Tocky on 26/10/2024 at 03:02

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Nightmares are always the most interesting. Imagination runs wild during those. The visuals are always spectacular, much more so than ordinary dreams. I suppose it was talking about the end here that made me have this dream. It started ordinary enough. I was in a confectioners sweet shop at the Eastgate shopping center in Oxford, which doesn't currently exist there but that never matters in dreams, only I don't like sweets much so I stepped outside and a fellow with a bushy beard was staring across at a dispensary, which we have in Oxford, just not where he was staring. He made a joke about a dispensary being next door to a sweet shop. Kind of lame so I stared at the sky and noticed the sun through a haze of clouds suddenly become clear and emit concentric circles of mass coronal ejections. I knew without a doubt that when those emissions reached earth they would fry everything. I could SEE them from here so they had to be powerful. They were startling and beautiful and the end.

I tried to tell the guy we had about eight minutes to live but he kept babbling on about unimportant shit. Oh god I've got to call my wife and let her know. I wanted us to be together but there wasn't enough time to drive home. It really was a lovely sight as the rings expanded and I knew that she would appreciate what I was telling her. What could I say as my last words to let her know how much I felt for her? It was overwhelming. Just then a planet dwarfed the sun as it loomed behind it. It was the size of a basketball to a baseball. Impossibly large. But so clear I could see continents and oceans. Well of course that's why the sun was behaving so strangely. The gravitational pull must be enormous. It was so extraordinary to see that in the sky. Too extraordinary. It was impossible for something like that to just appear behind the sun. My logical brain took over and told me it could not be. The speed of such a large body to just appear, let alone stop just behind the sun, was too great. The momentum alone would tear it apart.

Thinking it made it so. Cracks formed in the crust of the world. The seas hissed and evaporated in mist as it broke apart. Areas green became denuded as magma seized control and flowed outward. The whole thing broke apart and began to spread in flaming grandeur. Again my mind took over and told me it would not be so spectacular and the airlessness of space would quickly snuff any flame. Any atmosphere would have been torn away with the speed of it's appearance for that matter. The man next to me droned on. As lovely as it all was and as heartbreaking I realized I was dreaming. I woke stunned and relieved. But the visuals remained in my memory to be pondered.

It isn't lost on me that this dream came so close to the election.

Marconiex on 31/10/2024 at 07:35

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I would have said that disappointing people is bad, but now I feel like disappointing myself is scarier. I have so many dreams and goals, so if I don't accomplish them in this lifetime, it would be very scary to me