Explore the Past

FEB 19 2026  Past Memories

I had a dream this morning. Nothing remarkable. What's remarkable is that I remembered the dream. In the dream I was wandering around a landscape similar to the one I see where I live. Except I was out in the country. Nothing was around except fields and I remember seeing a small lake or pond. It appeared to be summertime. I don't know what I was wearing but it wasn't cold. I was walking somewhere. I had a direction or destination in mind and I encountered a group of younger men, like maybe even teenage boys. There were 3 of them I recall. I was cautious for whatever reason. They weren't threatening when I approached them and they seemed to heading in the other direction as I passed, but although they weren't threatening one of them broke away from the other 2 and started following me at a distance. Whether he himself was headed the same direction or he just wanted to see where I was going I don't know. I came upon a building. Now this building and along with the somewhat abandoned or open landscape reminded me a little of a video game, where the setting is post-apocalyptic. This abandoned building had two stories and it was in a state of disrepair. It was falling apart. I was searching the building or just exploring I don't know. I'm not sure what I was looking for but I was looking for something. It seems to me there were containers or something like cans there. Maybe it was an old food warehouse at one time. Or factory. As I write this, the dream reminds me of the old macaroni factory (Rossi's) which was still standing in my childhood in my old hometown. But it was off limits and falling apart, but us kids knew how to get in and we went in one time to see what was in it and it was also in a state of disrepair. It hadn't been functioning for many years. It too had a 2nd floor and we almost fell through it as I remember, which is why it had keep out signs on it. After that near disaster which scared us, we never went back in the factory again. We had safer places to explore. But now my dream reminds me of that old factory. But in the dream it wasn't the same place. So to continue, I made it to the 2nd floor of this building and I was aware of the fact that this other guy had followed me into the building. It seems I could sense that he was below me somewhere on the 1st floor. Well I came to a place on the 2nd floor where there was a hole in the floor so big I couldn't get into the next room. So I looked around and I saw a loose floorboard and I picked up the loose floorboard and was going to lay it across the hole so I could keep exploring the next room. Then I woke up. I don't know what was in the next room. I wonder what happened to Rossi's old factory? When did they finally tear that old building down? Was it before I left town or after? I can't recall. I only know that it isn't there anymore. I remember many other things from that old hometown also. I just chatted this morning with a friend I went to school with and he and I were talking about the old days and bringing memories up. I told him we need to get together sometime. He lives in Florida now. Will I be able to watch my life, to recreate my life like a movie when I get to heaven? Will God or even the technology of the new age allow me to recreate my visual self? And does God have a movie of my life, so I can see and watch my past like a show? I'm convinced that God knows all and surely there are records of my geneology going back to Adam and Eve, just as the bible records the geneology of Jesus going back to Adam. But for now, maybe I could write a book about the life and times growing up in the 60s. I wouldn't be the first one to do it.