Dream CVI

I had gone out to a concert at the local university. I was accompanied by a woman I knew and another man, both of whom insisted they were not a couple, but who obviously were. Their attentions to one another became increasingly annoying, so when intermission came, I excused myself, ostensibly to use the restroom, but in reality to escape them both.

I wandered along a dorm room corridor, and finally chose a room at random. I was tired, so I thought I would use this room to take a nap.

It turned out, though, that the room was already occupied. In fact, it was occupied by Galactus, who was sitting on the floor smiling. Beside him was his helmet; I had never seen him without it, and it struck me that he looked just like Clark Kent, only much larger--about fifteen feet tall.

He told me that he was going to destroy the earth by absorbing all the energy out of it. I asked him if there was any alternative, and after a pause he said he didn't think there was. I offered to travel through space and find another planet he could use (I actually had a few in mind), but he said there wasn't any time, as he was due to destroy the earth at 2:25 AM and it was already 2:23.

I asked him, "What about the energy from Thor's hammer? Would that be a good substitute?"

He was thoughtful for a moment, and decided he would give it a try.

I went into the bedroom and decided that, if the world was going to end in less than two minutes, I at least wanted to be relaxed. So I lay down and went to sleep.

I woke up, and someone was lying next to me, pressed against my back. I reached behind me to see what kind of hair this person had, and confirmed that it was the woman I'd tried to lose earlier. How the heck did she find me? I wondered. I chose a completely random room. Did she just search through them all until she found me?

I glanced at the clock, and it said the time was shortly after 6 AM. I guessed that Galactus had found some other means of sating his hunger, and I went back to sleep.