Tsunami - 03-13-2025
Unlike other tsunami dreams, in this dream I was never an embodied person, but just an invisible observer. Also, this tsunami was huge. In dreams in which I was directly involved they were quite modest, and I survived them by diving deep into the water just before the wave and just got sloshed around.
Begin: An elderly couple was seated on a park bench facing the ocean. The water had receded and a huge wave was making up. They were too old and feeble to run, so they just sat there watching the wave come in. I saw other people running, but too late.
My viewpoint shifted to the top of a high hill near the coast, where
a few scientists were, watching, filming, and measuring. There had to have
been warning signs or the scientists wouldn't have been there, but some
people didn't evacuate in time. Now they were running through the streets
as this huge wave wiped out buildings behind them, until they too were
engulfed.
Fade-out
The setting was probably the state of Washington, where a tsunami of this magnitude is inevitable and now already past due. They come about 300 years apart caused by the Cascadia subduction. Time from earthquake to tsunami hitting the coast, maybe 15 to 25 minutes.