Post #125692
July 25, 2018, 05:44:39 PM
I had a dream...it was the end of the world. Dark voids were appearing all over the world, almost like black holes where nothing existed anymore except an endless black void, and they were growing. As they would grow, the area around them would become more and more pixelated, until it was finally overcome by the void itself and simply ceased to exist. But they were growing slowly enough that a person could outrun it, which both gave people time to take a stab at figuring out what was going on and for a sense of doom to fall on the world.
When it started, I was vacationing with some other people from Wintreath on a small island off the northern coast of Australia...the island was maybe a quarter to a half a mile wide, just large enough to have lots of beach on all sides and a luxury house in the middle. All I remember about the house itself is that it had a small, enclosed outdoor space right in the middle of the house, with a pool, and that the walls of the enclosed space were mostly glass, so you could see into the kitchen and common areas from the pool.
It was unbelievable and surreal at first, watching news reports of growing panic all over the world from the peacefulness of a sun-drenched tropical island, but as the reports grew from fear and panic to rioting and the breakdown of social order, it became clear that this was very real. Most of the people I was with left to try to go back home and find their friends and family, so at the end the only people left on the island were me and Chanku.
I don't know what became of the people who left, as by this point it was becoming harder to have any contact with the outside world...the television could find no signal, and the phones couldn't reach anyone. There was no way of knowing what was going on except to leave the island, and for whatever reason we had already decided against that. But it ultimately didn't matter, because it didn't take long for the events of the world to reach us. At some point, the voids had started growing much faster, at least a few feet a second, and one dark and rainy morning (the first we'd had in the entire dream) we woke up to discover our island was surrounded on all sides by the encroaching void.
I don't know if we were even thinking at that point, but once we saw this we retreated back to the interior courtyard of the house, for some reason believing that a simple house could protect us from this force that had seemingly swallowed the rest of the world. Only when we got there, we discovered that another void had appeared in the pool and now filled the entire space, as if the water had been replaced with dark blankness. Essentially, the void was coming at us from the outside in and from the inside out. I remember becoming very calm and focused at this point, wondering if maybe we were the last two people left in the world. We talked briefly, and decided that there were only two choices remaining, to do nothing and drag this out as long as possible, or to accept fate and make this as short as possible, so we made a decision, hugged, and then we did it...we both simultaneously jumped into the void in the pool.
At this point the dream breaks down and isn't nearly as coherent as the earlier bits, but it wasn't the end. We woke up in a city in a renewed, revitalized world. I can't even explain what made it that way. The city was meticulously clean and I remember thinking there were quite a few white skyscrapers, but otherwise it seemed like a typical large city. I just had the sense in the dream that the world had been renewed and revitalized, and that everyone had been reunited and was happy at how things had turned out.
And that was the dream. It's a shame we don't have people who interpret dreams around...I'd be curious to know why I would vacation on a tropical island when I hate tropical weather, at least, lol.
