l'apocalisse II

It appears that we’re on a bus and the person in charge of the tour group asks me to help him out.  I’m with my dad, who looks tired, so I ask him to sit down and rest.  There’s a black family that was sitting in the middle of the bus, but they all seem to pass out and I attempt to get them moved.  This bus is parked directly facing the front of a nice hotel on a main street, and next to a cheaper building.

Inside the cheaper building, the group I’m with has a whole floor and I assume we’re closer to the top of this building.  High enough to need an elevator.  The person in charge asks me to start handing out 2 forms.  One is agenda of the tour, the other is a map.  I hand them all out and I see that there are rooms that young adults are going in.  These are their dorm rooms. I had been placing the forms in their rooms.  I knock on one door and the guy takes the forms from me.  I walk down the hall and a group of 3 girls are walking in to their room.  I tell them, “Hey, we just caught wind that someone is planning on bombing the ------- Hotel across the street later, so we need to evacuate.”  I hand them the forms I was passing out and say, “If you’re gonna take a shower, make sure you hurry up becos we’re leaving soon!”  I could see that they were really sweaty, like one would be after a workout.  The next door I move on to is slightly ajar and when I open it, there’s another door behind it.  I thought it was a fake door and someone yells out, “That’s the vampire’s room. Just knock to see if he’s there.”  I knock and hear him yell back in a kind, jovial voice, “Hold on a minute,” and this tall brunette appears.  He invites me in and I repeat that we’re needing to evacuate becos of the supposed bombing.  I go to hand him a form, but I realize I’ve run out. He politely refuses and asks, “How do we know it’s true?  And do you think it’s really gonna reach us? We’re on the other side of the street.”  Suddenly, the room begins to tremble and I can see that we’re slowly moving downwards, but the room is still intact.  My instinct is to try to get out through the door, but it’s too late. I turn around to vampire boy and there’s a hole where he was standing.  I call out to him and hear that he’s still arguing on whether or not it’s necessary to evacuate!  After awhile I can’t hear him anymore.  The room starts to rotate and it’s a scene straight out of Wipeout!  I steady myself between three walls as the room rotates vertically, these walls are similar to dry wall and not so harsh.  The room finally stops rotating but I’ve lost 2 walls.  The ceiling and floor sandwich me in and I tell myself that I need to stay near an opening or brace/wedge myself between the two walls in a way that will not break my bones or cause me too much pain.  I can now see that I’m sinking past all these other levels until I stop again.  It’s a brightly lit room with plastic/iron school chairs stacked, like a storage room.  It’s white and I see an opportunity to get out.  I hesitate thinking it’s not the right floor to get out on, but I notice that the room is still sinking and there’s water starting to pool.  I rush to get out and the floor keeps on sinking.  I realize I would have drowned.  

I look up and the wall between the storage room and this warehouse area has been knocked down but there’s an opening to the building, kinda like a loading dock.  The floor is filling up with water so I high tail it out of there and that’s when I remember that earlier I had stepped on something harsh that hurt my foot.  Nothing bad, but definitely annoying.  As I’m stumbling through the water trying to get out there are random shoes.  I find a not so wet area and start trying out shoes.  The first one was too small.  The last vision I had was knelt down trying on shoes on my right foot, tying the laces and looking up at the arched doorway leading to the outside with the daylight waiting for me.  It was bittersweet to know I had survived.  I had survived.  And yet I was frightened to walk into that light becos I wasn’t sure what to expect.  I was afraid.  And there was an eeriness that it might be the beginning of the Apocalypse.

Earlier in the dream, my husband and I are looking for properties.  I remember meeting a 20-something blonde guy at a hotel bar who promised to show us his father’s property.  When pulling up to the house you see a large 2-story home on a corner lot.  From the outside he shows us where the master bedroom is located and it’s gorgeous balcony.  The floor level has 2 bedrooms next to each other, but they each are 2 story and have access to their own balconies.  To the right of the house is a small driveway and a 2 car garage, and to the left of the house, under the master bedroom there’s a great deck painted brown.  I start to sand the deck and notice that the wood grain is absolutely beautiful.  There’s a camera crew filming a woman talking about how she had seen the house before, but didn’t think it was so great becos of a $30,000 price difference “but I’ll keep it on my maybe list.”  The show was Property Virgins or My First Place on HGTV.  I say to the guy showing us around, “You must have had some awesome family get-togethers out here!”  He looks at me and gives me a half grin.  He then walks us around the back of the house into a mudroom, which opens up to a galley style kitchen and breakfast nook.  We’re then greeted by his dad who is cooking up lunch and 3 excited dogs.  As we venture further into the house we see that the breakfast nook opens up to the living room.  It’s gorgeous and I get a feeling that we’re putting in an offer. 

The guy showing us around looks exactly like Alex Pettyfer from the movie Beastly. He seems very detached, quiet, with a nothing-to-lose attitude. We make small talk with him, but I don’t remember what it was about.  But in a sequence of flashes I see him at the top of a building doing a swan dive, with the building behind him bursting into puffs of gray, yellow, and orange.  As he’s falling I can see that the building is a hotel that I’m familiar with. 

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I dreamt this on August 14, 2011.  I can’t remember what happened in between the house scene and the bus scene, but like so many other dreams, it felt somewhat real.  It must have been set in a larger city with large apartment-type buildings like NYC or Chicago.  I also had an overwhelming urge to cry when I woke up, but I fought back the impulse.

l'apocalisse

OCTOBER 25, 2006 entry taken from my previous blog

I had left the house w/ intentions of getting the mail before my folks had awakened. It's early morning and the sun still hasn't come up yet. I'm jogging down Lavaca St and can see my breath materializing in front of me. As I near the lake, I notice a big group of college kids gathered outside a movies/special effects office. The bldg has a platform just outside the entrance which is composed of tall windows. That is where most of the kids are standing. There is also a blue van w/ the back doors open wide. The kids are arguing about who gets to "hide" inside the office. Apparently the kids on the platform have already staked out their territory and have no room available for the new kids. At that moment, a series of cars come racing by and turn down 1st Street towards IH 35. You can feel it coming, but you don't know what it is. It's something that strikes fear in everyone and you feel compelled to hide.

My name is Molly and one of the kids calls me over.

"If you want, you can come inside Molly. You too Brett. We saved a spot." I still haven't made it to the Post Office, but something tells me it's not important anymore. In the mix of things, I remember I never said goodbye to my folks. After all, I should've been back home by now.

"I'm sorry, we don't have anymore room," is what I hear one kid tell the group near the van. "But I have some pain pills if you need them....that's all I can offer ya'll." At that point a massive group of beings is seen heading in our direction. I can see my phone ringing and it's Dad. I play calm and tell him I’ll be home soon. "I can't talk right now, but I'll call you later. Love you."

At this point I've made my way inside with the others and have settled into a little nook under a sewing machine. It's an open room w/ sewing machines and movie props scattered everywhere. My spot is located along the southern wall closest to the lake with a window right next to me; I can see something staring at me. I don't think it can see me, so I slowly put down my phone and make sure the LCD screen is faced down as not to blink. I close my eyes and pray for a miracle, but they're here.

You can hear the terror in some of my friend's voices. They're being taken away and the most frightening thing is we don't know where. In fact, the not knowing is strong enough to drive a person insane. I can feel a being standing right over me. He says, "Look at all these heads, should we take one?" The other doesn't answer, but they decide to take a head anyway. I feel its hand hovering over my face and it quickly chooses the head to my left. I was lucky enough to have covered my torso w/ many objects that my head looked like one the props in the shop. One more prop head to the right and it would have found me.

I escape but I soon find out that this journey is just beginning. I'm lucky to have not been taken and yet I still find no comfort in this. As I make my way out of the office, I scan my surroundings looking for others. I'm alone and the quietness of the early morning, the stillness of the streets, makes me realize this is how it will end...

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I dreamt this the Sunday night I got back from Houston (22 Oct 2006). I had just gotten back from visiting Dre and this was also the day we had gone to NASA. The dream was rather long and this was the most intense scene of the whole sequence of events. I just had to get this down in writing so that I wouldn't forget. I'm pretty excited about it, but it may sound silly to you.

OK...Rewind for just a minute...Saturday evening we were sitting around watching TV before going out and we started chatting about our most frightening nightmares. I had mentioned to Dre that my most terrifying dreams always involve military takeover and seeing my family killed right in front of me. Turns out that Dre's nightmares also involve military take over.

So Fast-forward back to NASA...Well, once we were finished taking the tour, our tram cart stopped in front of 2 space shuttles. Being the flutter bug I am, I jumped off the cart and failed to listen to the guide over the intercom. Apparently, this was a "brief stop and should you decide to get off, you will need to catch a ride on the next tram in 15 mins." Dre seemed a little peeved about this being that it was cold and now we were stuck. Fortunately for us, we weren't the only idiots who had decided to jump off and explore this pit stop. Seems like our whole group was just as eager.

15 mins have come and gone and we're sitting on a bench huddled together for warmth. At this same time, the rest of our group is ever so excited about the jets turning flips and zipping through the sky. Yes, I'm amused as well, but people seem to be going out of their way to catch a glimpse of these jets. Then in the back of my mind I start to wonder, what if these were enemy planes and what would it be like to see them start picking off people? At that point I turn to Dre and bring up the whole "end-of-the-world" scenario. We start looking at our surroundings and plan out where to hide, what to do for food, and when it got right down to it Dre busted out w/ a "fend for yourself" rule. I couldn't help but think, "That's FUCKED up!" That's why I've decided to present this scenario when meeting new people. After all, I need someone reliable to get me through the Apocalypse.