The scariest dream I had ever had, which is the same fear you speak of, Stu, is the dream I mentioned in the Space Elevator... Beam me up, Scottie! thread last November.
It was about a black hole that wandered our way and began to suck us in.
I remember my wife and I being at home (although it wasn't our home, it was the home I grew up in as a kid) and I was in the dining room. We just came back inside from saying bye to guests (I remember it being bitter cold). I was standing at the big window in the dining room looking up at the sky and the stars. It was slightly cloudy, but those ones you can see through, those light and "thin" ones. The moon was full and lit everything up brightly. The stars were absolutely gorgeous.
Anyway, I'm looking up into the sky and I see this thing moving. Can't really tell what it is (it kind of looked like a cluster of abnormally bright stars), but the moment I notice this, whatever it is, the clouds part and form a circle around this object in the sky (much like "word wrap" does around pictures in a document). Then suddenly they... I don't know, imploded or something, and a black sphere formed and started moving slowly across the sky. I could see the clouds being affected by it.
Damn, my heart jumped in my throat and I called Kristen into the room and it dissapeared.
I remember a huge sigh of relief and I thought of everyone I knew as I began to think everything was okay.
Then it came back, even bigger this time. I can't explain the fear, but it was the worst fear I had every experienced to date. Trees were starting to be uprooted and darting up into the sky, the clouds were gone and everything started to shake. As this is happening I could hear this sound as everything was being SUCKED up into the sky. It can only be described as those old hand-cranked sirens. It reminded me of the siren heard in Silent Hill when your world shifts. Fucking unexplainably scary.
We ran from the dining room and into where our daughter was sleeping, grabbed her and ran down into the basement (like that was going to do something).
We got down there and picked a corner to huddle in.
We just hugged there in the corner while the siren sound continued and debri started floating upwards.
As the shaking and siren increased, I started to wake up.
It was after three in the morning and I was on my back on the bed, on top of the covers, blinking as I woke up and staring at the ceiling. The only light in the room was from the alarm clocks on our nightstands. I glanced out the window, still a bit delirious, to make sure none of this was actually happening. I wrapped my arm around Kristen and that's when I realized for the first time, that out of all the disasters that could happen, a black hole is something we have absolutely no control over, no where to hide, nowhere to be safe. A bomb shelter would be as ineffective as using a squirt gun to ward off a pack of ravenous wolves. The end would be inevitable.
It was about a black hole that wandered our way and began to suck us in.
I remember my wife and I being at home (although it wasn't our home, it was the home I grew up in as a kid) and I was in the dining room. We just came back inside from saying bye to guests (I remember it being bitter cold). I was standing at the big window in the dining room looking up at the sky and the stars. It was slightly cloudy, but those ones you can see through, those light and "thin" ones. The moon was full and lit everything up brightly. The stars were absolutely gorgeous.
Anyway, I'm looking up into the sky and I see this thing moving. Can't really tell what it is (it kind of looked like a cluster of abnormally bright stars), but the moment I notice this, whatever it is, the clouds part and form a circle around this object in the sky (much like "word wrap" does around pictures in a document). Then suddenly they... I don't know, imploded or something, and a black sphere formed and started moving slowly across the sky. I could see the clouds being affected by it.
Damn, my heart jumped in my throat and I called Kristen into the room and it dissapeared.
I remember a huge sigh of relief and I thought of everyone I knew as I began to think everything was okay.
Then it came back, even bigger this time. I can't explain the fear, but it was the worst fear I had every experienced to date. Trees were starting to be uprooted and darting up into the sky, the clouds were gone and everything started to shake. As this is happening I could hear this sound as everything was being SUCKED up into the sky. It can only be described as those old hand-cranked sirens. It reminded me of the siren heard in Silent Hill when your world shifts. Fucking unexplainably scary.
We ran from the dining room and into where our daughter was sleeping, grabbed her and ran down into the basement (like that was going to do something).
We got down there and picked a corner to huddle in.
We just hugged there in the corner while the siren sound continued and debri started floating upwards.
As the shaking and siren increased, I started to wake up.
It was after three in the morning and I was on my back on the bed, on top of the covers, blinking as I woke up and staring at the ceiling. The only light in the room was from the alarm clocks on our nightstands. I glanced out the window, still a bit delirious, to make sure none of this was actually happening. I wrapped my arm around Kristen and that's when I realized for the first time, that out of all the disasters that could happen, a black hole is something we have absolutely no control over, no where to hide, nowhere to be safe. A bomb shelter would be as ineffective as using a squirt gun to ward off a pack of ravenous wolves. The end would be inevitable.
I wonder how many more people played it but haven't said anything. 
