I had an awesome nightmare tonight. It started out at my computer. I was not able to control my mouse, so I got up to walk away and I noticed that there was a lot of uproar outside. I remember seeing the effects of high wind; the shingles were flying off my "neighbor's" house-- not my real house or my real neighbor or even my real neighborhood. Then all hell broke loose weatherwise. I was desperately trying to find my wife and children. It's hard to describe what was happening in the dream because of the way that dream sequences are not always realistic or otherwise just beyond describing. I could see these massive dark clouds racing in our direction. I think they were some form of "pyrocystic" (SP?) clouds associated with volcanoes. These little deadly rocks were whizzing by. A blow from one would probably kill you. We were hiding behind trees and otherwise trying to dodge their path. It turn out that there had been a huge volcanic eruption in Colorado. I live in North Carolina. By the end of the dream I could see the new lava dome. It was massive beyond belief-- remember, I could see it from NC! In the course of the dream, I had one of those "You Were There" infomercials which impossibly showed a video of the very first moments of eruption. The eruption first evidenced when the magma came up through the floor of a fundamentalist, evangelical chuch at some place called Lake Livermore in Colorado. The principles of the church were dressed like Klansmen when this black magma just blew through the floor and consumed them. It was one of those dreams that make you despondent. I was consumed not so much by the terror of it all as I was the challenge of surviving and ultimate the challenge of providing for my family. I remember being saddened by the misery that would characterize my children's youth. At one point, I remember finding a backpack into which I started putting things that I thought would be valuable in the future. I remember finding a couple of toys for my little girls. I remember having the thought regarding the things I was finding: "This is not mine... oh well, someone will be welcome to my stuff and I'll have their's. There was great disorder in the world. By this point of the dream, we had wandered quite a ways away, although there was a lot of devastation. At one point, we climbed into a big earth-moving machine for safety and to help us through the danger. We seemed to have this agenda to just keep moving to survive.
Yeah, I hate that. It happens all the time when the batteries of my cordless mouse start dying. Indeed a nightmare!
Giddy, You didn't dream about me? I'm disappointed. http://bbs2.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71651
After reading the other thread, there is something I do not understand. Why have no pictures of codell's wife been posted in that thread?
I find this sort of thing fascinating. I've had quite a few nightmares (I have them rather regularly - God bless the insomniacs) that have been accompanied by "instant documentary" - where everything switches over to a talking head format documenting the dream either while it's actually happening or documenting what has just happened. It's quite strange. The format of the media we expose ourselves to seems to be rather powerful in that the format is adopted whole-hog into our unconscious (if such a thing as an "unconscious" exists - there's really no consensus on what exactly a dream is, or whether a dream actually means anything). Humans are neato.
I had a freaky dream where one of my coworkers literally kicked my ass in our office. He kept punching me in the face and my nose started to bleed nonstop. Blood was just gushing out of my nostrils like a running hose. I woke up to check my nose and my pillow for blood.
giddyup I had a dream like that recently. I walked to the window, looked out, and the darkest clouds were low to the ground and racing across the the sky. Day seemed to be turned into night. And I remember walking to the next room and seeing my brother and trying to tell him what was happening but he just sat there in sad shock as if he thought the world would never be the same{end dream} I will remember that dream for awhile.
I absolutely l-o-v-e my dreamlife. Things are so cool in it-- even the disturbing ones like this. The laws of the universe are suspended and all kind of possibilities occur.
The only nightmares I have nowadays are about my Public Health lab.... About me getting wierd strains of viruses and bacteria... catching them, having horrible symptoms.... then failing the class because I can't elucidate what exactly it is that I have... Lots of school related nightmares.... I really need to get out.
