Thread: Apocalyptic Dreams

I had one, once. It was like a year ago or something. It was very vivid because its the closes thing to a nightmare I have had in the last 15 years. It started off with me almost drowning but then I got away and then people started dying in all kinds of strange ways. Then I was hiding from something, and I was watching more people die then it found me. I then got struck by lightning like 10 times or something. I remeber I could feel it in the dream but it faded away right when I woke up.

It was scary because in the dream I thought it was real and I thought I was about to die. Of course when I woke up I knew it was a dream right away so the fear disappeared almost instantly. In the end it was kind of cool because it was very vivid. I don't mind a dream being a little scary if its vivid.

I've had a few and, like you, they're always very vivid and I remember them forever. I guess it's just something that hits home a little harder than, say, dreaming about everyday occurrences or random crap. Mine will either be my own world ending, or the actual apocalypse.

- -Barrett

Curious, what kind of ending do you see, Burns? Nuclear war, Meteor, Biblic (Revelations), etc...

I've had dreams in which I had the knowledge that the world had gone through some big change and I was in it's aftermath (kind of like in Road Warrior), but as to how the world ended I don't know. The closest I've come to witnessing end of the world has been through a great tsunami or some natural event of some sort.

I think the actual method as to how we experience the end of the world in our dreams could give us some deeper insight into finding out what the dream might mean.

PS -- Hi Barrett! Looks like DV scores yet another Ohio member

Burns, not only would I like to discuss this on the posts... but in person on IM if possible... because it could provide very important insight into my life at these crazy times.

I have had atleast a dozen apocalyptic dreams... and almost every single one of them scares the bejezus out of me. Here are some in brief detail:

1) I "awake" in the bed I just went to sleep in... feel the need to look out the window next to me, and a huge flash of light goes off in the distance. Simultaneously I gasp for air and think, "Oh my god... this is it!" Then I sink into my bed and am overcome with such fear.

2) I am in an ambulance, no one is hurt... just cruising with the paramedics. I look out the window and 2 cyclists are riding the opposite way, look at me with an apathetic smile, and wave as if saying, "Bye bye, Ryan. You deserve to die and you know you do. Sorry." Again, then the same feeling.

3) I walk inside the hotel I'm staying at. Press the button for the elevator, and wait a few seconds. The door opens up and there is a redheaded woman in a red dress, standing there with a pitbull on a leash. They stare at me. All of a sudden it feels like the end of the world and I fall straight through the floor into the Earth. Terrifying!

4) I am sitting at the computer I was just sitting at before I went to bed... typing on the computer. To the left of me, just as in real life, our macaw, Titus, sits in his giant bird cage. All of a sudden, I hear Chucky (yes, from the "Child's Play" movies) say, "WANNA PLAY?" in such a frightening voice. I then fall straight through the chair and spin out of control.

Most of the time when I have these dreams, I wake right up afterward and am actually too afraid to go back to sleep. The part of these dreams that stands out the most is the feeling I get when the end does happen. It's as if the whole world falls in through me... and I am guilty for all it's sins, and all that has happened to it... and I deserve the hell and fear that I feel. It's terrible... absolutely terrible and it plagues me. I've even had to see a councelor about it but her help was only temporary as she has never actually experienced such dreams... nor has anyone else that I've spoken to!

I don't think that relief will actually come until I meet someone who has had dreams nearly exactly like these... with the extreme feeling of fear included.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

I've had those dreams before. It's always a biblical end (though it doesn't follow how the bible says the world will end, I always somehow know it's a biblical end), and I always know I'm going to be one of the people headed for Hell. The one that comes to mind right now is that the world was flooding, and there was a lot of ice in the water. Some people took me and some others hostage, and came in every once in awhile to kill someone. It was pretty freaky...

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....p=241260#241260 talks about a couple of mine. I really have not had any lately, but when I did, yes I would feel uneasy about it when I would wake up after having them.

P.S@Tornado Joe: "Under a dead Ohio sky" is a line from Jimmy, by Tool, not necessarily his location. Then four songs later in the album comes Aenima and "learn to swim", just like in rrskywalker's profile.

Originally posted by Tornado Joe+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tornado Joe)</div>

Curious, what kind of ending do you see, Burns? Nuclear war, Meteor, Biblic (Revelations), etc... [/b]

The first one I had was actually a two-part dream.

In the first part, I am in a huge warehouse when the alarms start going off, and the security doors roll down and pressure lock into place. The warehouse starts filling with a green poisonous gas. I am terrified of dying this way and I try to find a way out of the warehouse.

I wake up in a state of panic because it seemed so real. Then I fell back to sleep.

The second part was a continuation of the first part - somehow I get out of the warehouse with the gas, but it continues to spread.

Here's a excerpt from my DJ about the second part:

I am speeding down a four lane and one turn lane road through a city. Everything is utter chaos. Cars are driving in all directions with no regard for traffic laws of any kind. The danger must not have been confined to the warehouse of death. I think this may just be the apocalypse. A lethally poisonous gas is going to kill us all. I see it. It’s cresting a hill behind me and it’s more terrible than I imagined. A thick cloud of greenish gas is rolling into the city at an incredible speed. I press the gas petal to the floor as I watch the green cloud advance in my rear view mirror. When people inhale the gas in the first breath, their bodies explode almost simultaneously. I see a man sitting alone in a parked pick-up truck looking resigned to his fate. The green fog engulfs him and I watch as his head explodes in a mass of red. I am horrified as I hear on the radio that there have been 25 foot waves of blood spanning 3 miles and taking down everything is rushes over. I speed along the road and see a big SUV start to pull out across my lanes to turn left. She stops across both lanes. The truck in front of me slams into her. They both keep driving because there are obviously no cops that are going to stop you in the middle of the Armageddon.

The second one was 2 nights ago. It consisted off another gas-like form, only this one was the kind of radiation that comes after a nuclear blast. I even resign to killing myself and my loved ones before the gas reaches us, so we don't suffer an unbearable and painful death.

And excerpt from my DJ for this one:

It’s the apocalypse. I’m in the midst of a scene of panic. There is a line of yellowish-red gas moving across the sky horizontally. It’s made of the sort of radiation that kills people in a nuclear blast, melting off your skin, as you burn alive. I realize that I could use sodium pentothal to euthanize ourselves before we have to die in agony, since we’re all going to die anway. I rush around to find some. I pick up a bottle but it’s empty. I find 2 pre-drawn syringes, each with 1mL of euth solution in them – that should be enough. But I need more for the other people. I find a girl that has put a whole bottle of euth solution in a full bag of LRS to dilute it out – how stupid can you be? I take the bag and start drawing out the solution.

Freaky stuff.

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Burns, not only would I like to discuss this on the posts... but in person on IM if possible... because it could provide very important insight into my life at these crazy times.

I have had atleast a dozen apocalyptic dreams... and almost every single one of them scares the bejezus out of me.

I don't think that relief will actually come until I meet someone who has had dreams nearly exactly like these... with the extreme feeling of fear included.

Wow, those are some scary dreams. I honestly have no idea what apocalyptic dreams represent - plus, it's probably different for everyone. So I don't think I'd be able to help you sort them out. I hope everything works out for you - at least you know you're no alone.

Oh, and you have a parrot named Titus?? My cat's name is Titus!

Let me reiterate the feeling that happens at the end of the dream and remains in my body and mind when I awaken. It is FEAR. Completely intense FEAR. It's not discomfort, or a "whoa"-like feeling... it is fucking FEAR. You know that feeling where someone comes up behind you and scares the shit out of you? Okay, well imagine that, multiply it by 10... have it last a good 10 seconds... and yeah... there you go... that's what I get to experience in these dreams.

I have had dreams of aliens taking over the world. In fact, my first (and only so far) dream in my dream journal is a vivid one about aliens invading.

Ya. I was in my house, but i felt blazing heat. the walls were being bestn down by flying obstacles. everything was tinted red from the heat. on the way out of the house wrecking balls were being throwna round everywhere and destroying everything. I was going to cal my friends wo we could stop it but i felt too lazy so i sat on the couch and watched the world end.

Interesting! I've had a bunch of end-of-the-world dreams, and I remember some being scary, some being bittersweet. Bittersweet in the sense that they were very loving in some ways, with people I cared about expressing affection for me and for each other because we knew it was the last time we would be able to.

They seem to come in clusters, and I haven't had any in a while yet. Sometimes I can trace it to something, like a movie or a book. I had a slew of them after reading Nevil Shute's On the Beach. But sometimes they seem to come out of nowhere...

Originally posted by Burns+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Burns)</div>

The warehouse starts filling with a green poisonous gas. I am terrified of dying this way and I try to find a way out of the warehouse...

...A lethally poisonous gas is going to kill us all. I see it. It’s cresting a hill behind me and it’s more terrible than I imagined. A thick cloud of greenish gas is rolling into the city at an incredible speed...

...It’s the apocalypse. I’m in the midst of a scene of panic. There is a line of yellowish-red gas moving across the sky horizontally[/b]

I'm not really gonna go into dream interpretation here, but this theme of a gas is pretty apparent throughout these types of dreams. You work with cats all day and I wonder if you've ever had to put any of them down - that might have some influence on these dreams. Although you probably use injections to do that, if you perform surgery you're likely putting them under with gas, no? You even use some of the medical language in describing the dreams:

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I realize that I could use sodium pentothal to euthanize ourselves before we have to die in agony....I find 2 pre-drawn syringes, each with 1mL of euth solution in them .... I find a girl that has put a whole bottle of euth solution in a full bag of LRS to dilute it out

Again, not going into interpretation but since our dreams are sometimes made up of thoughts/feeling in the back of our minds and memories of things from our daily lives, I'm not suprised that you're associating some mysterious gas as a threat to your life or well being. If you ever become lucid during one of these, I would recommend you hold your ground and take in this gas into your lungs. Would be very interesting to see how it would end up effecting you.

And, skywalker, you should do the same. Face the fear in your dream - don't confront it, just accept what it is that's after you. You might be suprised at how the events turn out.

Originally posted by Tornado Joe+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tornado Joe)</div>

this theme of a gas is pretty apparent throughout these types of dreams. You work with cats all day and I wonder if you've ever had to put any of them down - that might have some influence on these dreams. Although you probably use injections to do that, if you perform surgery you're likely putting them under with gas, no?[/b]

Interesting. Once I posted the exercepts of the dreams, I did realize that both of them involved lethal gas.

But I didn't really connect it to anesthesia, like what you're saying. You're right - all of our surgeries are anesthetized with inhalant gas (in an anesthesia chamber). When we take the cat out of the tank to intubate it, we have to be careful to put the lid back on the tank, because the free radicals from the anesthesia is harmful to the body. Something I'm very conscious of everytime I sedate a cat.

Wow, good interpretation, Joe! I'm really impressed!

Originally posted by Tornado Joe@
You even use some of the medical language in describing the dreams.

Yes, I did notice this as well. I have a lot of dreams about my work. I'll dream about certain names of drugs, or different disease processes. It's kinda nerdy actually, but I can't help it. It's one of those jobs that makes it difficult to leave all your concerns at work.

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I'm not suprised that you're associating some mysterious gas as a threat to your life or well being. If you ever become lucid during one of these, I would recommend you hold your ground and take in this gas into your lungs. Would be very interesting to see how it would end up effecting you.

Good idea! I'll definitely try that if I can ever manage to become lucid during one of these dreams. I'll definitely be more aware of gas-related themes in the future.

I may even end up doing reality checks every time I'm thinking about noxious gas or smell it. Maybe that will help carry over into the dreams.

Thanks for the advice, Joe!

I generallly don't, but this reminded me of a dream I had a few days ago where there was no food in America, and everyone was dying, and me and my family had to go bike down to mexico, which for some reason was just south of Florida (shows how good my geography skills are...). I kept trying to get my parents to let me steal food from our neighbors who stocked up on it before, but they were to rightous to do it. It wasn't really the end of the world, just the end of America, but whatever.

It was a while ago, and very clear.

The background was a snowey mountainous area with a train that had been stopped, boddied everywhere, I think aliens were attacking.
It wasn't that bad i nicked a jetpack and starting shooting everything


Another dream i had recently, i was in my bed and looked at the TV, then a evil looking "demon" thing started laughing at me, i got up and ran to the stairs and knew something was on the floor above me so i ran out of the house and looked trough the window where a alien ran by the window, stopped and staired at me, my heart jumped and i woke up.


Both of these were non lucid, looking back at it, i need to stop watching sci-fi stuff

Hi Burns,

Yes, Apocalyptic Dreams are very very common. But it probably has little to do with any actually approaching Apocalypse (though with 2012 around the corner, that is a remarkable coincidence for us), but I suppose every generation has such Apocalyptic Dreams.

I suspect that such Dreams are previewing the Dissolution of the Body at the Time of Death. We are in effect dreaming of our own Mortality.

And if we should have any symbolic representations within such dreams of surviving such Apocalyptic Dissolutions, then we may take these as in effect dreaming of inferences of our Immortality.

Ahhhhh yesss.. 2012. = ) MUCH to talk about this date... for sure! Perhaps we could start another forum.

I have had many of this kind of dream; I called it an "epic dream", because it seems to go on forever, and I play many parts. I feel like I am a part of it and simultaneously watching it, and I wake up more exhausted than when I went to sleep (which passes as the dream fades). I don't think I could begin to describe everything that happens in these; I admire how people can get these down so descriptively.

I had one dream about a nuclear war. I was at school when the bombs started going off. Although we didn't get hit we were all going to die of radiation poisoning.

I'll just state briefly that I've had at least two "Rapture" (the Biblical removing of Christians from the world) dreams.

In the first, many years ago, I knew that it was just "time to go" and we had these designated locations that we were supposed to be at and we had a ticket and everything. I wandered around waiting for it to happen. But the dream shifted and turned into something about me and Segourney Weaver running from some guys or something like that.

The second one I had just a couple of nights ago, actually. I was absolutely positive that it was (again) "time to go" and so me and a bunch of people were waiting around in this room for it to happen. There were some other people there, too. I woke up before it happened, though

I found them amusing, actually, especially the second one.

You know, come to think of it, I can't remember *how* the world was ending in any single one of my dreams. I've probably had a dozen or more of them by now, and it seems like I just "knew" the world was ending...

Originally posted by Leo Volont
I suspect that such Dreams are previewing the Dissolution of the Body at the Time of Death. We are in effect dreaming of our own Mortality.

And if we should have any symbolic representations within such dreams of surviving such Apocalyptic Dissolutions, then we may take these as in effect dreaming of inferences of our Immortality.

Huh, very interesting explanation - it makes sense. Though, I haven't actually died in any of these dreams. I progress to the feelings of fear and panic, but am never there for The End.

I think most young people have a sense of immortality to some degree. I remember thinking to myself after a serious car accident when I was 17 that "this can't be happening to me - this has to be a dream - this only happens to other people." A very eye-opening experience.

I'm curious to know if anyone remembers actually dying in any of their apocalyptic dreams?

Burns, those dreams scare the crap out of me, really. Nuclear war is one thing - you see flashes of light far off, but when it's your time to go, the death is relatively instant as the bomb that covers your area detonates. But with those rolling waves of toxic gas and blood... how terrifyingly visceral! You can't run from a nuclear bomb, but with those, you're forced to keep running, keep looking over your shoulder, keep watching those behind you explode in a shower of entrails and watching the murderous haze creep closer and closer to you, the promise of a similar fate carried ahead of it in the sound of its incessant sussurations, its dry death rasp... sorry, got a little poetic there, but it's so much more drawn-out and sensorally there than a simple flash of light. Scares the shit out of me, so... thanks, I'll probably have my first nightmare in years thanks to you. Cheers!

I've only had one apocalyptic dream, and it wasn't so much an apocalypse as a simple ending. Every human of the world was gathered on a great sloped plain, all six-billion of them, facing an endless city of delicate crystalline spires and blue glass. We all knew the end was here, now, to come at any second, but there wasn't any fear, just breathless expectation. Eventually there was an ineffably bright streak of light, a great pillar joining the horizon and heavens, and the sky quickly filled with it and enveloped every one of us. As my vision filled with light, I zoomed out of my body, spiralling around it as I watched it become suffused with pure light before becoming the light itself.

I don't put stock in portentous dream visions, but if this is what all those kooks say will happen on 2012, it doesn't seem a bad way to go at all. In that case, the lack of fear would probably signify prior knowledge that something new and better awaited me on the other side of the veil.

Apocalypic Dreams are my Dreamsigns =P
When I was younger, I used to be running away from them, trying to escape it.
Not as much "sad", as I was "desperate" to get the hell outta there.

But as I grew older, and the same dreams kept happening, I sorta began to become a Fighter, instead of a Runner.

My first dream of Fighting Armageddon was around...the 5th Grade.
The Nazis were throwing water balloons into the sun (Yes...lame, I know), and it was my job to destroy their machine and save the world from total darkness.

I never...remember actually finishing the job, but I DID get to the machine and was trying to find a way to deactivate it.

When I woke up, it was 2AM, but at the time I usually woke up at 8AM, when it was SUNNY. I didn&#39;t have a clock, so I thought it was 8.
When I didn&#39;t see any sun in the sky, I remember being soo worried for everyone.
For 4 minutes I had believed the Sun was gone ^_^, and I wanted to wake everyone up.


The earliest "Endofearth" dream I had was when I was 2, and my tiny bathtoy- a rubber lizard - had become real and supersized itself into this Godzilla-ish creature.
It destroyed my house, and ate my sister. I remember all my 7 family members were in panic, running around and screaming.

Another, when I was around 4, was when James Bond, in an army of hellicopters, were destroying EVERYTHING. The wall in my room was destroyed, so I looked out and saw the fire and destruction all over. Then I saw Bond with a gun, shimmying down a rope. In fear, I ran to my friend&#39;s house =P. This is what happened after I saw "License to Kill" lol.

Heh....what&#39;s odd, is that the scariest Apocolyptic dream I had, was also the simplest.
I was in a very white room, and I saw a rope, hanging from the ceiling.
Ever so slowly, that rope was going through the ceiling. I knew that when the rope went through, the world would end. I remember being SO SCARED...
I grabbed the rope, and tugged on it, hoping to bring it down. Only, when I pulled on it, it only went in faster, as if I was pushing on it.
Tears were running all down my face, I was angry, scared, desperate. It was up to me to save everyone....but the situation was totally helpless...
I watched the rope go into the ceiling...then black.
I woke up.


>_< One of the worst and simplest nightmares I&#39;ve ever had.