I took this picture with a 35 mm Mamiya DTL1000 camera in 1998. It’s not particular relevant to this post except that it’s a pretty picture that seemed in a way kind of dreamy and the setting sun seemed to relate somehow. Click on the image for a larger version.

This is the last dream-centric post before I get into the real meat, what we can do and why we must do it. In this post I am going to relate some dreams that relate to the future. Some of these have come to me like slices of time out of the future, others are more ordinary and probably just the results of some sort of mental extrapolation process. Even dreams involving mental extrapolation are of value because only a small portion of the information processing we do is conscious. Far more mental processing occurs on a subconscious level. Dreams afford us one avenue of awareness of that subconscious processing.

One of the earliest dreams I had that seemed to portray a future event was back during the summer after graduating from high school. This one was more like a normal dream than the “slice of time” format most of my predictive dreams take, but it seems either predictive or psychic.

I was also operating a bootleg AM radio station recently prior to this. After narrowly escaping capture by the FCC, I had shut it down, but memories were still fresh. I dreamt that I sitting playing records and I played an Elvis Presley record and announced it as, “The Late Great Elvis Presley”. When I awoke, this struck me as odd on two accounts. First, I wasn’t a big Presley fan, I think Elvis Presley was good, but not great, Roy Orbison was great. Second, as far as I knew, Elvis Presley was still alive.

At work, I was still troubled by this dream. I told a bunch of my coworkers about it. Around 10:30 AM they announced over the PA system that Elvis Presley had passed away the previous afternoon. He was dead when I had the dream, but it wasn’t on the media yet, or at least any that I was exposed to, until later the morning of the following day.

In a previous post I mentioned a lucid dream in which Germany was re-unified. I had that dream around 1985, the Berlin wall fell in 1989, Germany was officially re-unified in October of 1990.

I had a vision when I was around 16 years old. I’m sitting on my bed down in my room, and all of the sudden I was 40 walking around my current house. This was a short slice of time. It is this form that most of my predictive dreams take. When I was actually 40, I lived the time that I had previously dreamt. I recognized it and knew exactly what would take place.

I’ve had many Deja Vu experiences and I wonder how many of them were dreams like this that I did not consciously remember. I have disproved the hemi-desynch theory.

Brain hemisphere de-synch theory postulates that one hemisphere comprehends an event before the other and as a result the other knows something will happen before it comprehends it’s happening but not before it really happened. That isn’t the case for my Deja Vu experiences. To test this theory, one time I was listening to a talk radio show, and all the suddenly I had one of these Deja Vu flashes and knew exactly what the announcer would say. I spoke it before the announcer. And I heard my own voice before the announcer, disproving, at least in my case, the hemi-desynch theory of Deja Vu.

Since I was very young I’ve had a lot of dreams involving volcanic activity on the west coast, activity that starts out small and builds, and builds, and builds. In one dream, in a location about a half mile away from where I am presently living, there is a short earthquake and a crack opens up in the middle of a culdesac nearby. There is a rushing sound and small rocks and gravel fly up out of the crack. This continues and in a short while there is a cone of rock and gravel tossed up that is about eight feet high.

I’ve had many dreams of being in small towns along the I-90 corridor. In many of these dreams the ground becomes hot, magma oozes out of cracks in the ground, there are small earthquakes, there are volcanic eruptions in the surrounding areas, lava flows threaten towns and force evacuations.

One takes place east of cascades, near where I-82 goes south towards Yakima. Although I-97 is in my mind for some reason even though I don’t think I’ve ever actually driven on that highway. A small town in that area that is north of I-90, looking further north you can see an area that is relative flat and desert like. There is a huge lava flow in that area, it’s become almost like a cauldron, except it’s not so much a collapsed area but rather a large flow that covered a large area of land to the north. It’s still hot, glowing red, and there is a north/south hill like structure and near the base of this structure is where the lava is oozing out, it’s not a violent explosive eruption, the lava is hot and flows easily, not like the thick viscous cooler lavas of subducted continental plate re-melt fed volcanoes that are typical of the Pacific Northwest.

In this small town this large lava flow is visible to the north but does not appear to immediately threaten the town. I am out walking on a sidewalk. It is an old concrete sidewalk with sections broken by tree roots or misaligned by being raised up by roots. There is a sulfurous smell in the air. I reach down and feel the sidewalk for some reason and it is warm to the touch. Then I see magma oozing out of a crack between the sidewalk and pavement and realize that magma is rising to the surface right under the town and it needs to be evacuated immediately. I inform the town leadership which starts an evacuation and then I go to get my stuff and get out of there, and by that time, shrubs and plants are spontaneously catching fire from the heat. I barely get out of the building I was staying in before it is consumed.

In another, volcanoes are exploding along the west coast, not only known extinct volcanoes but mountains along I-90 that weren’t even believed to be volcanic. New volcanic vents are forming all over the place. Again, as with the previous dreams, these eruptions are not like typical northwest volcanoes. They are like hot-spot volcanoes of Hawaii or Iceland. There are no explosions, there is a lot of hot flowing lava, yellow hot at times.

I am trying to escape. I’m in a car heading east on I-90, and I’m just getting past the foothills. There is activity to the south and north visible even in the foothills. My car conks out. I get out on foot because I know I’m dead if I stay where I am. I am following the highway but it has become covered in something that is not small ash but gravel sized volcanic rock. There is lava flowing all over, and I am walking on a volcanic gravel covered highway with lava flows on either side. They rejoin behind me and I become trapped on an island between lava flows, and the lava is rising. The lava flows are too wide for me to jump and I realize that without some divine intervention I will die soon.

Speaking of divine intervention, I don’t know that it won’t happen. I had an event when I was in junior high school that I feel I should relate.

I used to have to walk about two miles to school. I know it was two miles because in order to ride the school bus you had to be two miles away from the school. I lived on the northeast corner of 15th Ave and 90th St NE in Seattle. People on the southwest corner of the intersection got a free bus ride, I did not. I was right on the border of that two mile requirement.

I liked to stay up late and sleep late, a pattern that hasn’t changed even to the present. I’d be ready for school about ten minutes before I had to be there. I ran downhill most of the two miles. The route I would take would be to go down 90th from 15th to 17th, walk 17th to 94th, cut through a park (the one that was previously the clay-mud field where my encounter occurred), then through the Sacajawea playground which would take me to 20th and 96th. I’d go down 20th Ave to 98th St, follow 98th to Lake City way which was a four lane arterial, cross at a cross-walk there, follow Lake City down to Fischer Place, go down Fischer Place to Ravenna, and follow it to 113th which ran between Jane Adams Jr. High and Nathan Hale high schools.

90th Street from 15th to 17th was a long block and down a fair grade. About 50 feet before 17th there was a fire hydrant, and always I’d do a long jump at that fire hydrant. Ordinarily it wasn’t anything exceptional. One day I got a particularly good launch. I pulled my legs tight under me. When I reached the apex of the jump something strange happened. Instead of coming back down, I just kept going at about the same height above the ground, all the way across 17th Ave. When I got to the other side, where the hill drops away a little more rapidly, I started to gain altitude and became frightened that I would just keep going up into the sky and disappear. As soon as that fear hit, I started falling again. I came down to the ground. Then I had to walk back up the hill to 17th.

This happened in 7th grade. I tried for years to reproduce that event and never was able to achieve anything beyond the ordinary again. I believe this was a lesson. It was saying something along the lines of the famous quote, with God all things are possible. Physics do not place as many constraints on our reality as many people believe. The universe is more malleable than most of us know. And if this long jump was possible for no other reason than to provide me with a lesson, then perhaps when I am trapped on an island between lava flows, it will again be possible.

Another dream was set south of I-90, north of Yakima. In this dream, like the previous dream, there was heavy volcanic activity and a large flow north of I-90.

There was a massive underground military facility. A large area immediately below the ground was equipped with living space and military operations facilities. It was provisioned with necessary supplies and facilities to sustain an underground population for a long time. Approximately 500 feet below this installation there was a nuclear reactor which provided power for the facility.

Access to the reactor area was via a large corkscrew like tunnel that was paved with a large road that went down at perhaps a 3% grade. This allowed supplies and materials to be trucked in and out of the reactor area. The tunnel distance of many miles provided a buffer against radioactive contamination in the event of a reactor accident. In an emergency, this space could be used for additional people.

This facility was part of a program to provide continuity of government in the event of a nuclear attack or a natural disaster such as an asteroid strike. It was setup to sustain a population underground for years if need be.

With heavy volcanic activity all around, they were evacuating ordinary people into this facility. People with technical backgrounds were given jobs to do having to do with the maintenance of the reactor or life support systems. I was assigned reactor duty. They would provide on-site training and took me and others who were volunteered for this job down this long corkscrew tunnel road. I awoke before I reached the bottom.

If I had to evacuate from Shoreline, I would have a choice of going south down I-5, east via I-90 or I-2, or north via I-5. It is possible to go west via ferry or south to Tacoma and then west via the hood canal bridge. Both western routes would be unusable during an evacuation. The ferry service would stop or be severely congested. The hood canal bridge is congested under normal circumstances.

In these dreams, a military presence to the south preventing citizens from going that direction. They are serious, equipped with automatic weapons and shooting on sight. I don’t know why US forces would be so bent on preventing people from evacuating as to shoot at them.

I’ve had quite a few dreams of this genre. The dreams differ in terms of specific geographical location, it’s always somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. The route to the south is always blocked. The route to the east is treacherous at best. Going north is never considered.

These dreams are logically consistent, and spatially and temporally contiguous like normal waking life. They lack the “slice of time” property. I believe they are showing potential paths rather than a future written in stone.

Another set of dreams parallels these but they are quite different. Like these dreams, they do involve large scale volcanic activity. They differ in that this activity is predictable and non-threatening. We even benefit from it. We build ski resorts with hot springs that people can soak in after a day on the slopes and utilize geothermal heat for energy generation.

In these dreams, winters are colder than normal. We have regular deep snow in the Pacific Northwest. We adapt ok. My dreams with destructive volcanism are free of snow and rain.

I believe earth is going through a period of rapid change. How earth treats us is a function of how we treat the earth, each other, and every living thing. These changes are getting underway.

I also have dreams involving things leading up to heavier activity. Changes occur to our atmosphere and magnetic field. Extreme auroral displays are so bright that they are visible during twilight and when the sky starts to get light before sunrise. Pre-dawn and post-sunset displays are so bright they rival daylight. As with present day auroral displays, they take many forms, but they are far more intense.

The earths magnetic field is weakening. Minor magnetic poles are becoming more prominent making the field more complex. The weakening of the poles and the emerging prominence of the minor poles is responsible for intense displays. Now, aurora displays at this latitude are usually not intense. They peak between about 10:00 PM and 2:00 AM. Sometimes they last longer but their intensity diminishes. In these dreams they peak just after sunset and before sunrise.

In these dreams I’ve seen substantial atmospheric refraction events. Normally, the sun appears to set somewhat after it physically sets because the atmosphere bends the light slightly. Temperatures differences in the atmosphere can dramatically increase this effect. Mirages become more common and more pronounced. At times the sky will get light much earlier than sunrise, or remain light much longer than normal after sunset.

So far I have written about dreams leading up to major activity and the different paths that activity can take. Now I will speak of what I see after everything has settled down and recovered.

Everything I’ve seen is in the Pacific Northwest, so I don’t have any national maps, nor do I even have a totally coherent picture of this area, but what I have seen involves substantial geographical change. Most notable is a change to puget sound and the land to the west of it, the kitsap and olympic peninsulas and various islands are replaced by north-west/south east fingers of land and water all of the way out to the Pacific Ocean. Most of this land is relatively low altitude and relatively flat, but some of the larger fingers have hills. There are lakes that drain out into these fingers of water. Even the narrow fingers are reasonably navigable which is favorable to shipping and transportation.

Inland from about Seattle’s present shoreline eastward to the foothills is relatively unchanged, the land farther in is flatter but then the mountains where they start are more rugged. The area between Seattle and farther east before the flat area, there are more rolling hills.

Seasons are not significant in the Pacific Northwest. The temperature stays between about 65 degrees at night and 80 degrees in the day. There is quite a lot of rainfall, especially in the mountains, considerably more than we presently get in the Pacific Northwest. The rain tends to dump late at night. The seasons aren’t pronounced this side of the Cascades. There is annual variability of rainfall in the cascades, there is snow in the winter. Overall a more robust hydrological cycle. There are many new rivers and streams. Fresh water is abundant. The new land forms many natural reservoirs. Plants flourish in the moderate temperatures and the increased rainfall.

Cars exist but they are used sparingly. Freeways are non-existent. Surface streets are not particularly well maintained. Since cars at this point are more of a novelty than a mainstay of transportation, it doesn’t matter.

Society is radically different than it is now. People do not spend their time in front of televisions and computer screens, people spend a lot more time interacting with each other and in outside activities. Consumerism does not exist; people consume what they need rather than acquiring countless gadgets that are presently “needed” because the marketers say so.

The Internet and telephone infrastructure is not required for people to communicate. We are no longer cut off from the all that is. As such we all feel what others feel. We can exchange thoughts telepathically. We think in terms of the common good, the all that is. Instead of wearing Ipods, we get together and make live music.

Fences no longer make good neighbors, good neighbors make good neighbors. There is an overall sense of trust and caring between people and there is no crime or war or police or military or jails. Everybody feels everyone else’s pain, and joy, therefore we inflict only joy.

We create only what is necessary for our own needs. Many people grow much of their own food. Considerably less human labor is involved in the maintenance of civilization. We have more time to spend with each other. Goods and services are allocated and distributed equally. People not only leave doors unlocked, they often leave them wide open.

No heating or cooling is required in this region, the temperatures remain comfortable. If you like it cooler, you just live closer to the mountains.

The interesting aspect of these dreams is that over a period of close to four decades, the landscape, roads that exist, type of housing people live in and the society, the vegetation, the climate, have remain consistent.

I don’t know how much of this will happen. I am sure of the “time slice” dreams, but they are only a portion of what I have described. But much of the rest I don’t know if it is all physical or if represents a metaphorical transformation of society rather than physical transformation. There are hints in present geological activity that does suggest we are going to see some kind of increase in geological volcanic and seismic.

This will be my last post about the dreams in this blog unless something comes to mind that is very relevant to the topic at hand. From this point forward I will be concentrating on how we can transform things, how we can create a sustainable positive future.

I welcome any input you may have. If you have similar dreams then perhaps that will be brought up again to discuss the commonalities. The bulk of this blog from this point forward will be dedicated to the getting to a sustainable future.