I had the scariest, most vivid dream last night! I dreamed that the world was ending, but it was happening in this gradual, awful way, such that I (and my dream-girlfriend) were stuck in a part of the world that hadn't yet been completely destroyed (I think it was Connecticut) and realized that something was terribly wrong but couldn't find out the details. In the dream I was frantically searching the Internet for information, and all the news sites were either unreachable or had posted "Technical Difficulties" messages. From the little news we'd been able to get, a good portion of the world / universe had dissolved into this white mist, and the dissolution was proceeding towards the Eastern seaboard of the USA. We'd already observed the effects of the "winding down" process where we were, in that "entropy had ceased to function" (this is how I phrased it in the dream, although now that I think of it, it doesn't make much sense). This meant that plants no longer grew, there was no wind, and human beings couldn't make any changes in their lives -- my dream-girlfriend had wanted to take this clerical job at the sheriff's office, but had to turn it down after the "entropy" phenomenon had taken effect. Additionally, my dream-self kept getting these mental flashes of what I identified in the dream as the Hindu god Shiva rising out of the ground and turning all the surrounding organic matter into this sort of particle slurry. Since I happened to be near the Yale campus, I ran over to visit my old Indian CS professor. to ask him what it meant, but he said he wasn't a Hindu and didn't know.
Also, to make matters worse, there was a mosquito in my room in real life, and it would whine in my ear every so often. I ended up sleeping with the sheet over my head, which was okay because it was such a nice night.
On the plus side, I did probably my best run ever around the Park last night, even though I've got this little cough thing.
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