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Today, I experienced a dream that actually made me write a bulleted list about it so I wouldn't forget. I figured I should just record it here though, so I finally turned on this computer again...

I dreamt that my city was destroyed in a most menacing, weather-related disaster of sorts.

Started out as a dream that would've normally been kind of pleasant. I was in a cube-shaped building, perhaps 20 stories tall, on the top floor which was an observation deck covered all the way around by window panes. I was observing my city for a chat with a friend of mine. It was a sunny day, I could see all the smaller, light gray buildings dotting the ground below, the shoreline at the end of the city, and standing not too far away from the shore was a very tall skyscraper. This skyscraper was under construction, with only a light blue metallic skeleton erected, but I remembered it was something grand. Like everyone was looking forward to its completion.

It started raining mildly hard, but the sun was still bright. My friend and all the people around us on the observation deck of the building started grumbling. I remember my friend kept voicing his annoyance about how the rain always spoiled his days. I remained the sole cheerful entity there, but I remember I was experiencing an unmistakable feeling of dread at how I had to force myself to say out loud that "It's still a beautiful day!!"

We continued observing for a minute before the dark clouds began covering the sky. Suddenly there were dark clouds rising out of the ocean beyond the distant shoreline. Then the clouds were slowly bubbling up on the streets below, swerving in between the buildings, filling every gap, and steadily rising in altitude as well. People were starting to get scared. Still I remained the only cheerful person, and I told my friend "Hey... can't have rain without dark clouds, now can you?? This is most fitting." People started very loudly murmuring.

Then I saw. About two miles away from where I stood, there was a funnel cloud rising out of the dark clouds on the ground itself. It was wider at the bottom, and smoothly decreasing in diameter at the top until it looked like a cloudy squid's arm. When it had grown to about two miles high, it started swaying back and forth, back and forth, and it reminded me of some mad animal. It started falling, slow and then fast. The entire funnel whipped itself down onto the ground at the base of the skyscraper that was under construction. A shockwave smashed into it, and the whole thing shattered. I was shocked. The noise was softened due to the glass panes that separated us from the outside. Everybody started screaming. The funnel smashed onto the ground close to where my building stood. The shockwave zoomed towards us, destroying every building in its way. I stared at it as it came for the building I was in, but it stopped inches away from us.

The funnel smashed down three more times, shockwaves destroying everything. I put my head down as all the window panes shattered noisily. Then when I looked up, I saw that the city had been leveled. There were two other funnel clouds a long distance away doing the same work, lightning striking at random, like an apocalyptic vision of some sort. The clouds in the sky started clearing up. And then I woke.

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