Okay so for starters I'm a twenty-one year old male. I dream almost every night (or I should say, I remember my dreams almost every night), especially if I try to afterwards. I don't normally have nightmares, but they do happen occasionally. In the last six months or so, I've had three "apocalyptic" dreams, where the world was ending in some large, epic fashion before my eyes. In all three, the world would "end", but then I'd still be alive afterwards, even though I was sure I was going to die. Here's what little I remember from each dream:

First one:
I'm driving around in a car with my mother and father, we seem to be going around a huge parking lot, like a shopping plaza or something, but almost maze-like. In the dream, I know that we are on Mars (everything still looks like earth though, and it's not "weird" that I'm on Mars in the dream, I just kind of know it). Eventually I look up and see the earth in the sky, obviously much closer than it should be.
Again, this wasn't really that weird in the dream, it seemed normal. But then as I'm watching the earth, it starts to shatter and come apart, until fiery meteorites are raining down all around us and we're driving like crazy trying to avoid them. That's about all I remember from this one, but the main image is the earth shattering in the sky above me with meteorites raining all over.

Second one:
I'm driving down the highway (driving again?) and what appears to be a massive lightning bolt strikes off in the distance, creating a big shock-wave/destruction. In my dream logic, I realize that this is actually just the "beginning" of a terrorist attack, and the real attack is going to happen soon. I get home and hide in my closet (which kind of goes underneath my steps, so there's like this little nook there), awaiting the real attack. Somehow I can see it happen, even though I'm in the closet/nook thing. Another lightning bolt thing strikes, and there is an incredibly (almost painfully) loud blast and another shock-wave, my house is destroyed, and it's like a wasteland outside afterwards. In this one I really felt that fear of like "Oh my god, it's actually the end of the world and I'm going to die".

Last one:
I just had this one two nights ago. I'm in my house and I hear a loud blast, like an explosion. I look out the window and see that the moon has tiny little detonations going off all over it, but then they stop. For awhile after that, there are these intervals of insanely loud blasts (like the last dream) and little explosions on the moon. Eventually I go outside, and at this point I yet again realize that this is some sort of "attack", though by whom or what is unknown. I suddenly see a ton of missiles firing at the moon, from every direction, and I get scared and try to run back into my house. I'm maybe five feet away from the front door (I should mention that the INSIDE of my house in this dream is my current home, but the outside is like my childhood home for some reason, which was a single-story rancher). As I'm trying to get to the door, I get that typical dream feeling of being stuck in mud/quicksand/something sticky, although in the dream it is rationalized as being the explosions creating a vortex or something, like a strong wind pulling me backwards. The whole time I can hear the ridiculously loud explosions behind me growing closer. Eventually I do get inside, and then when I look out the window, I can see that the moon is actually now rushing towards the earth, eventually crashing "on the horizon" of my vision and creating another massive shock-wave (it's hard to describe, but the image is very clear in my head). As the shock-wave is coming, I realize in my dream-thoughts that there is no way I could ever survive this, that the moon crashing into the earth must certainly kill me. The shock-wave comes over the house, it's all dark outside, but instead of me dying I just hear a weird sound on the roof, and I look out the window and see millions of little tiny rocks and pebbles are falling from the sky, as if this is somehow the result of the moon crashing into the earth. That's all I remember.



Sorry, that was ridiculously long, but I wanted to get these off my chest and see what others think. I don't really have nightmares that often, especially like these, and they were all extremely vivid and frightening. I should also mention that I'm not like, an "end-of-the-world" type thinker. I don't think the apocalypse is imminent or anything, or if there will ever even truly be one. I'm not anymore afraid of terrorist attacks than the average person is, I don't believe in 2012, I'm not religious, etc. So it's weird that I'm having these very distinctively apocalyptic dreams. I also do tend to be a very "visual" person. I'm a writer, artist, aspiring filmmaker, etc., so I think that the images, particularly of the earth/moon in the sky coming apart or whatever, is somehow significant.