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I am inside.  It feels like MY house but it also doesn’t.  I am walking around looking for my husband as  I make my way to the front door which is wide open.  My husband is on the front porch and he’s leaning on a support beam with his hands tucked in his pockets, staring up into the night.  As I step out, I see what appears to be a Comet very slowly burning it’s way across the sky from left to right.  As I start to state how strange that is, another burning comet appears to the left.  This one isn’t going in a straight line, however.  It’s making a circle.  I do find my voice and try to direct his attention when my husband simply points to the sky to my right.  IT is the most amazing thing I’ve EVER seen.  The sky is lit up in orange with a meteor shower.  The objects are just pin points in the sky but as we watch, the number increases and spreads.

I fear it’s about to end soon and I think of the kids.  This is a once in a life time event and I HAVE to get them out of bed.  As I run inside, I have a fleeting thought.  “Is this it?  The end of the world?”  I immediately dismiss it as I was sure I would have heard about it by now.  Nor do I “feel” panic.  I run into the kids room.  I yell for them to get up and com look.  “It’s Amazing!”  I pick up my daughter and run out.  My son is,  surprisingly, fast behind on my heels.  We didn’t miss it.  As we watch, we see something strike the ground way off in the distance but we continue to watch in silence and awe.

Suddenly, a large flaming ball strikes our front yard between, the trees near the road.  As flames burst up and towards us, we run inside.  No one speaks so I mention how close that was.  Just as I’m feeling relieved, I see a small fire in the corner of the room.  I yell and point it out to my husband.  I then grab what I perceive is a towel and start whacking at the flames.  As I put them out, new ones spring out across them room.  This repeats all over the room, then into another room.  When one especially stubborn fire won’t go out, I finally realize what I have in my hand is a plastic bag.  How did I not notice THAT?  I run to grab something cloth then attack the fire again.  It’s finally out.

I look around for my husband thinking he’s battling flames in other parts of the house.  He’s not.  He’s standing right where I left him when we ran in.  He still has the same look of amazement.  He STILL hasn’t said a word.

I am awakened by a loud sound on the roof of our cabin.

Okay, I know this has nothing to do with technology, but thought I’d share the strangest dream I had last night.  I have been playing a lot of D&D 4th edition, and working with Cartography Apps to generate maps.  Adding to my list of fun, I’m somewhat hooked on Little Big Planet.

Last night, I saw a commercial for Thor vs. The Incredible Hulk (A Retro Cartoon I sadly enough remember).  To top it all off there was a nasty rain storm last night.  Now that you have the background, here’s the dream.

I woke suddenly and found myself on some weird planet covered in dark mud, with mountains and crevasses all around me.  It was dark and cold, and there was a downpour of rain. There were two tall mountains (made of mud) on either side of me when I heard the call of Godzilla.  I was frightened, and suddenly it all became clear.  Godzilla and the incredible hulk were hunting me. (Don’t ask why I knew that, I just did).  So I did what most brave IT nerds would do.  I ran.  And I ran as fast and hard as I could given the conditions, but Godzilla was gaining ground.  So I bolted around a corner, and almost slid off the ledge of a cliff.  As I gained my balance, I mixed my Godzilla and T-Rex facts up.  I got the notion that if I covered myself with mud like Arnold did in Predator, and got up close to the side of the mountain he wouldn’t see me.  I was already covered in mud, so, for whatever reason, made a pose like an Egyptian and held still.  Heart pounding, I open my eyes and notice I’m 3 feet from a cliff, on the side of a muddy mountain, overlooking the ocean when I suddenly realize I’m standing on a beach ball.  “CRAP! I must of accidentally stepped on that coming around the corner.”  So I slowly stepped off and kicked it over the cliff.  As I was doing this, I noticed on a nearby cliff The HULK saw the ball. The gig was up, Id been spotted.  The Hulk bounced from his current position in a large leap while screaming “Hulk SMASH!!”, but missed the cliff. (Probably because it was dark and rainy).  As he was falling, the sun was coming out and he started changing back to a skinny man, and then into the little Sackboy on LBP.  Then I woke.

When I woke, I was poised like an Egyptian in my bed, and the wind sounded like it was tearing down the side of the house. My heart was pounding.

Kind of funny when I reflect on it, but man Godzilla and The HULK are scary in real life.