Spoiler: On the topic of dreams...
showTwo weeks ago I had one of these vivid dreams.
The setting is pretty simple and limited; I am eating with a woman in a Japanese style room, sitting cross-ledged in front of the usual Japanese coffee table; a little one that is obviously meant for two people only. We are having a blast of a meal, talking a lot about everything and nothing, laughing a lot as well… it felt incredibly good! It goes this way for quite a while, then she tells me something ~that part I can't remember... maybe because I didn't hear her... I don't know, can't remember really~ and as she speaks, I move my head to the left and, for the first time in the dream, I notice that there is a window in this room. Through the window I can understand that the room where we are sitting is part of a house that is located really close to an ocean or a sea, as the sea walls are located almost below the window (a very big window actually, nearly half the size of the room’s wall, though the room itself is pretty small). Anyway, I look outside and I see a huge wave coming very fast towards the sea walls, crashing really hard and making a tremendous noise. I observe with insistence, and I notice afar a tsunami heading towards us; something that leaves no possible doubt about the consequences of its arrival. All this took place in a few seconds, by the way.
I turn to her... she looks terrified and paralysed, staring at the incoming tsunami. I shake her up with all my strength, screaming at her to take a hold of herself and to flee. She does succeed to come back to her senses, and then she runs towards the room’s only door. She opens it and, as she turns around, she sees me sitting in the same spot as before. She shouts at me, telling me to hurry and join her… but I stay there, gently smiling at her, replying: “I was prepared for this possibility; I won’t leave this place. I love you… goodbye dear.” Those are the exact words that I spoke in the dream, I remember them very clearly. At this point I have to say that, weirdly enough, this door felt like a direct access to safety from the incoming tsunami… an access to a place that wasn’t part of the dream’s setting anymore.
She closes the door. I turn my head towards the window once again. I gaze at the tsunami… it comes crashing on the sea walls, overcomes them effortlessly, breaks the window and violently sweeps away the whole room, drowning me in the process.
That’s when I woke up.