I had a crazy dream a few weeks back that I was an old, but very powerful and wealthy man. In this dream, I was powerful enough to learn a huge war was coming to our planet earth that could destroy our civilization as we know it.

Fearing the extinction of my family, my wealth and desire to protect them led me to order my servants to seek out and cryogenically freeze my long-lost grandson in order to save him from the apocalypse. I do recall that my elderly and bitter self felt no reason to meet with nor explain to my 18 year old kin of the situation.

I remember I aged lonely and bitter as I obtained my vast fortune, my family outcasting themselves from me and anything to do with me. I felt little need to see him, and selfishly took my own measures to save him from demise. High atop my spire-like gothic skyscraper in the dark, rain-filled sky I plotted out everything to the T. Nothing could go wrong.

I never did, nor expected to, survive the apocalypse. My grandson, however, was successfully preserved and my servants were under strict orders not to release him until the world was deemed safe once more. My dream then skipped several hundred years into the future. My elder self had long since passed away and my perspective became that of one of my servant’s.

In a world of sandy dunes and destroyed relics of my empire passed, my servants watched over and monitored the health of my last of kin. Mysteriously, the grandson was awakened from his frozen state well before his time.

Although my servant form was unable to witness the awakening nor ever see the grandson ever in his life, he took it upon himself to get to the bottom of this. Scouring a post-apocalyptic world, avoiding raiders and dangerous creatures, he sought to find his answers.

Why was the grandson awakened before it was time?

What does he look like?

Who awakened him and for what purpose?

Unfortunately, I was unable to discover these answers before I awoke. Though I remember the world quite vividly, making it, perhaps, the most robust dream I had ever had in my life.

I hope I have the chance to relive it again.