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My dreams have worlds
Jul. 27th, 2009 04:08 pmI don't necessarily dream that regularly, but when I do my dreams seem to show up in a very well-defined world, and I'll occasionally even have multiple dreams in the some world. Hours or weeks later I won't necessarily remember the content of the dream but I'll remember the world. So a couple of months ago, where there was the futuristic deserted subway line built by a long-lost civilization cross-platform from the "normal" subway...I could draw you a map of where the abandoned-yet-running Orange Line went (and it was definitely the orange Line) and what surrounded the southern end of the line (it definitely went south from the station where I found it) but I couldn't tell you anything about how I got there to start with.
A week or two ago there was a commuter-rail oriented dream. (Funny how trains keep showing up in these.) From The City the main rail line left to the northwest; after some complicated underground winding around out of the central station (the downtown was kind of twisted, too) it became a three-track main running along an eight-lane freeway. Once you got substantially out of the city this became a freight line running off to Somewhere Else, but the last passenger station was maybe ten miles further out than I was. But there was a north-south main road, that led to a university sort of area; and if you knew what you were looking for there, you could find an abandoned interurban line that eventually would connect back to The City's streetcar system.
Last night I wound up driving outwards along the freeway. Actually, I was steering, and someone else had the brakes and accelerator. And this was kind of a problem, because there kept being police cars stopped in the middle of the highway, and my copilot wouldn't slow down, so I kept dodging, even the big pile-up in the left lane. Somehow we did wind up stopped, and trying to get away in an abandoned taxi...but part of this involved digging around in the arm rest to find bits of jewelry that I had lost, and somehow turning up the ex-cabbie's wedding band, which somehow made me flip out a lot. (And that's when I woke up, and decided trying to fall asleep again during a thunderstorm was a bad idea.)
I've sort of lost my view of what downtown The City is like, other than that it's sort of like Boston except more vertical, including some weird streets with bridges over other streets.
A week or two ago there was a commuter-rail oriented dream. (Funny how trains keep showing up in these.) From The City the main rail line left to the northwest; after some complicated underground winding around out of the central station (the downtown was kind of twisted, too) it became a three-track main running along an eight-lane freeway. Once you got substantially out of the city this became a freight line running off to Somewhere Else, but the last passenger station was maybe ten miles further out than I was. But there was a north-south main road, that led to a university sort of area; and if you knew what you were looking for there, you could find an abandoned interurban line that eventually would connect back to The City's streetcar system.
Last night I wound up driving outwards along the freeway. Actually, I was steering, and someone else had the brakes and accelerator. And this was kind of a problem, because there kept being police cars stopped in the middle of the highway, and my copilot wouldn't slow down, so I kept dodging, even the big pile-up in the left lane. Somehow we did wind up stopped, and trying to get away in an abandoned taxi...but part of this involved digging around in the arm rest to find bits of jewelry that I had lost, and somehow turning up the ex-cabbie's wedding band, which somehow made me flip out a lot. (And that's when I woke up, and decided trying to fall asleep again during a thunderstorm was a bad idea.)
I've sort of lost my view of what downtown The City is like, other than that it's sort of like Boston except more vertical, including some weird streets with bridges over other streets.
