I had a brief and vivid dream on Monday, Veterans’ Day, as I took a short nap in the afternoon.

I sat before a computer’s monitor screen and watched five different e-mails repeatedly appear in succession on the screen. They would each last on the screen for a few brief minutes, long enough to read each one.

Strangely, as I sat and repeatedly read each e-mail, I also had a vision at the same time of a half bald man’s head and face, age about forty, as he spoke to me at the same time while I read. The vision of his head was closely adjacent to the left side of the monitor screen. I cannot explain how I could identify his face and head while also keeping my focus directly on the monitor screen.

In this dream, I understood these e-mails to be advanced notices about either New York City's safety or America's safety. They were terrorist warnings of destructive explosives that had already been planted in certain locations, and were set to go off at an appointed time. As the man spoke, I distinctly understood that nothing was going to be able stop this attack from taking place.

Osama Bin Laden is back in the news. Late yesterday, the Arabic television network, Al-Jazeera, ran an audio tape that it said was the voice of the Al Qaeda leader himself. Analysts are calling it the most definitive proof yet that Bin Laden is still alive.

November 17, 2002