Post by April on Apr 23, 2004 10:20:00 GMT -5
Hello,
I'm not sure why I feel the need to write this letter after so many
years....maybe it's because someone that cares so much about this person
"Karen Carpenter" would want to know about this....or maybe not....you may
just delete this and think nothing of it at all...never the less...here it
is:
On a very quite night sometime between the beginning of May and the end of
July in 1984 I was in what I though was a peaceful sleep. I was just a kid
at the time, only 21. I had heard Karen's songs many times on the radio and
sometimes on television throughout my early childhood, like most kids I knew
who it was singing the more popular songs so I knew who she was and what her
voice sounded like....but I really didn't much care...and the Carpenters
were certainly not my favorite of musicians by any means, however....getting
back to that night so long ago in Fort Lauderdale Florida....I was in that
place during sleep when you notice your dreams and are really paying
attention and remembering what goes on in them but you are not yet awake so
everything feels as it should be....WELL, things were NOT as they should
have been that night...not by a long shot! I have dreamt enough in my 40
years of life to know when something is not a dream. On that frightful night
I had no vision of anything in my head at all, no pictures, no thoughts, no
dream, period! What I did have that night was Karen Carpenters voice singing
lyrics to a song I had never heard before....over and over again.....it was
as if she were right there in my head....there was no background music of
any kind and it seemed to last forever....until all of a sudden I
realized/woke up enough to be completely and utterly terrified at what had
just happened. I'm sorry that I didn't write those lyrics down then....I
regret it now but at the time I was very young and completely petrified over
what had happened....I could never listen to her music at all after that,
because the memory scarred me so bad and gave me goosebumps....it's only
been the last few years that it doesn't bother me to hear her voice on the
radio if it happens to catch my ear.
Still to this day I sometimes wonder why that happened to ME...I really know
nothing about her at all, and why it was HER that contacted me...it's a very
strange phenomena indeed.
I'm not sure why I feel the need to write this letter after so many
years....maybe it's because someone that cares so much about this person
"Karen Carpenter" would want to know about this....or maybe not....you may
just delete this and think nothing of it at all...never the less...here it
is:
On a very quite night sometime between the beginning of May and the end of
July in 1984 I was in what I though was a peaceful sleep. I was just a kid
at the time, only 21. I had heard Karen's songs many times on the radio and
sometimes on television throughout my early childhood, like most kids I knew
who it was singing the more popular songs so I knew who she was and what her
voice sounded like....but I really didn't much care...and the Carpenters
were certainly not my favorite of musicians by any means, however....getting
back to that night so long ago in Fort Lauderdale Florida....I was in that
place during sleep when you notice your dreams and are really paying
attention and remembering what goes on in them but you are not yet awake so
everything feels as it should be....WELL, things were NOT as they should
have been that night...not by a long shot! I have dreamt enough in my 40
years of life to know when something is not a dream. On that frightful night
I had no vision of anything in my head at all, no pictures, no thoughts, no
dream, period! What I did have that night was Karen Carpenters voice singing
lyrics to a song I had never heard before....over and over again.....it was
as if she were right there in my head....there was no background music of
any kind and it seemed to last forever....until all of a sudden I
realized/woke up enough to be completely and utterly terrified at what had
just happened. I'm sorry that I didn't write those lyrics down then....I
regret it now but at the time I was very young and completely petrified over
what had happened....I could never listen to her music at all after that,
because the memory scarred me so bad and gave me goosebumps....it's only
been the last few years that it doesn't bother me to hear her voice on the
radio if it happens to catch my ear.
Still to this day I sometimes wonder why that happened to ME...I really know
nothing about her at all, and why it was HER that contacted me...it's a very
strange phenomena indeed.
. I am glad you have healed yourself from this trauma and perhaps you may appreciate Karens music if you listen to enough of it. I'm not sure why Karen was in your dream or her signifigance (if there is one). I listen to her music and see images of Karen on a daily basis and have never seen or heard her in my dreams that I know of. Thanks again for sharing this with us; an interesting story. 
