Friends dream

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OK, someone please give me some opinions on this.

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last night i dreamt that the weather on earth had become totally unpredictable, sort of like the way it was in The Day After Tomorrow (and no i havent watched this movie in AGES). In my dream it had been grey out with no sun for months. and then the rain started. however, the rain would quickly change to snow, and then back to rain. there was flooding and terrible snow storms followed by thrashing winds that blew out windows, and whirlpools in buildings where the water had accumulated past the first floor.

what was most distressing about the dream was that my brother had made some sort of time machine, and he had devised a plan that a few select people from the community would get into the time machine and go forward in time a few years to see if there was any hope for us. The time machine was made out of one of our big red church vans, and could only hold so many people. He of course wanted to take his kids, and his sisters and brothers and their kids. We tried to get my mom to come, but she said she had to go to work and stay. I called marvin to ask him to come, and he laughed and said that we were crazy.

In the short period of time of making the phone calls, the clouds began lowering, so much so that i could have put my hand out my window and pushed my fingers into them. But as i watched, the clouds turned to snow and just dropped. They began absorbing the flood waters, but as they did, the snow grew, like a sponge. and soon people were digging through it or climbing out of the second floor windows of their houses to walk on the snow.

People were bundled in clothes, and carrying or dragging kids behind them on makeshift sheds. Each time the weather would change, they would hope to take shelter in some kind person's home. My house had become home to people I didnt know. who sat downstairs playing cards, huddled under coats ad blankets they had brought with them, listening for my heater, hoping it would come on and stay on, fearing that the oil would run out.

The weird thing about this dream is that each time i looked out my window, I was looking out the window of a different house. Sometimes i was looking out the window of the house that I live in now (Pine St). Other times a house that i lived in with my grandmother for a short while at the age of 12 (Jefferson St). Sometimes, the house I grew up in (Delaware St). and depending on what house i was looking out of, decided what the weather was, or would change to. When i looked out the window of the Jefferson St. house, there was snow, and people walking on top of the snow, but the back yard had been cleared and had become some sort of market place. People were coming with their last paychecks, signing them over for food and warm clothes. I saw some of the girls from the youth praise dance team, and the woman who teaches Bible study on wednesday night. The mothers of the girls from the dance team had heard about the time machine, and asked me to take their girls with them. They had cashed in their paychecks, and emptied out their savings accounts and was giving me the money to take with us, just in case their was a future after the weird weather. But they wouldn't go. They opted to stay with the bible study teacher.

back in my house, i began packing, trying to decide what i should take.. or what i shouldnt. I cried over and over because i couldn't convince marvin or my mom to go. So while my brother was trying to get us all into the time machine, I was trying to gather pictures to take with me, so I wouldn't forget people, and trying to stall to see if by some miracle either my mom or marvin would show up. as we were getting into the time machine, i was inconsolable, and begging the women from church to please check in on my mom and grandmother, and to make sure that they were ok.
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Please let me know what you think.