By BARRACUDA (Reporter)
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A couple of years ago I ran across a dream from 1937 attributed to Joe Brandt, I read it, filed it away in the memory banks, and pretty much forgot about it. Just the other day a blog reader sent me the link to it (H.T. Jollean), I reread it, and would like to share some thoughts about it, for I think that the dream may soon be fulfilled. Here is the link to the dream if you would like to read it for yourself.

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/joebrandt.htm

Here are a few excerpts from the dream that I would like to call your attention to;

I remember, vaguely, the fall from my horse—Blackie. As I lay there, pictures began to form in my mind—pictures that stood still. I seemed to be in another world…I thought about Hollywood Boulevard, and I found myself there. Whether this is true, I do not know, but there were a lot of guys my age with beards and wearing, some of them, earrings. All the girls, some of them keen-o, wore real short skirts…

I noticed there was a quietness about the air, a kind of stillness. Something else was missing, something that should be there. At first, I couldn’t figure it out, I didn’t know what it was—then I did. There were no birds…I saw a newspaper on the corner with a picture of the President. It surely wasn’t Mr. Roosevelt. He was bigger, heavier, big ears…I wondered if I went into a movie (since nobody could see me) if I’d like it. Some cardboard blond was draped over the marquee with her leg six feet long…

It was ten minutes to four. Something big was going to happen…More like early spring…There was a funny smell. I don’t know where it came from. I didn’t like it. A smell like sulphur, sulfuric acid, a smell like death. For a minute I thought I was back in chem…It was five minutes to four on a sunny afternoon… The ground shook, just an instant. People looked at each other, surprised. Then they laughed. I laughed, too. So this was what I had been waiting for. This funny little shake. It meant nothing…

There was that smell again, coming up from the ocean. I was getting to the 5 and 10 store and I saw the look on the kids’ faces. Two of them were right in front of me, coming my way. “Let’s get out of this place. Let’s go back East.” He seemed scared.…One young lady just sat down on the sidewalk all doubled up. She kept saying, “earthquake, its the earthquake,” over and over….

Then, when it came, how it came. Like nothing in God’s world. Like nothing. It was like the scream of a siren, long and low, or the scream of a woman I heard having a baby when I was a kid. It was awful. It was as if something—some monster—was pushing up the sidewalks… But then I saw the streets of Los Angeles—and everything between the San Bernardino mountains and Los Angeles. It was still tilting towards the ocean, houses, everything that was left…. I knew it was going to happen to San Francisco—it was going to turn over—it would turn upside down. It went quickly, because of the twisting, I guess. It seemed much faster than Hollywood…

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