hummingwolf | 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.

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Fun fact: I haven't actually been on a bicycle since sometime in the 1980s. My dreams don't seem to care about little things like that! Though I'm pretty sure that if I were on a bike, remembered how to ride it, and went flying down that particular hill in the real world, it would feel pretty much like it was in the dream... except I might have run into a house or brick wall or something.

Maybe the other part of your dream is pre-cognative? Thought about relocating?

Since I haven't got any money, relocating that far seems unlikely. Especially relocating to a place which didn't seem likely to have good public transportation! Much as I'd love to live in a wilder place, the fact that I can't drive makes the bus & Metro systems very important to me. Seemed like a great place to visit, though.

In my case it was a two car garage built in the mid-seventies out of reclaimed wood.

Then again, if I could interpret dreams, I would quit my day job ;).

Ouch. After I woke up, I realized I should have steered for some bushes, 'cos the wall I was headed for would be unpleasant to run into.

If you could interpret dreams, you'd probably write a book to join the ten million other books on the shelves about dream interpretation. :-)

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If we ever have lunch or something

Re: If we ever have lunch or something

pretty much

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