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Posted: 07-02-2012 13:52 Post subject:

I used to have frequent nuclear war dreams in the 80s. I always dreamt that a bomb was being dropped on London and I had to flee to Scotland to be safe. Obviously I hadn't heard about Faslane Naval Base at the time which would have been a prime target and right near where I would have been running to.

Later those dreams faded and I got Predator (from the film) dreams. I used lucid dreaming techniques to stop those. Eventually I fought back against the Predator and even defeated it.

More recently I have had a lot of zombie dreams and I stopped those by refusing to read or watch another zombie related film or book again.

I am clearly quite strongly influenced by the fiction I consume!

Posted: 16-02-2012 16:53 Post subject:

I've had weird dreams along the lines of the ones on this thread.

Ones where I've left a bar (I think it was my old university students union), looked up and there was this big earth-like planet in the sky. It looked big but there was no fear of it colliding / any gravitational effects. Almost like when the moon is low and looks huge, except it was directly up in the sky.

A couple where it's been nighttime, again going to/from a night out (a recurring theme it seems despite me hardly ever going out these days!), however the night is as bright as day! Again, no fear, in fact some relief as the light feels safer than the "old" days of dark nights. (I know it sounds like the ending of 2010 but I haven't seen it in years).

Another recurring dream is that I am flying in an aircraft, but in front of the cabin is a big window / screen where we can see where we are flying like a big windscreen. The plane always flies low.

Posted: 02-06-2012 09:51 Post subject:

I've only dreamt end of the world stuff once (as far as I can remember) and it was flooding as well - must be a regular feature in the old collective unconscious! I remember climbing a very very high wall in the pouring rain with my youngest sister and then both of us turning round to help my middle sister up (we are both estranged from her). Then we watched the water rising higher and I could here the sounds of disaster all round me - creepy and scary!! Shocked

Posted: 02-06-2012 17:45 Post subject:

In contrast, my dream last night had Alexander Armstrong crusading to save the world in a red and yellow airship. Glad someone's on our side. More dreams like that, please (not necessarily with Mr Armstrong, dunno why it was him specifically).

Posted: 02-06-2012 17:51 Post subject:

Posted: 27-08-2013 19:54 Post subject:

Back in the 1980s, I also had a dream about an impending nuclear war. I was in a crowd of people and we had all been taken to a military base. The people were starting to panic and were running around. They couldn't get out easily because of the tall wire fences and the lack of vehicles. I guessed that a nuclear strike was coming. The clouds were dark and ominous. It was a bit reminiscent of the opening chapters of 'The Day of the Triffids' only there were no triffids and there was no blindness, just a terrified crowd and a sense of doom. Strangely, in the middle of the crowd, I saw a weird dog. It was like a dalmatian only it had a smaller head and the spots were red, not black. No one else paid attention to it. I thought that it was an extraterrestrial being.

If there are extraterrestrials visiting the Earth, perhaps they will use their superior technology to prevent any nuclear armageddon?

Posted: 28-08-2013 17:48 Post subject:

A tenuous link, but...... Over the years I have had countless dreams in which dogs feature.. Not a recurring dream and not the same dog, just a dream in which a dog features. Sometimes it is benign and sometimes not. I usually just stick them in the "Oh, another dog dream" file but I have no idea what they signify (If anything) I don't own a dog, not even a dog lover particularly.

Posted: 28-08-2013 18:15 Post subject:

Posted: 29-08-2013 14:29 Post subject:

My end-of-the-world dreams frequently feature massive, multiple tornadoes descending on the city I'm in.

Posted: 29-08-2013 17:27 Post subject:

I thought I had posted my nuclear dream before but it wasn't in this thread. The raised tensions of the eighties seem to have been behind it and I can clearly picture the bedroom in which it was dreamed. Specifically the carpet in that room.

Missiles were raining down and I fell onto the floor of my room. I became aware of the stench of the carpet burning around me and realised that my hair was also burning. In an oddly detached way, I noted that my backbone was ablaze and my bone-marrow boiling out.

That was the most horrific of a series of dreams around that period. In a much more elaborate one, I was the last care-worker in an care home when a peaceful evening of sky-watching was spoiled by the arrival of the missiles. I faced the dilemma of whether to tell the residents or not. I think it concluded with me wheeling therm out onto a verandah so they could get the beauty of it hot. No point in spinning things out!

Happy days! Confused

Posted: 14-09-2013 12:14 Post subject:

I had loads of those nuclear war dreams in the 80s too. One of which was similar to a scene that later turned up in the second Terminator film, the bit where Sarah Conner's dreaming and she's watching herself in a park with her kid son and she's shouting at them to run, and then the blast happens... I had a park and nuclear bomb blast dream.

Last week I had the worst apocalyptic dream I've had in years. It was the Japan tsunami/nuclear reactor explosion all over again. I was in the middle of the water and the chaos and found my way to a sort of Central Command place, where I watched all the horror on screen and learnt it was happening all over the world. I was in pieces because I realised I couldn't get to my family. Then they told me I was radioactive and had just hours to live. I woke up crying! I had gone to bed with my share of troubles in my head, but they were all put into perspective because at least I wasn't going to die a horrible death in the next hour.

I bet humans have had End of the World dreams throughout history.

Posted: 14-09-2013 13:00 Post subject:

Posted: 29-09-2013 10:19 Post subject: End of world dreams

Hi, I often have a recurring dream (same theme but different subject matter) there are always weird lights, colours and activities in the sky, sometimes even giant spacecraft, then there are strange humanoid creatures amongst us, just suddenly, always different in appearance in different dreams but always humanoid, then it all goes wild with people running and screaming in all directions, people being attacked and killed, I am always calm in the dream and always manage to escape but the next morning I feel quite dazed by the experience, it was so vivid in my dream that it felt real at the time, I have had this dream many many times always the same dream but with different variations of creatures and events in the sky still the same outcome though, an invasion and the end of life as we know it, it always feels very real and I always feel that I expected it and it was an inevitable outcome, and I must add that I am very relieved when I wake up the next day and everything is back to normal, then I wonder if the dream is real and wakefulness is the dream? anyway that's another story.

Posted: 30-09-2013 22:29 Post subject: Re: End of world dreams