Corona Virus and Time Travel

Date: 2/13/2020

At first I was with this group of volunteers (they had experience I didn’t) and we showed up at this hospital to help. There’d been a virus outbreak (it was called Corona Virus but honestly I haven’t researched it much to know if it was the actual same thing) but it was spreading so bad across the whole world that it was almost apocalypse level. Some of the volunteers were doctors so they helped medically, some were helping make huge batches of food in this tiny kitchen shed thing. I didn’t know what to do so I just awkwardly followed people and got in the way. I mostly watched people cook, and I stared sadly at the food that literally all had either wheat or eggs in it so I knew I was going to be starving. Anyway, the leader of our group had come to help with food stuff and then calls the room on an intercom and just BLURTS OUT that her husband (also a doctor person from the group) is infected, has been hiding it, and only has a few minutes left. She’s like super shook and runs out to go be with him. We’re trying to tell her she can’t go be with him because she’ll get infected too but she’s like “THEN LET ME!” And runs out to the quarantine area. Eventually I guess they realized I didn’t know how to help (but no one ever helped show me what I could do even though I desperately wanted to..?) so they sent me home. I remember cooking for awhile, and realizing part way through my phone had no service but I was cooking in the apartment leasing office (???) and figured I must just have bad reception in there. I eat and then head back to me apartment except all my neighbors are gathered out in the parking lot and I’m like “k.” I listen in to the last little bit where they’re voting for something and afterwards this woman tells me how this virus had been spreading and how there’d been confirmed cases as close as Liberty (the hospital /makeshift hospital I’d been volunteering at) so they were deciding whether or not to evacuate. Then she asked me if I’d been near there and I sheepishly had to answer I’d been working there earlier in the day. Everyone just skittered away from me in horror. I tried to tell them I didn’t have any symptoms or anything but they were, rightfully so, terrified. Anyway this one mom and her daughter weren’t horrified at me and walked with me up towards our apartments. But for whatever reason the building was suuuuper confusing. We walked for ages through all sorts of stuff and up a million stairs until we felt totally lost. Me and the girl my age walk into this giant fancy living room and we’re like ??? Isn’t this where our apartments are? And the whole thing makes no sense. I sprint over to the big huge windows and state in horror/confusion at the lawn. “THATS my avocado tree I planted!!” Except it was huge, way bigger than it ever was when I had it. “And that’s my apricot tree!!” It had been a stump when I remembered it and as we looked closer it still was a stump at the base, but new growth had come out of it and the tree was 8 feet tall. The only thing that made sense was that we were somehow in the future where our apartment building had been converted to luxury homes, but that just begged the question: WHEN are we and does that mean we’re...dead? Me and the girl had brief existential crisises, but then I had a brilliant idea. “If I died I’ll have a tombstone in our family plot. I’m sure of it.” We hurried to my parents “house” (not one I recognize from rl) and no one was there so we just rummaged through everything trying to find the tombstone plaques in the basement. There was a random doctor dude down there who seemed concerned about me but I just told him to leave me alone. Anyway, the friend has kind of morphed into Caroline and we’re digging through tons of music tapes and dvds and stuff trying to find something from a year after 2020 that would prove we’ve time traveled. But everything is the freaking 90s. Then I find the genealogy record books and I’m like JACKPOT. But I just cannot find anything to explain what happened it’s all my way old relatives. I find an old diary from when I was a kid, but that doesn’t really help either. Then there was also “my mom” in the room with us but it like...wasn’t her? Because if it was I obviously would’ve like...asked her questions and stuff. So I can only describe it as like an AI type thing that will look and act like her (respond the way she would) but wasn’t *her*. But it didn’t seem weird to us at all. Anyway she’s all “oh hey I found one of my journals!!” And we convince her to read it to us. It’s about some day when I was like 12 when we all went to a Mexican restaurant I guess, and I’d seen a stranger who looked familiar but I couldn’t pinpoint who. But I’d “narrowed it down to 3 likely options.” She asks me if I remember that and I’m like ??? No? And she says “see I told you this journal wouldn’t be helpful.” Caroline tells her to keep reading, from something more recent, but at the same time I start smacking her arm yelling, “do you see that???!” Pointing wildly at the wall. Everyone looks but they’re like “nothing’s there?” But I could see it, it was this hole opening up and it was all warped and blue and almost glitchy looking, but looking through I saw the outdoors but like through a lens. All the buildings and city were crumbling and the sky was smoking and it just made me want to cry uncontrollably even though I didn’t understand it. I tried to explain what I was seeing but the more I tried the more my throat would close up and my whole body would shake like a seizure or something and then all at once the hole snapped shut and I woke up. Legit woke up and was like “I JUST WATCHED MY OWN DEATH FROM THE FUTURE OMG IM GONNA GET THE CORONA VIRUS AND DIE but yay my avocado tree made it”

AI generated interpretation This dream appears to be a reflection of your anxieties and fears surrounding the current coronavirus pandemic. The dream begins with you in a hospital, helping with the virus outbreak in some way, although you feel like you are not equipped to do so. The leader of the group then announces her husband's infection with the virus, which could be seen as a representation of the fear that the virus could affect your own loved ones. You then go home and find your neighbors discussing whether to evacuate, indicating the fear that the virus could spread to your own community. This fear is further reinforced by your own guilt when they find out you had been near the hospital earlier that day. The dream then shifts to a more symbolic level, with you and your friend discovering that you have been transported to the future, and that your apartment building had been converted to luxury homes. This could be seen as a representation of your fear that the virus could have long-term effects on your life and your community. The discovery of the tombstone plaques and the old diary further signify your anxiety about the future, as does the mysterious hole in the wall. The dream ends with your realization that you will be affected by the virus, although your avocado tree will survive, suggesting that some good