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09-03-2010, 11:25 PM
Two children or teenagers are swimming through a lake. it is night or heavily overcast. They have been running away from home together - a boy and a girl. When they almost reached the intended shore and were already in shallow water where water plants were growing, a huge boiling wave appears behind them on the horizon. The boy urges the girl to carry on faster to get out of the water before the wave hits, but they have no chance to avoid it. The boy then says, that they should dive together and calms the girl that everything will be all right - which it somehow strangely is.
In a next scene they (or I) are diving down to their former village, here they lived. Their parents are still in their houses, which are not severely damaged. They are dead, drowned, but have a smile on their faces - apparently because they know their children in safety.
Then I am the observer of another scene, which is some hours, days or not more than weeks later in the same area. I witness a 1980s Peugeot car slowly carwling over a muddy surface on a mountain/hill. A handful of people are walking near it in the same direction. The mud has dried completely and seems to be almost rock-hard. I will later wonder after waking up, whether there was an additional cause to 'bake' the mud and harden it so much. It actually covers the whole mountain - which seems to be about 1500 - 2000 m high above the lake. It is rather steep but there is something like a pist on its ridge, where the small group is traveling. It seems they have not much fuel and are very carefully preserving it by regularly cleaning the air filter/oil filter - which strangely is situated on the top of the car. Not unlike a snorkel of an Land Rover, I think, but different. It is hidden in a flap on top of the roof. The driver explains to me that he is cleaning the filter with "sand and water". The baked mud crust on which they are driving has a hole in it at one place where one can see beneath it. Below is still the rocky surface of the former mountain. The baked mud layer is not thicker than about 30 cm and there is a gap between it and the rocks below. Maybe due to the drying process, where the mud seems to have expanded, like the ice of a glacier where it joins the mountain face, where also there is a gap between ice and below's surface.
Despite the fact that the baked mud layer is so thin, it seems to be very strong and able to carry people and the car.
Another thought appears in my mind: This seems to be the 'new' surface of the earth and that all below it is now for archaeologists. As with the children after the wave, an enormous peace is surrounding this whole scene. Everything is new, clean and pure. The sun is bright and the sky looks friendly. Though those people with the care don't really know where to go, they seem not frightened - just doing what they have to do.
In a next scene they (or I) are diving down to their former village, here they lived. Their parents are still in their houses, which are not severely damaged. They are dead, drowned, but have a smile on their faces - apparently because they know their children in safety.
Then I am the observer of another scene, which is some hours, days or not more than weeks later in the same area. I witness a 1980s Peugeot car slowly carwling over a muddy surface on a mountain/hill. A handful of people are walking near it in the same direction. The mud has dried completely and seems to be almost rock-hard. I will later wonder after waking up, whether there was an additional cause to 'bake' the mud and harden it so much. It actually covers the whole mountain - which seems to be about 1500 - 2000 m high above the lake. It is rather steep but there is something like a pist on its ridge, where the small group is traveling. It seems they have not much fuel and are very carefully preserving it by regularly cleaning the air filter/oil filter - which strangely is situated on the top of the car. Not unlike a snorkel of an Land Rover, I think, but different. It is hidden in a flap on top of the roof. The driver explains to me that he is cleaning the filter with "sand and water". The baked mud crust on which they are driving has a hole in it at one place where one can see beneath it. Below is still the rocky surface of the former mountain. The baked mud layer is not thicker than about 30 cm and there is a gap between it and the rocks below. Maybe due to the drying process, where the mud seems to have expanded, like the ice of a glacier where it joins the mountain face, where also there is a gap between ice and below's surface.
Despite the fact that the baked mud layer is so thin, it seems to be very strong and able to carry people and the car.
Another thought appears in my mind: This seems to be the 'new' surface of the earth and that all below it is now for archaeologists. As with the children after the wave, an enormous peace is surrounding this whole scene. Everything is new, clean and pure. The sun is bright and the sky looks friendly. Though those people with the care don't really know where to go, they seem not frightened - just doing what they have to do.