Dreams on 2/16/10.
Had another vivid dream last night.
I was with Alan Kahn and Manuel Camino.
We were going on a climbing trip somewhere near Central / North Jersey.
We were at a rest stop at first, then left in two separate vehicles.
I think I may have had my Civic.
So we pull on to I-287 North.
I see that Alan stopped his car in my rear view mirror so I stop, too.
I watch him make an illegal U-Turn over 5 lanes, crossing the oncoming traffic to go to the other side of 287, which at this point had no barrier in the middle making that maneuver possible.
Shocked, I kept traveling on I-287 North looking for a U-Turn because I'm not that crazy.
However, unbeknown to me, the road had turned into a different County Road, something like 114 or 131.
I can't remember.
I find myself traveling through a wooded area with lots of trees and vegetation.
It's very foggy outside.
I see a parking area on the right, so I park my car there for some reason.
I begin walking through the woods, still on a paved road, still looking for a U-Turn.
I pass this really cool house.
It was made of wood angled in all these artistic ways and yet very modernized.
It had a few fog lights on the sides of the house providing ample light surrounding the exterior.
I was tempted to go see if these people could tell me where the nearest U-Turn was.
Stubbornly, I kept walking and soon find myself running down a steep graded hill.
I get to the bottom and see a lake to my left.
The moon shined its' reflection in the lake and with the surrounding blue mountains in the background, it made for beautiful scenery!
However, I then realize I'm still lost and come to believe I'm traveling too far out of the way.
Maybe I should have just made the extremely dangerous U-Turn.
I turn around and start walking back.
I come up to where the steep downgrade was before and find that it has become a very tall cliff.
With my well placed gusto, of course, and my knowledge of climbing, while feeling the holds I say to myself,
" Alright. This is like a V0-V1 bouldering problem. There's no way I'd fall climbing this thing.".
I begin climbing the wall to get back up to the road.
I get about a quarter up the wall when I find a big rock that closely resembles the shape of New Jersey.
I decide while climbing this 75 foot plus wall that it would be a good idea to keep this rock.
While still climbing I find another rock that resembles New Jersey, but not as much.
For some reason I kept that one too.
So I've got these rocks stringed up over my back trying to climb this probable 100 foot tall cliff, and then I'm like,
" Uhh. Alright. What the hell am I doing?
Even if this is only a V1 equivalent climb, if I fall back I'm dead. And why the hell am I carrying these rocks?"
I travel back down the cliff, dropping the New Jersey shaped rocks.
I try to find another way back.
When I turn around and look back again, the cliff has become a tunnel.
Whatever.
So I run back through the tunnel, because Alan and Manuel are probably there at our destination already.
I run back up to the house that was on my left, the cool looking one and go up to the side of the house.
This big dude busts out the side of the house and starts screaming at me,
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE?!"
He looks kind of like the caveman from the Geico commercials and kind of like a bear mixed with a human.
His son who looks similar runs out behind him, up to the railing on their elevated patio.
"Hey, I'm just trying to get back to 287 to meet up with my friends, man.", I say.
"WELL, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WALK ALL THE WAY BACK THERE. YOU MAY AS WELL RIDE IN STYLE.", says the caveman.
He hits a button on a little controller he pulls out of his flannel shirt, and opens a garage door off to the side.
Two cars drive out by themselves, the fog surrounding them.
Funky Vince DiCola 80's music is playing in the background.
The first one is an 80's BMW 5 series, white.
The second was a green car.
I don't remember what it was because I wasn't interested.
"You're going to let me use this BMW and you don't even know me? What is this? An M5?" I yelled over the music.
"YES, BUT I'M GOING TO HAVE TO SHOW YOU HOW TO USE IT FIRST."
He takes me into a private bunker off the house and explains to me what I need to do to operate the vehicle properly via a military style briefing.
This is actually a very high-tech car with many different military grade computers in it.
He actually wants me to embark on a mission with this car, but I'm not concerned.
I pretend to pay attention.
I pull the car out of the bunker at the end of the briefing and head back up to the road.
I jump out of the car to top off the tire pressure and ensure I'm ready for the journey.
He and his son yell something to me about having a good trip.
They're smiling.
I get an eerie feeling when I turn around.
The car has become an '02 Honda Accord Coupe.
V6.
I'm very disappointed as I cannot drive a piece of 80's history.
Fuming, I hop back into the car, but before I can leave the police pull up and block my exit.
I get out of the car.
They arrest the caveman and his son and begin to tell me about how he's an ex-CIA agent posing as a caveman to fulfill his own vigilante missions.
He's now a national traitor.
That was the end of the dream.
I can't recall whether I ever got back to Alan and Manuel, either.
Oh yeah.
The climb was more like a V2 / V3, though, Alan. haha
I had another dream after that.
I usually park the truck of a certain woman at UPS that I talk with sometimes.
In this dream, I park the truck, but after I did I turn around and the UPS facility is no longer dark and brown.
For some reason, it has become this cushy, pink and lighter pink building with bouncy floors and big windows on the roof that look out to the clouds.
The sun is setting.
I'm say to myself,
"Wtf?".
So I begin traveling around the facility.
Now there seems to only be women working here.
I feel out of place.
I find the lady I parked the truck for and begin talking with her.
She's telling me about how Sunday is going to be a very tiring day for her.
She has to take her daughter to some kind of special event.
I ask her if it's a cheerleading event, something she's mentioned before and she agrees.
But as she explains the details, it sounds nothing like a cheerleading event.
It sounds more like an aviation and aeronautics show.
She says something like,
"..But every time I tell my daughter to pull up on the stick, she never does.".
I realize she's talking about a helicopter.
She says she has to go to the bathroom and walks away.
I come to my senses and chase after her and yell to her,
"WAIT! YOU KNOW HOW TO OPERATE A HELICOPTER?!".
She runs into the women's bathroom.
I cannot enter the women's bathroom.
The dream ends.
I was with Alan Kahn and Manuel Camino.
We were going on a climbing trip somewhere near Central / North Jersey.
We were at a rest stop at first, then left in two separate vehicles.
I think I may have had my Civic.
So we pull on to I-287 North.
I see that Alan stopped his car in my rear view mirror so I stop, too.
I watch him make an illegal U-Turn over 5 lanes, crossing the oncoming traffic to go to the other side of 287, which at this point had no barrier in the middle making that maneuver possible.
Shocked, I kept traveling on I-287 North looking for a U-Turn because I'm not that crazy.
However, unbeknown to me, the road had turned into a different County Road, something like 114 or 131.
I can't remember.
I find myself traveling through a wooded area with lots of trees and vegetation.
It's very foggy outside.
I see a parking area on the right, so I park my car there for some reason.
I begin walking through the woods, still on a paved road, still looking for a U-Turn.
I pass this really cool house.
It was made of wood angled in all these artistic ways and yet very modernized.
It had a few fog lights on the sides of the house providing ample light surrounding the exterior.
I was tempted to go see if these people could tell me where the nearest U-Turn was.
Stubbornly, I kept walking and soon find myself running down a steep graded hill.
I get to the bottom and see a lake to my left.
The moon shined its' reflection in the lake and with the surrounding blue mountains in the background, it made for beautiful scenery!
However, I then realize I'm still lost and come to believe I'm traveling too far out of the way.
Maybe I should have just made the extremely dangerous U-Turn.
I turn around and start walking back.
I come up to where the steep downgrade was before and find that it has become a very tall cliff.
With my well placed gusto, of course, and my knowledge of climbing, while feeling the holds I say to myself,
" Alright. This is like a V0-V1 bouldering problem. There's no way I'd fall climbing this thing.".
I begin climbing the wall to get back up to the road.
I get about a quarter up the wall when I find a big rock that closely resembles the shape of New Jersey.
I decide while climbing this 75 foot plus wall that it would be a good idea to keep this rock.
While still climbing I find another rock that resembles New Jersey, but not as much.
For some reason I kept that one too.
So I've got these rocks stringed up over my back trying to climb this probable 100 foot tall cliff, and then I'm like,
" Uhh. Alright. What the hell am I doing?
Even if this is only a V1 equivalent climb, if I fall back I'm dead. And why the hell am I carrying these rocks?"
I travel back down the cliff, dropping the New Jersey shaped rocks.
I try to find another way back.
When I turn around and look back again, the cliff has become a tunnel.
Whatever.
So I run back through the tunnel, because Alan and Manuel are probably there at our destination already.
I run back up to the house that was on my left, the cool looking one and go up to the side of the house.
This big dude busts out the side of the house and starts screaming at me,
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE?!"
He looks kind of like the caveman from the Geico commercials and kind of like a bear mixed with a human.
His son who looks similar runs out behind him, up to the railing on their elevated patio.
"Hey, I'm just trying to get back to 287 to meet up with my friends, man.", I say.
"WELL, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WALK ALL THE WAY BACK THERE. YOU MAY AS WELL RIDE IN STYLE.", says the caveman.
He hits a button on a little controller he pulls out of his flannel shirt, and opens a garage door off to the side.
Two cars drive out by themselves, the fog surrounding them.
Funky Vince DiCola 80's music is playing in the background.
The first one is an 80's BMW 5 series, white.
The second was a green car.
I don't remember what it was because I wasn't interested.
"You're going to let me use this BMW and you don't even know me? What is this? An M5?" I yelled over the music.
"YES, BUT I'M GOING TO HAVE TO SHOW YOU HOW TO USE IT FIRST."
He takes me into a private bunker off the house and explains to me what I need to do to operate the vehicle properly via a military style briefing.
This is actually a very high-tech car with many different military grade computers in it.
He actually wants me to embark on a mission with this car, but I'm not concerned.
I pretend to pay attention.
I pull the car out of the bunker at the end of the briefing and head back up to the road.
I jump out of the car to top off the tire pressure and ensure I'm ready for the journey.
He and his son yell something to me about having a good trip.
They're smiling.
I get an eerie feeling when I turn around.
The car has become an '02 Honda Accord Coupe.
V6.
I'm very disappointed as I cannot drive a piece of 80's history.
Fuming, I hop back into the car, but before I can leave the police pull up and block my exit.
I get out of the car.
They arrest the caveman and his son and begin to tell me about how he's an ex-CIA agent posing as a caveman to fulfill his own vigilante missions.
He's now a national traitor.
That was the end of the dream.
I can't recall whether I ever got back to Alan and Manuel, either.
Oh yeah.
The climb was more like a V2 / V3, though, Alan. haha
I had another dream after that.
I usually park the truck of a certain woman at UPS that I talk with sometimes.
In this dream, I park the truck, but after I did I turn around and the UPS facility is no longer dark and brown.
For some reason, it has become this cushy, pink and lighter pink building with bouncy floors and big windows on the roof that look out to the clouds.
The sun is setting.
I'm say to myself,
"Wtf?".
So I begin traveling around the facility.
Now there seems to only be women working here.
I feel out of place.
I find the lady I parked the truck for and begin talking with her.
She's telling me about how Sunday is going to be a very tiring day for her.
She has to take her daughter to some kind of special event.
I ask her if it's a cheerleading event, something she's mentioned before and she agrees.
But as she explains the details, it sounds nothing like a cheerleading event.
It sounds more like an aviation and aeronautics show.
She says something like,
"..But every time I tell my daughter to pull up on the stick, she never does.".
I realize she's talking about a helicopter.
She says she has to go to the bathroom and walks away.
I come to my senses and chase after her and yell to her,
"WAIT! YOU KNOW HOW TO OPERATE A HELICOPTER?!".
She runs into the women's bathroom.
I cannot enter the women's bathroom.
The dream ends.