Time Travel Dream

I had a dream a couple of nights ago that I was actually able to remember a lot of detail about, so I thought I'd share it with you all.

I was walking through some caves and I turned a corner and ended up in a shop, as you do when walking through caves! As I looked out the shop window I could see that it was in my town, Stamford. I was looking across at The Model Fish & Chip shop, except aside from the fact it's at the end of a wide street and has no shops directly facing it, it was also a little different. The normal white paint work was now green and the name had changed to the surname of someone I know (I can't remember who though). I did notice that one of the girls who works there was still behind the counter. I saw some Police Officers walk past the shop window, but they also looked different. They were wearing yellow high vis jackets, but that had a utility belt type thing going over the shoulder. For some reason in my dream I knew this meant I had to be in the future, so I decided to step outside and look around.

As I walked up the street I could see the nightclub I work at, it also looked different. For a start it had these really tacky Christmas decorations on the side, but it wasn't Christmas so it was as though they had just been left up. The building looked as though it had aged.

I decided I needed to take some photos so that I could show people when I got back, but my camera was playing up. Every time I took a photo the camera would move in my hand so that it only got a small piece of what I was trying to take. It was also market day so the street was full of stalls and people, all of which seemed dressed in old style clothes, but this was clearly the future so I guess fashion is going backwards!

I approached the front door to the club, but no one would let me in, they thought I was a stranger messing about. So I walked around the side of the club where I met the owners son, Nick.

Nick was very surprised to see me, in fact he was shocked, he couldn't take in that I was me. Was it that I hadn't aged? Nick seemed the same as he always had, so surely I couldn't be that far in the future?

Nick explained the reason for his shock. I had actually been dead for the past 5 years! Now most people would be a little put off by this and need to focus on that for a while, but not me. I moved on to asking if my friend Alex still worked at the club. Nick said that Alex had been horribly disfigured in a fire at the club some years earlier.

I moved the conversation backwards and asked Nick how I had died. As tends to be the case with dreams I woke up before he could tell me.

Although no year was determined in the dream, I felt that while I had been dead for 5 years, the dream was only a little more than that in the future.

To help illustrate my dream I've added a couple of pictures. The first shows the chip shop as it is, the second as close as I could get to how it was in my dream. I couldn't find the right images to create the market crowds and the nightclub though.

NOW:
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DREAM:
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/337b1e48ab97.jpg[/atsimg]

reply to post by DJKris


Thanks for the visual, that adds a lot to the story! Have you told your friend in real life about what you were told happened to him in the dream? Did you get the feeling you might have perished in the same fire that disfigured him?

Aren't they odd? these time travelling dreams... especially when they involve folks you know who don't expect you.
Last night I seen myself dressed in a ten gallon hat with a beard and had a new American stint to my accent and found myself explaining why to my wifes ghost? With some technology spoilers too. The mind boggles.

Originally posted by gwynnhwyfar
reply to post by DJKris

 

Thanks for the visual, that adds a lot to the story! Have you told your friend in real life about what you were told happened to him in the dream? Did you get the feeling you might have perished in the same fire that disfigured him?

Yeah I told my friend, we joked that I might have gone up to save him, him shoving me out the way and leaving me to die in the fire! In all seriousness though, the feeling in the dream is that I hadn't died in the fire, but the likely hood is that had I been alive at the time of the fire I would certainly have been at the club and definately would have had to make sure my friend, well actually friends (I have many there) were ok.

I think I can honestly say it's the strangest and most real dream I've ever had.

Not so vivid but last night I did briefly dream I said hi to a woman who used to work there. She died about 10 years ago and I didn't seem at all suprised to see her!

Worth mentioning the building has actually had 2 fires in it's history prior to becoming a nightclub and I believe the first one actually saw it burn to the ground. I have photos of it through the years and one of the early ones it is very different to how it now appears.

So this is going to happen january/feb? you might meet someone you haven't met in a long time (the surprised emotion part of your dream of how you feel when you meet someone who knows you and hasn't seen you in a long time) your dream used nick (a friend) because you still don't know who it is your going to possibly meet! so your brain/dreams adapt.... the converstation with this person might envolve a topic of fire/police but you know of it's history of having 2 fires.....your dream and knowledge will be a possible topic conversation with someone.


of course it's a dream, dreams don't always happen.

your dream picture looks like you're standing in a shop other side of the street is there a shop there?

Sounds like one of those time dreams where the past, present & future are all combined.

Originally posted by wisper
your dream picture looks like you're standing in a shop other side of the street is there a shop there?

No, there's no shop there, that was one of the strange parts.