Clarks wierd dream, clues for the future?

[bobsuncorp]

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I have just re-watched the dream scene on its own, and I remembered that when I first saw it, it almost seemed like a text book UFO landing. I forgot about this and so when the ship actually turns up, it is a surprise.

Now though, I think that Clarks dream was not prescient of a single event in the future, but rather an amalgamation of events. As I said, at first it is a UFO landing. There are pulsating coloured lights outside and the tv and radio are turning on and off by themselves. Clark opens the door and cannot see anything because of a bright light.

Then the dream changes, there is no sign of any spacecraft, but there are lots of strange aurora in the sky (FYI these are caused by solar flares impacting on the Earths magnetic field, they are NOT caused by meteor impacts). Several of the aurora shift and change in the sky, then combine together into a vaguely round extremely bright shape which could be a meteor/ship coming in through the atmosphere or (and this is what I think) could be some kind of dimensional tear of evidence of a transporter or boom tube, something out of the ordinary. Then clark wakes up to find he has been shouting "its coming" not the meteors, but whatever is in that ship.

As a side note, the aurora in the sky reminded me strongly of the effect the Green Lantern has in Frank Miller's Dark Knight Strikes Back when his power encompasses the entire planet and you can see the Lantern logo in the sky. I checked and its not that symbol, but I did wonder if they were Kryptonian symbols?

I think that this dream may yet hold clues that no-one has uncovered yet, so lets find them.

"I can't learn to fly"
"I'm not that naive"

[alexander746]

the dream is interesting. I thought it was weird cuz in the dream this strange stuff happens at night but the ship landing and the meteor shower happened clearly in daytime.

maybe the lights were actually the northern lights, where can u see the northern lights? Way up north like the arctic which is around where clark ends up at the end of the finale, maybe that was like a little hint as to where he had to go.

[BlindGuardian]

the dream sequence was screaming 'close encounters of the third kind'

[WillTheBrave]

Nice use of your prodigious vocabulary! I also thought this particular scene was cool.

[Eh,Man?You-El?]

Dreams in Smallville are ALWAYS Significant.

Clark woke from his dream, shouting over and over, "It's coming!"
This suggests to me that the dream is entirely about the ship (IT) coming.

The "Boom-Tube" idea is very intriging.
I just don't know how the "Smallville" world could handle Apokalips from the DC Universe yet.

That said, the details of the dream are probably important.
Personally, I think the dream refers to Isobel Thoreaux.

When Lana/Isobel kills Genevieve a "climactic" surge of bright, yellow-white light surges around her and her wavy-line "Water" symbol tattoo turns purple and disappears.

Compare this to Clark's dream - when he opens the door and leaves his home, he is enveloped in the same yellow-white light. Then Clark sees the same wavy lines as the "Water" stone, Isobel's shield and Lana's tattoo in the sky (even the extra circle tangent to a main line briefly appear in the aurora)

At first, in Clark's dream, there was general disruption of power, time and communication:
As Clark "wakes" in the dream,
the television turns itself on (to static),
lights flash outside the building,
the electrical lights surge and waver,
a FIRE bursts forth in the fireplace,
a clock runs backwards and chimes,
an (old) radio broadcasts across the spectrum of the airwaves,
and Shelby is scratching at the door.
As Clark approaches the door he see indications of what is outside his "home" (red, blue and yellow flashes).
Then, as Clark opens the door he is enveloped in the same sort of bright yellow-white light that surrounded Lana/Isobel.

After the bright lights, Clark looks up to see:
The aurora lines appear in the sky in greens, yellows, purples,
Then the lines clearly divide into blue, red and yellow components and swirl around to form a rough triangle (like the combined "Key") before the lines collapse into a single bright spot.
The single spot condense, then explode into a horizontal line (reminicent of the horizontal band of light coming from the door in the spaceship in the last scene with Lana) and the light ends up filling the screen .
End of Dream.

Whatever is in the Ship is responding to Isobel, either as friend or foe.
Since Isobel no longer seems to be "in" Lana, this confusion sets up some meaty dramatic situations as "whatever-IT-is" tries to decide how to interact with Lana (after landing at her feet).
I'm sure Isobel IS still kicking around. (My money is on her sharing residence in Lionel's body with Lex's consciousness.)

As much as people in these forums are jumping-up-and-down happy that "the wicked witch is dead", Isobel WILL be thematically needed to provide an emotional connection between the present-day action emerging from the arrival of the ship and the HISTORY of the Kryptonian presence on Earth. The Ship will require this kind of back-story to make a good TV show.
I don't think flash-backs about someone who just LOOKS like a current character will have a sufficiently satisfying impact.

[bobsuncorp]

wow my first ever new thread! I am so proud...


Excellent point about the northern lights, quite right that they are most common at the poles, and the time difference is puzzling. I suppose it is possible that the dream was at night because that is when the blood got on the stone and whatever happened then to cause the crash, it was night time.

"Don't worry, I got you"
"You've got me?! Wh-who's got you?!"

[-ronald-]

I think we might be reading too much into the dream. The Northern Lights - Clarks destiny lies North. "It's coming" - the ship is coming. I think that's just about all the info that can safely be extracted from the dream.

[alexander746]

weird. Dr.Walden is a few season back awoke and shouted "The Day is coming!" over and over again.

almost like Clark.