Dream..
It's been awhile since I've had an apocolyptic dream...
I was somewhere that wasn't earth, and I don't exactly think it was another planet....the best way I can think of to describe it was as stopping place between worlds. There were hundreds of people there.. A few I knew from grade/middle/high school, the rest were just random people my mind made up.
The people were all on a beach that stretched back towards land for about a mile, it was set up something like a refugee camp. the land stretched on for about another mile before slowly going up about half a mile in a grassy/meadow/plains type setting before becoming a wall of cliffs. The land in between, some of it was nice, it had buildings in good repair, but others had been destroyed by something and were half falling apart. The stores in that area still had their wares, it was just as if someone had left in a big hurry.
I had a sketch book and pencils and was wandering around on the plains area up against the cliffs. I was mapping things. Some man was following me around, picking me flowers and flirting with me. I was mostly ignoring him, commenting only out of courtesy. Another man came up and asked me how it was going. I said it was going fine, though it would be easier with a plane. I shrugged, he didn't comment.
The second man left and then I decided to head back into the 'town' because not a lot was happening. The man flirting with me was saying it was too bad the flowers would die quickly because they had no vase. I was just tired of listening to him so I led him to a shop. It was one of the falling in ones. I commented to myself that I hadn't been there in a quite awhile and how sad it was that things had come to this. The man just gave me a strange look. I headed to the back of the store and picked through broken glass til I found a vase that was still in one piece. The man smiled largely, then left to go somewhere.
I walked back to the camp and dropped some things in between Reed (from school) and some miscellaneous other people from school. I sat for awhile, but there was nothing to do, so I asked Reed if he would want to go back out with me. He said he would. We went back up towards the cliffs and I was mapping things again. Towards night we headed back down. We met the flirting man on the road. He was sulking something horrible and getting rather angry about me being with another man. I told him off and told him he wasn't helping me any and to stay out of my way from now on. He didn't fight me on it, but left.
*time lapse*
I was showing some men a tunnel through the caves. We went through, it took quite awhile, but the other end came out in the 'world' we were looking for. We all stood in the entrance. It was night in the other world. You could see gigantic things moving, that were glowing in the dark. They were bugs. Huge bugs. Through the ambient light of something, a short distance away you could see two sky scrapers surrounded by smaller buildings on an otherwise vacant plain. One of the men started talking about a plan to get the people from the beach there. They started arguing amongst themselves about how it would be done and how they would need to prepare food supplies, so on, so on.
*time lapse*
It was night in the new world. The lightest it ever got was the half light you see at dawn. There were semi translucent crates all around. They didn't have wheels, but just sort of moved by themselves. It was how the people were being transported. They came in groups. They would cluster at the opening of the cave, and then when the bugs seemed to disperse for awhile, a group would go across to the buildings. No one went in the skyscrapers, just some of the smaller buildings around.
I stood at the edge of the buildings and watched the plains. A group of the crates had stopped and you could see one of the glowing bugs (by huge, I mean about 10' tall, and it looked like a maggot). It was attacking the crates and there were people outside (who went across with the crates) fighting them with these swords that were also glowing. I wore one at my waist. The bug killed all of the people outside the crates who were fighting. It was then trying to get into the crates to kill the people in them. I ran across the plane while people in back of me were shouting at me to stop, but I ignored them. They followed me. Somehow I managed to kill the bug, then let the people out of the crates and helped them across the plain by foot. One little girl I picked up and carried across myself.
Once all the people were across food was rationed out. I was just wandering amongst them. I went back outside and looked up. There were people in the skyscraper above me. Somehow they had gotten the lights on. I got very angry and started yelling for people to get them out of there. I was also yelling about the bugs would come to the light and the defenses needed to be back up before the lights came on.
There was more to the dream, but I don't know how to put it into words. The people were starting to get angry and wanting to revolt, or go back to the other place... I don't think much really happened.
I was somewhere that wasn't earth, and I don't exactly think it was another planet....the best way I can think of to describe it was as stopping place between worlds. There were hundreds of people there.. A few I knew from grade/middle/high school, the rest were just random people my mind made up.
The people were all on a beach that stretched back towards land for about a mile, it was set up something like a refugee camp. the land stretched on for about another mile before slowly going up about half a mile in a grassy/meadow/plains type setting before becoming a wall of cliffs. The land in between, some of it was nice, it had buildings in good repair, but others had been destroyed by something and were half falling apart. The stores in that area still had their wares, it was just as if someone had left in a big hurry.
I had a sketch book and pencils and was wandering around on the plains area up against the cliffs. I was mapping things. Some man was following me around, picking me flowers and flirting with me. I was mostly ignoring him, commenting only out of courtesy. Another man came up and asked me how it was going. I said it was going fine, though it would be easier with a plane. I shrugged, he didn't comment.
The second man left and then I decided to head back into the 'town' because not a lot was happening. The man flirting with me was saying it was too bad the flowers would die quickly because they had no vase. I was just tired of listening to him so I led him to a shop. It was one of the falling in ones. I commented to myself that I hadn't been there in a quite awhile and how sad it was that things had come to this. The man just gave me a strange look. I headed to the back of the store and picked through broken glass til I found a vase that was still in one piece. The man smiled largely, then left to go somewhere.
I walked back to the camp and dropped some things in between Reed (from school) and some miscellaneous other people from school. I sat for awhile, but there was nothing to do, so I asked Reed if he would want to go back out with me. He said he would. We went back up towards the cliffs and I was mapping things again. Towards night we headed back down. We met the flirting man on the road. He was sulking something horrible and getting rather angry about me being with another man. I told him off and told him he wasn't helping me any and to stay out of my way from now on. He didn't fight me on it, but left.
*time lapse*
I was showing some men a tunnel through the caves. We went through, it took quite awhile, but the other end came out in the 'world' we were looking for. We all stood in the entrance. It was night in the other world. You could see gigantic things moving, that were glowing in the dark. They were bugs. Huge bugs. Through the ambient light of something, a short distance away you could see two sky scrapers surrounded by smaller buildings on an otherwise vacant plain. One of the men started talking about a plan to get the people from the beach there. They started arguing amongst themselves about how it would be done and how they would need to prepare food supplies, so on, so on.
*time lapse*
It was night in the new world. The lightest it ever got was the half light you see at dawn. There were semi translucent crates all around. They didn't have wheels, but just sort of moved by themselves. It was how the people were being transported. They came in groups. They would cluster at the opening of the cave, and then when the bugs seemed to disperse for awhile, a group would go across to the buildings. No one went in the skyscrapers, just some of the smaller buildings around.
I stood at the edge of the buildings and watched the plains. A group of the crates had stopped and you could see one of the glowing bugs (by huge, I mean about 10' tall, and it looked like a maggot). It was attacking the crates and there were people outside (who went across with the crates) fighting them with these swords that were also glowing. I wore one at my waist. The bug killed all of the people outside the crates who were fighting. It was then trying to get into the crates to kill the people in them. I ran across the plane while people in back of me were shouting at me to stop, but I ignored them. They followed me. Somehow I managed to kill the bug, then let the people out of the crates and helped them across the plain by foot. One little girl I picked up and carried across myself.
Once all the people were across food was rationed out. I was just wandering amongst them. I went back outside and looked up. There were people in the skyscraper above me. Somehow they had gotten the lights on. I got very angry and started yelling for people to get them out of there. I was also yelling about the bugs would come to the light and the defenses needed to be back up before the lights came on.
There was more to the dream, but I don't know how to put it into words. The people were starting to get angry and wanting to revolt, or go back to the other place... I don't think much really happened.