We’re interested: have you had dreams that have come true? If so: have you dreamt about future events, in the world at large? Or your own lives? Your relatives and friends? (If so, let us know; [email protected] is one address).

One evangelist out there, Perry Stone, if we accept his testimonies, certainly has, including about 9/11.

We’ve heard several such visions that occurred before those attacks. But, allegedly, his was in tremendous detail.

This occurred, apparently, when he was staying in Brooksville, Florida, in 1996 — while taking a nap with his head resting on a Bible, which he was using as a makeshift pillow.

Did the Holy Spirit — the spirit of prophecy — seep into his cranium?

“My very brief [but very deep] sleep was abruptly interrupted by a full-color vision,” he alleges in a book called How To Interpret Dreams and Visions. “I was standing at the bottom of a paved road, looking up toward the top of a hill where the road ended at a large concrete wall.

“There were red-brick, one-story homes on the left and right sides of the road, with sidewalks climbing the hill on either side.

“Just above the wall in a clear blue sky I saw a black cloud that was a perfect square. I was curious as to what this was, so I began walking up the left sidewalk toward the top of the hill. I noticed I was barefoot, which I later learned was an indication in a dream of not being prepared for what was coming.”

When he climbed up, recounted this preacher, he saw a large field with rows of full-grown corn.

It seemed almost endless. But it did halt, and in the center of the field, toward that end, was a “large tower-looking building, the exact form of the World Trade Center in New York. It was shrouded in a solid black cloud from the top to the bottom. The more frightening part was five grayish, spinning tornadoes that were appearing to form in the front of this large tower.” (Were two of those “tornadoes” the smoke that tumbled down surrounding streets after the towers collapsed?)

Another of the twisters spun into the cornfield, ripping the plants up from the roots.

That seemed to symbolize the third plane, United Flight 93, which was forced to crash into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near a creek and an old coal mine. It wasn’t a cornfield, but the county is known for its corn.

Was it good? Was it of God? Stone is controversial (the reason we don’t carry his book).

One might ignore this testimony, but for the fact that Perry informed a church congregation of his dream, that evening, and in 1999, an artist named J. Michael Leonard drew a sketch of it.

Months later, Perry had a second vision set in a large city with people screaming, ‘”The storm is coming! What should we do?” he heard shouted.

Again there were five gray tornadoes.

He saw “soda cans, computer paper, and all sorts of debris being thrown from the rolling and spinning gray clouds.” The entire city seemed stunned — as indeed occurred, to say the least.

One is tempted to say the tornadoes represented the hijacked planes, but there were only four jets that horrible day. Might an original plan have included an additional one?

“At the moment, the meaning of five tornadoes was not making sense,” said Perry, reflecting on his reaction when the actual attacks took place. “I thought there would be five attacks (the Pentagon, the plane crash in Pennsylvania, the towers, and perhaps one more, making five). However, within forty-eight hours it was clear. Trade centers one and two, the twin towers, were attacked, resulting in the eventual destructions of trade center buildings three, four, five, six, and seven — five other buildings housing thousands of businesses.”

Among them was the headquarters for New York’s Emergency Management Agency.

We visited the headquarters in 1999 for a book that became Sent To Earth. And those in charge explained how virtually “disaster-proof” the building (the entrance set on the side of a hill, the floor on a massive spring, the walls reinforced with steel and concrete) supposedly was.

Of further irony: the visit was to evaluate what future events might transpire in the city, and before the meeting at the Emergency Management office, waiting for the appointment, we had gone up the World Trade Center and pondered the city below, looking toward the hurricane-susceptibility of Brooklyn and surrounding areas — not knowing that we were standing on the future event.

[resources: Sent To Earth and Future Events]