Thread: Strange one for me, died but didn't "cross over"

Well well, it's been a while since I've had a dream worthy of posting on the forum but last night's definately deserves logging..

I was in my mothers neighborhood (council estate) and there were a small group of us doing I dont know what.. There was one person trying to force us to do something that we didn't want to do and no-one would stand up to him because he had a gun and was pointing it at us.. Well I hate when someone tries to force me to do anything unjustly in the waking world so sure enough I was having none of it in the dream world..

I walked/charged straight for the guy with the gun.. I saw that his body language changed and he no longer had control over the situation.. I also anticipated that he would shoot as it was his only way out of the situation without loosing face.. Sure enough he shot me.. in the side of the head, and a couple of times in the body on the way down..

While I was charging at him I was in first-person mode but as soon as he shot me, I went to third-person mode in time to see me get shot in the head and then some..

The gunman who turned out to be Colin Farrell the actor ran away..

So, I knew I was dead but was confused.. On the odd occasion that I die in a dream, I always wake up, and then go straight back to sleep.. But this time I didnt wake up. I "knew" I wasn't meant to be here.. I "knew" in the dream that the scene was meant to change..

So I began walking and thinking about what I could do.. Being logical, I assumed that since I was now a spirit entity, I could do things that I couldnt do in my normal body, so I tried jumping/teleporting to a location I could see in the distance.. I failed a few times before I gave up and thought about my poor old mother and what she must be going through right now..

The next thing I know I'm back at the house where my mother and I lived 2 house-moves before the one she lived in now-(in the estate where the dream began). But all was well there, she didn't know I was dead and she couldn't see me. I thought it was a bit strange but knew I had to spend the night somewhere so I found a corner to curl up in but began to feel lonely and a bit worried. I decided to go back to my place of death to see what was wrong that no-one had discovered my body yet.

I teleported involuntarily to the scene and saw a past-tense view of 2 people stealing something from the scene and hiding my body so that no-one would find out about what they had taken..

It was at this point that I realised that I couldn't pass over into the next life until I completed some unknown task perhaps. Thankfully at this point my partner woke me up and I was delighted to realise that it was a dream and that I was in fact alive and well but I was also anxious to get back to sleep so I turned over and was gone in no time. The scene was now a Supermarket type place where I was doing doing maintenance type jobs.. I don't recall anything much of this experience except helping some workmates with little things here and there but throughout it all I had it in my head that i had to work at this place in order to complete this unknown task so my spirit could cross over.. After a short time, I woke up..


I've not had a dream of this level in a couple of months now and the last one I had was easy enough to identify and remedy a solution in the waking world but this one is completely new to me..

I welcome any comments, ideas or information..

All I know is that death means change, but this wasn't an ordinary death..