I was falling asleep late last night–around two in the morning–and lying in bed facing the window. To set up: the window overlooks a brick wall, but if you sleep at the right angle you can look up into the sky past the curtain.
I have no idea if I was asleep or drowsing or temporarily insane, but I was staring out the window when suddenly the wall grew brighter. My first thought was a drowsy “Huh? Daytime?”
But the brick wall–and the sky above–were turning bright red.
I shot out of bed and grabbed at the curtain, my heart literally thudding in my throat–and nothing. Peaceful black sky, faint outlines of the bricks on the wall. I don’t think I fell asleep for a good half-hour after that.
I don’t know what to think. I know I was awake for getting out of bed, but those few minutes before–they were probably a dream. But they felt so real.
No need to worry. Your brain just temporarily adjusted the tint.
In all seriousness, it sounds to my amateur person like it was just a very vivid dream. That, or a hypnagogic hallucination. I wouldn’t worry unless it’s a common thing for you.
Well you see, in the future machines will rule the planet and all of mankind will be forced into menial servitude of the machines. All, that is, except for scattered pockets of human resistance who play a perpetual game of cat and mouse with the machines in an ongiong attempt to regain the freedom of humanity. But the machines are clever and, having long since discovered the means of time travel, have recently been known to realize its utility. The machines have sent one of their own, cloaked in human flesh, into our time to ferret out and destroy the ancestor of the key leader of the human resistance. The red glow you saw would be the portal between now and the future, open only long enough to deliver the terminator who will now stalk its quarry without mercy. You should be honored to have been in the presence of such a magnificent creation of creations. And scared shitless if your real name is … what was her name again?
Didn’t Freud say there are no accidents and you should trust your dreams but they only reflect the past and present, not the future? Or did I just write that in my slee…zzzzz.
Sorry. I turned the heat up too high on the electric stove last night for a bit and it might have reflected off the haze.
(Seriously, that sounds scary. I get lights like that through the windows occaisionally, but it’s just cars turning in the street. Are there any red awnings nearby that might have filtered light from passing cars?)