An Epileptic Fit
I was definitely asleep: I knew I was, but it seemed as if I were awake. And in this new reality I was lying on the floor conscious but paralysed. I started shaking, loosely at first then building up in intensity like an internal earthquake. It dawned on me that I was having an epileptic fit. It felt like all my joints were tin cans banging together creating a huge din and an equally huge pain. The intensity of the shaking grew and grew and grew, along with the pain that accompanied it. Bigger and bigger until I felt that I could stand it no longer. In desperation I cry out for help and “Click” – like the switching of a TV channel everything changed.
I am now in a warm black place. Absolute silence embraces me, along with a surrounding warmth, accompanied by a sense of serene peace the likes of which I have experienced only once before – when I died.
For such a long time I float there, how long I cannot say for there is no ticking of the clock.
Suddenly the channel has switched again and I am back in my body, back to the same level I had left. Except now the intensity of the shaking is descending. Even though I am at the same level that had broken me before somehow it seems far less. Then the dream faded and I awoke.
I was puzzled about the message of this dream. I had a friend who was an epileptic and I wondered if the dream was about or for her. About a week later I went to a summer school and was describing the vision to a group of listeners. One of them, a 12 or 13 year old, said, “That’s easy: God never tests you beyond your means.” And there, out of the mouths of babes, was the simple truth!
Posted on June 1, 2013, in Uncategorized and tagged Epileptic Fit, jiam, never tested beyond our means, simple truth, vision. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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