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The Dream Which Foretold a Change in My Life
During the early 1980s I was employed as a machinist at Bristol Tool and
Engineering co. in Bristol, Tennessee. The company had recently been
bought by new owners and the direction of the company had changed
somewhat. One of my co-workers had gone to another job because of his
dissatisfaction with the new management and I was considering that I might
also be leaving. I had a premonition that something was about to happen
which would bring a change in my life and one day I told another worker
about it. I had no idea what was going to happen but I said, "I wish it
would happen soon".
The Dream
A Few nights later I had a very vivid dream
which I remembered in detail the next morning. I dreamed I was "in the
spirit" on Lee Highway in Bristol, Va. I was standing in the middle of the
street and cars were passing by and through me, none hitting me! Kerns
Bakery was on my left and straight ahead was the railroad bridge crossing
the highway.. As I stood there, I saw a small airplane overhead and as I
watched, it came down and flew under the railroad overpass then back up
overhead.
 It then began sky writing and I stood there reading the words it
wrote. "Danger, Beware of......" The last word was unreadable as the wind
blew it away. I awoke the next morning wondering what that last word was
and it crossed my mind several times that day but there was no way I could
recall the dream and see the word.
The Accident
Within a few days a
coworker and I were removing a large piece of material from the cutoff saw
when a material rack beside me broke and a large piece of steel slid out
and crushed my fingers. I knew it had severed two of my fingers because
they were just hanging by small pieces of skin. My coworker took me to the
hospital immediately and when I got there I realized it had also cut my
right thumb off. The boys at the shop found my thumb and brought it to the
hospital. A surgeon was called but he told me he could not save my thumb
or fingers and asked if I wanted to go to the hospital in Louisville, Ky.
I told him I did and he arranged for a small plane to fly me to
Louisville.. Lying on the stretcher, I could almost imagine that small plane sky writing as we
went. The doctors at the Jewish Hospital were able to save one of my
fingers and later used my big toe to make me a new thumb. My life changed
because I started teaching machine technology at a local college and
started picking my guitar with my big toe! Dreams reveal things which lie
ahead but they don't always give the last word!
The End.......
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