| #ffffff;" /> | | | | me. The voice was so real to me that I remained |
| I am one of those fellows who has no problem falling | | | | awake for a long while, alternately feeling joyful and |
| asleep, and when I am asleep, there are very few | | | | sad. Although I felt a calming presence in the room, I |
| things that can wake me. Thunderstorms, wind, music, | | | | neither saw nor heard anything else. Meandering |
| lights — all have no effect on the quality of my | | | | through memories of Mardai, I finally fell asleep. And as |
| sleep; yet, I would jump up from bed and be | | | | I slept, I dreamed. |
| wide-awake within seconds, whenever Mardai called | | | | In the dream I saw Mardai in a small Caribbean village, |
| my name. Her voice did not have to be loud; just a | | | | the type of village we liked to visit when she was alive. |
| whisper of “John” would do it. | | | | Wearing a beautiful, yellow sundress, she seemed to |
| One night, I went to bed around eleven p.m. and began | | | | be no older than her mid-twenties, and though she |
| to read. Becoming tired, I didn’t want to continue, | | | | smiled,there was an air of sadness about her. I walked |
| so I put my book away. I must have fallen asleep | | | | up to her and said, “It’s good to see you, |
| immediately, because the next thing I remembered, I | | | | honey!” In my dream, I knew that she had died. |
| was sitting up in bed wide-awake. Someone had called | | | | We spoke for a while, and then I said, “Where |
| my name. I looked at the clock and it read 3:00 a.m. | | | | you are now must be so different from where I |
| The voice sounded exactly like Mardai’s, and | | | | am.” |
| instinctively I turned to look for her next to me, but alas, | | | | “Yes, it certainly is,” she replied. |
| she was not there. Could it be, I mused, that in | | | | “You must have access to so much information |
| moments of great stress, loved ones reach across | | | | that we don’t have,” I continued. |
| dimensions to comfort and help us? There have been | | | | “Yes, of course,” she said sweetly. |
| many recorded incidents of this nature, so I always | | | | “Will you help me to learn some of it?” |
| tried to keep an open mind. | | | | “Yes. I’ll be happy to do that,” she |
| Perhaps Mardai was attempting to make contact with | | | | said. |