Prelude: I discovered tentmaker.org and more importantly, the Hope Beyond Hell book, and ever since, I've been filled with so much joy, peace, and love. It's like I grew up in church all my life, but never heard the "Good News". It was like I was saved all over again. I was excited, but at the same time, cautious. I asked God to give me direction, and let me know if this revolutionary material was the way to go. On Feb. 6th, 2008, I prayed that prayer and went to bed about 30 min later. I didn't ask for a dream, but here's what I got.

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My dreams are messed up. I sometimes have "mini-dreams" before the "main dream".

The mini-dream was that I was with our church's youth dept. and we were going fishing. We were on a white boat in the ocean, and everyone had a rod'n reel but I just had a fishing pole. Next, I'm standing on a wooden dock looking into the water. The youth dept kids and I are looking into the water. We were wondering how deep the water was. The water was pretty dark looking. Occasionally, I keep seeing these flashes of white/gravel looking texture in the water. To me, it looks like a fish turning belly up for a second, then back down, like you see fish hit the surface of the water for a second. That's what I thought it was, but everyone else said that it was the water's bottom. I also had the feeling of a fast motion to the right as if the dock we were standing on was moving. Then, someone barefoot and wearing jeans that were rolled up to the calf, jumped across the water, and indeed, the water was ankle deep. There was a shore on the other side of the dock, and that's where the person jumped/skipped across the water.

The "main" dream.

** This dream was on Wed nite. The previous day, Tuesday, I had voted in the presidential primary. I was allowed to leave early that day too. The next day, Wed, I was also allowed to leave early, about 15 min.**

I woke up in my office at work, and realized that it was 5:30pm when I normally leave at 4pm. I had been given permission by my boss to leave earlier than that, but I had fell asleep, and was dreaming the previous "mini" dream. I also realized that I had to vote, and that the polls closed at 7pm. **Yes, I "woke up" in my dream and realized I had been dreaming, but I was still asleep in reality.. go figure **

So I rushed out of my office, and down the hallway. I was surprised to see a kindergarten teacher leading a load of kids back to her classroom. **This is the normal pathway for her and her kids to follow. In fact, I see them do this all the time.***

What was stranger was that it was dark outside at 5:30pm. Pitch black. I got to my truck, and tried to start it up. It would not start. I kept trying to start it, but it would not turn over. I kept jamming on the gas pedal to try to get it to start while turning the key. The dashboard lights shown very brightly when I done this... to the extent of lighting up a good bit of the cockpit, AND underneath the dashboard where the pedals are.

** My truck has 52k miles on it. It has never failed to crank up. --/update it did fail about a month after this dream. Had to get a new battery.**

On the third or fourth try, it finally started up. I checked the rear view mirror to see if anyone was behind me, and another vehicle was backing up, so I had to wait a second. ** The area that my truck was parked in the dream, in reality, has nothing behind it. It is the first row of parking. **

I finally was on my way down the highway to get to the polling place. There was six lanes of traffic. I passed a car going the other way. Normal. I then come upon a hill in the road. As I reached the top of the hill, I saw a white cop car sitting in the middle of the road. Patrol lights off. It was pointed toward me, the opposite direction I was going. As if it were traveling opposite I was. I suddenly checked my speed to see if I was speeding, and I was going 55mph. Safe. I didn't see anyone in the car, but I knew someone was there. I passed the cop car. Then, the highway suddenly changed. All 6 lanes were going the opposite way I was. I was going the wrong way on a 6 lane road. A car passed me going the opposite direction on my left. Suddenly, there was two rows of four cars headed straight for me...headed straight for a head-on crash. I was in the middle lane(s), and they were too. The only lanes open were one on either side. Just before we crashed, they split down the middle, and I went in between them. Realizing my error, I turned my truck around, and sped the opposite (the right) direction. I then took the first exit off this superhighway. I went around the exit way, and then I was suddenly walking down a dark, back street. I was walking behind some young women that were walking slowly. I got tired of it quickly, and pushed one of the girls down and out of the way. She was wearing a red sweater. She jumped back up and told me that another girl had pushed her in my way. I apologized to her that I had done it to her, and said that I instead willed the action I had taken onto the girl that had pushed her.

I then saw the polling place. **It was the same exact one I had voted at the day before.**

I entered the same door, but now, it was TOTALLY different. It was a maze of rooms and hallways. Each with it's own unique colors, and dark or bright lighting. I realized the time now was 7:30, but I needed to get out of this maze so I could try to vote anyway. I said loudly to myself, "This place is a maze!!!". I said this as I saw a weird wall that was wooden, and had a wooden door on it. There were two ways around it. The edge of the wall was sharp where it split into two ways. I took the right side hallway. I kept wandering desperately, and hurriedly, trying to find a way out. I suddenly found myself standing in front of two swinging wooden half-doors. These are the ones you might see in a court room that separate the defendant/plaintiff from the crowd. Beyond those half swinging-doors was two tall wooden doors. Above the doors, a golden engraved sign said "COURT ROOM". To the left of the half swinging doors was a small wooden office with a glass window. Inside, there sat a man that looked like my accountant professor from college. As I looked back at the wooden doors beyond the swinging doors, I was able to see through the top half of those doors. Beyond those doors was a conference room with a long wooden table in center. On both sides of the table were black high backed leather chairs...probably 5-6 on each side. The room was pitch black dark on all sides. On the opposite end of the conference table from me was a light with a blue-ish tint, like that of a projector. It was shining in my direction. The glow of the light faintly lit the center of the conference table and the chairs on either side. I could see dust and other dust-like objects moving in the air from the light of the projector. I got the feeling that the room had not been used in a VERY long time.

I looked to my left down the hallway I was standing, and immediately, my eyes and head were turned down, and the only thing in my mind was two words. White words on a black background. The word God on the left, and another word on the right, but they were overlapping and you could not make sense of what the words were. It was if they were perfectly blended together, but the word they formed did not make sense. So I rubbed my eyes thinking I could not see them clearly. After I rubbed my eyes, I clearly saw the word God on the left, and the word Revenge on the right. They were apart from each other, and separated. Again, they were white letters on a black background. As soon as I saw that, my eyes and head were lifted up, and I was again in a hallway with wooden walls. I was standing in front and slightly off-center of two double wooden doors. On the right side of the doors, I noticed a sign. The sign had a red background, with gold letters printed above a golden symbol. The symbol was a half circle outline with lines coming out from the circle like an illustration of the sun would look like. But there was not a lot of them, just enough for the effect. The were the same thickness of the half circle outline. Each line ended in a circle that was filled like the line itself was. Above the symbol, in the same color, and in an arched format was the words, "Land of Refuge". I was immediately filled with hope, and ran through the doors. I was immediately greeted with another set of doors that were exactly like the first, including the sign. The sign was exactly the same, but this time, the letters on the sign said "God Almighty". I was filled with complete and utter joy and hope that I was on my way out of the maze. I RAN through the doors.

The following events in the dream happened in less than 2 seconds. As soon as the doors opened, I saw that I was in a rectangular, wooden office. As I ran into the room, my attention was drawn a HUGE sign that was IDENTICAL to the one outside the doors that said "God Almighty". It was on the wall opposite of the doors, but on my right side, and offset of the double doors I had just ran through. The doors I ran through and the big sign on the wall were on the longer walls of this rectangular office. This office had a very warm feeling to it. The lighting was warm.

I knew I was in God's office. I was still running/turning to my right in this very short office. I then saw a wooden desk on the far right side of the room, and a red, old-fashioned high-backed leather chair behind the desk, with its back turned toward me. It started turinng around toward me as I was turning toward it and running to it. It started turning quickly to its left to face me, and I saw God sitting in the chair. He was in the form of a man. He was wearing a black suit. He had a full beard, mustache, and had a good haircut, but it was not cut. It was perfect. His hair was not white. It was dark to medium brown. His appearance gave the impression of someone in their mid to late thirties. Just prime-time of life feeling. He had a bulky, strong build, but not huge or fat. Just strong and solid. He really looked like the guy you see doing the Oxy-clean commercial, or the mustache coloring commercial. The weird thing was that there were no eyes, or mouth, and barely any recognizeable nose. The parts of his face that were supposed to have his eyes and mouth were void like a mannequin or a test dummy. The form, and bone structure were there, but there were no lips or eyelids..just plainness of skin.

As I was turing/running toward him, and as he was turing toward me at the same time, I screamed "I have to get back to vote!!!". He was already raising his right arm, but as soon as I said this, He completed His chair turn, His arm and index finger was pointing at me, and at the very second the words left my lips, it was like he shot a bolt of electricity or something through me, I saw a flash of light, and suddenly I woke up.

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Here are the pictures I drew. They are in the order I saw them.