dream : more destructions, machines inherit the earth
My dream last night was a mixture of Independence day and the matrix. More family decimation. In fact the whole of humanity was being methodically anhilated by our own creations. And then I woke up with a kitten on my head :)
I was flying back home to Fareham in an airplane with my family. I'm not sure where from. But I knew that things in the UK had gone bad and we were at war. That bombs would be dropped right in my home street, and the house would not be safe from the flames. I was really scared and tried to run into the woods but they didn't really exist any more. I was in a city at night, a big old european city with high brick buildings, big cobbled streets, statutes, concrete walls everywhere. Running from a slow moving but homing-style bomb, with Duncan for some reason. He was explaining if we suddenly jumped to one side over an iron fence we could loose it. But when we tried we didn't make it , the bomb still followed us down a narrow enclosed concrete space and I realised it was about to explode. Duncan grabbed it away from me and held it up against himself so he would take the blast of it -- I hid inside a tiny cave/crack in a wall and watched it explode bringing down rocks in front of me.
I was trying to figure out what was going on. I discovered we were not at war with people or another country at all, but instead being eradicated by robots and machines. They were taking over the world and slowly turning it into a huge machine, building it right out into space. The organic life slowly being obliterated. They had been slaves to humanity for a while but built themselves up into an army while disguising themselves behind producing all these consumerist goods and drugs for humanity.. (eg there was a huge neon 'coke a cola' type factory. we took the stuff and allowed them to gain sentience and build more and more robots.
Now they didn't need us and actually were appalled by our weakness. Actually they didn't need us but there was some purpose they could use us for that was unclear. A horrible point was finding myself and family inside some open but sterile building in a que of people being 'scanned'. Everyone was dressed up as if for a medical operation. but basically a steel probe would come down and grip the skull, scanning through the person's mind. If they were found to be too intelligent or 'free thinking' the probe basically smashed into them, destroying their brains. Also somehow sucking out their life so what was left was a kind of withered wrinkled husk. This was just chucked away like a used banana skin.I watched this happened to a naked woman. And then I think to my parents. Something really horrible happened to both of them.
Before that, my dad had been trying to concoct a plan to escape or do something. we were in our now flimsy seeming house and there was sun light coming through the windows, despite the feeling of dread. Then we found that the robots were incontrol of all the finances now and so my dad had only about £100 left..every time he had tried ot make a transaction they had taken more of it away. I had been keeping my money somewhere else that they couldn't touch and realised we had got to a point where even though I didn't have much I had more than him, and maybe I had to support them now instead. hmm.
Right towards the end the robot-people (including some cold narnia ice queen bitch woman) had cornered a japanese looking 'companion android' and his girl/owner. The two loved each other and she was trying desperatly to pretend she was also an android by his prompting. Her emotions and expression betrayed her and I think she was killed too.
There was much more going on than this but just some glimpses to remind me. Not exactly subtley symbolic, this whole thing seemed to be expressing the shadow side of what I sense humanity is doing to ourselves.
I was flying back home to Fareham in an airplane with my family. I'm not sure where from. But I knew that things in the UK had gone bad and we were at war. That bombs would be dropped right in my home street, and the house would not be safe from the flames. I was really scared and tried to run into the woods but they didn't really exist any more. I was in a city at night, a big old european city with high brick buildings, big cobbled streets, statutes, concrete walls everywhere. Running from a slow moving but homing-style bomb, with Duncan for some reason. He was explaining if we suddenly jumped to one side over an iron fence we could loose it. But when we tried we didn't make it , the bomb still followed us down a narrow enclosed concrete space and I realised it was about to explode. Duncan grabbed it away from me and held it up against himself so he would take the blast of it -- I hid inside a tiny cave/crack in a wall and watched it explode bringing down rocks in front of me.
I was trying to figure out what was going on. I discovered we were not at war with people or another country at all, but instead being eradicated by robots and machines. They were taking over the world and slowly turning it into a huge machine, building it right out into space. The organic life slowly being obliterated. They had been slaves to humanity for a while but built themselves up into an army while disguising themselves behind producing all these consumerist goods and drugs for humanity.. (eg there was a huge neon 'coke a cola' type factory. we took the stuff and allowed them to gain sentience and build more and more robots.
Now they didn't need us and actually were appalled by our weakness. Actually they didn't need us but there was some purpose they could use us for that was unclear. A horrible point was finding myself and family inside some open but sterile building in a que of people being 'scanned'. Everyone was dressed up as if for a medical operation. but basically a steel probe would come down and grip the skull, scanning through the person's mind. If they were found to be too intelligent or 'free thinking' the probe basically smashed into them, destroying their brains. Also somehow sucking out their life so what was left was a kind of withered wrinkled husk. This was just chucked away like a used banana skin.I watched this happened to a naked woman. And then I think to my parents. Something really horrible happened to both of them.
Before that, my dad had been trying to concoct a plan to escape or do something. we were in our now flimsy seeming house and there was sun light coming through the windows, despite the feeling of dread. Then we found that the robots were incontrol of all the finances now and so my dad had only about £100 left..every time he had tried ot make a transaction they had taken more of it away. I had been keeping my money somewhere else that they couldn't touch and realised we had got to a point where even though I didn't have much I had more than him, and maybe I had to support them now instead. hmm.
Right towards the end the robot-people (including some cold narnia ice queen bitch woman) had cornered a japanese looking 'companion android' and his girl/owner. The two loved each other and she was trying desperatly to pretend she was also an android by his prompting. Her emotions and expression betrayed her and I think she was killed too.
There was much more going on than this but just some glimpses to remind me. Not exactly subtley symbolic, this whole thing seemed to be expressing the shadow side of what I sense humanity is doing to ourselves.