{A Dream: of a Tornado}[7th July 1985]

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I awoke, recounted the dream to [W], and fell asleep again, to dream again: After some preliminaries which I do not recall (about a hotel reception desk in an old wooden building?), I saw approaching on the horizon a huge bank of cloud or dust and, in the middle of it, a dark twisting column, which I identified as a tornado*: it rumbled continuously as it came towards us. I went back with [W] towards our ramshackle old wooden house** – part of a converted set of farm buildings – telling her to go in and shut all the windows***. I ran across to our neighbour, across the courtyard – an elderly bearded man looking out of his windows – and told him to shut his windows; I had the impression that he doubted the need for this, but that he went to do so anyway. Back inside our house – I have the impression of great oak beams and wooden walls, rather dark and warm – we watched the tornado roar past along the road a hundred yards or so away and slightly up hill, moving on down the road towards the lower lands in the South.

After some time my mother appeared driving her Volvo, which was covered in wet and ?leaves etc., up the road from the South. She said that she had been alright because the tornado when it entered the valley had left the road and moved alongside it; I had (or have) the impression of immense devastation; and there was something about a particular household being O.K. because the tornado had hurled trees to crush the part of their (similarly wooden) house which they did not live in but left their own part undamaged.****

*(I had been reading about tornadoes in the New Scientist a few weeks ago.)

**(On 6/7/85 I have date-stamped 'received' a photo of such a building from a [client] member in Japan, which was near-missed by a flood due to a typhoon.)

***(This is odd: isn't the trick to open all windows in a hurricane, to avoid blow-outs due to pressure difficulties?)

**** (These two dreams [i.e this and the last previous] should perhaps be read together.]

[The Great Storm or cyclone of October 1987 largely destroyed the woodlands on which [C] is situated, where by that time [M] was living.]

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