Sorrows and Orbitals

About the first thing I remember is being at work at Mercedes. It was getting to be evening time, and everyone was leaving. It had been sunny out earlier, and I could still see the sun on the tops of some of the trees, but in a few minutes that would be gone. As I went out into the parking lot with my stuff, Russ (a coworker) was there. I think he was having trouble getting his truck running or something, and so I wound up helping him jump it or something. After a trip or two back inside to get some stuff or to wait, we finally got it running.

After this, he decided to come over to my house. So we left, and we wound up at Grandmamma Miller's house. We were sitting in the dining room with a bunch of other people. I think it was mostly women, and while in the dream I knew who they all were, I can't remember most of them now. I was sitting on the side of the room by my old bedroom door. (downstairs) Everything was still decorated as if Grandmamma were living there, as opposed to how mom decorated it once we moved in.

Anyway, everyone was sitting in this big circle. To my right was someone, and on the other side of her was Russ. Across the room from me, over by the corner of the bathroom (where the piano used to sit) was mom. Most of the people were sitting in those beige metal fold down chairs. We were going to do some sort of coin gambling. I was excited because I actually had a pocket full of change, so I was going to be able to play. Russ pulled out a nickel, and he held it up and said, "This is a nickel." and he was placing his bet. He chucked it over in the direction of Grandmamma's old stereo. It bounced off the front of it and landed on the shelf in front of it. I picked through my handful of change, found a nickel, and did the same thing.

After this, some really strange stuff happened, but I'm not sure about the specific order of what went on. I think I wound up catching a quick glimpse of this "other world" that almost looked like some sort of playing board floating out in space. It had all these orange/brown blobby looking creatures on it. They were arranged in a particular fashion on this grid, and the "board" they were on was only about 10 of these grid squares wide. The board looked like it had some terrain features on it, like some dead trees, hills and valleys, and things like that, but it was small. From the view that I saw it, it would have fit on the surface of my desk. It may have been about 20 or 30 of these grid squares long, too.

All in all, it was pretty small, but I had a revelation about it. I realized that they were going to be traveling THROUGH our group, literally. They were invisible and intangible beings that would pass through each person if, when our worlds crossed, the person was in a place where one of these creatures would be traveling through. It was almost as if our world was going to be tumbled down their playing board as if we were on a some sort of slope, and whatever our world passed through would affect us. I somehow found out that these thing were called Sorrows.

Passing through a person would cause them to feel such immense sorrow that it would take a long time for them to snap out of it. Then it happened. The worlds slid against one another, and I saw that some of the people were contacted, and they were affected immediately. I managed to stay out of the way, and therefore I wasn't affected, but I immediately saw a number of the women start weeping. My mom was one of them that was affected. She was crying, and she said something into the crowd. She kind of shouted it, but I noticed that whatever it was (it was something positive about me, such as she was saying that loved me or something) she was smiling as she was crying.

After this she was fine, although it took some of the others a bit longer to recover. Mom had found a "cure" for the Sorrows. I'm not sure if she said something, if I did, or if people just figured it out, but eventually they had all worked out a "cure" for it. Then I saw a second vision.

It was the same playing field that the Sorrows were on before, but now it was bigger. The Sorrows had divided and moved off to either side, and now in the middle were these gray/green creatures. In the dream, I knew what they were called, but now I can't remember. All I know is that they were worse than Sorrows. If one of them came into contact with any of the people there, then those people would instantly be so overcome that they would commit suicide on the spot. I started to maneuver to get people out of the way so that none of them would get touched, but I wasn't able to move quickly enough. I got almost everyone except for one or two.

When they were touched by the new creatures, they immediately fell to the floor sobbing, and were so broken hearted that they just died on the spot. This, of course, made everyone sad almost as if the Sorrows themselves had touched them, and we all wound up leaving.

The next thing I knew, I was back in the vision of the board, but I traveled beyond it and through space to a very small planet somewhere else far far away. Where I arrived, it was a bit like a bar or a club, and it was combined with a skate park and skating rink. There were lots of kids around, and there were places cut out in the floor (like the big cement "pools" that are at skate parks) and people were on skateboards and having fun skating around and through these things. I walked around a bit and looked at these things and watched people.

At one point, I saw Skinner from Degrassi. His hair was bleached blond and he was skating around through one of these pools. I was supposed to be hanging out with him and watching him skate in the pools. I noticed, though, that these pools were really small. They were only 6 or 8 feet around and only about 6 inches or a foot deep. It was shallow enough that I thought that even I could try it.

So after a bit the area that we were in cleared out, and grabbed a skateboard and I went down into it to try it out. I never really seemed to touch the bottom of the pool. I mostly hovered around the whole thing, and I wasn't really trying to move, but I did. It was almost as if I were in "training mode." I think that Skinner chuckled at me a bit for not really doing anything.

I stepped up out of the pool, and someone was there to talk to me. I think it was some older woman (mid 40's or so?) I'm not sure what she was there about, but as we were talking, I heard something off to my left. It sounded like a high pitched buzzing/ringing noise, and it was coming in my direction. I turned to see what it was, and something about the way the floor was laid out, it was as if there were a portion of it, right there inside the skate arena, that slopped off and down right into space. I looked down just in time to see this thing about the size of a brown pea come flying up over the horizon, pass within a few feet of me, and continue on in it's upward direction. There was a bit of an arc to it's trajectory, almost as if I could see it's orbit around the planet. As it went by it gave off this "Zing!" sound.

I looked astonished because I had no idea where it came from, and it had come and gone so quickly. I looked at the woman who had been talking to me, and she gawked back at me. She said, "You saw it?" and I said yes. She said something like, "But no one ever sees Orbitals!" I told her, "Well, I did!" and she was just absolutely amazed about it. She told me that I needed to talk to someone, and she took me a bit to my left where this was this middle aged gentleman in a white shirt, dark dress pants, and glasses. He seemed to be some sort of scientist or something. He was fairly cheerful, but somewhat busy at the moment. He was directing something going on.

The area was now almost like some sort of "port". I was standing up on the same ground I had been, but now I was over at the left edge of it. In front of me there was a canal where something was supposed to park/land and take off again. Across from me was another "platform" like what I was standing on. The canal went off to my right, as did the platform. The area we were in, I noticed, seemed hewn out of orange/brown stone. In the far wall across from me, behind the other platform, was a tunnel opening that had stairs in it that went upstairs. To my left was a large circular tunnel that was full of stones and rubble. The scientist was directing someone or something to clean that out.

I heard a rumbling and saw some of the rocks moving, and then finally the thing burst through. It was this giant brown/orange "ball" that had the appearance of being made of extraordinarily large earthworms. It had two big eyes and a big mouth, and it's lower "jaw" jutted out in a way that it's large bottom teeth stuck out, almost as if it were somewhat bulldog like. I realized that it was a giant Sorrow! I was amazed that the scientist had it under his control. It was eating the rocks and rubble. It stopped for a moment outside of the pile and the tunnel, and it gave a disinterested look around, licked it's chops and chewed a bit of rock that it had left in it's mouth, and then it bounced, turned around, and kept going. It was almost as if the thing was from a giant video game. (as a note, the green/gray creatures with the Sorrows in the dream looked just like the Sorrows, but were just a different color, signifying that they were different/worse)

After the thing turned around and kept going, the scientist turned to me and started to tell me about the Orbitals. He said that they were constantly everywhere at all times around every planet. It's just that no one ever sees them because they lack the ability. As he was explaining this, I found myself looking down in the opposite direction from the rubble filled tunnel, and the "world" that I was on suddenly looked like a long metal tube or cylinder that was only about 6 feet wide or so. Around it I saw a few orbitals moving around it very fast.

As I kept watching, I saw more and more, until finally I jumped down and lay flat on the "world" and let them zing and zoom over my head and all around me. I was momentarily worried about being hit and pierced by one of these things, but then suddenly it gelled for me. The planet was spinning around its axis, and the Orbitals were spinning in the same direction, usually at roughly the same speed. I realized that the "dirt" of the planet was actually made of these orbitals, and that's why no one ever saw them. To them, it was just stationary dirt. But I was able to see them for what they really were. I dense grouping of fast moving Orbitals. After this, I stood back up and I was in the "station" again, and the dream ended.