Originally Posted by
lycaeus
That's funny because my room mate (bless his soul) had a strange dream of the future. It's an urban wasteland. He said this was lucid and it freaked him out. He was hiding with a bunch of people in anunderground parking garage, taking care of sick kids, bringing them food, like he was leading this hopeless lot. (It's funny because he is the most unorganized person).
Reminds me of a dream I had a couple years ago. It was one of those dreams where I could tell something was projecting it into my mind. Here's how it went:
It's several years after a societal collapse. People are mostly homeless, or living in abandoned buildings, and despite an overall sense of friendliness it's still tough living. Like third world conditions but even less organized, less law, less amenities. I'm there trying to take care of people, and eventually me and some others decide to open a school, to give all the homeless kids something to do instead of wandering around aimlessly. We have a room with a generator outside, running a TV and VCR/DVD player with some educational vids. Fast forward 10-15 years and the school's doing well, town is rebuilding too. The senior teachers, who were born in the 70s and 80s, now had graying hair. I marveled at how cool they were for being old people, since they were of my generation and not like the stiff old fogies I knew when young [sorry I know there's cool old people too]. As the school proceeded over the years and the town rebuilt, periodically this human-like alien woman would come to town like some high official, and it would always be a big deal when she showed up, like a visit from "corporate headquarters" or maybe how african natives feel when some western anthropologist comes to their village. She had some supervisory role to ensure reconstruction was proceeding smoothly. Her name was something like "Saht."