* mushroom cloud dreams

 while dreaming of mushrooms may appear psychedelic, the dream (morning, 12/15/2025):

my sister said "look, a mushroom cloud" and pointed to the window.

 

i looked out, and saw a fireworks display (like a fountain of fireworks) 

and said "it's just fireworks" 

...but then i saw the cloud: orange in the night, and very nuclear.

i said "uh, oh" and placed myself in front of the window, palms forward. 
they (behind me) knew what i knew. 
i watched, peacefully, as the wave approached. 

i might have said something like "don't worry" as 
i opened my arms into the wIe "forgiveness move," 

open heart, chest up.

with death being imminent, i took a final, deep breath and smiled... 

watching (and hearing the roar of the cascading/incoming destruction). 

i counted down "five, four, three, two, one..."

...and then i woke up.

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• even james t. kirk's disbelief in the no-win scenario would have to succumb to the sights & sounds of the mushroom cloud. at that point, you surrender to whatever the afterlife be-holds.

• found the picture, below (online somewhere) and thought "the way to go".

dreams, of course, are not reality. 

my hope is that humanity can avoid the cloudiness.

we can have the passion...

without the cloud.