September 26, 1991

a vision in black and white

This premonition I had while living in Montréal.

One evening while laying on my bed reading, I looked away from the book in my hands to just sort of absorb the chapter I had read and when I looked up towards the wall I saw, instead of the grey wall, an image of a brick building. Rather square and without detail. It was just the top story or so and at the corner and then above it the tops of some spruce trees and sky and cloud. Then there was a helicopter that come overhead and then below there was what appeared to be flashing lights and people running all amok. The people, like everything else I saw was literally in black and white. There was no colour to anything I saw; the bricks were grey not red, the trees were all shades of black and white, not greens, the sky not blue, but grey and the people as I said were either black or white. I could sense great turmoil and tension. And then all of the sudden I saw my bedroom wall again.

When I got home from work a couple of days later and sat watching the evening news, on came a report from my home in Nova Scotia. They were showing my High School! I was excited. Wow I thought my high school is on the evening news! How shocked and embarrassed was I when, once I began listing to the reporter it was about a race riot that had erupted between black and white students.

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Yes I'll admit that my vision was rather simple and to draw a correlation between the two (the vision and the actual event) are slim, trust me when I say that I'm a fairly literal person and so my vision in black and white literally, as well as the people in it was for whatever purpose and where ever the images came from, as direct and unencumbered as possible. The brick exterior is that of the school but simple was not recognized due to limited view of the building seen.