Almost 20 years ago, I had a dream that New York City would be mostly abandoned. More specifically, I was told it would happen, and that the former residents of the city would be replaced by others, though in much smaller numbers. I wrote about this dream in my other substack, but am posting it here also because the Zark Files has a much larger audience. The message from the dream, regardless what you think of such information, is eerily parallel to what we now see across the country in major cities.
Here is what I wrote in my journal on June 4, 2005:
I am shown New York City as it will be in the future. At the same time as it appears to be the city itself, it also seems to be a scale model. The reason is that a man wishes to tell me something about the future of New York, and while telling it, he illustrates his words with a demonstration. He says,
"They who are here will be gone.
Those whom many believed did not exist, will take their place."
When he says these things, he flicks at various buildings with his fingers. As a result, the buildings crumble and decay. Their inhabitants die or move out, leaving the buildings abandoned.
The man does this to many city blocks, never stopping, and each time, the same thing occurs. The building falls apart and is abandoned. He indicates that this is the fate of the entire city.
Then I see some people moving into the destroyed hulks left behind. They are like derelicts or vagrants. They occupy the old buildings, but in much smaller numbers than before. If a building once housed a hundred people, it now had ten.
An added detail not in the original record:
One thing not mentioned here is that I had the distinct impression there was no electricity in the city. This was one of the major reasons it was almost deserted. Without power, there was no heating, plumbing, refrigeration, or working elevators. This made the large luxury skyscrapers nearly uninhabitable. I also remember seeing people making fires on marble floors in the lobbies of big buildings to keep warm.
The upper floors of skyscrapers were now the least desirable because people had to walk up a lot of stairs to get to them.
Immediately after waking from the dream, I wondered who the replacements would be. Described as “those whom many believed did not exist” can be interpreted in many ways. My immediate impression all the way back in 2005 was that it might have to do with illegal immigrants, who liberals of the time insisted weren’t a problem. From their point of view, although they did exist, they didn’t believe they existed in sufficient numbers to be a problem. Also, liberals typically don’t think of illegal immigrants as criminals, though that is what they are the moment they cross our border without permission.
Years passed, and this dream stayed on my mind, popping up at odd moments. It came to mind just now as I tried to sleep, but couldn’t due to pain in my arm. I went over to my computer, fired it up, and the first thing I saw was a video someone had taken of the streets of Chicago. The area had been a busy shopping district, but now is a wasteland of boarded up shops and deserted streets.
What we see in the Chicago video is happening in other major cities around the US, including New York. It is essentially what I was shown in my dream. The way I wrote it down likely made it look like the abandonment and disintegration of the city was rapid, but it wasn’t. I first saw the people leave as the replacements arrived, and then I saw a collapse of essential infrastructure over a longer period of time, that eventually led to the failure of most of New York’s architecture as livable spaces.
At the time of the dream, I found it very difficult to accept as even a remote possibility. Now, it appears to be happening and is largely accomplished in some places, like Chicago and Portland. Regardless what you think of dreams of the future, our cities are rapidly depopulating themselves and illegal immigrants are replacing the former residents, though in smaller numbers. At this point, I’m not willing to say that it is impossible for the rest of the dream to be realized, because I never expected to see what has already happened.
It takes a major calamity to destroy a city like New York. I never expected the calamity to come in the form of people whom “many believed did not exist.”
Dr. Zark- I am a big fan of your work and I especially like reading about your dream stories. I can never remember what I dream and it is amazing to me that some people have such clarity when it comes to theirs.
Sad to say that so many of your dreams have become actual nightmares in real life as we see from the scourge of mass illegal immigration and the rush to destroy our reliable fossil fuel/ nuclear energy sector.
Regarding the invasion that's taking place along what used to be our southern border, Daniel Greenfield has a very interesting essay about how the Kennedy family was very much connected to the earliest push to destroy our country via immigration. (of course they presented it as a great benefit.)
Here's a link to the article for anyone interested in finding out about the seeds of our destruction.
http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/02/how-kennedy-family-caused-todays.html
So the main cause of the collapse is the lack of electricity. That seems very plausible to me. The idea that we can just use solar and wind energy and do away with fossil fuel is fantasy.
If they try to phase out fossil fuels, the economy and the government will collapse.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2023/12/15/ten-things-that-change-without-fossil-fuels/