AND a few months ago I had a dream in which I felt a presence in the room. It was so real. In the dream, it seemed to me that an angel was standing on the right side of my bed and roaring. Also, there was a presence above me that felt like the devil. It was terrifying! When I heard a clear word that I could hear from the corner where the roar was coming from, I heard “JEWEL…JEM IS JEWEL.” I woke up scared. After examining this dream and talking about it, I felt that JEWEL was my guardian angel, helping me wake up from fear of a presence in my comfort or… Someone else suggested that JEWEL was an ancestor trying to contact me. Here is the dream below.
Angelic Dream No. 1 Date: September 2006 Time: 5:15
Tony got up for work. I got up with him. After he left, I went back to bed and pulled the covers up to my neck. I started wondering if I should go back to bed or just get up for the day. I started to fall into a state of semi-consciousness, half-asleep. I knew I was dreaming at that moment and felt a presence in the room. In my mind I thought about the angel in my dream. I started to feel the pressure of the covers at the bottom of the bed, on my feet. He started moving up my legs with a lot of pressure. I heard the sound of the wind swirling at the end of the right leg of the bed. I was afraid! I remember screaming “SHANNA.” The pressure increased and moved up my body towards me… I became more and more afraid and I heard words coming from the sound of the swirling wind. It was “Jewel” or “I am a Jewel.” I screamed loudly in my sleep “NO” and woke up. I woke up the next day, afraid that I would fall asleep again. I went to work telling Reneta about it. We were terrified. I returned home that evening, still intrigued by this dream. I went online and started looking for information on “Angels, Gems, etc.” I came across several Angelic websites. I dove in and started reading for an hour. I came to a paragraph that read on www.askanagnel.org:
“There is a gem within your soul. The gem of your soul. The quality, nature, shape, tones and colors, the very vibration, the very emanations of this gem reflect the nature of your soul and the gifts that you have chosen to embody in this life. We strengthen the gem nature of your soul. We strengthen the highest, purest, truest emanations of your soul that are in harmony with the Creator and with creation. We strengthen your ability to connect with the gifts that you carry within you. We work with you to open your willingness to experience your own gifts, to see and know them as pure expressions of love, to hold them, both sacred and true and pure, and at the same time share them without reservation, we emphasize that you have no fear, that you have no expectations of those to whom you give your gifts.
My conclusion to the dream: During my soul searching, I wondered several times whether we should expand the store or whether we should sell it and move Tony and I to the Hill Country. I feel like this was the answer to follow with the expansion. That the gifts given to me are the jewel nature of my soul. Creativity is a gift from God that I can share in my company. Moreover, I am in the “Word” and I am hungry to know Christ and I am growing in Christ. I feel like Satan may have been present on the quilt and my “Guardian Angel” was the swirling wind that spoke “Jewel” to wake me from my sleep. This may sound crazy, but it happened… It happened to me. So until you walk in my shoes… Think what you want!
Devil's Dream #2 Date: September 2006 Time: 5:00
It was right before Tony had to get up for work. One of my lifelong fears was something under the bed. At 35 I still run and jump into bed at night. Tony breaks. Well, in this dream it started like this… I was lying on my back. I felt the blanket on my right side turn to the left, exposing my leg. I then started sliding down the edge of the bed in ponderous motion, dragging me to the ground right next to the bed. I attracted fear to myself. I reached for Tony (who was still sleeping) and started screaming his name. When I started screaming “Tony”, I felt a voice in my stomach and coming out of my mouth, it sounded and felt like a deep, devilish voice. Tony turned and looked at me. It wasn't Tony. He had a very, very scary face. Brown-yellow protruding front teeth, evil eyes. He pulled me onto the bed next to him, turned around and stuck his tongue in my mouth. That wasn't Tony's language. It resembled a skinny, wriggling snake. I woke up BIG! I just cuddled up to Tony and started falling back to sleep. I started having the same dream again. The guard fell off my leg. At that moment I knew it had happened again in the dream. So I start screaming, but it sounds like I'm mumbling to Tony… Thank God he heard me, because he shouted, “Shanna, you're a terrible talker.” The sound of his voice immediately brought me solace. I woke up and didn't sleep!
That day, Tony kept teasing me, talking to me in that devilish voice… He's crazy. Once again… It happened. Sounds crazy, I know it was a dream, but really weird!
UPDATE 07/03/12
I can't believe I didn't send this first. My Angelic Dreams/Devil's Presence began shortly after my grandfather died on Labor Day weekend. I took this photo 3 hours after his burial. My grandfather looked at me in the hospital out of all 35 people who were there. Plus, my aunt was on a mission trip to a village out of state and she told me she woke up in the middle of the night feeling how challenging it was for her to think about death! TERRIFYING! She said everything would be fine though. I went to a fortune teller… Oh my god, I can't believe I admitted this because I don't really believe it, but I admit I was relieved when she told me my life expectancy was 76 years. She said I would have a few bumps and bruises in my life. It's amusing because my little mind is always busy, busy.
I took this photo 3 hours after my grandfather was buried. Because I saw rays (that's a completely different story) that I call angel wings. I stopped on a busy route and took my cell phone. I moved on again, texting this photo to everyone in my family on their cell phones. They started responding in fear, so I stopped to look at the photo and I see 2 angels. 1 on top blowing a horn and 1 on the bottom with a sword. I still don't know what it means and why the dreams started since my grandfather died, but I believe that he and my grandmother are together now.
I hope some of the comments will give me some guidance on this matter.
Thanks! Shanna
