Okay - I had a really troubling dream last night.
Most of the details are a little fuzzy in terms of where I was and who I was with other than knowing that I was in a place I don't recognize and with people I don't recognize in my waking state.
The gist is that someone had announced that they were going to set off a nuclear weapon. And no one in my community was acting as if it was a big deal. Just going about their day-to-day lives and occasionally chatting about it as if it was something very unreal or something that would only impact other people.
And then, I looked out the door of where I was living and I could see the growing dome-like shape rushing toward me. I slammed the door closed and ran into a hallway and grabbed my daughter (who was very young in the dream but is now in her 40s).
I held her close, kissed her head and told her I loved her. And then I very deliberately made a decision to stay as conscious as possible while this devastation raced toward us. My daughter screamed, "my hair" and then it overtook us. I felt no pain, nothing, my awareness slowly faded away.
Needless to say I woke up immediately trying to catch my breath. Oddly, I wouldn't necessarily consider it a nightmare, I've had nightmares and they terrify me to the very bones.
This was troubling and disturbing but in a way reminded me of our lives right now.
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