Bad Dreams...

DarKnyht · Post by **DarKnyht** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:29 am

I just had a rough night. I think I may of had one of my dream visions that come every once in a while. In it there was mass terror across the world. I was standing in the middle of a terrified crowd turned mob pushing past me. As I looked up I saw the sky on fire. There was a feeling of complete dread that washed over me when I saw that.

The last thing I remember before waking up was the buildings, they looked oriental in the making. That and the fact that I could smell the ocean.

I hope this was just a bad dream.

(Edited to correct grammar.)

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:48 am

Been about a hundred years since the great quake, tsunami and fire of Tokyo . . .

ALso been a hundred or so years since the great quake and fire in San-Fran - chinatown perhaps?

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:05 pm

If you have more details, particularly of the architechture, please contact me.

Mr. Li said something about the possibility of ending the world, and it being tied to the Yunagai monuments. He was exagerating wasn't he?

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:23 pm

Shang Li never struck me as one to exagerate. But who knows if these things are related?

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:01 pm

I do not know if they are related, why do you think I asked the question?

A totally unrelated question, one that one of the philosophy majors may be able to answer. How is it that a person like Mr. Li can be at the same time so unbelievably happy, and so incredibly sad?

concrete_Angel · Post by **concrete_Angel** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:14 pm

That's easier done than said, Kai

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:23 pm

Sorry I am no Philosopher, and meant no offense.
I didn't mean to sound dismissive, if I did I aplogize. Things will be being looked into.

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:40 pm

None taken, I am just a little short, I do hope I didn't offend - I have a lot at stake in this dig, I think it may be a breakthrough in both the scope of the find and the use of the imaging equipment that picked it up.

DarKnyht · Post by **DarKnyht** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:40 pm

I do not know what the dream meant. It could be nothing more than bad dream.

All I do know that the solstice is around the corner and the ancient things tend to stir around then. It could also be a twisted warning about what I am currently dealing with here.

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:44 pm

I was just asking about the architechture, with sufficient detail I could probably help place the era and location, I am after all an archeologist from the orient.
That and my studies of mythology, coupled with studies of the "paranormal" gives me a great deal of professional curiosity about such dreams.

If I have gone beyond what you are comfortable with, please, forgive me.

DarKnyht · Post by **DarKnyht** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:52 pm

I did not mean to offend either.

I do not know which era or culture the buildings came from. They were the sort that is in any good Hong Kong Martial Arts movie. Past that generalization I would not know the difference between one oriental architecture and another.

Normally I would sketch as much as I could remember, but my sketchpad is still in the car at the shop.

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:57 pm

Ah, I understand. And I do apologize for prying so much, it is a habit that I have.

DarKnyht · Post by **DarKnyht** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:12 pm

You do not need to apologize, if it really is a warning than all the details you can get are necessary. I have picked up a cheap notebook this afternoon so I can take notes and sketches if it happens again. Perhaps they will help in identifying what I am seeing. I think we can start being worried if more of us with this particular gift start having similar visions.

Honestly, I am not entirely comfortable with this particular gift I have. Most of the time I feel it is much more a curse than a gift. I cannot help but wonder what good is it to see possible futures if you cannot figure them out in time to do anything about them?

Also, I've learned that I cannot entirely trust these 'dream visions' because they have been manipulated by outside forces before.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:08 am

Let us know if it happens again... Some of us still need to build bomb shelters--or find the nearest Turtle Shelter to us.

GhostSpider · Post by **GhostSpider** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:06 am

This has become the apologists thread. :roll:

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:11 am

Smacks Ghost upside the head. Better?

GhostSpider · Post by **GhostSpider** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:13 am

I want an apology. :wink:

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:20 am

Yeah right.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:37 am

Kei Nakamura wrote:I do not know if they are related, why do you think I asked the question?

A totally unrelated question, one that one of the philosophy majors may be able to answer. How is it that a person like Mr. Li can be at the same time so unbelievably happy, and so incredibly sad?

How, not sure, but it's not just Mr. Li who's gone through that.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:16 am

Kei Nakamura wrote:A totally unrelated question, one that one of the philosophy majors may be able to answer. How is it that a person like Mr. Li can be at the same time so unbelievably happy, and so incredibly sad?

I forgot to answer this one earlier...

It might not be a philosophical problem. I'm beginning to think I'm chronically depressed, 'cuz I have the same problem more and more, lately...

It pry does stem from philosophy, though. The things he'd dealt with, the things he had to do, haunting him constantly... That amount of crap could cause even the most cheerful to bury their heads in their arms and sob for several years straight...

DarKnyht · Post by **DarKnyht** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:33 am

GhostSpider wrote:This has become the apologists thread.

I believe you are just observing one of the nuances of Japanese culture.

GhostSpider · Post by **GhostSpider** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:49 am

So they spend most of their time apologizing? Seems a little silly to me, but then again i'm just a baka gaijin.

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:50 am

Yes you are. :lol:

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:59 am

Most of their time apologizing? No, but they will apologize at the merest hint of offense in the person they're speaking with. They also have a hard time saying "no", so they tend to beat about the bush until the person they're talking to gets the hint.

"Does your store carry X?" "Well...uhm...actually... Well, you see, the thing is... We do have X on order, but...well..." "Ah, is that so..." "I'm sorry." "It's alright! Maybe next time."

concrete_Angel · Post by **concrete_Angel** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:45 am

It's better than the old standby:

"Hey, you got any of this?"
"Hell no."
"WTF?"
"Wanna make somethin' of it, asshole?"

PS, I hope this doesn't reflect on my people skills, KT. I'm much nicer in person.

DarKnyht · Post by **DarKnyht** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:23 am

Yes, but it can be quite frustrating too. I've heard of American executives that have gone to japan to sell something. They have to speak through a translator and will tell a joke to open up the speech. The translator will just say "he told a joke, please laugh" and the room will erupt into laughter.

They don't want to offend the speaker by not laughing, but by laughing they convey the wrong impression to him.