Volcano Dreams

Since I was about ten years old I've been having dreams of volcanism and other major geological activities around the Puget Sound region as well as seeing the aftermath of all the changes and what the new landscape looks like. The finished Earth, after all the changes, is consistent in the dreams, but the volcanic activity as well as various social aspects change.

I've seen paths where it's really pretty cool; the volcanoes go off in unpopulated areas, they behave predictably, we get geothermal energy and hot springs for recreation. In one dream there is a big ski resort built around the hot springs so you can go freeze your butt off skiing and then warm up in a hot spring.

And I've seen tremendously destructive paths, where volcanoes are going off everywhere. In those, our own military blocks passage to the south and shoots with machine guns anyone attempting to go south. Volcanoes block the I-90 corridor so escape to the East becomes impossible. They're actually at first to either side of I-90 but the volcanic ash becomes so deep that cars can't get through. In those dreams I inevitably get out and walk when the car can make no further progress and then eruptions of liquid lava happen on either side of me, and I always die in these.

Last night I had one that was between these two extremes. This dream was incredibly persistent. I kept waking up out of it and then going back to sleep and continuing where it left off. This happens to me in dreams exceedingly rarely. In this dream, there was a volcano in the Alki area, south of Alki actually that dumped so much ash that it filled in the sound between Alki and Vashon Island. You could walk to Vashon if you didn't get pummeled to death in another eruption.

There were volcanoes all over the place as well as lots of earth quakes. People were moving out to eastern states to get away from what was happening on the west coast. My wife and children had already left the area for Kentucky. I was going to go there eventually but still had to take care of something here, I don't know if it was business or relatives or what but for some reason I couldn't leave yet.

My house was gone, volcanoes had destroyed it already. I rented an apartment in downtown Seattle, it was a four or five story building that was almost on the waterfront and had a waterfront view but was really cheap because everyone was leaving. I was the only one on the entire fourth floor. That's all I remember, I woke up and stayed awake after that.