Many, many years ago….25 maybe? Maybe more? I had a very vivid dream. Now, I don’t usually remember my dreams—very few in my life—-but this one I will never forget and I don’t think I was meant to forget it. Of course, at the time, I didn’t understand what it meant, but I certainly do now.

I dreamed that I was taken with some other people on a dirt path into a cave-like place and the path sloped downward once inside. We ended up in a room within the cave with rock walls and a dirt floor. We were lined up in a long row and a few soldiers stood in front of us. Two took out rifles and started shooting us. Everyone in the line fell to the ground. But as they shot down the line, there was a bit of a commotion for a few seconds and I was able to run through the cave opening. I ran uphill on the path back to front of the cave and there was a woman sitting at a long table near the entrance. It dawned on me that I had a chance to escape—-there was a possibility I could make it, but I stopped for a second. I stopped because something hit me hard—a thought. I knew everyone I loved in my life was dead already. They were gone. What was I to live for? Was life even worth living now? What would I do? Where would I go?

Before I could answer my own question in the dream, I woke up.

It really occurred to me during the vax push that maybe that’s what the dream was about. Most everyone in my life got the vax except me. Would they all die one day and I’d be the only one left?

Or is it about something more that will happen in the future?

I don’t know. But it really was this once in a lifetime dream that I was meant to remember and carry with me through life.