Please feel free to share any dreams you have had about our destabilizing climate in the comments section – they will be anonymized before they are posted.

I had a dream … I restored all climate control, 4 seasons appropriate by region around the world. ~Anonymous

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The whole of Sainsbury’s and their main internal warehouse storage have empty shelves.

There are no food stores. Like when pandemic and Brexit caused totally empty shelves in supermarkets… except in the dream I see behind the scenes and there is *nothing in their main storage* except a handful of plastic items. ~ Maša Kepic

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I’m part of a small group, circulating on foot between different wooded oases in a desert to be near to the water. The woods are remnants of temperate forests, and the desert is new, but the trees maintain the water where they are alive. We have to watch out for forest fires starting so we can escape to another wooded area. We’re next to the water in one place, at early twilight, when we hear crackling and see the orange glow through the trees. But as we’re climbing the clay bank of the lake we find deliberate hand prints and patterns drawn with sticks in the clay, and decide to wait.

Soon an injured bear swims by and approaches us, so we change our minds again and leave with the bear so she can get treatment. She’s ok. But I’m then in a different space, indoors with a bigger group and artificial lighting. There’s a meeting to discuss plans about a war and I go with my notebook, because it’s important, but then I can’t write anything because my tears are falling onto the page. ~ Anonymous

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I had a climate dream recently when forecasts announced the massive flooding in Greece.

I was at home and it started raining the way you’d expect the biblical flood to start raining down. Things continued as normal for a while; I took a bus to work and back, and walking back from the bus stop, had to wade through rising waters. My house is in a high area of town, so walking up the road from the bus stop I made it out of the accumulated flood waters, but they still kept rising so fast they were lapping at my heels, flowing up the street behind me steadily. I was always only a step or two ahead. They kept flowing uphill through the neighbourhood around my house and eventually reached a neighbour’s garden pond that they pooled into and then just sat there. It had stopped raining at that point as well.

I don’t remember how the dream transitioned, but it ended on a fairly high note in that the entire community came together to fix things up. We also planted magrove trees to stem potential future floodwaters. (This makes very little sense since I live in Europe, but hey – dream logic!)

I guess there is really a twofold meaning here – climate anxiety and guilt on the one hand, and being aware of the importance of action and community on the other, so it wasn’t an altogether terrible dream.

~ Anonymous

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My sustainability scientist sister had a dream about me doing some field work about climate adaptation and holding a handful of dripping we sphagnum moss wrapped around something smooth (like a pebble) ~ Anonymous