I had a very bizarre dream last Thursday night. My partner, Mike, woke up in the middle of the night, rousing me around 3am, and this dream occurred after I went back to sleep.

I was standing in front of the bedroom window with Mike. I was looking at the full moon. While I was staring at it the moon suddenly moved across the sky quite fast - from low on the horizon directly in front of me to approximately 45 degrees to the right, and higher up in the sky. (Note - at this point a thought occurred to me that my staring at the moon caused it to move across the sky, but this thought quickly faded)

The moon moving struck me as a strange occurence, my heart almost leapt into my mouth. It seemed like earth's gravity had been affected. The ground felt wobbly. People on the streets were almost floating as if there was a lack of gravity. I thought that perhaps the earth's magnetic poles had shifted, affecting the gravity field.

A bright light/cloud appeared in the sky, twisting and turning near the moon. It eventually resolved into a strange image. A beautiful woman on the left, to look at her made me feel peaceful, but also incredibly sad. A man on the right, almost skeletel, dressed in a kind of battle suit and helmet. He was flinging knives from his right hand towards the earth - hundreds of them at a time. I felt afraid to look at him. Behind them was an ancient-looking tree with dark green foliage. Behind that I think there was a temple. Behind that, swirling green/shining cloud, a circular formation behind the image.

Mike stepped forward (in that strange dream way we were no longer standing in front of a window....we either had ventured outside to get a better look or the dream just skipped as they do), and I saw knives raining down from the sky towards him. I leaned forward, grabbed him, and pulled him back in. It felt like the end of the world. The dream continued from here...I don't remember the image in the sky disappearing, I think we were hiding for a bit, or the dream conveniently skipped ahead as they do - a lot of people had disappeared, there were a few left...

When I woke up and thought about it, it was almost as if judgement day had passed in the dream. I couldn't decide whether it was that the evil people had been destroyed, leaving the good to inherit the earth, or if it was a christian style rapture.

Anyway, I've never had a dream like this - so full of symbolism, it was almost as if god appeared to me...but I'm not an incredibly religious person, don't go to church or study the topic other than what I stumble across online, so I dismiss that idea straight away (I guess that means I'm not a megalomaniac!). The two names that came to mind immediately after the dream are Shakti and Shiva, but maybe just because Shiva is also known as The Destroyer.

Anyone able to shed some light on this one?