Dream Journal
Melissa and I are in my parents’ back yard behind the shop at night. We are looking for a hidden entrance to something. Poking near a barrel, a small explosion happens to scare us off. Back at the house, we get a prophetic message that the entrance is under the barrel.
We return to the rear of the shop and pull the barrel back - its quite heavy. Behind it is a hole in the ground with presents and old toys mixed in the dirt inside the hole. The hole is only three feet deep, but it connects to a small tunnel below. She hops down in, hunches over, and disappears left into the tunnel. Just as I worry about her, she reappears.
We turn to go to the house and see an old abandoned car sitting about 20 feet away - it hadn’t been there before. We run to the house and return to the secret entrance with more people: Rodney, Jen, B, and one other girl.
B and the other girl spot the abandoned car and she goes over to inspect it. She returns to the group and says that the car has a deep fat fryer in it and therefore is no harm to us. Rodney, Jen and Melissa hop into the hole; Melissa asks if I’m coming. I really don’t want to and say no. B sits in his car a few feet away, the other girl stands beside me.
Even though I don’t want her to, Melissa has to go into this hole and stop whatever evil is brewing down there. She doesn’t have any other choice, but she accepts it.
At first the hole looks so small that they have to shimmy on their belly. She tells Rodney and Jen that in a few feet they’ll be able to stand up; they disappear into the hole and head left.
Wanting to watch them go, and wanting to see what the tunnel looks like, I climb into the hole completely intending to not go any farther. Dropping into the hole, I make a sound that Melissa hears; she turns around and asks if I’m coming after all. I look at her and see they have entered a well-lighted, tan colored carpeted tunnel, and they are able to stand comfortably. She walks towards me and I see some blue stripes in her hair; in a split second she looked like Damon and I tell her so.
Craning my neck, I looked out of the hole and tell the other girl that I’ve decided to follow Melissa anyway. The girl looked concerned, but didn’t try to stop me. I tell her to let B know that I love him. I yell, ‘I love you!’ then follow Melissa into the tunnel.
When the tunnel gets larger, I stand up and nearly hit my head on a ceiling beam. We turn a corner and come to a table sitting in a large hallway. We gather around the table and discuss important matters around what might be a map.
I was walking towards the table when I see a middle-aged woman and a teen boy walk into the hallway from a tunnel different than the one we were in. They looked upset that so many people were there. I recognized them, and asked if their last names were Beachy. The woman glanced at me, nodded, and then stared at Melissa as the two of them continued to walk by the table.
The lady indicated that she wanted to talk to Melissa privately. Melissa followed the two of them into a room. I knew that the two people were trying to dissuade her from continuing this quest to stop evil. They were in there a long time, and then Melissa came from the room alone looking a bit worn out.
Melissa said that when she walked into the room, she appeared in my parents’ living room and was standing in front of dad. He was sitting in his chair watching a movie. He yelled at her and yelled at her for one thing or another.
I said, ‘Sweetie, I’m sorry you had to talk to him without any preparation.’ She told me that it wasn’t really dad - it was a vision intended to stop her from going any further. She said that after dad yelled at her, the lady reappeared and shot something at Melissa with her hand. She told me that she then called dad and asked him if he was watching a movie, and he said no. That is how she was certain it was a vision.
I asked Melissa how she had escaped. She said, ‘I just did this,’ and raised her right hand. From her wrist shot a bright green ball of light towards my eye. It was terribly bright and hurt my eyes. I told her to watch where she aims that thing.
I knew that Melissa had this power within her to defeat whatever evil lay underground, and I was no longer scared for her.
Themes: Melissa