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In the mid 80's, I took a job as a receptionist for a wholesale floral company. Encased in a glass claustrophobic space, I answered their busy phone lines as I gazed at the warehouse walls of greenery and the production staff scrambling to fill their daily delivery orders to florists and offices. The days began early. We punched in at 6:00 am. I arrived in a mind fog, downing my caffeine until my body's sluggishness wore off. It was a mindless job and I stayed a mere six weeks at most but during that short window of time there, I had two very prophetic dreams involving co-workers. The first and less memorable involved one of our delivery drivers. I dreamt that the police had caught him drinking while driving and he was subsequently terminated. About a week later, this dream came to fruition. The second and must more poignant dream involved Jerry, a young flower salesman in his late twenties. I dreamt that Jerry had fallen thru a sliding glass door. He was holding the hand of a small child, perhaps two or three years old. It was very graphic as I saw the shards of broken glass scatter as they hit the floor. With in a few days, Jerry ended up in intensive care after a car accident with his truck. I was extremely rattled by the dream and also concerned about his welfare, although I barely knew him personally. I approached Heather, a secretary there and shared my dream with her. Heater told me that Jerry had been previously married and that he and his former wife had a child that passed at a very young age. I might be mildly intuitive but I have never had such poignant dreams since that job. Is it plausible that I was being influenced by my green house environment there? Could it be possible that plants have always been open to communicating with us but that we humans remain mostly inattentive to their messages?

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Date: 3/11/2024 10:53:00 PM
Nancy, this is unbelievable....! It is believed that some get intuitions or premonitions of something grave about to happen. Your description sounds so natural and I don't doubt the verity of it, perhaps you might have added some details for embellishment. There are so many mysteries that we cannot explain. Enjoyed your story, dear Nancy
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Date: 3/12/2024 4:41:00 AM
Dear Valsa, The point of this narrative was to open up the possibility that plants may have been trying to communicate with us and have been for some time. There is no embellishment here and it did happen to me in the 80's. You are right, life is full of mysteries, isn't it? Thanks for your visit dear poetess.
Date: 3/10/2024 11:38:00 AM
Oh my gosh, thats haunting, i have had such experiences too, sometimes i dream somethings and then i hear about those individuals, going through some tragic things, which i think is so haunting because it leaves me wondering why and how did i get those thoughts, I think you might be a very intuitive and empathetic soul and hence why you dream and feel things strongly. I love the way this flows , and how youv told us your story; i wish id be able to write seamlessly like this. Sendin you light
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Date: 3/10/2024 2:05:00 PM
Dear Ink, lol, seamlessly? Hardly, perhaps impulsively though. I do have perhaps a touch of intuition but this was a two shot dream experience. Some times things broke thru when I was a practicing massage therapist but that's confidential so I kept it to myself. Thanks for commenting. Blessings
Date: 3/10/2024 10:17:00 AM
I think on the face of it Nancy premonitions should be treated as positive, it seems very unlikely you had two pretty accurate ones by sheer coincidence, for all we know the premonitions could be from a previous cycle through life (in the past) anything is possible when consciousness is embedded in the fabric of eternity, I honestly don’t know if plants can relay or evoke such events, thanks for sharing, cheers David
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Nancy Kaufman
Date: 3/10/2024 11:02:00 AM
Hi David, I appreciate your visit and reading this posting. What is interesting about this true event to me was that I didn't even know these people. I hadn't any contact at all with nor did I know the driver and barely knew Jerry the salesman. It made me wonder if people who work with plants regularly have had similar experiences to mine?
Date: 3/10/2024 9:54:00 AM
Wow, Nancy, when dreams like that occur it leaves you a bit shaken. Makes you wonder though, did that environment cause you to see into the future. Tom
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Date: 3/10/2024 10:56:00 AM
Hi Tom, I've heard that we are supposed to talk to our plants to help nurture them and how they nurture us as well but what if it's so much more? Thanks for your comment and I honestly think as wacky as it may sound, it was the plants.
Date: 3/10/2024 8:59:00 AM
Very intriguing write, Nancy. Perhaps your inner intellect was sending you messages. You held my attention from start to finish in mystique--your details were articulate in poetic diction.
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Date: 3/10/2024 10:58:00 AM
Thank you Vijay..At that point in my life I had never read nor even knew of The Secret of Life of Plants as I read it years later. I'm glad you liked my narrative. Hope you have a restful Sunday.

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