The tragedy of 9/11 is unforgettable for all Americans, but it's especially memorable for me because of the incredible psychic experience I had the night before. At that time, my best friend and I were staying at a friend's house because we had no other place to call home. This house had a very unusual feeling about it that I had never experienced anywhere else. It intrigued me.

At this time, I was very into learning how to read tarot, and it seemed like being in this house was greatly adding to my psychic abilities. In fact, I was receiving more messages than I knew what to do with.

One the eve of 9/11, my friends and I were all hanging out and partying like we do when I got a terrible feeling in my gut. I couldn't get past this feeling of warning, but I kept it to myself for a bit. After a while, however, the whole room we were in filled with heavy smoke and a smell that was awful. I have never in my life smelled anything so foul. Naturally, I was frantic to see where the smoke and smell were coming from, but when I brought this to everyone's attention, they all looked at me with confused faces, for they didn't see the smoke or smell anything unusual.

At this point, I became overwhelmed with panic, and began to think I was going crazy. I turned to my best friend and confided what I was feeling: the fear and the smoke and the smell that had filled the entire house. My friend believed me and walked me outside to get some fresh air. I was reeling with questions: Why was I seeing all this smoke? What was this smell of death? Why were my emotions like no other sadness I had ever felt or experienced before?

As my friend and I stood outside, we looked up and caught a glimpse of a falling star shooting across the sky. I will never forget that moment. Even now, I still have a hard time explaining it to anyone else or expressing the spiritual, emotional, and mental state I was in that night.

Later, I cried myself to sleep. In the morning when I woke up, the first thing I saw was the television showing live footage of the terrorists flying the planes into the Twin Towers, and all the other horrible scenes of smoke, panic, terror and chaos. I knew our nation and thousands of families would never be the same. I will never forget how I felt that morning, both in terms of my sorrow and my awe that what I had sensed the night before was a horrible but very real premonition.