I stepped out onto the front porch of the house I am currently living in, I looked up at the darkening sky, and it looked to be around dusk, a beautiful orange red horizon that gradually changed to a soft light blue then to the blackness of night. In the black area a few stars where visible and in the blue a few very light clouds, at second glance they appeared to be vapor trails from high flying jets. It was an incredibly realistic and calming seen.

As I watched the stars and clouds they actually began to move. Some would move in formation and others would just move very fast in random patterns. I was very excited and was thinking this is the coolest thing I have ever seen. I tried to yell for my wife to come and check this out, but my voice was very horse and week. So I ran in to get my camera. When I returned I looked across a bay to a city on the other side, the city appeared to be about 5 miles across the water(of course I do not have water front property, nor live by any big city)The sky was now lit a fire red over the city, as I focused my 300mm zoom lens on the buildings I could see glowing rings of red light it was a very vivid red and looked like it was moving in a circular motion around the buildings, at this point I was scared sh*tless. I started to think of the ramifications of such an event, and then it hit, this cant be real! I’m dreaming! Yes!! I thought I would test my theory by staring at something and looking at all of its fine details, in the past this would be a sure fire way to wake up(I lack the ability of control, so I thought it best just to wake from this one). I focused on my digital Rebel camera in my hand, looking at all the dials and buttons and nothing…no spinning sensation that pulls me out of a dream. This alarmed me. By now the city was engulfed in black smoke, something very large was moving through the smoke. A long line of police and National Guard were now passing in front of my house. With all this action my lucidity was gone and all I could do was go along with the plot. One of the large snake like machines with hundreds of mechanical legs had crossed the bay and was heading toward my house, I told my family to shut of all the lights and we would head to the basement. The first machine past with no incidents, it did do severe damage to the house large holes in the ceiling made the inside of the house much more visible from the outside. Now black smoke encircled the whole bay area. A second machine was now head down the road and would pass my house in a few minutes.

It was now passing my house, I had gathered all of the hunting rifles and loaded them and had them with me ready to go. As it was passing, the head of the unit that was about 50’ high stopped turned its head and looked down through the hole in the roof as if some type of sensor had detected me. Before I could do anything a large claw foot smashed through the roof, pinning me to the floor, it was incredibly painful, I looked to my wife and said goodbye this is probably the end, but thought to myself I might as well go out fighting. As the head of the machine came down through the hole to Finnish me off I grabbed a shoulder mounted RPG, just as it was about to clamp its jaws around me I fired the rocket down the machines throat.

This is about 3/4 the whole dream, I will have to finnish this later in part 2