I had to bring this thread back to life because I just feel the need to share the dream I had last night. I don't have dreams as often as I use to. It was another one of those that felt so real, and it was eerie!
In my home state, we have many snow capped mountains, and the biggest of them is Mt. Rainier. The area around it is a National Park. Of course I've been there many times. Beautiful place to say the least.
Anyway, I drempt that my family and some family friends were at Mt. Rainier National Park like we've been many times before, and we were taking a nice hike through the wilderness. We hiked out of the forest and into a meadow where we could see the majestic mountain much more clearly. There were plenty of "ooooh"s and "aaaah"s at the mountain's beauty, when we all heard a very low rumble. We couldn't tell where the noise was coming from. I looked around trying to figure out the direction it was coming, and it seemed it was coming from the valley opposite the mountain. We didn't think much of it, it must have been a landslide or something across the valley. So we kept walking, and heard the deep rumble again. We all stopped a second time to listen and try to figure out where it was coming from. I looked at the mountain, and it didn't sound like the noise was coming from the mountain, so yeah, it had to be somewhere across the valley. But I kept looking at the mountain suspiciously. After watching it for a minute or so I could see that with every deep rumble we heard (we never felt anything), I could see some of the rocks on the mountain vibrate, and at one moment a rock broke off the mountain's side and rolled down the side, kicking up more rocks and dust. My mom and I watched the landslide roll down the side and over the trail where we had just hiked moments before, and then looked at eachother and asked "Do you think she's going to erupt??" We were getting nervous now, and just stood there, deciding if we should not worry too much about it and continue on our hike or head back to the car. While we were all trying to decide, I started hearing water running, which was weird because there was no stream or river nearby. So I looked around some more, and again looked at the mountain. All the snow was melting! And it was swiftly running down the mountain's sides. Knowing this is much like what happened right before Mt. St. Helen's exploded 29 years ago, I yelled at everyone to run to the cars NOW! So we started running, and the water caught up to us. It wasn't real deep, but it was messy and hard to run through as it was still moving fast and we couldn't see rocks and roots to trip over. Right as we made it down to the parking area, the mountain's top blew, and a magnificent cloud of ash filled the sky. We all watched in horror and then...
I woke up.
