10/03/03
Darkness On The Horizon

This dream, from my regular sleep of yesterday, was only one small part of a much bigger set of interrelated dreams, but is the only part I wished to take note of, and by now is about the only part I remember, albeit not nearly as clearly as I wish I did. :/

Basically it played out much similar to a "darkness falling" dream, but with some major differences. The beginning and end are fuzzy as it blended out of and into other dreams; I remember it picking up with me coming into the living room, or maybe I was already there. I think Dad was on the couch or at least nearby, and Ma was nearby as well. BOTH of them were home! It was daytime, perhaps early afternoon although the sunlight was all wrong. *shrug* Also, our living room seemed different; the picture window may have been three flat panels side by side rather than three panels set at angles to each other, and where the two side windows are, facing north, it was much more open and visible to the outside, like the wall wasn't there. The room seemed bigger, brighter, and more cluttered, too. Hard to describe; just bear with me.

*sigh* Anyway, we all seemed to be talking or something, when I think I might have noticed the lighting changing. I glanced out the picture window to see some heavy-duty clouds moving in on the western horizon. Now, storms often do move in out of the west here in northern Michigan, but these clouds behaved in a very bizarre fashion. For one thing, they were far off, yet close; dream incongruity. And instead of coming directly at us they seemed to just move from south to north along the western horizon, even though they WERE supposedly getting closer. :/ Confusing, yes. It was normal in the dream except in that these clouds signalled a MAJOR incoming storm and they were very dark and very FAST!

"Wow!" I exclaimed, and rushed to the window before I could miss them! Ma came up on my right and we crouched down to watch outside. It had been bright outside before, even though it appeared to be winter; the trees were bare (trees were not, however, obstructing our view as they would in real life), but it had been bright and sky blue and sunny before. That vanished literally in a matter of seconds. These rolling black clouds appeared from the south and rushed toward the north. I don't remember actually seeing the sun, but the clouds overtook SOMETHING, obliterating the light; I think there were some light clouds in the northwest, like bright yellowish/pinkish ones, and almost before you could say "Bam!" the dark brownish/blackish clouds rolled over top of them, like a bulldozer!

And the sky went black.

There was just this tiniest little trace of faint light in the northwest where the light source had been, just a little glimmering line, like the sun lighting up the lining of a cloud. "I'm glad I came out in time to see this!" I exclaimed excitedly. It had been so fast I could have easily missed it!

It gets hazy here; I think maybe my attention was distracted. I wanted to continue watching that blackness outside, but I think the clouds kept on moving and it started to grow light again. Bummer. I wanted to watch the clouds roiling but turned away and missed part of it, it was so fast. :( I then heard this tremendous BOOMKABOOM! and looked over toward the further of the north windows (the one closest to the TV in real life). Like I said, I had a very good view, like there was no wall or anything; I was looking out across a landscape that you would not see from our house. There were buildings, or something...it looked kind of like an industrial area, not at all like the country where we live. Ugly and cluttered but kind of abandoned; all in terracotta colors, with the sun shining on it from a low angle. I think there might have been a dark cloud in the very far distance, but it seemed relatively normal compared to the other ones in the west (I was now looking northeast). But as I looked, like four or so bolts of lightning FLASHED down from this cloud at once! Wow!

(Please note that in the dream, the thunder seemed to have come BEFORE the lightning; an impossibility, unless the thunder was echoing an earlier lightning blast I had missed. I get the feeling, however, that the boom I had heard coincided with the lightning bolts I then saw. *shrug*)

My eyes widened. I knew a REAL storm was on its way--four bolts of lightning at once! I think I tried to draw Ma's attention to this as I was quite impressed. It wasn't nearly as impressive as those awful black clouds in the west, though!

Those of you who've read my other "darkness falling" dreams should see where this holds the pattern (the sudden darkness, the anxiety coupled with anticipation) and where it breaks it (being in the company of family, remaining in place after the darkness retreats, thunder and lightning, being inside rather than outside). In fact, it was quite dissimilar to a "real" darkness falling dream but for the actual darkness itself; in all other such dreams I seem to experience the darkness firsthand, whereas here I was instead observing it from a safe distance. An odd difference I can't explain. :/



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