Kevin reminded home for about two weeks before he was taken back to the hospital having had a heart attack in the night. He awoke screaming of his fears and insisted I come and visit him in the middle of that dark night.
I had to agree his fear was not without its basis. He in having his attack had lost sight and knowledge of the whereabouts his precious glasses.
Leaving a man terroized over who might find them and place them on he told me of something else which can happen if not careful.
I listened again to a story which if I'd not experienced it myself would have sounded like a man lost of his senses. Lost souls, death, and those lost living out their lives entwined inside animals, others long dead, or even statues placed on the same spot where the person seeing the future became a part of history.
Kevin had seen a possible senario of his own funeral and seeing this went and tried endlessly to see how it occured. He saw himself standing with the glasses on in some future time. It was one of his children playing roughly that came into the room slamming into his bad knee and causing him to fall over. The glasses left his face making him die on the spot, this was just part of what he wanted to understand.
His worse fears were found as he placed on the glasses and sought to know what he was looking at when the situation occured.
Kevin was reading a story about olden times of near the 1700's. He had stood up and was being extra careful as where he stood was back then a farmer's market. It was a place filled with passing bodies of those long dead but still viable in time. He was turning his head only slightly when the child Timothy hit his knee. He watched and saw his own self fall and to where he entered that time long gone.
As the glasses fell from his head his immortal soul was funneled into a passing dog, a wolfhound held by the daughter of the govener who was living then in our town.
Merged and trapped Kevin saw he was from then onward as an Irish Wolfhound and saw his life and exploits as he lived like a dog.
It was from this fear he felt the reasonable terror for family and friends wishing such a fate never to fall their way.