I do remember a very strange dream I had and it came to me twice but never got to the bottom of the meaning.....
Flashback in the 1865, I walked down the stairs, hearing wailing sobs and muffled voices of men and women in a dark parlor. All the ladies were dressed in black dresses while the men were all of military attire of higher ranking orders.
I walked into the hallway into this room of wailing and moaning voices. I asked, "whats wrong?"
No replies. I looked around the room they were sitting in.
"whats wrong" I repeated again.
A gentleman in union attire, approached to me and lifted his elbow summonded me to take it and he would lead me to another room across the wailing room.
It was dark, dimly lit, smelled of tobacco smoke wafted in my nostrils. To my horror, there were five coffins all lined up in the room in a straight manner, shoulder to shoulder with some space in between.
Walking toward to the nearest coffin, I saw two little boys, one older lad which he could not have been much older than 15 years old, all sleeping peacefully and carefully dressed to perfection. Not a hair out of place. None of them were recognizable who they were. Then the next coffin, it was empty. I was confused and perplexed at best. Then I approached to a fancy coffin in black and gold. I gasped in horror....it was our beloved President Lincoln in the coffin, his pillow were blood stained. I stood away from the coffin and looked at the empty coffin.
"Who is this empty coffin for?" I pointed at the coffin. "Why is it empty?"
The men and women looked at me with faces long and blank and emotionless. Then one lady sobbed loudly while the officer, possibly her husband, pointed to the mirror on the wall on the other side of me.
I turned, saw myself in the mirror.................It was Mary Todd Lincoln! Then a loud, piercing scream from that room woke me up and the next night, it repeated the episode again but I was trying to be a little more persisent who was the coffin for, what was the reason for the empty coffin? Whats the meaning of it?
I got no where after that and I didnt have that dream repeated again since then but it really embedded in my memory after all those years.
So there you have it, what is the meaning of this dream?
