> Engraved- a little story- how GOD GRABBED ME BY THE B**LOCKS!
>
> This is a dream I had. The most vivid EVER.
>
> I was sitting round my mums having "Oedipus" fantasies. I ended up
> walking naked in front of my mum.
>
> I took up drinking again (I'm a 'sober' alcoholic and drug addict)
>
> I OD' ed on drink and drugs and died, after selling my life's work for
> the price of two bottles of beer.
>
> I came round in my home town. Somebody told me I was dead.
>
> I went to text my girlfriend
>
> She answered the phone in person. She had killed herself on hearing of
> my loss
>
> I found myself living in the spirit world, (Focus 27?), which is an
> amazing place. You can do anything including flying and speaking to
> the living. The living, while asleep or entranced could speak to the
> dead.
>
> You could fast forward and rewind, project your life story. No need
> for tapes or gadgets, you could do the lot. Wow, there's a lot of
> jacking off in most blokes lives....
>
> Walking around the Earthly world as a ghost was funny. How you walked
> depended on the history of the ground. Consecrated ground was lovely
> and peaceful, and that's where the dead lived while sitting on the
> earth. Where there had been tragedies such as suicides, the ride was
> bouncy, forcing your flight or walk to go violently up or down.
>
> I met Joe Strummer of the Clash, who was playing alongside the
> surviving members (who I guess like me were asleep or entranced). The
> music was f**king awesome. Elvis, Lennon the lot appearing and jamming
> with living contemporaries such as George Michael. Unlike the so-
> called real world, there is no segregation between the superstars and
> the nobodies. All can play together. I visited an earthly pop festival
> and at the side of it was a "dead" stage where all the artists were
> dead.
>
> On a personal level I met my relatives who had lived or were still
> alive. Even dead pets. What was wonderful was the dead an alive ones
> playing together.
>
> I'd discovered that the last film I watched was called "Engraved", a
> light hearted Jim Carrey comedy very much in the style of Bruce
> Almighty or the Truman Show. Apparently it had the same effect as the
> "haunted video" in "The Ring", in that everyone who watched it killed
> themselves
>
> I came face to face with many of my character flaws and fears, and was
> touched by the sadness of my surviving relatives. I  had a desperate
> urge to tell them that I was not truly deceased but just living in
> another dimension.
>
> I walked into clubs straight past the bouncers, and when they tried to
> throw me out their hands just went straight through me. Where some
> people managed to hit my there was "pressure" but no "pain". I walked
> into one bar and systematically emptied all the fruit machines.
>
> The worlds of the living and the dead are parallel ones.  There is
> greater joy in the world of the dead, but a great sadness towards the
> suffering of the living. The dead love playing pranks on the living
> and I was surprised at the power they had over them. This went to the
> extremes of causing disasters.
>
> I looked up in the sky and saw brilliant lights, like those described
> in "near death experiences". I had a strong feeling that I had the
> choice between staying there, moving beyond the "human" kingdom,
> reincarnation and having my old life back, "rewound".
>
> I saw my girlfriend standing in a line consisting of Kylie Minogue,
> Cathy Dennis, Louise Redknapp, Sonia Evans and a few more similar
> looking people. My girlfriend has an eating disorder and depending on
> her size has looked like all of the above :) What was really weird was
> hearing her name translated into Hebrew (she is of Jewish descent)
>
> As a called out her name, she transformed from the "supermodel" looks
> she had in her youth to as she looks today. What saddened me is when
> she said she wished she'd been aborted (she is chronically depressed)
> Maybe some of this is down to me not caring enough.
>
> Funnily, the day in real life started with a elderly friend of mine, a
> hippie in the 60's saying that when God speaks to you, it can be most
> profound, in that it can fill you simultaneously with so much love and
> fear that you are literally struck to the ground.
>
> What I witnessed in my dream was the ultimate in sci-fi, horror and
> comedy all rolled in to one. And it didn't feel dream like at all. It
> seemed, realer than real. What was weird is that it brought my whole
> mind, spirit and life together for what seemed like the duration of 24
> hours.