Saturday, March 20, 2010

Pool party, fire in a nursery and waking up in my car

I'm walking into the back yard of our Ohio house from the rear. My brother's family is just starting to swim in the pool, which has gathered quite a bit of debris. Someone is vacuuming it, I rush into the garage to get the net to remove an area of leaves and scum before the kids break it up. I can't find the net anywhere. Someone is playing an acoustic guitar on the steps and a string comes unwound. I deftly wind it up and am given a raise at work in reward.

Coming out of the garage, there are many ambulances arriving from all directions - from the street and over the grass. There are dozens of young kids running out of our neighbor's house and some but not a lot of smoke coming out the door and windows. There's a big sign "Nursery and Infirmary" on top of the house and "infirmary" is spelled wrong. There's a van that belongs to the nursery with raised letters. All I can see is the last few letters which are all Zs, each getting smaller and going up such as cartoonists indicate sleep. A cop is explaining to a neighbor that the final Z should be lower and is suggesting a sort of "business for dummies" book.

A younger female member of the neighbor's house, about my age, is in our front yard. She asks me, "Don't you know what happened?" I tell her I don't, but she says nothing more. There are commercial airliners flying through the air, camouflaged or cloaked in a way so the sky appears through them in most places.

Suddenly, I'm waking up in my car in the driveway. I don't remember going to sleep in it.

Suddenly again, I'm waking up in my therapist's driveway. I get out of the car and walk to his door, dizzy and disoriented. He answers the door in a bathrobe and invites me in. I tell him something must be wrong because I don't remember driving there and I'm dizzy. I notice my parents' cordless phone is in my pocket and take it out. Written on it is a number for a "Colleen" or "Claudia". My therapist says that's interesting because he once saw me call that person. I don't know a person of that name.

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