would see next. But the dream came anyway. The entity was as fearsome as the third ghost from Dickens’s Christmas Carol, and since the outline of things to come was given in the first dream, I knew that this dream would be about the war.
Again I started to live, seeing through the same
person’s eyes, like in the second dream. But this time I was not limited to watching it on TV or the internet. I felt the fear and terror of impending doom. I had joined in the hysteria, I started to stockpile food and supplies, I made sure I had candles, batteries, lamp oil, gasoline, and water available. There was a storm coming and I didn’t know what would happen.
The stores were cleaned out. Many people fled
from the cities to the beach. The financial markets, and banks were crashing and nothing had happened, yet. The thought of nuclear war was so scary that people actually died of fright.
The trigger was the explosion of a reactor in Iran.
The meltdown and radiation killed thousands. As mentioned in “dream one”, Israel and the US were blamed. The secret treaties with Iran’s neighbors were revealed and everybody prepared for the worst Middle Eastern war ever. The Iranian alliance started massing within each border and tried to involve the states around Israel, but most I:/tripod web backup/dreamthree.htm 1/5 5/20/2010 dreamthree.htm
refused; Syria did join in with them and would
allow the armies to cross their territory. The African states of Libya and Sudan shipped their armies to Syria and Iraq. The invasion army massed in Syria. NATO, China and other Arab states protested at the UN and supported Israel. They threatened nuclear holocaust if they were damaged by nuclear explosions. They wanted to stop the use of the Iranian atom bombs. But this only enraged the dictator. The Iranian alliance had the largest army assembled since Would War Two, waiting D Day.
Then another disaster, the city of Jerusalem was
bombed; whether by stealth bomber, missile attack, sabotage, or a terrorist plot, nobody knew what happened, there was no warning. The damage was minimal but the Dome of the Rock was destroyed on the temple mount. There was other damage in the surrounding neighborhoods. The trigger happy Israelis prepared for the worst. They had many nuclear weapons, missiles, and bombers and they were made ready. The west did not know how many bombs Israel had and never asked. The destruction of the holy site started the actual invasion. The Moslem armies crossed into Israel and the air forces filled the sky with bombs. When the armies were in the mountains of Israel and on the plains around the Sea of Galilee,the first atom bombs started going off on the invading armies. The survivors of the blast panicked and started killing each other. Then the war escalated, Iran fired ICBMs at the USA but these were shot down by the missile defense system. The US response decimated Iran and the countries that were part of the Iranian alliance. A second strike I:/tripod web backup/dreamthree.htm 2/5 5/20/2010 dreamthree.htm
of the Iranian missiles was launched, The US
stopped most, but some got through and one hit New York City. The cities in Lebanon were decimated also. Some missiles also struck Russia and they launched against the Alliance. The Iranian alliance was finished. Over 80% or the alliance populations were killed. The army that attacked Israel was also killed by earthquakes and hail storms that started with the atomic blasts. Radiation killed millions in the area. The fallout spread across India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia and east across the Pacific. The result was wars everywhere, riots, violence, fear, and mass migrations of scared people to places that seemed safe. The crops were contaminated, food animals died, starvation, and plagues followed worldwide. About one third of the world’s population died or just vanished.
Here in the US people headed for the hills. The
cities were left to looters, old fallout shelters were mobbed, and survivalists shot trespassers. The rich and powerful moved to old Cold War bunkers along with the government and military leaders. Law and order broke down everywhere. It was the end of the world as shown by old Sci-Fi movies.
In the midst of all this fear something strange had
happened. Before the bombs went off millions of ordinary people vanished. Cars went out of control, pilots and passengers vanished while in flight. Many leaders were gone. Loved ones vanished everywhere. But with the war, people were too scared to realize what was going on.
The fallout and the dust in the atmosphere caused
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almost many deaths in the Americas as it did in
Asia. The climate changed, food was scarce and contaminated, and water was contaminated. If the fallout didn’t kill you sickness and starvation was next.
The person I was living as stayed in his house and
hunkered down. Somehow the clouds of fallout were diverted north and passed over him and his beach. But soon the supplies would be gone and there was no way to get more. Weeks passed and the power was restored, most of our power was from hydro electric dams so the outages were easy to fix. Since this area was spared the brunt of the fallout, life started to reappear. Stored food was on sale, but at exorbitant prices. The social Security transfers were made and local banks started to recover. It was like the Wild West. People started to share and help each other.
Now the questions started; what happened to all
these people that vanished? Where were they hiding? Were they killed and the bodies buried during the panic? Where were the loved ones that were there one second and gone the next? Rumors were rampant; alien abduction, alien rescue mission to save humanity before it destroyed itself, new secret weapons, and the Christian religion’s rapture prophecy were all being discussed. Scientists were looking into it. Legal questions arose about what was left behind. Who now owned the houses, cars, money, and life insurance? Since there were no bodies, except for war victims, were these people legally dead? If they were in hiding or were abducted what about when they returned? I:/tripod web backup/dreamthree.htm 4/5 5/20/2010 dreamthree.htm
The world had sustained a mortal blow, but
survived, for now. Now everybody wondered what was next. Civilization restarted and the repairs started. The dead were buried and things tried to get back to normal.
I woke up; these nightmares were getting to me.
This time I turned over and went back to sleep. The writing could wait till morning. The rest of the night was peaceful.