The dream beings with me coming to a place that I knew that was a pub turned coffee house. Ironically we have one of those not far away from me, but it's interior design is different. Anyhow, I'm standing out in front of the building, which is kinda smallish, roughly house sized, and as I'm standing there, I have like this vision in the dream where that building is suddenly transformed from a happy, lively business into this burned out husk.
On the outside, where once the paint had been beautiful and colorful, it was now covered in ash, and smoke damage like there'd been a fire. Walking up to it I noticed that every single window and door in it was gone, including their frames. It didn't look like the windows and doors had melted, but rather that they'd been removed due to being damaged by the fire. Stepping through the opening that had once been the front door, I found the front room of the coffee shop just absolutely destroyed.
Parts of the ceiling were hanging down, and you could see more windows that were missing, with obvious signs of smoke damage like there was on the outside. There was also this smell of smoke/burned stuff in the air, but it wasn't strong in the way it would be if the fire was recent. It was more that "this has been here a while" smell, like old ashes from a campfire. So this fire had already happened at least a couple weeks earlier as best I could tell.
I then remember looking through one of the internal windows (they were high up on the edge of the wall, like windows meant to let in light, but not be full windows), and noticed more fire damage on the other side. Oddly, for some reason, I felt bad for the owners of the place at that moment like, "Oh no! Don't let it be true!" I then tried to get on my tippy toes to see through the window, but it was too high up. I then find this cinder block next to me that I can climb onto for that extra bit of height I needed.
But when I try stepping on it, my feet were surprisingly heavy and I had great difficulty lifting them up the short distance to the top of the block, like I was wearing heavy exercise leg weights. I then got creative and found a way to pull my leg up and get it onto the block. Then I lifted myself up, got on my tippy toes, and looked through the window. What I see inside is much the same as in the smaller front room.
Like, fire damage everywhere, missing windows, stuff just absolutely wrecked, etc. I legit got sick to my stomach at seeing this because I felt so bad for the owners of the shop. Deciding I'd been there long enough, I got off the cinder block, turned, and started towards the door I'd entered through. Now this is where it started to get weird. As I'm walking towards the door, the scene on the other side completely changed.
When I'd stepped inside the building it'd been warm outside, middle of summer, kinda hot and muggy, but not oppressively hot. However, as I'm walking towards the door, I saw what I would describe as almost like time fast forwarding. I watched as the trees, in real time, as though I was watching a timelapse, went from the brilliant green of summer, to the sickly green of early fall, to peak fall colors, and then finally feel to the ground.
By the time I stepped through the door, and back outside, it was now full on winter. Immediately, as soon as I stepped through, this powerful blizzard hit. Oddly, I remember saying, "Thank You, Lord," because moments earlier I'd been sweating due to the summer heat, and when I walked through that door I was hit with a cold blast of air that felt good, like air conditioning on overdrive. And it wasn't like bitter cold. Just nice, cold and refreshing.
But then the blizzard got stronger, and the snow heavier, as it quickly began to coat everything in a thick layer of snowy white that looked like the heaviest blizzard I've ever seen. Like, feet per hour of snowfall. Anyhow, as this is going on, I'm turning myself around slowly and watching this in wonder saying, "Lord, what am I seeing? What am I see? Please, Lord, tell me!" Immediately, the dream, and the vision in the dream ended, and I woke up in my apartment again.
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