It was exactly 5:03 in the morning - I remember looking at the clock. I think I was 8 years old at the time. I was sleeping when I was awakened by my father’s hushed voice beckoning me to get up out of bed. I pretty sure he and I went fishing a few weeks before hand (I’m not 100% on that), and he was dressed up and ready to go fishing that morning, standing in my bedroom doorway. Everything in my room looked the same; nothing was distorted, as far as I can remember that is. My dog, Oscar, was right by my father’s side. The weirdest part was this: my father and Oscar appeared as these bluish-white figures giving off a sort of static. Not like static from a TV screen, but this.. I guess softer sort of static, unlike anything I had seen before. My dad said word for word, “Come on Mike, time to get up. We’re going fishing”. I remember this extreme sense of urgency, I felt like I really needed to get up to go before I pissed off my spectral father. After lying there, silently declining him, I think I remember him saying that he’s going to go take Joe (my little brother) instead, and walking down the hallway with Oscar following suit. After that, I can’t remember anything else. I woke up that morning with this shear sense of terror and confusion – I never have felt a feeling as intense as it. Also, whenever I think about how my father looked as he was trying to wake me in that dream, I feel a watered down version of that intense feeling, and my eyes start to water.

I am a male, sixteen years old, living in Ohio. My dad and I have had our ups and downs for the majority of our lives. We have never had a really stable relationship, but he does love me and he does care for me. We are just starting to get along better now due to new mediums of interest. My dog Oscar lived to be sixteen (human years). He was suffering from brain cancer, and we had to put him down in 2006.

This dream still sticks out in my mind to this day. I have experienced nothing like it in any other dream. Can I get some help finding some meaning behind it? Has anyone else experienced this sort of dream? Any interpretations? I hear that these spectral/staticy figures are significant in some way, and I know friends who have had very powerful, once-in-a-lifetime dreams with figures like these.