I had a very vivid and disturbing dream last night. Disturbing because sometimes my dreams come true exactly giving me the creepiest sense of deja vu. Writing about it and remembering the dream will probably mean that it won't happen though. Usually my dreams are inconsequential - I'll see nonsensical little vignettes. Then the events in the dream take place and I ask myself where I have seen this before?
I am always scared I will start seeing awful things like people dying, going to jail, or getting murdered. This dream disturbed me because someone named Nancy died. I was watching from the side of a highway dug into the ground and lined with gray brick and two or three men in dark armor like a SWAT team were gathered around a woman laying next to a car laying on it's roof. The men seemed to be working on something , when whoosh! A ball of flame envelops them all and rushes up to the sky like a scene from a big budget action flick. The odd thing was that it wasn't an explosion so much as fire seemed to shoot up as if from a large torch or a gas jet on a stove. The woman, whose name was Nancy, died. All three men survived but one had plastic melted into his skin all over his body. Where these details come from I don't know and I am beginning to wonder if the car was in the dream or not. But it was on a road, I was watching it, and the woman's name was Nancy. I woke up right after the dream. I tend to wake up right after nightmares as if I am trying to run away. Which I am really. The only way to escape the nightmare, to not hit the ground when you're falling, to escape the relentless giant crab, is to wake up.