I have dreamt of the apocalypse on two separate occasions within this year. Both of these were very profound, and immediately after waking I remembered almost every detail. Here is what’s left of these details:
1. I was in Socials Studies class, and I was doing test which I came late to. There were only two questions, the first one being to “Analyze the following text”. I don’t recall there being a picture accompanying this test. The sentences were very Thomas Pynchon-esque (a month before this incident, I tried to read the first chapter of Gravity’s Rainbow), shockingly unlike the poetry or stories I usually write. I almost wish I could go back and retain these sentences just to see if I could write a book out of this dream. “They were a very advanced species… mustang” is pretty much I can remember. It was probably not like that at all. But as I read through this difficult passage, I started, in my dream, to imagine the pictures it described. I see, in my own dreamagination, the Earth being slowly engulfed by water. Only a few round patches of land remained, and then my imagination was zoomed into one of these patches North of East (I wagered it was Europe or something) and a pair of highly-advanced monkeys dressed in Star Trek or some other kind of Space uniform approached two men. One of the men asked “Why are you doing this?”, since obviously, monkeys as we know do not swim and shouldn’t have the intention of killing off everything (including their friendly uncles) in their home planet. In short, the PASSAGE (or my imagination) WAS VIVIDLY DESCRIBING ADVANCED MONKEYS IMMERSING THE ENTIRE EARTH IN H2O.
2. Now, this dream I had this just this morning. I dreamt parts of it just before the alarm clock rang and I just kept pressing the snooze button. But the dream proceeded with frightening continuity. I was in my house and talking to people on MSN. Apparently, if we were in really a really hot weather or something, caused by global warming or something the earth would go supernova. That’s what my dreamagination visualized. A red Earth blowing up from within. Can you imagine what would happen if the weather was really cold? There were words being tossed around, like Reflection and Refraction in the news on the internet and on TV. But I knew they meant explosion and implosion.
So it was pretty dark outside and a visitor has come to our house and sat in the living room. He had a weird moustache and wore a grey suit. He was a little chubby, and I took no notice of him at first. I was repeatedly telling my dad not to cook. If he cooked at a temperature too high the entire Earth would implode! My dad didn’t believe it, so the man, or maybe my dad himself (isn’t that bizarre?) opened the door to reveal a snow storm, which blew inside the house. It didn’t blow in STRAIGHT. It refracted at an angle. The man (or my dad) informed the camera (my scope of vision) that if the whether refracts, it means the world will collapse in itself. So now my dad was carefully adjusting the dials to the oven or cooker. I couldn’t watch (because it was as if the fate of all living things on earth’s lives were in his hands). I went upstairs and the man in the grey suit WAS LOOKING AT MY CONVERSATIONS I was having with others. I was pretty angry. I don’t really know what happened next, but I know I saw, repeatedly the image of the world imploding on itself. It was like there was a small black whole sucking the whole Earth in, making it look like a custard being sucked into a tiny vacuum cleaner. And then I was again reminded of the supernova explosion, but I knew what the “actually happened”. Somehow, implosions were so much worse. It looked so grotesque, as if our faces, just like Earth, were melting into itself, slowly being drawn inward. Realistically, if the world actually ended, I wouldn’t be able to see the Earth imploding. When I woke up, I felt afraid to jump take heavy strides.
The reason I think I had this dream was because I was about to do a Physics final, which I have just completed. I don’t think I did very well at all.
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