I remember vaguely that I was with a group of people. One was
the blonde boy from the first hunger games and he always had an evil look about
him. Another was a guy from my old youth group with whom I have only spoken
once or twice. There were also several girls with us whose faces were unclear.
The background to my dream was that there
was a prophesy that an evil star, Satan in the form of a lion/eagle would come
down from the heavens and try to destroy the world. But when he found that he
could not destroy it, he would go back into the sky as a star and would take one
of our own with him to the sky to look down upon the world so that they may
plot a better way to destroy it and us.
One day, the prophesy came
true. We did not see the star fall from the sky, but as we were all walking
down the road one moonlight night there was a flash of light behind us. We saw
an enormous cat with the tail of an eagle bounding toward us extremely fast,
almost animated.
We were so afraid, we scattered in different directions. The
group of girls went one way, the blonde boy whose name I can’t remember went
another, and the boy from my youth group and I ran on the other side of the
street from him. The lion ran behind the three of us in the middle of the
street.
For an instant, time slowed and I grabbed the
boy’s hand in fear, but it was becoming obvious that he could not run as fast
as normal. It seemed as if everything else was getting farther away as were
running. It felt like we were children again. In my dream I had known him as a
child and we would run everywhere together holding hands.
Then everything came back to the present
and the lion and the boy were again 10 feet from us.
At that moment the boy stumbled and as I
helped him up, I saw the beast finally catch up to the blonde boy and pounce on
him in the middle of the street. They rolled on the ground until it looked like
the beast was the only one left. It struck me then that the boy had disappeared
while they had been rolling. Then the beast stood on all four feet. Its head
was that of a lion and its main that flared in the back, making it look like a
cobra ready to attack. Half of its body was lion and the other half was eagle.
It had an eagle’s tail and eagle claws (transformed from the lion paws I had seen
when it was chasing us.) Just then, the boy reappeared a few feet away from the
beast. They were both looking intently at us holding our gaze with their
malicious stares. The boy had no scratches, just a look in his eyes that was
more deadly than ever and made the boy and I even more afraid.
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The two boys and I were with the girls
again at the entrance to a house in a tree-- the blonde boy in front of my
friend and me, the girls behind us. The
deadly glare was gone from the boy’s eyes, making me think there was nothing to
fear. The beast stood at the base of the tree looking up and pacing as if
waiting for something. We were still at the threshold of the house when the
boy, who seemed to be more of a man after his encounter with the beast, turned
around and said to us, "I have decided to go with him." We all knew
who he was talking about and gasped as we thought of what this would mean.
Then Boromir, who had been guarding the
door said in a grave voice, "So the prophesy has come true." We all
looked up to the heavens and, as if watching a projection of the prophesy as we
had so many times before, we saw the beast shoot into the sky again as a star
with a glowing trail of light behind him and a second, far lesser star with its
own glowing trail followed behind. Boromir spoke to the boy as we gazed at the
sky in terror, "So you are the fulfillment of the prophesy. Why must you
choose death?" There was silence for a moment and we all felt there was a
void at the threshold where we stood. We looked down. The boy was gone and we
realized for the first time everything we had heard of the prophesy was true
and one of our own was gone from us forever.
I woke up with my
finger bleeding and a fresh scratch on my arm. (My cat had not been in the room
the whole night.) ~~~
I do not pretend to
know what the interpretation of this dream is or even if there is one. The bit
with Boromir guarding the door is weird, I'll give you that. But I do believe
there is more to this dream than what I watched recently. If anything, it is a reminder
that I am in a spiritual battle and that I need to fight with God's help
ACTIVELY. Because Satan does come to earth and attack us and try to get us on
his side. There is a real battle going on just beyond the surface of what we
see. We cannot live like it does not exist.
