However, it does have a few guesses.
Quite frankly I wont go into them all, because in all honesty i’ll either weird you out or bore you to tears (whichever should transpire first) but i’ll give you a quick run-down of why your dreams ARE significant in my opinion, why dreams themselves are more than just ‘flights’ of fancy, and why science supports my beliefs.

In short, Dreams occur during REM (not the band, although… er.. nevermind) where the body is at a state of absolute rest but the BRAIN is actually functioning at nearly an awake state and in some cases there is more function during sleep for some people than there is when they are awake! (in other words, they seem to use FAR more of their brain in dream sleep than when they are awake normally.

There has always been the theory of a collective unconsciousness that floats around. This is some underlying consciousness or energy or whatever you want to call it that connects us all on some level. Some would call it instinct. Some call it a small telepathic link. The collective unconsciousness is usually used to explain things like ‘automatic’ life functions.. like, why we do not have to be taught to walk, or to verbalize or to fear certain things like heights or fire (although some of us toss fear aside as babies and valiantly put our hands where they do not belong anyway, in which case we learn by DIRECT interaction). This may also explain feelings of deja vu or even past lives. Some people supposedly can tap into this more than others. It’s how some people can have the same idea while never having met, or for example the recorded feeling of depression or angst that seemed to spike right before 9/11. Call it what you want, some how humans are connected by an energy.

The second thing is, there are MANY dimensions in our universe, not just our reality but infinite other realities. When you choose to eat the salad instead of a chicken sandwich, in another reality you choose the chicken sandwich and in a third you might be allergic to chicken or the chicken eats you.
Again i’m keeping these concepts VERY basic because otherwise i’d be typing here all night. If anyone IS interested in being nerded out ad nauseum i’m sure i can arrange to find some free time to smoke a dozen cigarettes in your presence and bore you with the inner workings of what i like to consider a gifted mind trapped in an unappealing body and secured by a vast anchor of insecurity.
But anyway..
Energy.
The second law of thermodynamics (science 101!) in an isolated system, concentrated energy disperses over time,. Essentially everything gives up it’s energy in the end. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be destroyed but constantly always exists.
Why did i state that in this way?
Because if you apply the laws of thermodynamics to the concept of human beings..
the 2nd law states that over the course of our lives we expend our energy.. we are bundles of it.. but at some point, inevitably, the energy will leave our bodies. if you want to call this a soul, go right ahead, you’d be about as right as anyone.
The 1st law supports the idea of this ‘soul’ simply because ENERGY cannot be destroyed. So while our BODIES will continue down the path of entropy (which falls under the 2nd law, in which it has to continue to break down and redistribute it’s energy back into the universe from the isolated system of our bodies, to be used by some other life form, the 1st law advises us that our ENERGY.. can NEVER be DESTROYED.. it just returns to the ether.. the universe.

So long winded orchestration aside..
Dreams may be the window, the KEY into tapping into a universal ENERGY so to speak.. an etherial plane of infinite realities where all things since the beginning of our universe return to, essentially the Energy that created US returning to it’s origin.
My theory is this.
In your dreams, you tap into that energy. Thats is what creates dreams. this is why dreams can be fantasies, or tell the future, or warn us of things or play on our fears. It’s a realm of possibilities.
Nelson, being returned to God’s realm, his soul now has returned to it’s home, and can freely move about in this energy.
Through it, he was able to contact you.. or perhaps YOU contacted him.

Long story.. not so short I guess.. Nelson is still out there somewhere doing whatever it is that he’s interested in doing now. But while it feels like a gulf of distance separates you, in reality, he’s always as close as ..
well..
a simple dream away.

My first dream: He showed up and told me he was getting ready to work out. He said he knew about the accident he was in, but didn’t remember what happened. He said not to worry about it because the physical Nelson we knew was NOT him now. He had sparring gloves on and was moving a stationary bike somewhere to use it. That was it…

Next dream: It was understood in the dream that when I was with him, we could travel through time, teleport to different places around the world, and at least he could morph into other people. So, he was curious about my experience in Iraq, so we went to the installation I was stationed at (Tallil AB (COB Adder), Iraq), but we went there in the present time or in the near future. The place I went to had many buildings taken down, as if it was being dismantled and decommissioned so I know it was either now or in the near future. Either way, I showed him around. He wore a vest with all kinds of things on it (like smoke and explosive grenades) to “fit in”. Then an officer walked up to me and I saluted him. When I turned to Nelson, he had morphed into another regular looking soldier and saluted the officer, too. He looked around, smiling, asking me questions about the place. It was weird, but that was it for the most part.

My last dream, from last night: Nelson took me to another universe or dimension in which he lived through the accident. However, he was in the hospital for some time and eventually released as a partially disfigured paraplegic. He was in a wheel chair for life and could not be a programmer any more. Although he died here in this universe, he indicated that we all had it better in this universe. He also made a reference to him being okay by showing me the right side of his head and face and it was all normal and healthy looking. He smiled and said not to worry about him, that he was okay. He wore his gray beanie cap and seemed to like it a lot. It was understood that he wore it because he’s still here in San Antonio and can feel the cold like we do. Once again, the dream is weird, but the purpose is positive.

Those dreams are either good revealing dreams or my body has a way of healing itself from the entire ordeal by designing these dreams for me. I doubt my mind made them up because Jean confirmed many things about Nelson that I could have never known about. If you have any input, please let me know. Thanks. That’s all for now.

Find out what that was and then start a foundation.. a group that focuses on helping those people. Create a website, organize people, start by helping one person or one cat.. then another and another and have those people you help get involved.

Let it grow.. and grow.
That way, Nelson has a legacy that will live on and on and touch infinite numbers of lives.

Our family is extremely happy to be “in law” with the Montalvos. And we share their loss with all our hearts.

I have emails when he called me a friend. I’m honored. My friend, let me greet you with “Vecna ti slava”.

Nelson, you will always be remembered and missed… thank you for all of the great times we had together and all of the great advice you gave me. To Nelson’s family I am deeply saddened by this loss, my heartfelt condolences go out to you.