// April 13th, 2011 // No Comments » // General
Ever have one of those “apocalyptic” dreams where the earth is under attack, natural disasters seem to strike at the same time and everything feels so real you can almost taste it? Well I had one of those last night.
Clearly my subconscious has been imprinted with scenes from movies, current news and other real-life experiences, all stirred together to create the ultimate action movie in my dream.
Picture this, you’re sitting peacefully at a sidewalk café, drinking your favourite coffee, engrossed in a riveting conversation with some friends and colleagues. Suddenly the sky turns grey. People look up at the sky. Enormous shadows fall across the city as a big elliptical shape forms under ominous and mesmerizing clouds, thunder and flames. It is as if the question of whether we’re alone in the universe has finally been answered.
People start panicking, screaming, running. The sphere isn’t hovering stationary in the air, it is descending, growing larger. It is falling out of the sky. Around you people are scrambling for cover, running in every direction, hoping, praying that they can escape the menacing thundering cloud of steel and fire. Buildings start to collapse around you as the weight of the object comes crashing down to earth.
Then, in a sick twist of fate an even stranger thundering noise fills the air. Drops of water start splashing against your face. You turn to your right, peer down the street, only to see a massive tidal wave forming. As you collect yourself, you start running through the streets, turning corners, jumping over cars and other obstacles, searching for a way out.
The tidal wave comes crashing down onto the burning sphere, dousing the flames. Just as strangely and suddenly as the wave appeared, so too does it dissipate. Everything goes quiet.
People start to come out of their hiding spots, shaken but unscathed. All gathering at the café where it all started. Everyone is searching for answers. Who? What? Why?
Amid the buzz of questions one of the Italian waiters at the café breaks through the chatter, indicating that the military was looking for volunteer pilots to go fight the ‘invasion’. Immediately you take up the call to arms and head over to the airfield where you’re greeted with a hive of activity. Jets being fueled, vehicles and people scrambling across the runways. Orange and red flares lighting up the night sky.
You head over to the command centre to report for duty and await your orders. The commander greets you and points to a very tall woman dressed in black leather, standing unrestrained and calm in an adjacent glass room. Apparently she is the leader of the invasion and you need to try and make contact. You need to find out the reason for the invasion and how to call off similar attacks.
It’s at this point that I woke up….
Now I don’t believe in dream interpretations and all that, so I’m not going to entertain the thought that there is some underlying terror/fear/influence/internal change/external pressure at play that is “screwing” with my mind. That said, it is just very interesting how the mind has the ability to take scenes and experiences and turn them into dreams.
On reflection, I think this dream was influenced in part by movies such as Independence Day, Inception, The day after tomorrow, 2012, Men in Black II and interestingly a recent episode of the TV Series Flashpoint (Season 3, Episode 10: Terror).
So what do you make of this? Have you had similar dreams?
PS: This post was written entirely on the iPad using the WordPress app. I may post some comments on this in the future.
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