05/12/2026
Last night I had a dream that felt more like a message than a dream.
In it, I was living on Earth with my partner. We had a house together on the ocean. Life felt familiar. Real. Safe enough. But somewhere in the distance, a massive storm was coming.
I was with my sister when we accidentally traveled to a nearby island, not realizing how serious the storm had become. Suddenly, the sky changed. The ocean shifted. Giant waves began rising around us,tsunami-sized waves.
We started running.
One direction: waves crashing toward us.
The other direction: more waves coming from the opposite side.
There was nowhere to go.
And then came the terrifying realization: this was it. We were going to die.
I remember my sister and I bracing for impact, standing there together, waiting to drown.
Then everything changed.
I woke up.
But not in real life,inside the dream.
I was with my partner again, except nothing made sense. There were no waves. No destruction. No storm.
I felt confused.
“Where are we?” I asked.
He said the name of a place I had never heard of.
“What planet are we on?” I asked.
He named a different planet.
“What city?”
Another unfamiliar answer.
And then it hit me:
I had died in one universe and somehow awakened in another.
A parallel reality.
A different planet.
And yet…there we were.
Still together.
Still us.
I collapsed to the floor crying,not from fear, but from something much deeper. Awe. Grief. Love. Recognition.
My partner looked confused.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
And through tears, I tried to explain:
“We found each other again.”
Across worlds. Across timelines. Across death, endings, or whatever separated us,we still somehow found one another.
The feeling was so profound that I woke up carrying it with me.
The dream left me wondering:
What if love isn’t about avoiding storms?
What if life changes us, destroys old versions of us, asks us to become entirely different people,and somehow, what’s real still finds its way back?
Maybe the deepest connections are the ones that survive transformation.
Maybe we meet each other again and again, in different forms, different seasons, different universes.
🧡Colleen
