12/22/03
Jurassic City

This is vague by now and remains only in separate little scenes, but I'll try to make the most sense of it that I can.

Somehow, for some undetermined reason, dinosaurs were again alive and living in the middle of this big city. I don't know where it was nor what had happened to make this so; I sense it was some sort of genetic/scientific thing like in Jurassic Park, only instead of being secluded on an island, the dinosaurs were among people. And yes, they had run amok. Again, I don't know how. I get the feeling a substantial percentage of the human population had been killed off already by these things, as everywhere I went I was either alone or in the company of only one or two other people, who themselves seemed to be on their own. This dream was a LOT more frightening than Jurassic Park.

Like I said, all my memories of the dream are just disconnected scenes. In one scene, I remember seeing maybe a ballpark or racetrack in the middle of the city. It was empty. I don't know what this location's significance was; maybe I was just passing it. The emptiness of the place spooked me. I hated how alone I felt.

In another scene, I stood at a gas station, I believe, and I looked way, WAY up to see a giant brontosaur-type dinosaur lumbering past behind the building, slightly to my left. The building was big and brownish and this dinosaur just went on FOREVER! I saw only its neck and head and they were so immensely HIGH! I say "brontosaur-type" as I think brontosaurs are now called apatosaurs, and this thing was so HUGE that I think it must have been a bigger relative of that species--a diplodocus? I'm rusty on my dinosaur names, sorry. ^_^; I don't remember it having that bump over its nose, but then again its head was so high up I didn't get a good look at it. All I know is it seemed so much bigger than even a dinosaur was supposed to be! What a massive creature!

I didn't see its legs, but I had the feeling that it was going to walk over the station (even though it seemed to be beside/behind it), and I started feeling anxious that it would step on me on its way through. It was a plant eater, harmless, unless you got in its way! I stood down in front of the station and glanced around, wondering which way I should go. I got an image of a giant flat dinosaur foot coming down nearby, but it might have been just my imagination as I don't remember the creature actually getting that close. I was just so panicked that I would be crushed without a thought by this thing.

The third and most substantial scene regarded myself trying to escape a tyrannosaurus rex. I think I ran into some building and met a younger (teenage?) girl along the way, but I don't remember how I interacted with her. In one part I (we?) crouched in a hallway, maybe near a vending machine or something, and for some weird reason a thought about Sarah McLachlan, the singer, passed through my head; there was no noise, but I got the feeling her song "Fallen" would be playing as a sort of weird background to this scene, and part of me thought something like, "Yeah, go figure that Sarah McLachlan music would be the backdrop for something like this!" Can't really explain that part; it was rather surreal. :/ Then I was on my own (if I'm in fact getting this right) and going through this building. I ran into a back room and started looking for places to hide. It's like the dinosaur could get in without crushing the building--like it had no roof and the tyrannosaur could just peer in--can't really explain it. Just like in Jurassic Park, I knew I had to stay VERY STILL else the dinosaur would find me--yet I wanted to make sure to conceal myself as best I could, just in case. So I found a little chair and pulled it over my back, as if that would protect me. Well, it was better than nothing.

Only somehow in this part, a little boy appeared--like maybe four years old or so--and I knew he was alone like I was (and like the girl had been). So I decided to protect him too, and maybe I put him under a chair. I think he was black, just this poor little kid. (The girl might have been a redhead but I'm not sure.) We seemed to be in some office building, or maybe it was the gas station? All dim, like the lights were off, and grayish; we were in a back office, very spare and utilitarian but also a bit messy, probably because of the dinosaur takeover. We were right near the open door which was to my left (I faced the left side of the room--it was longer on entry, front to back (where a window might have been?), than it was wide, side to side), and I urged the boy to silence as we crouched under our chairs. And then we stayed VERY STILL. I never saw the tyrannosaur itself but I knew it was near, and I stayed as still as I could when I felt its huge nostril right beside me. It snorted, and sniffed, but I knew if I remained still it would go on its way. The thing is, I seem to remember my ankle bobbing or something, but apparently the dinosaur didn't notice that, as I guess it moved on, and we were spared.

A fourth scene had me still with the boy and I was somewhere--maybe home?--and I wanted very much to take a bath. I even went into the bathroom and to the tub, but then I thought, what would happen if I got the tub all filled up, got all settled in, and then...boom...boom...boom...I noticed the water start to tremble...and a dinosaur appeared, and I was killed just like that because I couldn't go running, if I was wet and naked in the tub? I was going to put the little boy on lookout even though I was a bit anxious he'd come in and see me (yes, despite the apocalyptic nature of the dream I still had modesty!), but if I got undressed and got in I'd still be unprepared if something like the tyrannosaur showed up again. I stood agonizing over this. I really wanted a bath, but in these times, I couldn't afford to be so unprepared.

And in a fifth scene--or more like a feeling I had, as I don't have any visual memories associated with it, it could have taken place during the previous scene or the one before that--I felt relief that I had escaped the tyrannosaurus rex, but then I thought, what will I do if some VELOCIRAPTORS show up?? :( The brontosaur-type thing was nothing to fear if I stayed out of its way, and I felt I could outrun the tyrannosaur if worse came to worst, but raptors are VERY fast and unlike the tyrannosaur, they can see well (at least that's what I believed--in Jurassic Park I don't remember sitting still working on them!) and staying very still would not make them go away! Plus they attack in GROUPS! I felt suddenly terrified that, now that I had escaped the first two dinosaurs, I would only fall prey to the next. It was such an awful feeling. I finally just decided that if some raptors appeared, I would simply let them kill and eat me. There would be no way I could protect myself from them anyway. The thought of them tearing me apart was a very fearsome one. I just hoped it would be quick. :(

This dream may have been influenced by my viewing of the Discovery Channel's Dinosaur Planet: Little Das's Hunt the other night. The program featured an ancestor of the tyrannosaurus rex, a daspletosaur, stalking a maiasaur, with a resulting volcanic eruption wiping all of the involved dinosaurs out. I found that ending quite depressing, personally. o_o The program concluded like seven million years later, with a tyrannosaur stalking a descendant of the maiasaur all over again.



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