Thursday, February 04, 2021

The Hole in the Earth

When the dream started, I was at the Miller farm in Weyers Cave, or somewhere close by.  I was in an open field, and there were mountains on the horizon, but everything had a very stylized, almost cartoonish quality to it.  Everything was very "clean" and sharp, almost simplified in appearance, and it all had this weird glow to it, almost as if it were supposed to be night time, but in a the middle of a city in a video game.  Saints Row 3 and 4 come to mind.  It was dark, it was late, yet everything was plainly visible.

Out in the middle of the field, there was a very large hole.  The hole was also cartoonish in that it was a perfect circle, and the edges of the circle were cut perfectly into the ground, and it was solid black.  There was a little bit of a hint of perfectly vertical walls at the edge that ran down into the ground, but it did not look like dirt.  It was just cut into blackness.  The hole was growing rapidly, and things were falling into it.  At first the hole looked like it was maybe several hundred feet wide, but then it looked like it was miles wide at the same time.  

I was with a group of people, some family and some from work, I think, and there was even someone that I think was kind of dressed like a medieval knight.  The knight was there to somehow help us fight the hole or something.  The rest of us were just scrambling to keep away from it so we didn't fall in.  There may have been a brief scene where we were with the knight in a setting kind of like a Robin Hood encampment.  There was a large wooden fence all around, and torches all over the place keeping everything lit, and lots of people running around.  I think we were trying to figure out either how to avoid the hole, what was in the hole, or where the hole eventually wound up.  What was on the other side of it?  Where did it lead?

I saw a brief view of the entire planet Earth from space, and I could see the hole on the surface, almost as if it were an overlaid image on top of the earth.  The hole was kind of up to the north-west of my point of view, but just like with seeing it on the ground, I could see the dark gray-to-black of the inner wall of the hole, perfectly perpendicular to the flatness of the top of the hole.  From here I could see it growing, too, going from taking over about one fifth of the surface, to one quarter, to one third, growing to the size of the Earth itself.

Back on the ground, the edge of the hole was coming towards us, and lots of things were still falling in.  We were running between the "Big Barn" towards the dairy barn on the farm, but even the big barn started to fall into the hole.  Somehow at this point we realized that the other end of this hole came out into something like an alternate dimension that resembled our current one, but was different and somehow more malicious.  I don't know if there were any specifics about that discovered, but somehow we knew.

Finally the hole got big enough and came fast enough that the dairy barn dropped into it, and we were going to be next.  I remember a very brief falling sensation, followed by a quick flip, and suddenly I was standing on new ground.  Everything in the new place had a reddish color to it, almost as if it were lit by lava.  It was as if the entirety of Mordor was inside of Mount Doom.  We knew we were stuck here, because within a few minutes the hole would have the whole Earth engulfed, but we still didn't know why this was all happening.  Unfortunately the dream ended before we found out.