SCI-FI ADVENTURE

Last night’s dream was a science fiction/horror epic!  I hope I can capture it here:

I’m camping in a cabin – the grounds look very much like Mansfield Camping Site, where WiccanFest is held.  There is a young man who is camping next to me and we become friends.  More than friends, actually, there seems to be a huge connection between us, but nothing romantic.  We spend a lot of time talking, exploring metaphysical mysteries, and in this way discover that something very bad is happening.  Whatever this “bad” is still remains to be seen, but we’re both getting visions of a man and a woman.

From the outside, they look like a normal couple, but the more we examine these visions, the more we see beyond the “normal”, since they now exhibit bright blue spiky hair and glowing eyes.  They’re always together arm in arm and they’re always laughing – but nothing they say is really funny.  In fact it’s very hurtful.

Suddenly, I look up and see a huge moose coming towards us. There’s something about it that reminds me of the Man/Woman duo.  We get up and back away, and now see another moose coming to join the first.  Before it can get to us, however, another man, a fellow-camper, runs up to it and stabs it deeply in the left eye with a sharp stick.  It’s horrible to watch it writhe in agony, but we’re happy to see it die.  The first animal also starts to react with bucking and bellowing, until both of them lie still.  Someone in the background announces that there will be moose steaks for supper this night, but we all nix the idea, saying that we don’t know how deeply this bad energy runs through the animals.  We decide to cremate them instead.

While the fire roars skyward, my companion and I suddenly see something behind the flames, and go to investigate.  It’s like a portal, and on the other side we see a  dark urban landscape.  We step through this portal and find ourselves on an empty street.  Above us are tall skyscrapers as far as the eye can see.  As we walk towards a dimly lit intersection, we see the Man and Woman coming towards us.  They’re laughing and joking, still arm in arm, and I suddenly recognize the influence that brought them to life – they look very much like a couple of characters from the upcoming movie, “The Hunger Games”.  But there really is nothing funny about them; they’re more like caricatures, or malevolent spirits that have taken on human forms.  I name them, “The Mad Couple”.

My companion and I run the other way.  The streets have no one else on them, and although we run, The Mad Couple behind us are strolling leisurely, but are always the same distance away from us.  We cannot outrun them.  As we turn another corner, we see yet another portal and jump right through it.  Immediately, we are immersed in a raging blizzard of ice and snow.  We find ourselves standing on a subway or train platform that is packed full of people.  It is so crowded that we can barely move.  I feel the platform shift beneath us, and we all are pitched forward.  It’s obvious that it broke from the weight of all the people and the ice that has piled up on us all. 

Slipping and sliding to the empty platform facing us, my companion and I finally make it to relative safety.  We do not see the Mad Couple any more, but know they will eventually find us.  As we scramble through the treacherous blizzard and footing, we find a covered tunnel, and as soon as we enter it, we emerge back at the camp grounds.

The carcasses are burned to ash, and it is now night time.  A few people see us emerge out of nowhere, and although they are startled, they listen to our story with open minds, and then run to gather everyone together again.  Another fire is built and we begin to sing “We All Come from the Goddess” as we join hands. 

Sure enough, The Mad Couple emerges not too long afterwards, but their smiles become frozen as they encounter a large body of people all singing Goddess Praise.  The way behind them closes and they become trapped.  Softly, someone begins to laugh, and we all take up that joyful sound, until everyone around the fire is laughing, hugging, loving, and totally ignoring the strangers, who now just diminish and fade into nothingness.