Dream Visitation

One of our massage therapists, a woman who's also worked with hundreds of AID's patients, was instrumental in helping a young man (a cancer patient) come to terms with his impending death. He had originally told her he never wanted to be taken into one of our in-patient units because he knew he'd never come out again. Near Christmas, he was indeed transported into one of our facilities and the massage therapist made it a point to bring him a small Christmas tree for his room. She wanted to give him hope and to liven his spirit. Elated when his symptoms were sufficiently managed that he was able to go home again, he told her he thought he'd come to terms with the fact that he was dying, that he would be fine and that he'd try to communicate with her once he died. He told her to give him a couple of days to "figure out how it all works on the other side" and then to start looking for a series of numbers in her dreams. It seems he planned to help her win the lottery.

As it turns out, he didn't bring her lottery numbers, but she firmly believes he communicated with her. She had a particularly vivid dream in which she saw him standing in front of hundreds of people but she could only make out the faces of those in the front two rows. They were all the AID's patients she'd worked with in the past. The hospice patient said, "This must be hard for you." She assured him that she was fine.

Yes, maybe it was some nether region of the brain being creative during her sleep state, but I like the story. I choose to think it was communication.