Understand Dreams

Here they come. Excitement is high. The first load will have the birthday Mom, her daughter and one of the guys. The plane starts up and tension mounts both inside the plane and out where all the friends are gathered to watch. The plane slowly taxies out. A couple minutes later, we hear the roar of the engine as the plane heads down the runway. It is about 50 feet in the air as it passes in front of us. They are on their way to altitude! The jumps will take place at 3,500 feet. We have about ten minutes to wait. Everybody is gathered out front waiting. John, Chipper, and I are positioned at the landing area with the DZ truck ready to assist the students as they land.

Here they come someone yells! The plane rolls in on jump run. The jumpmaster tells the pilot to cut. We hear the engine reduce power. You can just imagine the emotion inside the aircraft as the jumpmaster opens the door. The rush of wind and a whole lot of sky! From the ground we can see the first student climbing out. Suddenly it is very quiet. We heard the jumpmaster yell GO, GO. The first student is away. We see the static line pull the parachute container open and the parachute deploys. As we watched, we could quickly see there was a problem. The parachute wasn’t opening! It had deployed, but not inflated properly. Only a small portion of the parachute had caught air. Then it started to spin. Two or three seconds had passed. It was time for her to take the appropriate action covered in the training. The parachute started to spin faster. At this point, she should have released the malfunctioning canopy and pulled her reserve. There was dead silence on the Drop Zone. Several more seconds passed. She was not responding! As the three of us watched, we could see that her arms were down and being thrown around by the spinning malfunction. By now several more seconds had passed. We knew she was in trouble, and was running out of time. With this type of malfunction the more she spun the tighter the parachute twisted up. We knew it was not going to open. Behind us we could hear her friends screaming… screams of desperation and disbelief. They were watching their friend falling to her death. They were yelling and running around crying out “NO, NO, OH GOD, NO!” She was now about 500 feet above the trees. At that moment I was back in my dream. My hand shot up towards the sky and I heard myself say “LORD SAVE HER!” Just as I said those words about 20 percent of the parachute caught air as she went below the trees. I turned to John and Chipper and said, “She is alright.” I had a calmness about me and a peace in my heart that she was really ok. I said to them “let’s go!” The old DZ truck was slow or at least it felt that way. When we got to the tree line, we had to get out and go into the woods on foot.

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