another apocalypse dream
I'm sure this dream was from reading Idlewild a couple weeks ago. Too similar a premise, but it was just different enough to be interesting.
This was so long and as usual I don't remember the beginning. But I had some disease. There was this group of other people around my age who also had the disease and we were all in this hospital ward. The disease was really fast onset and it was like... you just aged really fast and then died. I guess it was variable how long it took. So I'd gotten it somehow and was apparently going downhill really fast. But I just felt very tired and weak in the dream and that was it. Although at some point I was hanging out with the other kids in the ward and ran a hand through my hair and big clumps of it came out. That was fairly nauseating. At that point my doctor told me I had 63 hours to live. Pretty specific number, I know, but I do remember that specific number, so.
Then some kind of apocalypse happened. I don't really know what kind. But the hospital was thrown into chaos, and I vaguely recall running around a lot in a hospital gown, and at some point realized that far more than 63 hours had passed, and I hadn't died. And I hadn't gotten any worse. For some reason the only symptom left was this--it looked like a big cigarette burn on the inside of my arm. I remember being really excited that it was still there, for some reason. I kept expecting to die and then... not dying. And I got really excited because it meant I could see my parents again, and I couldn't wait to tell them, but then I realized I had no idea where they were, now that this apocalypse had happened, or even if THEY were alive.
But then I didn't have time to be depressed because for some reason all of us in the ward ran away and ended up in this... it was like an old camp, I guess. It was on a lake, and I'm actually thinking we had all been at this camp earlier in the dream--maybe that's where we'd gotten sick. Because we all already had rooms there with things in them. Oddly enough, I just recalled that the camp was really near where the Bruces live, and I wandered into their house at some point. It was empty. So we are in this camp place and are slowly realizing that nearly everyone else is dead except those of us who had this disease, and we're kind of thinking, you know, THIS sucks. I just remembered Jeremy Hood was there. Also Adam McCullough.
There was this one boy, very VERY blond, and tall and thin. I don't remember his name, but for some reason he sort of made himself our leader. There was some cosmic thing that happened, and it was either him, t his other boy, or this girl. They had this weird, like, psychic showdown and then the blond boy used some kind of spiritual energy to shoot both of the other people dead.
Some other stuff happened. I don't remember. More weird psychicy power stuff. Blondy was a bit of a tyrant. Then this older woman shows up, looking for Adam, and Adam's disappeared. She's his mother, and she's crying and I was trying to comfort her, saying, we don't know where he is, so he may not be dead. But then SHE dies. Meanwhile, we're all getting better. None of us are sick any more, although I remember seeing myself in a mirror at some point and I still LOOKED sick.
I don't remember a lot else. Doing some stuff on the lake--there was something weird about the lake, pollution or something. Shoot. I wish I could remember more of the pyshic stuff that went on, because it was pretty interesting. It was in general just a really interesting dream. Really coherent plot and interesting characters... another one that's really writable I think. Mostly the atmosphere. The lake/river and the emptiness of everything.
This was so long and as usual I don't remember the beginning. But I had some disease. There was this group of other people around my age who also had the disease and we were all in this hospital ward. The disease was really fast onset and it was like... you just aged really fast and then died. I guess it was variable how long it took. So I'd gotten it somehow and was apparently going downhill really fast. But I just felt very tired and weak in the dream and that was it. Although at some point I was hanging out with the other kids in the ward and ran a hand through my hair and big clumps of it came out. That was fairly nauseating. At that point my doctor told me I had 63 hours to live. Pretty specific number, I know, but I do remember that specific number, so.
Then some kind of apocalypse happened. I don't really know what kind. But the hospital was thrown into chaos, and I vaguely recall running around a lot in a hospital gown, and at some point realized that far more than 63 hours had passed, and I hadn't died. And I hadn't gotten any worse. For some reason the only symptom left was this--it looked like a big cigarette burn on the inside of my arm. I remember being really excited that it was still there, for some reason. I kept expecting to die and then... not dying. And I got really excited because it meant I could see my parents again, and I couldn't wait to tell them, but then I realized I had no idea where they were, now that this apocalypse had happened, or even if THEY were alive.
But then I didn't have time to be depressed because for some reason all of us in the ward ran away and ended up in this... it was like an old camp, I guess. It was on a lake, and I'm actually thinking we had all been at this camp earlier in the dream--maybe that's where we'd gotten sick. Because we all already had rooms there with things in them. Oddly enough, I just recalled that the camp was really near where the Bruces live, and I wandered into their house at some point. It was empty. So we are in this camp place and are slowly realizing that nearly everyone else is dead except those of us who had this disease, and we're kind of thinking, you know, THIS sucks. I just remembered Jeremy Hood was there. Also Adam McCullough.
There was this one boy, very VERY blond, and tall and thin. I don't remember his name, but for some reason he sort of made himself our leader. There was some cosmic thing that happened, and it was either him, t his other boy, or this girl. They had this weird, like, psychic showdown and then the blond boy used some kind of spiritual energy to shoot both of the other people dead.
Some other stuff happened. I don't remember. More weird psychicy power stuff. Blondy was a bit of a tyrant. Then this older woman shows up, looking for Adam, and Adam's disappeared. She's his mother, and she's crying and I was trying to comfort her, saying, we don't know where he is, so he may not be dead. But then SHE dies. Meanwhile, we're all getting better. None of us are sick any more, although I remember seeing myself in a mirror at some point and I still LOOKED sick.
I don't remember a lot else. Doing some stuff on the lake--there was something weird about the lake, pollution or something. Shoot. I wish I could remember more of the pyshic stuff that went on, because it was pretty interesting. It was in general just a really interesting dream. Really coherent plot and interesting characters... another one that's really writable I think. Mostly the atmosphere. The lake/river and the emptiness of everything.