“Well, I dreamed I saw a silver space ship flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying. And colors flying all around the chosen ones.” - Neil Young

I had a dream the other night that reminded me of a cross between this song and something out of the book of Revelations. I was standing next to someone who seemed to be a friend. But in retrospect it seems this friend or guide could have been showing me the scene transpiring, and I have a sense that it could be something about to happen in the not too distant future.

We were looking up at the sky, and a large orb began to pass in front of the sun. It had a silvery luminescence similar to the moon, and at first I thought it was the moon, but it was moving too quickly, and in a direction parallel to the horizon. Then we noticed, or I was shown, that the waning moon was also visible in the sky. It looked further away and thus smaller than this disk, which was fully round and appeared to be about the same size as the sun.

The orb partially eclipsed the sun as it passed at a slightly lower angle, but it was much closer, and didn’t really block out the light, as though you could see through it. In a way it seemed to absorb some of the sun’s light and radiate that light itself. It moved past the sun in a matter of minutes, and continued to move across the sky along the same path above than the skyline. Then it appeared to stop and hover just past a large ornate building that looked like a cathedral or a bank, with opaque glass walls and many steps leading up to it.

Two giant men seemed to jump down from inside the glowing orb onto the steps of this “cathedral”. Then they walked or jumped through the walls. It wasn’t like they dissolved or the walls dissolved, it was more like they were moving in another dimension that interplayed with this one.

Once inside, they quickly engaged in a struggle with someone who was operating a massive machine. Apparently this machine controlled time in this dimension, constraining it to regular incremental movement, “like clockwork”. It looked like it had been built many centuries ago and then moved into this modern edifice from who knows where … probably some old castle. Although moving and rebuilding it would have been quite a challenge, and I wonder what effect that would have had on time! So maybe the new structure was built around it. The machine was constructed of many wooden pillars and a complexity of wheels, gears, ropes, and pulleys.

One of the beings was thrown down, but he threw something like red sparks at an inner glass wall, and it shattered. They managed to find the central rope of the time machine, and by pulling on it mightily, they jammed the gears – and stopped time. The Timekeeper was furious, and put up a good fight, but these two “space” beings were very big and powerful, and they seemed to accomplish what they came to do. Meanwhile, the orb had continued to hover overhead. While it hovered, I noticed a series of lights spinning on an axis within it, at an angle similar to the curvature of the moon.

I suspect that these angelic special agents returned to their “spaceship” and left as the dream ended.