Vivid Dreams: Providing Insights or A Different Reality?

By Laurie Veillette

I've had some strange dreams over the years and a few stand out to me. This experience occurred around 2007. By this time, I had had 2 amazing sons and was doing my best to juggle a full-time job and be the best mom that I could be. My parents had always raised me to go to church every week and while I enjoyed some of the experience, I didn't buy into everything that the Catholic church preached and I questioned a lot.

One morning my mom shared her disappointment that I wasn't taking my sons to church as often as she thought I should. I really struggled with her judgment and did my best to defend my position but I can't deny that it bothered me.

Shortly after that, I had a very vivid dream where a friend that often went to church had found a new church and had an amazing experience there. The church was in the round and I had never actually seen a church like this in real life. I loved it and how interactive the mass was. I decided that I needed to take my parents to this wonderful church that I had found, which I did.

As my parents accompanied me into the church, the doors closed, and everyone was dressed in what appeared to be satanic garb and masks. It was so scary! They pulled my mother away from me as she was screaming, "Laurie, why would you take me here?". This dream haunted me for years.

About a year after the dream, we were visiting my in-laws and they wanted us to go to their church/mass where they were renewing their vows. Their church was round. It was the first time I had been in a round church and it all just felt very strange.

I now believe that I was being shown that church isn't always the good sacred space that we are led to believe it is.

Another interesting dream that stood out occurred about 2 years ago, around 2023. I was driving my Honda HRV in Cheshire, CT (down the street from where I work) and in the dream I hit some fog. I came out of the fog and everything was old like I had gone back in time, yet I was still my modern self.

Everyone in the dream was dressed like it was the mid to late 1800s and they were waiting at a train station. Currently that train station is a farmers market in that same location. They all stopped as if they saw a ghost and looked at me while some began waving as if I was someone famous. I think they were just intrigued with the modern car I was driving.

I think about this every time I drive by there, and really want to look up the history of the area to understand it better.