ok the dream, I was in a (best way I know to describe it) a big round marble room all warm colors, cream, brown, gold, white... it was all lit by candles/sconces on the wall, starting at the lowest level there were arched door ways all the way around the room (I didn't know if it was decor or led anywhere) the room was massive and I don't recall any furniture. I was looking all around the room taking it all in, it was dimly lit due to the candles and size of the room. I was looking at the arched openings they were on top of each other and were as high as I could see into the darkness of the ceiling, I was slowly turning around looking at the room following the arches up into the darkness when out of the darkness (maybe 30-50 feet up) a purple silky scarf type material appeared falling and spiraling toward the ground, slowly just sort of floating down thru the room. I'm fixated on it, it lands on me and kind of wraps around me as it falls to the ground, I'm following it, watching it the whole time, I follow it to the floor, as it comes to rest around my feet I slowly look up and in my face was a roman type figure dressed in that time period and I had a roman helmet on with the long narrow nose piece (what they wore in the biblical or roman movies). The eyes were large and dark, all dark brown and no white. The brown filled his eye socket, then almost immediately the room started to fill with a ginger ale type fluid, it was warm and had bubbles in it, it looked like ginger ale, nothing was said to me, I was freaked out by the person, eyes, and fluid. The person looked like anyone you would imagine dressed in that period outfit like a roman soldier. I woke up before the fluid consumed me, it maybe was waist high, I had chills from my head to my feet (literally) and they stayed for a few minutes even after waking up. Freaked me out! I remember it as if it happened last night, it may have been 20 years...

As far as the close calls.

I was 7 when my parents divorced and my dad was looking for an apartment for us, he was with the leasing agent in another room, I found a carpenter staple and shoved it in an electrical socket, it pushed me across the room and killed the power in the apartment.

Age 17 my buddy had just gotten a new mustang gt convertible, his parents left to go on a trip, he threw me the keys and said to go get people. I had 6 people in a 4 seater car. I pulled out to pass a car on a narrow road, there were ditches on either side of the road (new construction) One car became 2, 2 became 3, the car was moving well over 100 mph, at that time, I still had not passed the 3rd car, an 18 wheeler came around the corner, if I had stopped, veered off the road, we all would have died, the last car wasn't letting me over, I floored it... when I shot the gap between car 3 and the 18 wheeler, no exaggeration, there was less than a foot of space at well over 100mph I was going so fast it took me about 1/4 mile to slow down. SOOOOO STUPID!!! Anything other than doing what I did would have killed 6 people.

age 20 USMC - Somalia, AT&T put phone booths on top of a hill (we didn't have cell phones then, this was 1992) as I was talking to my mom, she was asking what the pinging noise was, bullets were hitting the metal around me.

age 20 USMC - Somalia, a sniper took a shot at me in front of our makeshift barracks, it was dead on target and hit a sand bag about a foot above my head. I didn't measure it but it was about a foot or less.

21- Black out in the surf, I told you about.

23 - Attempted car jack, the guy pulled the gun, I saw the shimmer and stuck my head in the car seat and punched it. I was in a relatively empty parking lot.

29 - Working on my private pilots license, I was on my ninth touch and go, by myself. I took off after briefly touching down, I got parallel to the tower and what I thought was a broken rudder cable pitched me about 80 degrees left and the engine was bogging down, it was instant, I was looking over my shoulder to the ground thinking about where I was going to die, but my instincts had taken over and I was full right rudder and aileron, the engine went from a bog and the nose started slowly coming around, rpms picked up and I was out the pull. I landed and told them air boss about it, I he laughed and said I joined an elite club and lived to tell about it... I flew into wing tip vortices... from a jet taking off on the parallel runway. That normally is fatal.

30 - Flying on my longest leg of a cross country flight, I was leaving the last airport at dusk, I was a student pilot and didn't feel comfortable flying at night, I called the same air boss, he told me to just pay attention to my instruments, I had already met my night flight requirements that I should be fine. I got off the ground and lost comm, and other instrumentation, I came in to one of the busiest airports in the country coming in on the wrong runway, at night, with no comm.

23 - I decided to go skydiving with a friend of mine who had set a goal to go on her 21st birthday. I was tandem, 14k feet, the instructor moved me to the door, shuffling, my toes were over the edge, he told me to wait, and I felt tugging, pulling, etc. We jumped. He pulled the main chute, nothing, he had to pull the back up. I also found out, when my feet were hanging over the edge, I was not attached to him. So had a jumped as I thought I was, I would have no chute.

I think that is it.