AN INTERESTING DREAM! A PORTEND OF A FUTURE EVENT??

I am in Victoria, BC on business and to celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary.  My wife and I honey-mooned here 25 years ago as poor college kids with not enough money to stay in the Empress.  It was a major downer for me that I could not put my wife up in style at the time.  It has been fun to come back and have my company pay for some of the best digs and food and enjoy them, while not worrying about the bill so much.  But it has been "not so much" for me, as I have had a stomach bug all week.

So, getting up in the night to destroy the porcelain multiple times every night has been no fun - for me, or the maid.....  I am up again "running" the drill - but I had an interesting dream which I have never had before.  It was quite vivid - and made me glad to be up when I would rather be enjoying an amazing mattress.

I was in my car and looking south (the sun was in that direction).  I can't remember what I was doing, other than I had stopped in a road in a housing subdivision where no houses had been built (the view was unobstructed in front of me).  As I looked southward, there was a light haze or cloud and it lit up dimly (as if there were lightning in the cloud).  This happened several times - and each time, I studied it more intensely, trying to figure out what it was that I was witnessing.

The third or fourth time, it went for real (probably because it was closer to me - about 100 miles).  The flash was distinct and I immediately knew it was a nuclear blast.  My thought was, "Shut your eyes", and I did.  When it went, my first instinct was to put the car in reverse and try to get to cover - but then I rationalized that I would never get to a spot of cover before a pressure wave would hit (I was in a flat area with no terrain features).  So, I kept the car in the best aerodynamic attitude (yes, I think this way in my dreams.....) facing the center of the blast, and waited.  After several seconds, I realized that the blast and rising column of dust, etc was huge - but I was far enough away that I was fine.  I left the car running - and sat there a little while longer to see if the engine would stall and it did not.   For some reason, EMP was not an issue like I suspected it would be.

My next thought was that I had not disconnected the batteries on my other cars like I ought to have - and I was upset about my lack of following a prompting I have had - out of dreamland, for some time.  Time to do some investigation into quick release battery terminals, so I do not need tools every time I want to do something like this for winter storage or for EMP-proofing a critical vehicle.

I then woke up for my third bathroom run of the night......

Poor maid.....  This is why they invented tips, I guess......