Sandy and I are watching TV in a room on the second story of our house. A large window is on the right of the TV, and from my angle I can see only pale blue sky through it. There is a booming noise outside and I look at the window where I see a small dark blue compact car flying through the air. I leap to the window and see a puff of white smoke rising from the trees and houses in the near distance. Looking back at the car I notice that it is continuing on through the sky, its initial arc flattened into a smooth trajectory so that it seems to be flying rather than shot out like a cannon ball. It passes out of my vision to the right, but now I notice another strange event. In the middle distance there is a large white factory, something like an oil refinery but cleaner. It is set among neighborhoods and trees, but dwarfs them. In the far distance is a line of low dark hills, and above everything the sky is now a brilliant deep blue. The factory is exploding. White smoke, then yellow flames, wash out of it. I give a glancing thought to the people who live in the nearby houses and then turn to Sandy. "We've got to turn off the gas!" I cry, and rush down the stairs to the basement. There I see a gas powered water heater that is knocking and hissing like a cartoon boiler. I search frantically for a moment, then find the on/off switch and turn it.
I wake.
