A Dream ~

It's daylight as I ride the backroads with two other people. We met some guys who work nearby and one of them want to show us something that he has built. We follow the guys over to this building with a long entranceway to it. I am the first to go in ~ the walkway is very narrow due to 'cages' that have been built into the walls where some of the guys are sitting and lightly slapping at me as I go by. The first slap startles me and they all get a big laugh out of that. I slap the other guys' hands as if I were the reason they they were there.

Once inside, the guys think they have really pulled one over on me. I just smile.

After we had been there a while, the crowd had been whittled down to five and the meeting place has turned into my childhood house ~ we're in the living room. It's getting dark but we're still having fun visiting. Suddenly, J. sits down behind me and slumps over. I hear and see nothing. Batya says that J. has shot herself.

Immediately afterward, strange things begin to happen. Billy (one of the guys) begins to shake as he stars at an empty doorway. I ask him, "Do you see her?" and he does. I can 'feel' her. It is J. The guys begin to panic and Batya doesn't see or sense anything. J. moves around the room, knowing that she can instill fear. I ask Batya if she senses anything now but she doesn't. I yell at her, "Use your shamanic senses!"

I begin try to calm everyone and get their attention. They only way we're going to stop this situation is together. We begin chanting, "Go back! Go back to the Light!" Billy pulls out an ornately decorated pistol (it looks to have quite a lot of brass in the design) and I take it away from him since it isn't going to do much damage to a ghost but it just send one of us to join J. I surprise him by knowing how to put the safety on ~ except that it seems to be broken, as if there was a bad spring in it. I just hang on to the gun.

We continue chanting as I try my best to keep everyone shielded and safe. I am a bit confused that Batya isn't helping more, since she is the most shamanically experienced of the bunch. Suddenly, I feel the ghost leave the room at the same time that a garbage bag begins rattling in the kitchen. I don't know why, but I use Billy's gun and shoot the bag. I am immediately regretful ~ what if there is a cat in the bag? I hold my breath as I watch the bag, hoping that I don't see blood. I don't but the ghost goes back into the living room.

I go back in, all the while telling Billy that we're even. I lead the chanting again and tell them to put something into it! I can feel the power building as we begin to lose ourselves in the chant. I begin to gather up the power that we're building when suddenly...it's gone. I look around. The ghost is gone but so is Batya and everything that she had with her. I call for her and wake up.