Morning of November 6, 1971. Saturday.
Of the thousands of documented dreams (even prior to my teen years) I found how dreams (at least mine) often seemed to lay out the course of one's life in a fairly precise precognitive sense, often with many layered levels of accurate detail and associations (including many impersonal ones related to trivial things you see or read later rather than directly experience) - some not realized or verified until years later. This is one of my more important childhood dreams by mood and association. (This dream seemed loosely based on "When Worlds Collide", a science-fiction movie from 1951, from the 1933 novel, though my dream held major differences. The idea is popular even in modern "doomsday" pseudo-science circles with scam artists.) This ("The Pink Planet") was the original dream journal title at age ten.
It is somehow "known" in-dream that there is an Earth-sized planet on a collision course with Earth. Perhaps one of my parents had mentioned it or I had heard about it on the radio. I cannot yet see any sign of it in the sky at first. It seems to be morning, perhaps around 9 am. My father still owns a car (in real life, he was to eventually gave up driving primarily due to other people's incompetence and his growing wariness of it).
The planet eventually comes closer to Earth and I see that it is like a "twin" Earth except for its color. As I look up, I mostly only see Australia as the planet is seemingly "coming down". There is a pink glow around the other planet - even Australia looks pink. (Pink glows were fairly common in some of my childhood dreams and was associated with taking Pepto-Bismol, which seemed to have a direct effect on some types of dreams.) It is the biggest when my parents decide that we need to go to the other side of the world, apparently Japan, to get away from the destructive force of the collision. Obviously, this is not very realistic for a couple obvious reasons; one being that you cannot just drive to Japan (from Florida) in a short time and two being that it would not do any good just to go to the other side of Earth. Not focusing on this obvious unlikelihood, I am ready to leave home. There is an extraordinary sense of awe as I watch the planet. It is in the southwest region of the sky, filling at least a quarter of it, as we are leaving our home, going south down Highway Seventeen with just a few of our belongings.
We seem to get to Japan fairly quickly (again, supposedly by my father driving a car). However, I get the strong sense that I should return (having left my potential partner in life - the "mystery girl"?), so I leave my parents and set out to find out what is going on...to return to the other side of the world regardless of what awaits...as it feels it is my "destiny" for some reason, or that "love is there". I wake before much else happens, although I eventually get the odd sense (in one "reset") that I had somehow reached the other planet just by walking.
See Also: "Cage From The Sky"
Minor primarily coincidental associations: The planet in the movie is called Zyra, and my wife's name begins with Z, not all that common a beginning letter for names (or even words for that matter). The star was called Bellus and her middle name is Gabrielle. One of the main actors in the movie had a last name that was very similar to "the Other" (Susan R), the first syllable in fact. The in-dream association with the twin planet at one point was "nigh pier" (based on my "Return to the Harbor" recurring dreams as well, where I anticipated my wife's birth in Port Kembla - as well as the play on "docking" in the idea of two planets "coming together" as one as my dream seemed to imply at one point), which sounds vaguely like the first part of some pronunciations of Nibiru (which I never took seriously by the way - it is just typical scam artist pseudo-science). This was also the (coincidental) date to my trip to Australia in real life just prior to marriage. There is a Planet P (Tony Carey - my favorite vocalist who actually worked with a good friend from school but years later in Germany) album called "Pink World" which has a number of associations including some imagery that looks like my room in Cubitis or rather things I had at the time. The main song has the line "in a quiet little village by the sea I hear the calling and it calls for you and me". Also, as in my dream, I ended up in Japan prior to the continuing journey to Australia in real life, something I could not have known (or even correctly guessed) as a child.
