I had this dream the night of November 29th and wrote about it in a dream journal I've started. I thought it was interesting enough to post.
A very vivid and intense dream. I am sitting in a valley of a rolling grassy plane in the evening with a group of girls, with whom I seem to be flirting (which is odd since I've been with my current girlfriend for 9 years, but this doesn't enter the dream). I notice one of the girls is quite disfigured - her nose is split and hanging and when she stands one of her arms is over-sized and disfigured. She is upset that I am interrupting their girl talk. I say, rather cheekily, that my presence is valuable as it adds the male perspective and she sticks her tongue out at me.
Suddenly a comet streaks across the sky and there is a loud crash. I say "Holy &^*@! Did you see that?!?" My view of where it landed is obscured by a tree, so I move to the right to see around it and see that it's hit a building and is creating a large mushroom-like cloud (more like just the top of a mushroom cloud). Another one streaks across the sky, splits into 4, quite symmetrically, and hits two other buildings in the distance, which topple over. More comets come, shaking the ground and causing huge explosions and noise.
In the dream I remember that I had seen a house earlier and decide the safest place for myself is tucked up against the outside wall. I start sliding on my bum, scrambling toward the shelter. A childhood friend whom I've all but lost touch with runs by and I call for him to come with me to the house, and he does. Once I'm up against the house, others are there, including my brother. I sit there watching the destruction, wide eyed and breathing heavily thinking "this is it. this is it. this is it".
The comets stop and my brother pokes his head through the plastic sheeting that is the wall of the house (I hadn't noticed this before) and asks the owners of the house if there is anything on TV about the comets. They say yes and we move inside to see what's being reported. They're watching sports center (?) and there's a guy on the tube discussing the merits of leaving his house. I don't remember the specifics, but it seemed like a lot of emotional rousing - things about being a "real man" and that a "real man" would leave the house. I decide it's not worth listening to and begin poking around the house. I find another room with a few people in it, watching the same sports center broadcast on several TVs. I move on.
I come to a sliding glass door and see that it is raining ash outside. It looks like snow but it's more powdery. I slide open the door and step my foot out onto the ashy ground, testing it with my foot. There is a small hole or indentation, about the size of a toonie (Canadian two dollar coin a little over an inch in diameter) beside my foot and it's sizzling around the edges and making hissing popping sounds. I seem to remember something beside the hole too; an upturned paw, perhaps a dog paw. The paw is attached to a hide, but I didn't get the impression this was a victim of the comets, but that it existed like this before the catastrophe and that maybe it was left behind by a child ('like Max's outfit in Where the Wild Things Are', is what occurred to me at the time, but this could just be the influence of having seen the film recently).
Then the dream ends.
A very vivid and intense dream. I am sitting in a valley of a rolling grassy plane in the evening with a group of girls, with whom I seem to be flirting (which is odd since I've been with my current girlfriend for 9 years, but this doesn't enter the dream). I notice one of the girls is quite disfigured - her nose is split and hanging and when she stands one of her arms is over-sized and disfigured. She is upset that I am interrupting their girl talk. I say, rather cheekily, that my presence is valuable as it adds the male perspective and she sticks her tongue out at me.
Suddenly a comet streaks across the sky and there is a loud crash. I say "Holy &^*@! Did you see that?!?" My view of where it landed is obscured by a tree, so I move to the right to see around it and see that it's hit a building and is creating a large mushroom-like cloud (more like just the top of a mushroom cloud). Another one streaks across the sky, splits into 4, quite symmetrically, and hits two other buildings in the distance, which topple over. More comets come, shaking the ground and causing huge explosions and noise.
In the dream I remember that I had seen a house earlier and decide the safest place for myself is tucked up against the outside wall. I start sliding on my bum, scrambling toward the shelter. A childhood friend whom I've all but lost touch with runs by and I call for him to come with me to the house, and he does. Once I'm up against the house, others are there, including my brother. I sit there watching the destruction, wide eyed and breathing heavily thinking "this is it. this is it. this is it".
The comets stop and my brother pokes his head through the plastic sheeting that is the wall of the house (I hadn't noticed this before) and asks the owners of the house if there is anything on TV about the comets. They say yes and we move inside to see what's being reported. They're watching sports center (?) and there's a guy on the tube discussing the merits of leaving his house. I don't remember the specifics, but it seemed like a lot of emotional rousing - things about being a "real man" and that a "real man" would leave the house. I decide it's not worth listening to and begin poking around the house. I find another room with a few people in it, watching the same sports center broadcast on several TVs. I move on.
I come to a sliding glass door and see that it is raining ash outside. It looks like snow but it's more powdery. I slide open the door and step my foot out onto the ashy ground, testing it with my foot. There is a small hole or indentation, about the size of a toonie (Canadian two dollar coin a little over an inch in diameter) beside my foot and it's sizzling around the edges and making hissing popping sounds. I seem to remember something beside the hole too; an upturned paw, perhaps a dog paw. The paw is attached to a hide, but I didn't get the impression this was a victim of the comets, but that it existed like this before the catastrophe and that maybe it was left behind by a child ('like Max's outfit in Where the Wild Things Are', is what occurred to me at the time, but this could just be the influence of having seen the film recently).
Then the dream ends.
