1st of January 2016

Happy New Everybody!

It could well be our last, or at least mine anyway.

You see, in July 2007 I had a dream that told me the world was going to end in ten years, and that I wouldn't survive.
Now that we're almost there, and the world seems to be spinning further into political and climatic chaos, I have to admit that I'm beginning to get a bit twitchy and wonder if it might actually, really and truly, have been a message from some other worldly force.

Before you think I'm a complete and utter nutter, the reason I hold this dream in such high regard is because it was followed by a coincidence, one those magical occurrings that give things a significance beyond the mundane and make you question what reality really is. That probably isn't making me sound any saner to most people but I'll continue anyway.

The dream started with me sitting in a twilit room on a sofa in a loft and beside me was a large china doll looking straight ahead. I turned away from it and when I looked back the scary looking doll was looking straight back at me.  However, instead of being scared I felt intensely curious and asked how it had managed to move.  Without a response to my question we began to fly and it told me its end of world prophecy and that it was going to show me the future that I would miss.

It took me to a clearing in a forest and in the clearing were two giant robot dinosaurs guarding a cardboard box the size of a block of flats with the front panel missing.  Inside the box I could see a group of humans in loin cloths huddled in a corner with chain on their feet.  Suddenly, the humans escaped from the box and ran into their natural home, the forest.  They were free at last from the robot dinosaurs. However, the china doll explained, the humans couldn't survive in the forest because without the robot dinosaurs they couldn't communicate with their families and had to return to the cardboard prison.

In the dream this future seems so horrific that I was glad that i wouldn't survive and woke up with a start.

That very same morning I spoke to my closest friend and told her about this weird dream I'd had about the end of the world.  When I had finished she stunned me by telling me that she'd also had a dream that night about a pale faced creature with red lips that had told her really important things, a creature that matched the description of this white faced, red lipped china doll...