Hello all, I just joined after lurking for a while. I was glad to see this forum survive its temporary closed status a while back. Anyway, for my first post, I thought I would relate and interesting dream I had a while back. No one I've talked to has had anything like it. Alas, it wasn't lucid (I've yet to really enjoy that pleasure.)

Most of the dream is a fairly standard dream for me. I had just watched the movie Timeline, and something about the wormhole time-travel machine obviously stuck in my mind (this may be only the fifth or sixth time in my whole life that a dream of mine has had anything to to with events from my waking life!). Anyway, in my dream there was a reactor (stemmed from the wormhole device in the movie) that was building up to an overload. I am not sure if I was a participant in the dream or just an observer, but there was a team of three or four people who were in the control room trying to fix the problem. Every two minutes or so the reactor would build up to an energy peak and discharge. Each one was more powerful than the last. The Second to last burst in the dream blew out the rear wall of the control room, exposing the reactor, which now had a swirling vortex building up in it. Two of the team were sucked in. As the reactor built up to the final burst, the room disintigrated, and I was suddenly looking at the outside of the tall skyscraper housing the lab. The top and bottom of the building melted down and up, respectively, toward the center. A similar building behind it did the same. They melted into a sphere surrounding the reactor, which held for about a second and a half. Then it destroyed the universe. While now watching the whole earth from a great distance, I literally saw a sphere of expanding blackness that devoured the whole universe. It took about one second to reach my vantage point, and then there was nothing. I seemed to cease to exist as well. Its like my mind stopped. There were no thoughts, no sensations, no fear... no awareness. I was just not there.

A brief dream scene faded in after that, and I could think again. At that point I got the impression the nothingness had lasted for maybe five to ten seconds. The last part of the dream was just me looking at a single dim star, hearing a brief narration from a voice saying that out of all the universe only one star and one planet were left. I woke up fully then and realized the star I was looking at had been the little light on the smoke detector on my ceiling.

I don't know if the experiance ever scared me, but at the time it certainly was a shock. Like awe, but with a more negative connotation. Anyway, has anyone else had any dream experiances even remotely similar?