Bonifacio Monument
In 1995, I sometimes had a very strange dream that I believed could be an authentic experience of astral projection. Although it is only one of many, this one is so vivid that I can remember every minute detail as if I were physically present.
I
was standing on the steps of the Bonifacio monument at Grace Park in Caloocan
City. Commuters in Metro Manila know it better as ‘Monumento.’ On both sides of
the steps were lampposts about 7 to 8 feet tall with crystal-ball-like lamps atop each post. The way the horizons looked gave me the hint of a
breaking dawn. Because the traffic was light on the Epifanio de los Santos
Avenue (EDSA), the time could have been about 5 O’clock in the morning. With the
5-hour time difference between Saudi Arabia and the Philippines, I must have
dreamed shortly after midnight in KSA.
I
passed this monument many times in the past, but not since I came to Saudi Arabia—not in the past 15 years or so. I don’t remember the monument having a stage-like platform on the side facing EDSA Avenue. It
must have been renovated since I left.
A few days after the dream, I received a call from my eldest daughter, Norayda. She wanted to transfer to Manila Central University [MCU], one of the oldest Medical Colleges in Metro Manila. Strangely, it is just across the street from the Bonifacio Monument (refer to the photo from maps.google.com). Because of the dream, I said I had no objection.
The only knowledge I have of the university’s
physical makeup is what I've seen from the street. Stranger still, I dreamt of being
inside the University Campus at least two times before this dream.
Several
months later, during my leave, my wife and I drove to the University to pick up my daughter. I didn’t tell my wife about my dream, but I was planning to check it all the time. The Bonifacio Monument was precisely as I saw it in the
dream.
When
I maneuvered my car into the parking lot, I was awestruck by the two-story white building on one side of the road (refer to the photo with the red arrow partly covered by trees). In the other two dreams I had, I stood on the side of that building. I saw precisely the spot where I stood in the dream. A few years later, my daughter graduated from the university, and in March 2000, she passed
the Med. Tech. Licensure Board Examination.
…and
if you think astral projection from one country to another is weird or maybe okay, why not? But how about going to another planet? C’mon; get out of here :-)
I
really did astral travel to two uninhabited planets on different occasions. I thought I was dreaming or hallucinating, but when I read many years later that such a planet could exist, I said, "Wow!"
