I wanted to share this dream that I wrote about a few weeks ago. It's really long but really interesting. If you are my friend on Facebook, then you've probably already read it, but if not then I hope you enjoy it!
I had the weirdest dream last night. Of course that's what I say whenever I have a weird dream, but this one was by far the weirdest. And what's even weirder is that I had a strong urge to write about it and post it here on facebook. As if someone will be able to help me interpret this?? Maybe not but...I really hope it doesn't come true. At least not in my lifetime. Now I can tell Michael that I know what it feels like to have a dream like this because he is always dreaming about this kind of stuff and I'm always at a loss for words when he explains them to me. So without further ado, let's get on with the show.
It started off with me volunteering at the local hospital, making a delivery to the first floor. I was walking down a window lined hallway looking out at the courtyard (which they don't even have at the local hospital) at an elderly patient in his wheelchair sitting at a table. He looked really old and battered like a pile of dirty rags. It reminded me of the house elf in Harry Potter named Kreacher. As I was watching him, he started making hand movements on the tabletop. I continued watching with curiosity and then I realized he was moving his hands as if to paint a picture with his fingers. Not like a kindergartener would do but like an artist would when creating a masterpiece. All of a sudden the windows disappeared and I was standing right next to him and I could see the painting come to life. It wasn't very significant or I would have remembered it more in detail, but I know it was a painting of the night sky with stars, the sun and rays of light with gigantic raindrops. Then the patient got up from his wheelchair, I complimented his work, and he approached me with a hug. It was a fairly long hug and passed the standard time for which you hug a person. Then a fellow volunteer (I don't know who she was) who was with me had to come and pull us apart. She had a look on her face as if to say "I had to step in because he might have wanted to harm you and this is what we learned in orientation". So I let go and was on my way.
We wandered over to I guess what was the nurses station. The other volunteer started conversing with the nurses and received a double task to do. I said I'll take the second part of the task which involved making a delivery to the third floor of the hospital. When I arrived at the elevators, there were a lot of people running around and I was wondering what could be going on. There were also some random people standing aroud answering everyone's questions. Then a tall, black woman (she looked like Beth from season 6 of HGTV's Design Star) emerged from behind the elevators and told the officials that they (the hospital) locked the back elevators on purpose because they (the hospital) didn't want the black people to use them to get out. Then I looked around and saw another woman asking how to get to the fifth floor. (There is no fifth floor in this hospital!) The woman she asked pointed her in the direction of the professional buildings of the hospital and told her it's through there when in actuality she was pionting to another elevator which exits out of the building.
Now this is where it gets really gnarly. When the doors to the elevator opened, it no longer revealed a square box to take you to a different floor but it revealed a human sized chute that would vacuum you up and eject you from the building. I looked around quickly and realized that I need to get out. I ran down the hallway towards the elevator to the "fifth floor" and saw that the chute had some type of radiator that you could risk getting caught in and dying instead of escaping. The tall black woman realized what was going on and she took an iron rod and smashed the wall which revealed another chute that took you out of the hospital. I evaluated about 3 chutes and finally found one that looked safe enough (without a radiator) to escape. I looked at someone in front of me go first. It was like he knew what to do. It reminded me of the floo network of fireplaces in the Ministry of Magic in the Harry Potter movies. Without hesitation I ran towards the chute and as soon as I reached the opening, I was sucked up into the giant sized vacuum. I remember drifting upwards for quite some time. I tried looking above me to see how long I would be travelling up, but I couldn't open my eyes since there was a lot of wind and it kept them closed. After about two to three minutes of travelling, I finally exited the chute. What came next was like something out of a science fiction film.
I landed on something that looked like a cushion but was hard like metal, felt like suede, and it was a purplish pinkish color. The cushion was part of many different cushions in all shapes and sizes floating in mid air. It was part of a warehouse like room that was very dark but we were able to see what was going on around us. There were several other people on the cushion who had escaped before me and the man that had got sucked up before me announced that an asian person needs to find a particular person (whom I forgot the name of but it's not important) and bring him here. I paid no attention to this request and tried to get down from where I was. Then I realized I could jump from cushion to cushion and started jumping everywhere until I reached what I thought was the edge of the warehouse. We were all in a gigantic aircraft hovering in space! I saw the entire earth below me covered with water. The Capitol Building in Washington D.C. was surrouded by a body of water, New York City and all of it's characteristic buildings were covered up to the rooftops with water, the White House was also covered with water. The world had finally come to an end.
Looking back now I saw that no one was in a state of terror. I continued jumping everywhere and landed on the buildings protruding from the worldwide ocean. Everyone was jumping out of the aircraft and jumping down to Earth to explore. It was like a video game. You have to keep jumping and landing on buildings and structures, if you touch the water you instantly sink and die. I managed to bounce all the way around the world (which wasn't as big as it is in real life). I remember seeing a college campus that I think was Harvard. I saw little cartoon characters like the ones you see in video games trying to save themselves from the water. It was funny to look at but now that I'm thinking about it, it sounds sad. The rest of the dream was fuzzy. I know that I ended up on the rooftop of my house and that I was going to spend the night there all by myself with no fears whatsoever.
When I woke up I was in a moment of bliss where I realized the world had not yet ended and I was safe in my bed in my room. I still feel really indifferent about the dream because it's not like I was panicking or scared throughout it, I was calm and happy and thinking "This is so cool"! And I don't know what the first part about the old man was about but I know it was part of the dream and my dreams are random like that. Aren't they all? There was no one in the dream that I know which was odd because I usually dream about people I know. I don't know what made me write this but I feel like this dream needs to be remembered because I've never had an "end of the world" dream before. Michael Spencer, you are rubbing off on me too much!
