Dream: Rainbows in the Dark

I was at my aunt’s house, out in the yard. It was summer, and nighttime. The sky was alive with light and cloud, and I realized there were two moons if I looked west. One was a crescent and the other was half full. I went to go in the house to call people out to look at the moons, but looking east, I saw another moon, a full moon. My cousins and I walked around the backyard looking at the moons, and then I noticed overhead I could see three nebulas with their feathery gaseous plumes, and they were so beautiful.

Then I realized that a large portion of the sky overhead looked like—if you’re looking at Doppler weather radar, it looked like a huge storm, brilliant red and orange with spots of white and pink, but there were also rims of yellow and green. I ran into my mom’s house (she lives next door to my aunt) to get my camera to see if I could take a picture. I told my mom about the sky and she said “I’ve seen something like that before.” But she actually came outside to see it. Usually in my dreams my mom dismisses what I say, which is not something she does in real life.

When I returned, the moons were gone, replaced by two huge full moons, and when I mean huge, I mean I’d have to use my whole hand to fully block one of them from sight. They seemed to be not far above the horizon. I turned to look in the east, and there was another identical full moon. I told my mom it was too bad the colors were gone, but when we looked up again there were streams of rainbow hued light. There was one that was partially hidden behind the trees, but it was huge, and I put my mom in front of me to point it out to her. When I moved to see the whole thing, there was a label tagged onto the end of it, as if it were a figure in a diagram, but I don’t remember what it said.

The sky started to get lighter, and I was sad because everything was so pretty at night, and it very quickly became day. Then Richard showed up and he seemed much happier than I’d ever seen him before. I think we were having a family dinner, and Richard had come for that.

It seemed like there were many more people than are actually in my family, but I don’t remember seeing them.