All right! I just joined here a few days ago and thought I would put down some of my more interesting dreams for the enjoyment of all! I will not necessarily put up dreams in chronological order. Oh, yeah, I have gotten in the habit of writing my dreams in the present tense; it helps me when I try to better remember the dream later. Okee dokey, here we go (said in Hannibal Lecter's voice):


"The End of It All" -- May 29, 2004

Whoa. Plot- and detail-oriented dream. Some details are foggy, but not the important ones. A group of four or six people are kidnapped, I think, and taken to a lab on an upper floor of a tall building. At the lab there is some kind of experiment involving wormholes and travel. The experiment is spiraling out of control and they are supposed to stop it. I am not a member of the group as far as I can remember, but rather I am an observer, just a viewpoint. The group are now in a small control room with banks of control panels on every wall; modern day control panels with buttons and knobs, not futuristic touchpad panels.

The wormhole generator is in a room next to them, just on the other side of one of the walls. Every few minutes the reactor builds up to an energy overload and discharges. Each discharge is more powerful than the last. Each time there is a loud power buildup sound, and the building begins to tremble, then the reactor discharges. There is a burst of light, and time seems to slow down and stretch out. After a burst or two, the next one grows powerful enough to blow out part of the wall, revealing the generator room. The room itself is hard to remember, but the generator is a blue, spinning ball maybe three or four feet in diameter, with mechanical detail in its surface (patterns of lines, ridges and grooves.)

All this time, the people are trying to shut it down, frantically working with the controls. I get a vague impression of what some of the people are doing at the controls, as if the actual functioning systems of the reactor are visualized in my dream and I'm seeing how they are trying to shut it down, not just watching them push buttons. There are a few more energy overloads, then a cloudy swirl of energy emerges from the shpere as it spins faster and faster. Now, each time it discharges, all space around it distorts, bending inward toward the sphere. Each time, someone is pulled into the wormhole, and disappears. There is a brief scene with one person holding another by the hands, desperately trying to keep them from getting pulled in by the massive gravitational forces. I don't remember if he succeeds.

A slow motion scene. One person, perhaps the group leader, slowly turns and looks right at my vantage point, staring at a warning on a screen. I am now outside, looking at the lab building and the surroundong buildings. The landscape and mountains behind the buildings are red, the sky is black. The tallest building distorts, swells at the top, and starts melting down like a candle. As the effect reaches the level of the tops of the other buildings, they follow suit, with the bottoms of the buildings melting up, including the lab building. They collapse into a sphere maybe thirty feet across, where the lab had been. The sphere looks like it has a pixelated texture of the building surface and windows on it, like in a game or a cheap CG sequence. The sphere holds for around a second and a half.

A flash, and dark nothingness expands outward from the sphere, almost instantly fast. Then, for a second, I see the whole universe, or at least a view of a starry expanse with the Earth visible at an extreme distance. I watch the blackness consume it all. It takes no more than a second to reach me. There is a rushing sound, which is instantly and completely cut off as the nothingness consumes me.

And there is nothing. At all. No light, no sound, not even the ringing you get in your ears when everything is totally quiet. Even my own mind completely stops. No senses, no feelings, no thoughts, no fear. I'm not just sitting in blackness going "hmmm, this is interesting," I am just not there. There is no awareness. (Now, I realize my mind can't just cease to be, and was therefore still there, experiancing the nothingness, but I do think my mind was in a completely frozen state, as required by the dream, unable to respond even by perceiving the experiance. I think this event was in and of itself shocking enough to wake me up, because the next part was more like a daydream passing out of my head as I rose toward full consiousness.)

The blackness ends, and I am aware again. I get the impression that the nothingness has lasted for maybe five seconds. I see black space with only one star in it and a faint nebulous haze on my left. I hear some quick narration about how the universe is gone and all that is left are two sides of- (something? I don't remember. Earth, perhaps? Or maybe all that was left was two sides, period), and a single dim star. I am fading into wakefulness, but not there yet, I feel relief that I still exist. As I wake up more fully, I realize the star I see is actually the light on my ceiling smoke detector, and the nebulous haze is actually dim moonlight coming from my window to the left.

Once again, whoa.