This morning, I had yet another dream about New York City during/after an apocalyptic event. I think this makes the third or fourth one I’ve had over the past month or two. I don’t, as I’ve said before, look at these as prophetic dreams. The year I spent living in New York City was extremely psychologically significant for me, and I’d much sooner connect it with that than with anything outward that is going to happen. Still pretty wild though - especially if you look at this letter my friend’s grandmother sent to him, with its “prophecies” about the destruction of NY.

One dream I had previous to this involved NYC getting hit by a tsunami, and the life that we carved out afterwards. Some friends and I actually opened a jazz club. In one of the dreams I had this morning, there was also a point where I was by a pier on a lake, and all these musicians suddenly appeared and we all started playing together. So these two sets of dreams seem closely related.

Another involved the city being cordoned off into sections, which was echoed in the dream I had last night. In that dream though, vast areas in the city had been reduced to rubble. You could no longer really walk from place to place.

I also had one other dream which seemed connected to a previous one. I had a dream a week or two ago that I was leading a team to recover sunken Nazi treasure from the ocean. In another dream last night, I was part of a group of orphaned children who’d been taken in by a horrible evil old lady, represented by an art teacher I’d had as a kid, oddly named Mrs. Nietzsche. In any event, in my dream, this nasty old bitch had only taken us in because from our parents we’d inherited three chests full of treasure. She had hidden these in the basement or in the floorboards of the place she was housing us. Us kids eventually unearthed them, and shortly after the house crumbled down completely.

In any event, anybody else who’s had or is having dreams about apocalyptic events might like to check out an essay I wrote on the psychological function of the apocalypse.