The Water Scrubbers

I had a disturbing dream last night that a new businesses that involves "scrubbing" water to make it potable opened a new store in a strip mall. When (?I) the owner of the ?bookstore next to this business went to meet the new business owner it was a pair of very pleasant ?middle-eastern men and they advised that i needed to get into the water scrubbing business too because of how lucrative the market is going to be once clean water can no longer be harvested from under ground.

One of the men stated that the date when water would no longer be available for free is in the year 2022 and i felt some relief knowing i would be dead by then but was concerned for my friends and their children.

Those men were validating what i had already suspected was going on. I quickly left the strip mall to find my friend and tell him that it was true - clean water would soon have to be purchased like electricity or cable television and it was a matter of life and death that we get The People this news to fight the trend before it’s too late.

Oil Spill Contaminates Montana Town’s Water Supply, EPA Says

Gov. Steve Bullock Declared State of Emergency In Two Counties Near River

By ALISON SIDERUpdated Jan. 19, 2015 9:09 p.m. ETOil from a broken pipeline has seeped into the Yellowstone River and contaminated a Montana town’s water supply, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday evening.

Court halts construction of another section of protested Dakota Access oil pipeline - 9/18/16

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/court-halts-construction-section-pipeline-42159649

Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aquifer - 9/18/16

http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-fertilizer-plant-sinkhole-reportedly-leaks-215-million/story?id=42138240

Gas prices up, stations running out after pipeline spill - 9/18/16

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/bentley_declares_state_of_emer.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dakota-access-pipeline-protests-water_us_57d85a51e4b0aa4b722d12b1

Note on dream symbolism. I think the new business owners being Middle-Eastern is that they are representing The Big Oil Conglomerate. The dream itself is based on all the of real-life headlines recently of the many “oil mishaps” and my concern that there is an actual effort by energy companies (oil and fracking) to corner the market on clean water to further diminish human rights.

Apocalyptic Adventure

The loading of people to the transports has begun and the planet will begin to self-destruct at any time. Crowds of people are frantically trying to get on the shuttles and it's a controlled mayhem. My friends and i say "fuck it" and get on our mini-bikes/scooters and take off through the city. We decide to take our chances with fate and challenge the "end of the world" scenario. If it's true, we die, if it's bullshit, we'll have a planet mostly depopulated and able to clean itself up once the parasites are mostly gone. 

I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, if i'm going to die (apparently the Earth is going to burn up) i'd rather it be over quickly. On the other hand, i'd like to see how things turn out (even if that means staying until the final burn).

As we're riding our scooters through the city, the city is crumbling around us. Under overpasses large chunks of road fall and i'm considering slowing down and being crushed and instantly killed by the falling cement thinking it would be quick and instantaneous. A couple on a scooter next to me are crushed and another scooter a few yards ahead is barely missed by a large chunk. I keep riding fast and decide that once we get out of the city and its falling hazards, it will be less hectic so i decide to live and keep riding, assuming chance will either crush me or i'll escape to where the skies are clear.

We're outside the city and the countryside is just empty grassland with mounds of rubbish. We abandon our scooters and begin walking. There's about a dozen of us - mostly young (my age but in the dream that's probably late 20's), male and female. Some are strangers to each other but we're still a "team" working together. 

We come to a place where the ground is wavy mounds and looks like the walking wouldn't be too difficult. Some of the group start to walk into that and i'm concerned that if the earth quakes those mounds will split and become jagged, making it a very hazardous journey. The group talks about it and decides to stay on the road a while longer. 

A sub-division of ranch-style houses is directly ahead and we another small group of people making their way in the same direction we're going but already within the streets of the neighborhood. These are other people that either missed or chose not to board the shuttles. Depending on the circumstance, they may be satisfied with chance or they may be fearful of dying and my group is considering how to approach. 

The space ships are filling the sky, leaving Earth and it's becoming noticeably drier and hotter but we keep moving forward. The two groups decide to merge and continue forward together to continue to get as far from settled areas as we can, thinking that when we get to where it's pure Mother Nature the green grass and trees will cool us.  

Pacifica without the Pain

Dream from several weeks (?months) ago - I'm in the Pacifica i go to in dreams. It's got the cerulean ocean and rough surf just like the real one but the rest of it is all dream neighborhood. Narrow lanes with quiant houses on either side, in a grid. I've been up and down those streets so many times that it's almost become a good dream. There's a place, the "docks" where it's kind of a shady place that i don't like to go but that's where the music and restaurants are. Sometimes i've moved back and i'm living in a high-rise apartment complex and i can't lock my door and i'm always afraid people will come and steal my stuff. Pacifica dreams, as much as i love Pacifica, are always stress dreams because of the Alexanders. But last night was different. I don't remember how the dream started, but at some point i came across Mr. Alexander. He looked good and he wasn't drunk. We were going to walk down to the "docks" to get some food. At first i suggested we walk - taking the route i took so many times when i lived with the Alexanders. Down the hill, a right at the bottom and walk down the road until the stairs to the overpass over Hwy 1 come up on the left. Climb the stairs and sometimes just stand on the caged pedestrian walkway watching the cars....  But then, when i thought about having to walk back up that long hill, i thought it would be better if we took a car. He didn't care either was so we took his car. I drove, just like back then, when he'd call home from the bar and want somebody to come drive him home. He had a son and four daughters still living at home when i lived there, but he always asked for me, his "favorite daughter" to come drive him home. Messy. I'd never known an alcoholic before him. Or children of an alcoholic either. But in the dream he was sober.

I drove us to the bottom of the hill but when i got to the bottom i wasn't sure how to get to the "docks" driving because i'd only ever walked down the hill all the years i lived there. I took a left thinking i'd left the dream guide me, and we ended up in an industrial area i'd never been before. Mr. Alexander never said a word while we were driving but it wasn't an uncomfortable silence.

Now we are walking down the row of restaurants and i'm pointing out the different ones that i know are pretty good. He says he just wants to go to the kind of restaurant that has meatloaf. I'm thinking he means a diner so i choose the place that's most like a diner even though it doesn't have the best food. As we're walking up the sidewalk, he's asking me how i've been after so many years have passed. I say something about being fat and he looks at me and says "You have some muffin tops but still look good" and i'm relieved to hear him say it. We get seated at a table and a waitress takes our order.

We finish eating and i excuse myself to go to the restroom. When i come back, Mr. Alexander has paid the check. I'm a bit concerned because i didn't mean for him to get the tab but he seems fine with it so we walk out. It makes me feel relieved to see him looking so good and healthy and not drunk.