Tonight I actually did dream about Hell, but only in the most tangential manner. I dreamed that I was in class, college or at least the final year of high school judging from the age of my fellow students (I did not think of it while the dream lasted, so I don’t know for sure.) \u00c2\u00a0Our teacher asked us if we knew what “helvete” meant. (That is really the Norwegian word for Hell, and the whole dream was in Norwegian. The word means the “realm of Hel” or “punishment of Hel”, Hel being the Norse goddess of the boring dead, those who die by sickness or old age rather than in war. \u00c2\u00a0Corresponds largely to Greek Hades.) \u00c2\u00a0I explained the etymology of the word, but in the dream my communications skills were insufficient: The teacher asked the class again, even though I had already answered his question. \u00c2\u00a0The students then came up with various theories, and soon several people were talking at once. \u00c2\u00a0The teacher looked like a liberal, by the way. I don’t think anyone considered that he might be asking for the classical definition of Hell as taught by several of the world’s great religions.<\/p>\n
I had several other dreams this night, because I slept in. \u00c2\u00a0The first of them was about the death of someone I have known quite well in waking life. It was kind of sad but dignified. I will not give any details of this because this would give away who it was.<\/p>\n
There were a couple more dreams, but they were lost in the hour of delta brainwave entrainment that followed. \u00c2\u00a0They seemed less poignant anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tonight I actually did dream about Hell, but only in the most tangential manner. I dreamed that I was in class, college or at least the final year of high school judging from the age of my fellow students (I … Continue reading