Sometimes before falling asleep or waking up I get weird dreams, dreams I can remember, and even control a little. Most of the time they're pretty ridiculous, but a few weeks ago I had one that scared me straight to a waking state and gave me a migraine. I was watching TV in the dream and the emergency broadcast signal came across. At first I couldn't make sense of it, but slowly I could make out something about ways to prepare. The broadcast was still going on about what to do when the lights went out. So I'm thinking the bombs, they finally launched the bombs. I ran out of the house to see, but everything looked OK, sunny day, birds singing, I'd never heard such silence during the day. People started coming out of their houses and their cars. Traffic was stopped dead in the street. Suddenly the neighbors kid's jumping up and down and pointing up, I looked and saw the silhouette of a passenger plane coming down at a steep angle, followed by a loud explosion about a mile away. I found myself screaming what the hell is going on here! The neighbor's wife came over and said haven't you heard? It's the sun! Then I woke up.
Since this happened I've been obsessed with this particular apocalypse. From what I've gleaned the Mayan calendar is based on (among other things) the sun's 11 year activity cycles. The heliosphere is down 25 % and the sun seems to be breaking it's predicted pattern for this cycle. In 1869 a solar flare launched a huge cloud of charged plasma that hit the earth, if that same event to occurred today, it would be absolutely devastating to our technology and to those who depend on it for their safety or survival. I fear what's coming could be much worse. Imagine what would happen if all the machines died tomorrow leaving their human masters defenseless.
Just in case, I won't be flying, I'll be making a 3 month stockpile of rations, and have been making faraday cages to stash enough tech to survive at a tolerable level.
Good Luck and God Bless,
P.S. I'm really gonna miss the Internet....

