Vivid Nightmare of Chicago Nuke

Just a little background - I am a scientist residing in downtown Chicago, and have been having apocolyptic dreams for the past 2 years. Most of the time the dreams are bizzare and don't make any sense to me because I can't figure out the location or the context. But let me tell ya'...last night, I had the most vivid dream, I remember details, sounds, things being said. Anyway, here it goes:

It is a typical spring/summer morning in Chicago, I can tell because I am not dressed in my winter clothes, and it looks quite sunny outside. It is during the week, because I am up early getting ready to go to the lab. I run a little bit late for some reason, and realize that I will probably miss the shuttle to the university. I say goodbye to my dogs and leave the apartment.

I start walking down the street toward the shuttle stop on the main street and I notice from a distance there is a lot of police sirens and noise coming from the street I get closer and I notice dozens of ambulances, fire trucks, police cars on the main-street. I then look to see what all the fuss is about and I notice the most horrifying scene bodies everywhere decapitated torsos, legs, arms, pieces, faces of students/faculty that I recognize since these are the people that I usually wait for the bus.

I keep walking down the main street, and all I hear is Cops saying things like "Massacre/Deliberate/Terrorist" and it appears as though the dozen or students and faculty who were massacred were decapitated by terrorists and their bodies were all over the place because they were trying to run away. Anyway, I keep walking east toward Lake Michigan, and I start to hear a rumble and I notice from a distance a handful of people running toward me telling to RUN RUN BOMB BOMB!! (a young hispanic woman, a white guy and girl, and just a bunch of random people)

So I start running back in the direction I came, I then feel the ground shake, a really loud noise, and then just a whoosh of tremendous heat coming from behind me. I manage to lay down on the floor behind a brick wall, my last thought being that I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to my loved ones...

I then did the usual "rewind" in my dream to see if there was a way to survive the attack...but I then really had to get up and go to work.

My mind tells me that bombs had gone off in downtown chicago, and that is why people were running, and the final massive bomb was a nuke.

I just thought I would share this with you all, I am still replaying it in my head as I write this. The interesting thing about this dream was the fact that I knew where I was, time-wise and season, and also specific location also that it all was directly through my eyes...you know how sometimes you have dreams and you are able to see "outside" your body and more like in third person...well this dream was entirely first person, which rarely happens to me.

Thoughts, comments, similar stories?

Gday my adoptee

Just remember dreams can interpret many different things. Although terrifying and realsitic try not to take it literally

Hoepfully you dont have any similar ones in the near future

Hey Oz!

Yea, that is very true.

After reading a bit about decaptitation and apocolyptic type dreams, they are often interpretated as signifying turmoil, stress and pressure in your life.

Well I am finishing up my Ph.D, and I did just spend all weekend putting together a grant for my boss.

I love how I manifest my anxiety and stress into horrific imagery!! lol! Shouldn't my mind be doing the opposite, making me have dreams of tropical beaches, buying shoes and getting massages??

Interesting dream. Thanks for sharing.

Let's hope that never happens! for your sake and everyone else. Stay safe

Originally posted by SciDoc
I love how I manifest my anxiety and stress into horrific imagery!! lol! Shouldn't my mind be doing the opposite, making me have dreams of tropical beaches, buying shoes and getting massages??

I usually manifest it into a night of drunken shennanigans

Nah but seriously I can see how that would have an impact on your subconscious and lets hope it doesnt turn out to a prophecy

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I used to have these dreams all the time when I was a teenager. In the military, the dreams would still come, though they were less frequent. I guess as I learned about nuclear warheads and how they can be detonated, I was more at ease. The terrorist attacks have left many people scared, and it gets incorporated as dreams. Once you learn how hard it is to make a working bomb (a completely sterile lab is needed), and the type of lab it requires, then the terrorist nuke doesn't seem as likely.

That dream seems to be incredibly similar to one I had a few months back it's rare for me to remember any dreams but I remembered that one.

The only difference from your description was I can't say it was Chicago in mine I don't know where it was honestly it was a city street though.

In mine I heard a tremendous rumble and felt a strong wind I remember I turned around and saw an absolutely gigantic flaming mushroom cloud and also ducked behind a quite low wall just as the explosion reached me.

At that point I woke but it was definitely one of the most realistic dreams I've had and the only one involving a nuke.

Possibly it's a common dream but at the time I felt myself wondering if it was more than that so far so good though.

I probably remember only 10% of my dreams...perhaps that is an inflated number too. I tend to just recall ones that envoke a lot of emotion in this case it was fear.

Other dreams of this nature have included weather-related disasters (tsunamis/hurricanes), and the attempt to survive.

I think I am just one of those people who feels like I have to be super-prepared for whatever comes my way, and the idea of being nuked leaves you completely powerless...I mean anyone in close proximity to the detonation is doomed (unless you are japanese/buddhist monk...lol).

I do find myself having these kind of dreams more at stressful periods in my life, so I doubt i am soothsayer/shaman/prophet or what not.

Originally posted by SciDoc
I do find myself having these kind of dreams more at stressful periods in my life, so I doubt i am soothsayer/shaman/prophet or what not.

Lol, just as well, otherwise I might have to list you on my incorrect prophecies thread

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Did you by any chance watch season 6 of "24"?

That's basically the plot. Terrorists launch a series of suicide bombings, then move to a nuke. Maybe your mind is recalling these details and placing you in a similar environment?

Just throwing it out there, not discounting your dream at all because I have had those and a month or 2 later, it happens identical to my dream, so maybe you just connected and have a view. I would in that case make sure to remember how your morning went, because if you have a day like that come May, well maybe you should play hooky(sp?).

I think we all have these dreams because eventually they will be definitely true and will happen. It's only time that prevents it. It could happen in 100 years or 100 days or even 100 hours. It could be anywhere too.

Somewhere in the western world is certain to be nuked whether it's a military accident, domestic or foreign based terror or an act of declared war.

I don't know how many straws are left, but someone, somewhere is holding the last and shortest straw.

I, too, had the dream many times. I would have to estimate nearly in the hundreds of them. My last dream was sun oriented though, I think. It was a HUGE light explosion with no sound coming from the northwest and I was in the industrial shopping district (big box stores) shopping for christmas gifts and a burst of intense white light came rushing toward me. Eventually my skin started to boil and suddenly I felt warm and comfortable when I realized I no longer had a body.

Other nuke dreams have been me hiding behind a rock and the fire rushing past or laying down with the fire blowing the roof off and rushing past, not scorching me.

It sucks to have them, but when you get outside and hear the birds, feel the cool breeze and see the cycle of life going on it no longer matters much. When I walk a mile, I end the lives of countless bugs without realizing it. The sun can do the same by exhaling in the wrong direction and people can do it by war.

It's how you live up to that last second that will matter as it will be over before you realize your body is long gone. Keep your eye on the prize! The PhD will enrich your life if you use it right!

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No, I stopped watching 24 after season 2.

Oz...lol...well I wish SOME of my dreams were prophecies. Like winning the lottery and winning the nobel.

i used to have alot of post-apocalyptic like dreams a few years back. they were about escaping NWO and the like but the latest one i had was about 2 days ago. we had to get away from an "evil force". thats the only way i can describe it. im from the nw suburbs of chicago, and im about 50 mi away (for those that dont know, chicago suburbs have like 3o mil + people). i used to go to the city alot so i know where you are talking about.

i used to have alot of post-apocalyptic like dreams a few years back. they were about escaping NWO and the like but the latest one i had was about 2 days ago. we had to get away from an "evil force". thats the only way i can describe it. we all knew it was coming it was just a matter of time. im from the nw suburbs of chicago, and im about 50 mi away (for those that dont know, chicago suburbs have like 3o mil + people). i used to go to the city alot so i know where you are talking about.
(i posted this as anonymous but i dont think it got posted)

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Vivid dream! They are important to me too. Had some apocalyptic and "cinematic" ones over the years, but not for a while. I was reading some dream techniques online though, and have had a few recently. Nothing apocalyptic, but just last night for instance, the last dream before waking was a vivid, detailed launch of a space shuttle, not sure really from what perspective, and a voice narrarated this sequence, describing in detail all the other craft and their missions, saying "their secret missions", but I was not that moved by it.

I am fascinated by dreams. Is there anything in that one besides too much internet and cnn? Are my excercises paying off? Could you recommend any dream techniques for a novice somnaut?

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It is Interesting you had that type of a dream. Could it be part of WW3? And... Does the "within the dream" the year that the "event" took place, would it be next year, or the year after for IRL.

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dreams are important...odd enough..I had a similar dream, was shown a map in it and was told it was 1000 miles SE from some point in Canada...could have been Chicago...anyway...group of 30 or o people were taking 2 "boxes" out of a garage in a suburban home...

i suppose you can guess what was in the boxes...

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I honestly belive that what you saw was a window in a timeline, the event could happen.