i was looking through my dream journals recently as i was incited by jeff's inquiry about the unusual things i have experienced on a spiritual level. i found this one dream that i wrote about to be very strange and worth sharing.

11/19/00

I'm at my mother's house and in my old bedroom is another accessable through the closet. This room does exist in the physical---maybe it's there in some other realm.

Anyhow, Missy [my mom's nickname] says she can't go into the room because there are evil presences, or spirits. She tries to enter the room, but a force throws her out. She wants me to do something [about it]. I tell her I'm not her choice. She is disappointed, so I try to make her feel better. I go to the door and try to enter. I feel this force pushing on my chest, so I try speaking, and the force is so strong that I can bearly utter. But I keep persisting. I can't recall verbatim what I say to the entity, but I know that my message had something to with loving it, and then I illuminated myself with Love, letting it feel Love and knowing that I was with God. This calmed the restless spirit. She then let me enter the room. Mom and I then went inside the room. As we were looking around, I was sensing to see if the spirit had moved on.

Suddenly, a porcelain box on the table moved, and then I knew the spirit was still there. Then to let her know I was there, too, I made the box move and even made it come to me. Then I showed Mom how I could make things come to me, or move without touching them.

The spirit then shower herself to me. At first she was shadowy, more disembodied still, and she talked to me. She said she was from a place called Kimball, Texas---what sounded like Kimball---could be Kendall----but undoubtedly Texas. She said her name was Annie---or that was what she wanted to be called. I didn't get her last name. I got this visual from a notebook she had written in that showed what appeared to be her birth year and year of death. 1903-1958. She said that if I would look for her records that I'd be able to find her---even a picture of her.

Then she & I were at a table. She was in a body now, one that looked familiar to me. Jeff [my brother] was there, and Annie started talking to Jeff is a highly familiar way, telling him things and acting as if he should know them. Jeff was looking dumbfounded at Annie and I asked him way, and he said,"What's gotten into Kirsten [Kirsten is my technical step-sister, but I've only met her a few times]?" Then it dawned on me that the familiar person was indeed Kirsten's body, but Annie had taken it over.

I asked Annie if she had done that, and she said she had---that Kirsten had consented. And then I asked Annie why the haunting, and she said she wanted to contact Jeff, that she and he were together in that life, and that she was jealous of Lauren [Jeff's wife]. I tried to soothe her, but she was not open to it. I thought to myself how the haunting made sense, how they seemed to coincide with Jeff & Lauren getting together.

Jeff was dismayed, not remembering anything from that life---and he was clueless. I tired to convey to Annie that she needed to move on, then the dream ended.

I didn't add it to my dream notes, but I recall this dream because of it's strong impressions. I recall seeing an image of Kimball, Texas in my mind, seeing it as a small town that was like a ghost town now but used to be a town with an active population. I had also gotten the impression that Annie's last name was Ramirez or something along those lines, starting with an R sound and sounding like a Spanish surname.

Well, today when I found this dream entry I noticed that I had never researched to see if there is or was a town in Texas called Kimball or Kendall. So I went to Yahoo maps and typed in Kendall. No such town. Then I thought I'd try Kimball because that was what she had told me and what I visually saw in the dream, too. Guess what? There is a town called Kimball, Texas! I even found a historical account of the town.

I am not sure why I didn't follow through with researching the details of this dream. It would seem that at least the information I received about the town is true, so logic would follow that the information about Annie could be true. I did a search of the Social Security Death Index, which does not contain all deaths, but I checked to see what came up for 'Annie Ramirez'. I did find an 'Annie Ramirez' born in 1903, but her death year was listed as 1984. I did not find any Annies who died in 1958. The database is not complete because I could not find my deceased uncle, nor a few other expired people that I know of who should be listed.

This dream is curious indeed with the exact information that it gave me. Maybe eventually I will come across the information that will prove of Annie's existence, but for me the dream itself is proof enough to know that she was real.