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transcribing dreams 2 me any my sister and my mother were driving at night and we were approaching and s-curve in the street. We had to turn right, drive a half block, then turn left. When we took the corner there was a fire in the building right in front of us, and there were all these fire trucks and ladders and water spraying through the air. And we couldn’t turn around and go back, we had to drive past this, and the car got faster and faster, I felt like I was being thrown toward the inferno. And I saw firemen that were on ladders on the second and third floors being thrown away from the building by the flames, falling, screaming, falling to their deaths. And we sped around the corner, my sister was falling out of the car as we took the turn so fast. She was holding on to the frame of the car and we watched firemen fall from the sky, and I sat in the center of the backseat, not knowing what to think, watching it all Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.