I had a strange dream Saturday night. I dreamed that I was in heaven, that I had died on the operating table (what procedure, I have no idea as I am as healthy as a horse). A “guide” takes me to my suite/apartment/house and my little dog is waiting there for me, I am told that she grieved herself to death over me! As I am walking around the suite, there is a tiny “pop” and I feel something rubbing against my leg. Looking down, I see my wife’s beloved cat (she is slowly dying of a tumor) and think to myself, “Oh great! Now she (my wife) has two to grieve over!” I find that instead of being overjoyed with having been accepted in Heaven, that I am sorrowful to have left my loved ones and worried about how my wife is bearing up to all this! I go walking around heaven and it is just like what the Christians say, bright, beautiful and great weather. I notice people gathering inside buildings and “fellowshipping”. There are buildings like museums with crowds touring them. I notice that everyone that I see is American and white, that there are no Hispanics, Oriental or Blacks, nor do I see anyone that is speaking another language or obviously not white American! I see none of my relatives like you are supposed to. Most of the people I see are throwing up their hands occasionally and shouting “Praise the Lord” and “Hallelujah”! After seeing this happen several times, I stop one of these folks and ask him, “Is this the Christian Heaven?” The man looks at me in wonder and answers, “Yes, of course it is!” “Well,” I ask, “where is Jesus?” “Oh,” he replies, “Jews aren’t allowed here!” This is where I jerked awake!
This is not a story, it is actually what I dreamed! I think that my subconscious was trying to point out to me how the Christians in this area (I leave deep in the heart of the Bible Belt where fundies are more plentiful than flowers) actually perceive Heaven! As a Deist, I don’t know if there is an afterlife or not, but if there is, I hope it is nothing like the Heaven I dreamed of. Beautiful, but with no variation and boring!

So how do you see the afterlife?

Man you read too many articles. A heaven with white americans, and only christians are allowed? It sounds like something a christian crazy person would believe

I watched southpark loooooooool.
Only mormons were allowed to get in heaven.

OMG then it wouldnt be heaven if that where the case...maybe you just dreamed of a christian hell?? Because christians do not see Jesus that way...the love him and would follow him anywhere....

I agree, this was just playing on your mind Mako...from reading post after post on many different boards, and many different forums...that it lead to this nightmare..therefore you have already analyzed it

I guess that is funny, in an idiotic kind of way

No, you evidentially have ever lived in the Southern Bible Belt....This is the typical White Southern Chrisitan's subconcious concept of Heaven!

In my religion the after life is the realm of the ancestors and a way station for the next life.
I had a dream a while back and I think I might have entered the realm of the ancestors. Grandpa was there and we were driving around. It looked a lot like Michigan in the summer. He kept telling me Grandma was waiting for us and she had my christmas presents. We drove around and did the things I used to do with Grandpa like the hardware store and the small engine shop. I woke up before I got my christmas presents or saw Grandma. When I woke I was very disoriented and the pentagram ring I were on my right hand was on my left.

I think the after life is what you want it to be, the place in your life where you were most happy. For Grandpa heaven was the hardware store, the small engine shop and driving his car.

What you discribed, Mako, sounded more like hell than heaven.

There are cars in your heaven, and the heaven itself looks like michigan? I don't get it. That's where you're most happy?

I was most happy in the hills of Arkansas (and I don't even come from there)!

That was where Grandpa was most happy. Grandpa loved cars and motors. He like living in Michigan it beautiful in summer. It was in Grandpa's heaven not mine. Mine would be north central Florida in a deep dark hammock with giant oak trees and bubbling spring.

It's a good thing you cleared that up. I was thinking you were going to say giant knockers :

You mean girls with giant knockers? That would be a nice addition.

Yes, YES IT WOULD

that reminds me of a dream that I had!

*passes soap around * you all need to go wash your mouths keyboards out tut tut

LOL! quite a strange dream you had, ofcourse a Christian heaven without Jesus is kind of an oxymoron ( I think I'm using that word correctly, lol) but funny! thanks for sharing.

I've never had a dream about heaven, or hell, ironic since I overthink about these things alot, I hope there's an afterlife, and that it's better than this H hole earth, specifically where I live.

Although I have had dreams which fit my concept of what heaven is, not heaven in the since of dying and going to a castle in the sky, but rather my concept of a heavenly existance here on earth, mainly, I dream alot about my old home.