Thread: Murder

maybe it is just exaggeration or a lie. But it's still interresting!!!! I would líke to know a little more about the dreams, although we're not likely to know as the poor girl has now passed away. But I've heard about things like this before where people glimpse into the future, and it's usually some sort of warning about their safety or the safety of a loved one!

I have no idea about the significance of an old woman in a tent though. Maybe the tent was signifying a room where she couldn't escape from (if she was killed in the bedroom or something)

Very interesting though!

There's no connection, it's a Response Bias. The similiarity is a coincidence and the reason why it's reported in the first place. Meanwhile there's a vast majority of noncoincidences that aren't reported. It's the rarity that gets remembered when there's nothing special about it.

Myself and my friends have recently been mourning the death of a friend. She was murdered... the funeral was just a couple weeks ago. Since she was one of our close friends, we have been seeing a huge amount of strange coincidences and signs that led to her death. For this sake, I'll call her "D."

For example, my best friend found a letter that she had written to "D" when they were cleaning out "D's" apartment... in the letter, she said, "I would take a bullet for you," and, "If anything ever happens to you, physically or emotionally, I will kick whoevers ass that did it to you." ("D" was shot.) This is obviously, very ironic. I wanted to think, "Oh, she could have written that to anyone," but I looked back at similar letters that I have from her, and no where in over 40 pages of letters does it say anything remotely close to that. The subtle subconsious messages seem to have a very different theme when she's talking to me. They are more like, "See you at the top!" as though we are to have successful careers, never mentioning physical harm or anything close.

Of course, looking back at yearbook entries that I have from "D," there were odd phrases like, "You are going to do great, and I hope I'm there to see it." Other yearbook entries have more definite speech like, "We are going to have so much fun."

A week before her death, my best friend and I ran into "D's" Mom and sister shopping, and we talked to them a while. We later mentioned that it is always odd to run into someone you know and we wondered what the "more universal reason" was for running into them. A week later, we were at their house filled with flowers looking at pictures and consoling one another.

Right before her death, "D" called me. It was especially weird because she didn't have any real reason to call me, and she said, "Oh I actually meant to dial someone else. Oh well, how are you?" and we talked for a good while. I was able to tell her, "I've been meaning to call you and tell you thank you for ___ ___ ___" and looking back, I am glad that I got to talk to her. If I hadn't, I'd feel terrible about procrastinating that phone call.

(NEVER PROCRASTINATE PHONE CALLS!!!)

Even more strange though was something that happened when all of us were in eleventh grade four years ago. We all had drama class together. My best friend and "D" were to do a scene from Romeo and Juliet. "D" was to play Juliet, and my best friend was to play Juliets Mother. In the scene, Juliets Mother comes in and finds Juliets body, and has a monologue crying over her body. Our whole class sat in a large circle around them as they acted out this scene. It was one of the most gut-wrenching things to witness in my high school years. My best friend is a very talented actress, and cried her eyes out for the scene. Afterwards, I went to console her and asked how she did it. She said, "Well, I just imagined that 'D' was really dead, and that I was her Mom, and I imagined how I would feel."

I considered contacting my former drama teacher and telling her what happened, and encouraging her to not do any scenes with that intensity anymore, because I almost feel as though sitting in a circle like that where we are all focusing on the image of our friend being dead could be dangerous. Of course, the only thing that truly caused "D's" death was her murderer, not a scene in high school. But I feel as though we should be much more careful with our thoughts, the things we say, and the things we act out, because all that we do begins as an idea. To put any focus at all on anything that we would have to say "God forbid" to first seems to be playing with fire.

Just yesterday, my best friend and I were talking on the phone and we had both had dreams involving "D" the night before. In mine, I was over at her house and we were swimming in her swimming pool talking about things we would've talked about in high school. In my best friends dream, she was over at "D's" house in her room and she could see her face very clearly. She asked her, "D? Are you okay?" She replied, "Yeah!" Then she asked, "Are you in heaven?" And she replied, "Yeah! It's awesome!" Which sounds very much like her. "D" also said, "It's okay. It's no big deal. Chill out," in the dream.

At the end of the day, of course we don't feel happy about it, but we know it happened for a reason, and all everything that has happened just enforces that.

Looking at all my journal entries leading up to it happening, I was having an unusual case of being especially sensitive and overemotional about things, and normally I am a very, very sensible person. In my entries, I'd say, "Why do I feel like this? I don't want to be emotional like this." Like my logic was struggling with a higher feeling. I wrote things like, "The seasons are changing" and "A cold front is moving in." It went on for a couple solid weeks before it happened, and the DAY before, I cried all day and wrote, "What is my problem? I'm crying over nothing." When it happened and I found out, it was strange because I couldn't cry. I was done at that point and became stoic.

If there is anything new I have learned, it is 1) Don't explore scary thoughts in your mind. 2) Pay attention when you run into someone, don't procrastinate, live NOW, wake up, pay attention to yourself, and look closer.

Jane,

I loved the story of your friend...very sad, but (lucky) you get to see her in your dreams.

Maybe it just means we should pay more attention to synchronicity, that manifest in our lives.

S.

synchronicity, whatever anyone wants to call it, we should absolutely pay attention to it. thanks for replying. i'm glad to know you read