable as death is, most people are caught off-guard. We know we can die any minute, but we don’t want to push our ticket by giving too much thought to the idea, by making too many arrangements that may attract some bad luck. Even if people do not believe in luck of any kind, somehow they manage to believe they can dodge the sentence imposed on them from their very conception.
I like the stories of people who “knew” they were going to die and made sure they’d leave a trace of entertaining anecdotes for their mourners to tell.
Except for suicidal instances, people who plan actions that most likely will get them killed (especially criminals), or terminal patients, death comes as a surprise. It is always us, the ones left behind, who manage to turn the day or night before into stories to give us solace or nightmares.
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This was my entry to @mariannewest’s Wednesday’s 5-minute daily FreeWrite. Prompt: the night before. Details here
Hello dear@hlezama
I think you do not remember me...
but I do remember you well hehe
Nice to see you after two years and then I find you are still doing great things here and in your life
I'm happy for you
Hi, @yagoub
I remember you, sure. Sorry about your child. Hope life is treating you well these days
Best of luck here on #hive
This had a lot of deep truth ... we are indeed the ones that make up the stories, to deal with the surprise...
Hi, @deeanndmathews
Thanks for stopping by
This is really deep.
And you're very correct. The livings are the ones who get to spin whatever tale they deem fit for the dead. The dead have no say in the matter.
This is a good one @hlezama, keep it up.
Thanks, @bruno-kema
Good to have you here. One interesting thing about the stories woven the days after is that they rarely coincide. Every person will tell a different tale; memories have a way of being made up or revisited.
Yes, you have a point.
That's where things like legends and myths and even rumors come from. Eventually, no one would know where the story began.
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Excellent, but it is a very deep subject and we can drown haha
It can become a deep subject, assuming there is some unexplained force that connects the world we know with something beyond, an after life, or whatever people want to call it.
For most that special connection with supernatural forces simply does not exist, have not been experienced, or at least not consistently enough to acknowledge it.