Dreams

Dream of riding on an out-of-control bicycle, though I felt like I was in control enough until I realized that the brakes did not work. Actually, though steering was possible all the time, what my legs did never seemed to affect the bike's speed in any way--and since that part of the dream involved me & the bike flying down a hill, this was a bit disconcerting. Not frightening, in the dream, but definitely disconcerting. Before I realized that the brakes didn't work, I'd thought my big problem was finding a place to put the bicycle once I got to school, which was located where there is a grocery store in real life. So in one dream I got to combine the standard school-related dream, my occasional transportation theme, and my dreamworld grocery-store fixation, as well as the feeling of loss of control. Nifty.

Realized when I woke up that some of my dreams have a new setting. See, here are the most common locations for my dreams:

The house & neighborhood I live in now
DC Metro (yes, the train system itself)
College I went to (often combined with neighborhood I'm in now, which makes sense given how close they are in the real world)
Neighborhood I grew up in, especially my house & yard
House my father grew up in (substantially altered in the dream world)
Campground we used to go to all the time when I was a kid
Cabin in the woods (an amalgamation of several places stayed in as a kid)
Sunnydale, CA
Deep Space Nine (yes, I am a geek)

Newest location: By the ocean, a rocky coastline, with a strip of trees farther from shore. A beautiful, wild place. Some of the geography so far is borrowed from real places, but mostly this is not someplace I remember going to in this life. I get the sense that it's located well north of here, though it has not been cold in dreams. It's been fun going swimming (carefully), especially since I can see everything clearly without worrying about glasses in dreams.