Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: I had been dating a girl for some weeks, really starting to like her, but going very, very slow because I had just come out of a bad relationship. Her brother had been in a car accident and we had visited him in his room. I felt very close to her that night, she including me in her family affairs like that - she clearly loved her family and I admired that in her. I got to meet her Dad and he seemed OK with me, so that was nice as well. We went to dinner and I decided to tell her about a very weird dream I had the previous night, 9/09/01. I could not get this dream out of my mind. I was feeling rather tense, out of sorts, and this dream kept bugging me so I decided to tell her about it. In the dream, I was in a tall building that was lifeless and somber, a sort of leaden, concrete look to everything. I was running from floor to floor frantically looking for a way out, or just to figure out where I was. Then I noticed that there were bodies everywhere - not whole bodies, but torsos, heads, arms - but oddly, no blood or gore. Everything was just covered with thick grey dust. Finally I came to floor where I saw a maroon object wrapped in a white cloth - I approached it and to my horror, noticed that it was a baby that had been terribly burned. It made no sound but was writhing in pain, and extended an arm out to me, grabbing my ankle. Then I heard the most pitiful cry imaginable in my dreaming mind's ear - HELP ME it seemed to say. HELP ME HELP ME over and over. I woke up in a cold sweat thinking, "Boy, that was a doozy!" but could not shake the image of the bodies and that pitiful burned baby. The morning after my date I was awakened by the very first reports from the burning towers. Somehow I knew what was coming and was filled with the most terrible dread. I instantly knew that the hole in the building had been made by a large airplane, and was connected with the dream. I've always had a terrible dread of being trapped in a tall building by fire and being forced to jump - odd, because I have no fear of heights or fire individually, and I am not the "worrywart" sort. When the buildings collapsed and covered everything with grey dust, I was astonished and horrified to realize that my dream had in some sense come true. It took months to get over the shock and I'm still not over it. I worry about the next dream and tend not to remember them now, thank God. What can was say? Did I somehow hear the collective shout of agony of all the victims, who knew they were doomed? It's a terrible thing to live with. I almost feel like a survivor myself, that in some weird sense I was actually in the buildings. I'll never forget that one dream or that day. I hope to come to peace with it some time, but it hasn't happened yet. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story10773.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2004-08-31 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 24.98.152.3