Hi /x/,
I moved to a part of Oregon, on the edge of the PDX metro area, the border of three areas containing city, wine country rural, and the forest at the base of the mountains. It is an area where there seems to be a lot of interest and practice in new age and esoteric mysteries. There are also a few local chapters of fraternal orders devoted to esoteric knowledges and practices here. Most of this is below the surface, as there is the usual upper crust of modern hipster esotericism that seems particularly abundant in Portland, with things like people of clearly European descent ‘teaching’ and leading ‘authentic’ Haitian VooDoo yet loudly railing about cultural appropriation. But otherwise, I have met and had many interesting discussions with practitioners of various paths.
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Now though, the charm of it is beginning to wear thin. Almost as if the ‘light’ as it becomes brighter on this area of occultism, is making the shadows more intensely dark than ever before. Lately I keep having dreams of figures in black garb, and ritualistic black, white, and crimson makeup breaking into my home at night. They are coming to kill me, and take my son for a ritual, and then stage a murder suicide in the aftermath. These dreams are incredibly lucid, with me usually escaping from the house with my boy, sneaking as best we can through the night, but always being caught and murdered. It is odd, every time I have the dream, we make it a little farther. But I never learn anymore about who these people are, I just get more and more the impression they are a significant number of my neighbors.
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Given the dream’s persistence, happening about once per week, and it's growing length I am getting more worried it is some sort of way for me to receive a warning. I don’t expect it to be exactly like my dream, but something that once it starts to happen, I’d know without a doubt. Any of you ever experienced something similar? Where a reoccurring dream, would eventually give way to a waking world event, with a similar theme or such?
>>19204753
the consistency and regularity do make it sound like a sort of premonition. I've always had a theory that some types of dreams are explorations of different possible timelines, and your subconscious has a way of detecting and war-gaming specific highly traumatic/notable scenarios that exist in the parallel universes "near" your current temporal-spatial locality. This is why you get further each time, it's optimizing for the preferable outcome over many iterations.
As far as actionable advice idk what to tell you, I guess just be aware that there are certain chains of actions that will lead you to this scenario and try to make contextual decisions to avoid them