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 ;).

I am SO visiting your Dream OceanScape! Sounds LOVELY!!!

It is! Though my unconscious mind hasn't decided exactly what the place should be like yet. Earlier dreams had a sandier beach, with woods less wild. Also I remember at least one dream had houses & a small hotel there, but last night's dream (which I admittedly don't remember much about) had far fewer people, the place seemed pretty far from civilization. Maybe I was just at a different part of the same coast, though. :-)

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. :-)

IMHO, the dream seems to symbolize what you can control (the steering) versus what you can't (the speed of the bicycle). If you were going downhill then maybe it feels like life is flying by more quickly than you're comfortable with. It sounds like there are areas of your life where you feel you are suffering from a loss of control (you'd know best what these are) but you do have a handle on other things. That's my best quasi-educated guess.

You know, that's probably a good interpretation of that dream. Not that the concept that "some things are in my control and other things really, really aren't" is exactly news to my conscious mind, but there's no psychological law saying that dreams can't be obvious sometimes.

Though I could try to figure out if there's any way to fix the brakes, I suppose... but I suspect that the time to work on the bike is not when you're already flying down that hill.

I have at times had dreams with hit-ya-on-the-head obvious meanings before. I guess not all dreams are subtlety and depth.

Flying down a hill isn't an ideal time to work on a bike's brakes. Dig your heels into the gravel maybe to make the bike stop? Okay, maybe I am getting too metaphorical with this one, but is there any way to slow down what is going on around you so you can better assess/repair things?

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