Anyone else having post apocalyptic dreams?

[xultar]

I've had lots of dreams of what it seems to me are tough times after some major destructive event. In my dreams I'm doing a lot of walking. Buildings are destroyed, I'm constantly concerned about finding food, water, and getting to loved ones. There are people who are taking advantage of the situation and they are hurting people taking their supplies for their own.

The only thing that concerns me is that my dogs are not with me during this time. On Edit... I have had dreams where I was concerned about both my cats and dogs. Afraid of them getting away lost or not fed & watered.

I've been having these dreams at least once a week for about 6 months now. Anyone else having dreams of this sort?

[Wright Patman]

1. Someone named Father Andrew Wingate

has been "hearing from heaven" a lot lately. He missed his prediction on the pope, though. He didn't think JP II would die right now.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/aspie/trueorfalse/fatherwingate16032005.html

The good news for Texas haters is that much of his apocalypse will be unfolding here. I can't say we don't deserve it for what we have foisted upon the nation. Collective punishment. We'll be just like the 100,000 Iraqis mowed down so that they could experience "Operation Iraqi Freedom."

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Not recently

Recently I've been having weird dreams. Even though I'm Christian I do get some message dreams and have had a few flashes and I remember laying in bed trying to sleep and having a flash of me running somewhere and it's dark and I see buildings destroyed. I don't know if it was just a dream or what. I also had a dream once where I heard the news that NYC was bombed and destroyed. :shrug: Bush has been doing a lot of destruction so we're bound for some type of karma. Only question is when and if it's still going to happen. The thing to remember is even if you see something (or think it could be something) events can change.

[RevCheesehead]

17. just a quick comment on what you said about dreams.

Despite what others may have told you, there is nothing anti-Christian about dreams. Dreams are symbolic language which are actually beneficial to our health. If we don't dream, we die.

Throughout the Bible, dreams are one of the primary means of revelation, whereby the dreamer receives messages "from God."
Classic examples: Jacob's Ladder, Pharaoah's dream and Joseph's interpretation, and Joseph's dream (Jesus' father), warning him leave Egypt to escape the Death of the Innocents. Then there's the biggest dream/vision of all: The Revelation to John.

Morton Kelsey has written several books on dreams. A good historical perspective on Judeo/Christian dreams is found in his book "God, Dreams, and Revelation." (not about the book of Revelation, but how dreams reveal things to us.)

[jdj]

20. neither is astrology.

there is a line in the first few chapters of genesis where it says why god put the stars in the sky and the first reason they give is for "signs".

[RevCheesehead]

21. yes.

That's exactly how the "wise men from the east" found the baby Jesus. "For we have seen his star, and have come to pay him homage."

We really ARE an inclusive faith, despite what fundies think.

[thecai]

45. Signs Of The Times

Acts 2:17, "And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams", (applies to women also, I'm sure).

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Yes, and I have not awoken yet.

[seabeyond]

3. mine has been still dark, early morning

out with camp and wires around camp. planning and freeing, getting to a safety, like an underground. destroyed buildings. i have a friend that has been having consistant gathering of people, mostly children, but women children and others, getting them on planes, helping to escape

we just had another batch of them the last couples days and were talking. was like i was with the underrground getting them out of the camps and she was getting them to safety

[thecai]

47. Similar...

...I have visions similar to your dreams...

[Fridays Child]

4. I have and I just wrote an email to my best friend about it, the other day

Various "plot lines" but common to all of them are rubble-strewn ground, steel gray skies, subsistence living conditions, lots of weapons, and a sense of destruction and desolation.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Oh yes

That goes along with my previous post. I wasn't sure where I was at though. It could've been a flash of something in the middle east for all I know. :shrug: But I have had two dreams where I got news about a big event and in both dreams it dealt with NYC.

[AuntieM1957]

5. I'm been having dreams

about a elderly black woman sitting on her porch in front of a corn field. I think her name is Mother Abigail....

anyone else?

[Carolab]

14. The Stand was one of my favorite books ever.

Very prophetic, IMHO.

[enid602]

6. dreams

I think we have dreams/nightmares about those thing which cause us the most anxiety. I wouldn't put too much stock in them.

[warrior1]

7. funnel clouds

Mini tornados, late to school and am nakeed

[Andy_Stephenson]

8. Hmmmm

wish I had those kinds of dreams.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. In the past

few years I've been learning to tell the difference with my dreams. Some dreams are just our subconscious (most of the time) especially if we're thinking a lot about trouble times like now and we're all about paranoid. Every once in a while I'll get a message or a future dream. Those are a lil rare with me though.

[thecai]

48. Is It Paranoia?

I associate paranoia with fear, and I feel totally fearless. I've had visions for years, but everything happening falls right in line with prophecy in the Scriptures. In Luke 21, Jesus tells us to "fear not... but rejoice, for our redemption draws near", when we see these signs.

[Pharaoh]

9. yes we are very close now...........

http://www.operationterra.com/Articles/vision_.html

[BeHereNow]

23. That is a very strange web site...

Aliens are now coming to remove certain people?
The content of that site is very much akin to
the x-tian belief that they will be swept away in a rapture,
even though no such thing is stated in the scripture.
I do think the story line of Opterra would make a
good movie though.
LMAO...
BHN

[lumpy]

29. My alien invasion dreams

are very entertaining. I have been chased by animals in many of my dreams, by my ex, gorillas, bears, horses and a real hoot of a moose. I have dreamed several times of hauted houses, ancient cathedrals, luxury homes, opium dens, lovers, Richard Nixon, great tsunamis, tornados. Have had nightmares, sweet dreams, surreal dreams, sexual dreams... Alas, what does it all mean?

[spanone]

10. Common dream when the reThugs have White House & Congress.

[stellanoir]

15. no but

I contemplate those sorts of things in my daily reality. Yuck.

But I did have a dream about swimming in a glorious ocean last night with Jakob Dylan. WooHoo. Was fun.

[Warpy]

16. I call them "nukemares,"

and I've had them for as long as I can remember.

They come from being a little kid in the "duck and cover" days.

[htuttle]

36. Yup, ever since I was 5 years old in 1968

That's about when I figured out what a 'nuke' was.

Not all the details at that age -- just that they would destroy everything and were very, very bad.

[RevCheesehead]

18. Have you kept a Dream Journal?

Get a notebook and keep it next to your bed. When you awaken, write down your dream, it whatever way you will remember it. Don't think about it first, just write, so you can commit the memory to paper.

I kept a dream journal for a while, and it was an amazing experience for me. Now, when I go back to it, I actually remember those dreams, and with time, have had additional insights. I call this "strengthening your dream muscles."

Insight might come right away, but it also may take days, weeks, months, even years before a dream makes sense to us. It also helps to detect common patterns or themes.

[FreedomAngel82]

25. Right

I do that too. If I think the dream seems to be like a message or something I'd definietly keep it in a journal and then I can go back and see if anything resembling it happened.

[thecorster]

19. not me, but my wife

this morning she rolled over and told me that she dreamed we were on vacation in myrtle beach when airplanes began dropping biological bombs on the hotels on the beach. She said we put on gas masks to survive and were soon taken hostage by Indian terrorists. She said they had overtaken all of the east coast and we escaped and tried to run west.

pretty weird, right?

[Valerie5555]

22. Though I didn't have this sort of dream, I wonder if anyone ever had any

where they were on an airliner and *, Cheney and Jebbie all successfully rushed the flight deck with BOX CUTTERS and the dream had NOTHING whatsoever to do with the "incidents" of September 11.


On edit the airliner highjack dream I speak of did have a "September 11" like ending where the plane ends up being crashed into either one or both of the Twin Towers of New York.

[Benno]

24. tornadoes

Yes thats right, saw someone else had similar dreams. But I've definitely dreamed many times about tornadoes. Usually the setting involves me in some unfamiliar large building, apparently with no basement. And several large tornadoes are raging outside while the building is falling apart, with the surrounding landscape obliterated. Its also kind of like I'm in a 3rd person point of view for periods of the dream. Strange indeed. Another dream I've had many times is where my yard becomes a beach, and the ocean is suddenly there... this dream has tied into the tornado one before, like its a result of the tornadoes.
:shrug:
I honestly don't think they mean shit, but who knows...

[lumpy]

26. Been having such dreams for years.

Dreams can be personal expressions of frustration, desire, fears, guilt or hope. Dreams are just that, dreams. They belong only to the person doing the dreaming. Dreams can hardly be considered prescient; to believe them as 'signs of coming events' might appeal to the unstable mind.

[HeeBGBz]

27. Off and on

For years, I had nuclear war dreams. They were awful. Sometimes there would be a flash of light and then I would be trudging along with strangers all looking for someone they knew. I had one of seeing a mushroom cloud from a high rise window. I moved my "son" away from the window for fear of a new blast. Then watched as the fallout drifted down. I remarked how it looked like snow and then felt such dispair because I knew the world I loved was gone.

I've had others of destroyed cities. Walking on streets with burned out buildings. In one over 10 years ago, there had been a catastrophe and buildings and things were fallen. I handed a young boy to other helpers and told them "Take care of him. That's Swartzenneger's son." At the time, I didn't even know if Arnold had any kids. Several months after this dream, I saw a news item that announced the birth of a boy to Arnie and Maria. It creeped me out.

In another, I was riding a horse along a road. I looked up to see a wall of fire heading straight for me. The instant the fire hit me I knew I was dead but in the fire I saw buffalo running.

That's all the dreams that immediately came to mind with this thread.

[Just Me]

28. Lately, the only dreams I've had are about resolving conflict,s...

,..at my new job. I still don't feel like I've reached some kind of reconciliation. Ugh!

[solinvictus]

30. Somewhat..

I've had a series of dreams about being in close proximity to an aircraft crash. In one, my daughter and I are walking along and see an airliner flying very low, very fast, and headed in our general direction. I throw her to the ground and try to shield her as the plane's nose dug into the ground, it skidded, and then blew up.

I have had a dream that I could only interpret as being after or during some sort of internal war. My SO, dogs, and I live in our current apartment, but we have to remain armed at all times. I think we were the only ones in the building and I'd barricaded up the downstairs doors and windows. There were occasionally helicopters and APC's out and we left at night to scavenge for canned goods and military rations.

[zippy890]

31. Yes, very vivid dreams

and variations of yours, but in my dreams it is farther in the future after the destruction(I never know what exactly happened) grass is growing in the highways, and bands of people rove over the countryside. The population is diminished, and everywhere are vacant buildings.

In my dream I am always with other people, and someone in my group always needs medical care, and often we are searching buildings for medicine, sometimes trading things with other groups we encounter. There are little saplings growing in the cracks of pavement, everywhere.

Single individuals are shunned. They are considered dangerous or ill, no one travels or lives alone. In a few of my dreams I remember feeling sorry for people I see, but there is nothing I can do to help them.

I started having these dreams about a year ago, once or twice a week. It is definately in the future, there is no actual violence in the dream, but I know I have survived something catastrophic. I don't recognize the people I am with in these dreams as anyone I know now.

Post apocalyse about 10 years. I wake up amazed at the resilience of the human race, and of nature.

[sweetheart]

32. just apocalyptic ones

I can see the missile trails high in the atmosphere zooming down towards
london and the south. I feel this tremendous sadness knowing its all
over, that world of "anglo" prosperity, that the missles are like
justice of some sort, like thor's hammer.

The dreams are never "post".... so i must die rather shortly on.

The most intense dream is of seeing nuclear flashes far off to sea
off the coast (west of norway as i'm on the UK north coast), and how
everything is dying from the radiation later. In my dreams, all the
doggies die one by one and i bury them by the sea knowing my own death
is just a bit further on. My skin is black and falling off my hands,
just a matter of time.

[cmf]

33. Yes

I have always had dreams like this - where I dream of nuclear war and the aftermath. Sometimes I "die" in the first flash of light, sometimes I see what happens afterward. Often, the scenario will repeat over and over in one night. Kind of like a really shitty Groundhog's Day. They have been occurring much more frequently lately. In fact, I had one just last night.

[FreedomAngel82]

40. Interesting of all these nuclear dreams

I remember not long ago (about a month or so ago I'd say) I had a dream where I could tell I was in the future a few years from now. There was some kind of nuclear explosion and I was living in the south but according to the news I had gotten from broadcasting's that NYC was hit. I also remember having a dream where it was early 2008 and I was in this house I've seen me at a few times before. I was washing dishes after dinner and watching CNN (I could tell from the logo). There were three reporters talking about some big event that just had happened. I could feel myself being very worried for my family mostly (I had a daughter supposviley in this timeframe and the husband was at work). The main reporter of this story was blaming Bush (it was his fault and he just left office), another guy Clinton (go figure) and another guy Kerry. Why they'd be blaming Kerry I couldn't figure out. I didn't know what it was that happened but I sensed it was some sort of attack. I don't know from who but if one day the Iraqi's or someone else from the middle east does attack us I won't be surprised because of all of Bush's foreign policey and how they hate us even more now.

[hootinholler]

34. I haven't remembered a dream in years.

So I dont really know. I had night terrors as a child, so I think I learned to shut them out. I wish I did remember my dreams.

-Hoot

[Tux]

44. Same here

Since I was on Celexa, I can't remember dreams. However, before that, I did dream that I was taken by aliens (really humans that evolved from rapid mutations and from the future) and they were concerned about how things were. This was over 12 years ago. They claimed to be studying us for some reason. It seemed they were slightly protective. Closest I had to a nuke dream.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

35. I live on a boat in the Florida Keys and I have sweet dreams

almost all of the time. But we have very few cloudy depressing days weather wise. I wonder whether folks who live in areas that lack a lot of sunshine have more bad dreams, as there is a relationship to depression and the weather.

[Gusto md]

37. I have had a dream recently which may or may not be good news....

I had a dream I was sitting in my lounge room watching tv and a news piece on the US elections were on (I live in Australia).

I think it was 2008, and they congratulated someone called Convers or Conyers on winning the presidency. Is this a good thing or bad thing? Can anyone tell me if this could be at all possible? (I mean if this person could be in the running for the job and actually have a chance of winning)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

38. Representative John Conyers...

Elderly African American politician, very dignified, very actively involved in the 2004 election in respect to election fraud. Haven't heard that he has any interest in the Presidency. I would say doubtful. But who knows? Otherwise I can't think of anyone with a similar name.

[FreedomAngel82]

41. Conyers

is a democratic house of reps guy who is working on election reform now. You can see his website at johnconyers.com

[yodermon]

39. Tornadoes,

Tornadoes, tornadoes. Everywhere. Always approaching, but they never reach me.

[Occulus]

42. I'm in another room, and

three or four of my friends are out in the living room. The apartment we're in is sort of dumpy, with a very odd floor plan- the living room has a door that leads out onto a steel deck with a fire escape overlooking a downtown, or perhaps outer district, street. There's a hallway off one corner of the living room leading to first two bedrooms and then the kitchen (I don't know how I know that, because the bedrooms and kitchen haven't appeared in this dream, and I've had it in this sequence of events twice now, but somehow, I know that's the layout).

I walk into the living room and a missile hits the deck, blowing out most of the long front wall and killing everyone in the room but me. I do my best to get to the fire escape and somehow make it down into the street; it is clear the city is under attack by a military force of some sort. Several more missiles cross my view as I make my way down to the pavement below.

Cautiously, I venture out into the shadows toward the end of the street, my goal to get away as fast as possible. Just before I disappear from sight into the darkness, I see a throng of people shambling toward me, arms at their sides, moaning. I know zombies as the movies show them do not truly exist, but that's the only word my shaken mind can come up with when I see them.

Without warning, a van batters through the shuffling crowd and pulls up beside me. I see it looks vaguely like the "Mystery Machine" from Scooby Doo, in both color and shape, but what hold my eyes are people: safe, normal people, about ten of them, piled into the van.

The side door opens. "Get in," a woman says as she offers me her hand.

<<jump>>

I'm in a sportscar, at night, driving along a road. I know there may be a checkpoint up ahead of me, and my aim is to ram through it as fast as possible.

That doesn't turn out to be so easy.

There are several Cars of Authority blocking the road up ahead, and I am forced off the road into the pasture to one side. Bumpity-bump, and around, and I'm back on the road, but I didn't see the curve the roadblock was hiding. I plow over it and through some sort of fruitstand.

Then I woke up. Both times.

:wtf:

[merh]

43. Not until I read this thread.

Now I am haunted by the possibilities.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1726902

[Citizen Suspect]

46. Every death is an Apocalypse...

...of one. The end of all things is a powerful, archetypal scenario because it applies to each and every one of us.

We tend to view history as having a kind of magical, quasi-conscioussness when it's merely an attempt to keep track of things. Deep down, we all understand that when we die, that's it. There's no knowing anymore. We won't get to see how it all wraps up.

And even though we don't walk around thinking about it all the time, this innate understanding creeps into our dreams and nightmares, manifesting as visions of global Armageddon. Because when we die, everyone and everything we know dies. The universe dies.

My 2 cents, anyway.