Yet Another Strange Dream
It is finally a nice, sunny day outside. I'm still trying to decide if what is wrong with me is a cold or allergies. If it is allergies, it is different than what I am used to. Normally my sinuses are really stuffed up & blocked up & no drainage to the point of having headaches. This time I have lots of drainage but it isn't as bad as the colds I have gotten in the past.
Last night I had a dream that I was trying to drive somewhere, possibly a sporting event. I was on a freeway and encountered a very long line of cars I knew were going to the same place as I. I needed to get as far ahead of everyone else as I could. I had a special ticket and I was supposed to be in front of them all. There were some other people driving on the shoulder of the road so I followed them. I knew most people would not take kindly to my trying to cut in front of them so I waved my ticket out of my window as I drove, taking care to not let it blow away in the wind.
I managed to get in front of a great deal of cars by the time I got to an intersection. The reason for the massive backup was construction. In order to get where I had to go, I was supposed to go straight through the intersection. The other side of the intersection was a two lane road, two directions. The construction crew was re-paving both lanes at once, instead of the usual paving one lane while swerving everyone over to the other side. My alternate to get to my destination was to turn right. Except that road was blocked off by construction equipment and torn up completely down to the dirt and sand. The road they were repaving still had wet asphalt we were expected to drive on. I asked a construction worker if I had any other alternatives to get to my destination. No, he told me. I asked him isn't it a bad idea to drive on wet asphalt? He said no, it would not hurt my car if I went slowly. Or, he told me, I could turn right and go around all the construction equipment and take that road. I had to make a decision because I knew the people behind me were getting impatient. I chose to drive straight.
Suddenly I was out of my car and I was pulling a very heavy box. The box was about 4 feet high and I was pulling on a rope that was attached to the box, each end on each side of the box. The box had wheels on the bottom. I was pulling the box through very deep sand/dirt. I tried pulling and walking as fast as I could in order to get as far ahead of the people behind me as I could. Naturally, as in all dreams I have, no matter how fast I thought I was going, the people behind me were right on my tail. If I stopped the first person behind me would bump into me. I kept thinking it might be faster if I sat on the box and started it's motor (Yeah, I don't know either), but that meant having to stop & the people behind me would pass me.
I realized how ridiculous the whole thing was so I managed to make the box turn back into my car. While I walked beside my car and pushed I managed to reach in the window & get the car started. As fast as I could I jumped in & shifted it to drive & got going.
As I drove I had to keep dodging lots of construction obstacles. I desperately wanted the dream to end and to wake up.
I couldn't wake up so I ended up in the backyard of the house where I grew up. I was in the garage looking for something. The garage in my dream was larger than it is in real life. In reality it is a one-car garage. In my dream it was a two-, possibly 2 & 1/2 car garage. I was trying to find something specific to give to a specific person except I don't know what I was looking for nor to whom was the recipient.
Most of the rest of the details are too fuzzy. I just remember someone approaching & telling me to take a break and offered to take me somewhere for something to eat. We walked a short distance and stopped in front of a small store that was part of a strip mall. We went inside where they sold ice cream, soft-frozen yogurt and various other food & beverages.
I can't really remember what happened next, but I know I woke up shortly thereafter. Much later than I cared for.
Last night I had a dream that I was trying to drive somewhere, possibly a sporting event. I was on a freeway and encountered a very long line of cars I knew were going to the same place as I. I needed to get as far ahead of everyone else as I could. I had a special ticket and I was supposed to be in front of them all. There were some other people driving on the shoulder of the road so I followed them. I knew most people would not take kindly to my trying to cut in front of them so I waved my ticket out of my window as I drove, taking care to not let it blow away in the wind.
I managed to get in front of a great deal of cars by the time I got to an intersection. The reason for the massive backup was construction. In order to get where I had to go, I was supposed to go straight through the intersection. The other side of the intersection was a two lane road, two directions. The construction crew was re-paving both lanes at once, instead of the usual paving one lane while swerving everyone over to the other side. My alternate to get to my destination was to turn right. Except that road was blocked off by construction equipment and torn up completely down to the dirt and sand. The road they were repaving still had wet asphalt we were expected to drive on. I asked a construction worker if I had any other alternatives to get to my destination. No, he told me. I asked him isn't it a bad idea to drive on wet asphalt? He said no, it would not hurt my car if I went slowly. Or, he told me, I could turn right and go around all the construction equipment and take that road. I had to make a decision because I knew the people behind me were getting impatient. I chose to drive straight.
Suddenly I was out of my car and I was pulling a very heavy box. The box was about 4 feet high and I was pulling on a rope that was attached to the box, each end on each side of the box. The box had wheels on the bottom. I was pulling the box through very deep sand/dirt. I tried pulling and walking as fast as I could in order to get as far ahead of the people behind me as I could. Naturally, as in all dreams I have, no matter how fast I thought I was going, the people behind me were right on my tail. If I stopped the first person behind me would bump into me. I kept thinking it might be faster if I sat on the box and started it's motor (Yeah, I don't know either), but that meant having to stop & the people behind me would pass me.
I realized how ridiculous the whole thing was so I managed to make the box turn back into my car. While I walked beside my car and pushed I managed to reach in the window & get the car started. As fast as I could I jumped in & shifted it to drive & got going.
As I drove I had to keep dodging lots of construction obstacles. I desperately wanted the dream to end and to wake up.
I couldn't wake up so I ended up in the backyard of the house where I grew up. I was in the garage looking for something. The garage in my dream was larger than it is in real life. In reality it is a one-car garage. In my dream it was a two-, possibly 2 & 1/2 car garage. I was trying to find something specific to give to a specific person except I don't know what I was looking for nor to whom was the recipient.
Most of the rest of the details are too fuzzy. I just remember someone approaching & telling me to take a break and offered to take me somewhere for something to eat. We walked a short distance and stopped in front of a small store that was part of a strip mall. We went inside where they sold ice cream, soft-frozen yogurt and various other food & beverages.
I can't really remember what happened next, but I know I woke up shortly thereafter. Much later than I cared for.