9/11 Happened To Us All

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Sweet Marie

A beautiful song by Christopher Newton and Michael Harris. For anyone who has lost a loved one, or that simply loves pretty music:

Gabe - Beginning Agility

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Dwight Clark Premonition

This is a continuation of my last blog.

I couldn’t sleep last night.

I’m sure most of you in the Bellingham area, are by now familiar with the story of missing Western Freshman, Dwight Clark; and how he seemingly vanished out of thin air.

For those unfamiliar, read about here.

I felt a growing connection to this story and to this guy as the search went on with no luck. The incident was strange, and something just didn’t add up. My prayers went out to Dwight and his family, in the hopes that he was still alive and okay. But as each day passed, that possibility seemed slimmer and slimmer. “This just didn’t happen in Bellingham”, seemed to be what everyone was saying. The same night he went missing, there were a handful of other such violent incidents.

Dwight’s however was the real mystery. Was the incident with the bicyclist and the men with baseball bats somehow connected?

It wasn’t until yesterday that I began to connect the case of Dwight with a dream I’d had just the night before Dwight went missing.

This dream was so vivid, so impacting, that when I woke up I couldn’t get it out of my head. It was if I had actually lived through the experience. I knew I had to journal it in my “dream journal” that I kept. I felt like it was a premonition, of something that was going to occur. But it was so bizarre and out there that I couldn’t connect it with anything. Initially, I assumed that this represented something on a larger scale, yet for me, it had taken place locally here in Bellingham.

It was strange. It was almost as if I was a specter, and suddenly I was with a group of people I didn’t know, witnessing this event. Someone had died, and I had been involved. Everyone was blaming me for it, even though I knew it wasn’t actually my fault. But I still felt those feelings of accusation.

Here is my dream, copied from my journal:

Note: (What’s also strange is another premonition the dream revealed, even as small as it was. My friends had been planning a house show that I was going to be attending for a friend’s birthday bash. However in my dream the birthday bash took place at the ‘Wild Buffalo’ with the birthday boy and friends. Well, turns out, before I knew it, the next week the “house show” had been turned into a show, at none other than, the ‘Wild Buffalo’. A small coincidence, but still significant. It came true..)

Dream: 9/25
This dream had a big impact on me when I first awoke from it. The start was random, with me out on the town...It was my friend’s birthday party at the Wild Buffalo...a bunch of people hung out and then I went off with a brother of mine around town. Eventually I ended up running into an old friend, who meant trouble, and wanted to hang out.

My brother and I weren’t too keen on hanging out with him, due to his life-style choices and difference of interests. He was careless, rebellious, even dangerous-due to the way he went about himself. And I had a bad feeling about where the night was going. Very, very negative feeling. Like I would regret going out with him tomorrow...Like something bad was going to happen.

At the same time, I felt bad for always putting him off and felt pressured into it, as I was an empathetic person.

My brother and I ended up riding with him for a night out...Trouble was in store..

This guy was driving wildly, drinking at the same time, and I felt we were going to careen over the side of the overpass. We were going up to the Waterfront area on Holly street. More chaos continued but my memory doesn’t recollect anymore until we found ourselves standing on top of a building, overlooking an old factory--Georgia Pacific. It was closed down.

As is typical with dreams, it seemed I was with other people I didn’t know.

They were also dangerous and up to no good. I knew one was a guy, another a girl. I’d been influenced by the others in participating in harmful acts. I don’t remember exactly but we were firing off fireworks, or some sort of “launcher” type object toward the facility--GP...

I knew this to be dangerous and stupid, but I’d been peer-pressured. I had a really bad feeling though, that stuck with me even after the dream was over. We were just messing around continuing to do this, and then we were sliding down to ground level on a sort of zip-line. Just as we were coming to the ground, I got this feeling in my gut--and just then a huge explosion occurred from where we were firing things at--it was like a gas leak, or gas valve had been struck and had gone off. This was BAD. The best feeling I could connect it with would be how I felt on 9/11, or the pipeline disaster in Bellingham--which was very similar. Two kids playing around fire, gas leak.

We hit the ground and were all concerned deeply. Not just because of the implications of the disaster..We all ran for cover, as shrapnel fell amongst us. Large pieces of metal. Just then, I caught a large piece flying towards us, out of the corner of my eye. I moved out of the way, just in time, but not soon enough to warn the friend in front of me. Just as I was about to push the person out of the way, they were struck on the head, killed instantly.

Suddenly this incident was personal and we were responsible for the death...the worst feeling ever. This feeling lasted for a long time. What had we done!? I knew I shouldn’t have gone out...

The second part of the dream found us repeating the same “attacks” and childish behavior. Yet again, on the zip line, an explosion occurred on the same place where workers had been fixing the old destruction. We’d done it again...we hadn’t learned from our mistakes..

The rest of the dream saw me hiding within my home. Everyone was coming after me, blaming me for the incident. I defended myself and hide away. Any time I stepped outside, people were there surrounding me, accusing me..including my friends who were involved..

I found it hypocritical of them as I felt they were more responsible for our behavior. Everyone wanted me tarred and feathered...while I had to live with what I’d done, and been responsible for the person’s death. I shouldn’t have gone out like I thought...



I was up till 6:00 A.M. this morning googling the map routes from Indian Street, where local Western Student, Dwight Clark was last seen, to the Georgia Pacific plant by the bay. Why?

Because I had begun to connect my dream of the death of someone unknown to me at GP, with Dwight Clark's disappearance. There were other startling similarities and connections. My gut was telling me that Dwight Clark had been killed at the GP plant, or nearby and his body was in that area.

I was SO convinced, I was minutes away from calling the police and telling them to search the GP plant and surrounding area. What would I tell them though? That I’d had a dream...that lead me to believe his body would be discovered at GP?

I’d had a dream a couple years back that had predicted the oil spill, amongst other things, and now this...

I was determined to set out wednesday afternoon and search the route I’d looked up last night..that was until I spotted the article about the body found behind the Georgia Pacific dock. Shivers ran down my spine.

The body had not yet been identified. I felt this was something I had to share...And then moments later, the body had been ID’d and it was in fact Dwight Clark...(Read about that here.)

I’m still in shock by this all. If the dream was about Dwight Clark and his death at the GP plant, what else could the dream reveal about how Dwight died?

I will continue to follow this story, as it develops. My thoughts go out to Dwight’s family and friends, and all those in the community who came together for this guy.

This is Bellingham. We have to stick together.

Gibbs' State of Mind

This is a response video to "Bellingham State of Mind", starring Nathan Cox & Rashawn Scott. If you haven't seen their video, watch it here.

Starring Edward Gibbs (Jacob Knapp) and Jenni Potts. Video by Micah Knapp. Song recorded and mixed by Christopher Newton. Lyrics by Jacob and Micah Knapp.