The first thing Blues coach John Kirwan does when he wakes up this morning might be to check whether last night's game really happened.
Was it a dream or wasn't it? Once he has established that it wasn't, that his side really did play with that skill, intelligence, excitement and commitment to completely smash the Reds into the turf of the Eden Park fortress, he must work on how to repeat this sort of form away from home.
This was a masterclass from the Blues, a five-try bonus-point victory which rockets them into the top six of the competition and brought back memories of the glory days of old. If they turn in another abject performance in New Plymouth against the Chiefs next weekend, though, the disappointment among the supporters of the Blues will be all the more acute.
The Blues are so difficult to beat at home they really should be higher up the table than they are. Their last defeat here was to eventual champions the Chiefs in their final match of last year. This year they have won all five from home, but, of course the flip side is that they have lost all of their away matches.
The pressure must come on this week to maintain this momentum, because the excitement among the Blues players was palpable last night. In this mood they will feel they can beat anyone and the Chiefs will be right to be wary.
"I'm going to write that on the wall in graffiti so we know. Away, beware," a very happy Kirwan said afterwards.
"We need to address it. We need to sit down on Sunday and say, we're going to New Plymouth, we're playing away."
Among Kirwan's players, Ma'a Nonu deserves first mention because he was at the heart of just about everything good the Blues did.
Nonu left the field after 61 minutes, replaced by Ihaia West, who scored a memorable 50m try on debut late in the match, but in that time the All Blacks midfielder set up three tries, demoralising the visitors with his power, passing and footwork. The Reds had nothing like him in their line-up. Quade Cooper jinked and jived during his 100th match for the Reds, but it was mostly behind the advantage line and counted for nothing.
It was Nonu's head fake and long pass which set up Jackson Willison's try - the centre tearing his hamstring in the process - his grubber kick under the posts which led directly to Lolagi Visinia's and his powerful surge and inside ball which put Bryn Hall away. His run later, along with some excellent work from Frank Halai and Charles Piutau, was finished off by Tom Donnelly for the Blues' fourth.
"What he's doing off the field is incredible," Kirwan said. "He's totally engaged with what we're doing and he's leading.
"We had a difficult week last week but Ma'a just put his hand up and said 'I'll do it'."
There was a real commitment on defence too, the Reds getting over the line through prop Ben Daley after Tony Woodcock was sinbinned for lashing out at Reds loose forward Eddie Quirk.
It was a fair enough decision, probably, but the decision by referee Nick Briant to only sin bin Reds prop James Slipper for a dangerous tip tackle on No8 Peter Saili probably wasn't. Saili, dropped on to his neck and shoulder area by Slipper long after he had passed the ball, was put into an extremely perilous position. It would be no surprise to see Slipper given an extra sanction.
This weekend will be about the positives for the Blues, though, possibly until they pack their bags for their next away assignment.
Blues 44 (Jackson Willison, Lolagi Visinia, Bryn Hall, Tom Donnelly, Ihaia West tries; Simon Hickey 3 pens, 4 cons, West con) Reds 14 (Ben Daley, James Horwill tries; Quade Cooper 2 cons) HT: 20-0
