This post is about a dream that I had. If you don’t like reading about other people’s dreams, just skip this one.

Often my dreams are very grand in scope and follow an almost movie like script, so you’ll forgive me if this is rather long.

I remember running down a hill somewhere in the suburbs of Portland,
Oregon. As I reached the bottom, I passed through a gas station parking
lot where my ex-girlfriend was standing smoking a cigarette. I ran past
her hoping that she didn’t notice me but lady luck was not in my
corner. She immediately recognized me and started following me. The
more I ignored her, the more determined she seemed to want to talk to
me.

I ran into a large multi-story bookstore attempting to lose her but she
was right behind me. This is when things started to crystallize for me.
Her insistence on getting to me was not just to talk, I believed that
she was out to get me or the person that I was attempting to protect.

In the dream, I was what I call a Scion (although that’s never
mentioned by name in the dream) of God or perhaps one of the Seraphim
itself.
The Scion’s job is to protect people that have the power bring about
the end of the world from harm and manipulation by dark forces. These
people (called
The Gifted from here on out) usually don’t know that they have such
extraordinary power and usually are oblivious to their importance in
the cosmic scheme of things. If a Scion fails to protect one of The
Gifted, the dark forces usually use him or her to bring about the end
of the world. Interestingly enough, the end of the world, is not really
the end as it gets recreated again and the cycle begins anew. The
Scions live throughout the end and remember everything from past
worlds.

The Scions (I was one of several) have no extraordinary powers with the
exception of knowing who The Gifted are (and where they are at) and the
memory of worlds gone past. Unfortunately, the enemy of the Scions
(called The Enemy from here on out) do have extraordinary physical
powers (strength, speed, agility) and therefore Scions usually tend to
try to run away from them. All of the Scions are male, while conversely,
all of The Enemy are females. I don’t know why, that’s just the way it
is. One more thing, while Scions are naturally immortal (they can’t die
of old age), they can definitely be killed by The Enemy.

As I was hiding from my ex-girlfriend, it started dawning on me that
she could be one of The Enemy and was attempting to either kill me or
get to The Gifted that was assigned to me. I went to the elevator to
try to go up a floor. I pushed the “up” button and waited for the
elevator to come down.

As I was waiting, she saw me! It was one of those moments in the movies
where you’re waiting for the elevator while some danger is getting
closer. Just as she was upon me,  the elevator came down and the
doors closed in her face.

I  knew that The Gifted that I was assigned to was in this
bookstore, so I started searching for him/her. After a few minutes of
looking through what appeared to be the warehouse portion of the
bookstore, I found him. I’m not sure why, but it was a childhood friend
of mine named Wayne.

Thinking that The Enemy was still here to get him, I tried to get him
out of the bookstore urgently. Naturally, he didn’t want to go. I’m not
sure what I told him, but I seemed to impress upon him the idea that he
was in immediate danger and we headed out the fire escape to the back
alley.

That’s when I saw her. A beautiful blonde woman leapt from the roof
into the alley just a few feet away from us (told you they had special
powers). I immediately started running with Wayne in tow. At this
point, I realized that my ex was just a plant. She wasn’t The Enemy,
she was just really annoying.

Although we attempted to get away from the blonde, she eventually got
to Wayne (the details of how it happened blur). What I do remember is
there being a lot of wind, lighting, and dark clouds all over the
place. The world, was seemingly coming to an end.

I found Wayne in a trance while the world was falling apart around us.
Still unaware that he was causing it, I laid it all on the line
(normally you aren’t supposed to tell The Gifted about the immortal
struggle that they are involved in); I told him that he was causing
what was happening and told him, “Look dammit, the world is gonna end
if you don’t do something. I’ve seen it happen once and it’ll happen
again if you don’t act.” The information seemed to hit him hard, but it
seemed that he was starting to understand.

And as luck would have it, that’s when I woke up. {sigh} Oh well, c’est la vie.

Hollywood, call me. I got plenty more where that came from.