OK. I know most of you all are knee deep into some job up on the screen and fighting a deadline. But I won't apologize for taking naps after lunch; I've earned it. And as a part of growing old I can do nothing but embrace it.
Besides, I like naps...
Anyway, I just dreamed I was riding an old motorcycle I haven't owned for 45 years. It was a 1949 Triumph Tiger. It was also one of the most cantankerous hunk of haunted machinery I have ever been around. I remember the day I sold it I had to take $50 less than the agreed price because I couldn't get it started. After we pushed it up into the back of a pickup the guy started it just fine. Haunted I tell you.
In this dream I went out to the garage and there it was...just like I remembered it. Excitedly I kicked it over and it seemed to be running great. I checked for gas in the tank and took off for my brother's house to show him the old scoot. I was cognitive of the fact I hadn't told my wife where I was headed, but planned on taking the back roads and would be home soon enough. The bike was running great.
I found myself on a detour and then on a brand new interstate highway. The white concrete almost blinded me with the midday sun. This old bike ran just like I remembered it...right down to the feel, sounds and smell. I even let off the gas a little after taking it up to about 90 mph and it popped out of 4th...just like it used to! The chain still made noise too. I made it up to Holden's place and drove the bike into his front room. We laughed about the old thing and then I headed back home.
I was amazed at the sensory stimulation from my memory. I could even feel my long lost pony tail whipping in my face on the highway.
What a dream.
I often have cool dreams during my infrequent afternoon naps.
NONE of them involve anything mechanical :innocent:
paden cash, post: 437682, member: 20 wrote:
In general, dreams serve a compensatory function, i.e. to balance or correct something that is missing in the dreamer's conscious attitude or understanding. Dreams typically use a symbolic language of experiences or images to which the dreamer has specific personal associations. In this case, the dream presents you with something that attracts your interest, a specific machine from a time when you were young.
The route you take is not the one you initially intended. You take a detour and end up on a new road. The whiteness of the road and the light is the part of that image that impressed you, but apart from the new road, the machine is as you remembered. There is something about this experience that you want your brother to see.
The brand-new, blindingly white interstate highway sounds like a symbol of a collective path or way, i.e. one that is hardly specific to you. Your detour isn't along some back road.
The question that I think the dream presents may be what have you overlooked that at one time seemed so valuable or interesting? Is this a dream that contains advice for your brother in the lifestyle choices category?
Kent McMillan, post: 437707, member: 3 wrote: In general, dreams serve a compensatory function, i.e. to balance or correct something that is missing in the dreamer's conscious attitude or understanding. Dreams typically use a symbolic language of experiences or images to which the dreamer has specific personal associations. In this case, the dream presents you with something that attracts your interest, a specific machine from a time when you were young.
The route you take is not the one you initially intended. You take a detour and end up on a new road. The whiteness of the road and the light is the part of that image that impressed you, but apart from the new road, the machine is as you remembered. There is something about this experience that you want your brother to see.
The brand-new, blindingly white interstate highway sounds like a symbol of a collective path or way, i.e. one that is hardly specific to you. Your detour isn't along some back road.
The question that I think the dream presents may be what have you overlooked that at one time seemed so valuable or interesting?
Reckon you might have something. Maybe not..I couldn't say.
I agree that dreams are generally not specifically tied to their underlying subject matter but to subconscious thoughts patterns that just manifest in you sensory with whatever images are lying about. In my dream I was taking back roads because I prefer them over highways for safety reasons. I was surprised when my "backroad" turned into a brand new highway, but reasoned I would get to my brother's place faster as there seemed to be no traffic.
Another detail that sticks in my mind is driving the bike into Holden's front room...something his wife wouldn't have ever allowed. But she passed a few years ago so I guess it was alright. Holden didn't mind. 😉
I do remember my dreams regularly. This one was particularly vibrant with all the sensory stimulus. My dreams aren't usually that detailed. I even remember the sun starting to feel warm on the top side of my Levis as I rode. And the smell of that old thing was remarkable...it literally 'took me back' to that time and place. Something I have rarely experienced in dreams.
If dreaming about old machines I've owned is going to become a trend I'm gonna need more naps. I've only got two or three dozen vehicles to go....;)
paden cash, post: 437708, member: 20 wrote: Reckon you might have something. Maybe not..I couldn't say.
I agree that dreams are generally not specifically tied to their underlying subject matter but to subconscious thoughts patterns that just manifest in you sensory with whatever images are lying about. In my dream I was taking back roads because I prefer them over highways for safety reasons. I was surprised when my "backroad" turned into a brand new highway, but reasoned I would get to my brother's place faster as there seemed to be no traffic.
Another detail that sticks in my mind is driving the bike into Holden's front room...something his wife wouldn't have ever allowed. But she passed a few years ago so I guess it was alright. Holden didn't mind.
As a general rule of dream interpretation, paraphrasing the imagery of the dream is usually a good way to get at the underlying content. The unusual elements are that the path you take to reach your brother is not one that you ordinarily would because there is more risk and the light that it sheds can be a problem, which sounds more like having to deal with too much illumination at one time.
In the dream, though, your brother doesn't mind that you bring your machine right into his house, into the space where he lives. The machine itself is something that from your description didn't always work right, but the dream seems to think that whatever the machine represents will work. So, what do you think that you need to show or tell your brother that you don't think he really wants to see or hear?
Kent McMillan, post: 437710, member: 3 wrote: As a general rule of dream interpretation, paraphrasing the imagery of the dream is usually a good way to get at the underlying content. The unusual elements are that the path you take to reach your brother is not one that you ordinarily would because there is more risk and the light that it sheds can be a problem, which sounds more like having to deal with too much illumination at one time.
In the dream, though, your brother doesn't mind that you bring your machine right into his house, into the space where he lives. The machine itself is something that from your description didn't always work right, but the dream seems to think that whatever the machine represents will work. So, what do you think that you need to show or tell your brother that you don't think he really wants to see or hear?
Something that may be at play here is the season. When we were young and still living at Mom & Pops the summertime was a fabulous time. With Holden & I being so close in age we were usually involved in something together during the summer like cars, scooters or jobs. When we get together our recollections usually center on the happy summertime. And although we keep in close contact I've noticed over the last couple of years we seem to seek each other out more frequently in the summer months. And my last conversation with him was about the starter switch on his motorcycle. This is something I promised to look at when I get up there on Friday...our regular day to get together.
paden cash, post: 437713, member: 20 wrote: Something that may be at play here is the season. When we were young and still living at Mom & Pops the summertime was a fabulous time. With Holden & I being so close in age we were usually involved in something together during the summer like cars, scooters or jobs. When we get together our recollections usually center on the happy summertime. And although we keep in close contact I've noticed over the last couple of years we seem to seek each other out more frequently in the summer months. And my last conversation with him was about the starter switch on his motorcycle. This is something I promised to look at when I get up there on Friday...our regular day to get together.
As a nearly universal rule, dreams do not tell the dreamer anything that he or she is consciously aware of and acting upon. My guess would be that the dream is supplying a variation of some sort on what you are already doing.
From your amplifications, the summertime has a special quality in your relationship to your brother that perhaps makes something more feasible.
Apart from the movies, the first Harley with extended forks and full out chopper parts I saw in person came as a surprise.
Went to visit a cousin that had returned from his tour of duty in the late 60s.
Went in his house and he said lets go back to his newly enclosed back porch where he had his man cave.
There in its parking space was his chopper of blue and chrome.
He had installed an extra wide door and ramp and said it was not gonna be parked outside.
paden cash, post: 437682, member: 20 wrote: Besides, I like naps...
paden cash, post: 437682, member: 20 wrote: OK. I know most of you all are knee deep into some job up on the screen and fighting a deadline. But I won't apologize for taking naps after lunch; I've earned it. And as a part of growing old I can do nothing but embrace it.
Besides, I like naps...
I have it on good authority that Kent has a recurring dream where he is on the witness stand and while repeatedly questioned by both counsels he gives the same answer over and over: "I occupied the stone, turned 90-00-00 and set the corner at 1,320.00 feet".
James Fleming, post: 437729, member: 136 wrote: I have it on good authority that Kent has a recurring dream where he is on the witness stand and while repeatedly questioned by both counsels he gives the same answer over and over: "I occupied the stone, turned 90-00-00 and set the corner at 1,320.00 feet".
Amazingly enough, the complexity of surveying metes and bounds tracts in Texas is so engaging that the psyche finds the boring simplicity of the PLSS completely unfit for dream material. Where in the PLSS a person would fussing around with some little fordy or another, in Texas, a surveyor dreams of surveying 200-square-mile blocks of sections.
Kent McMillan, post: 437734, member: 3 wrote: Amazingly enough, the complexity of surveying metes and bounds tracts in Texas is so engaging that the psyche finds the boring simplicity of the PLSS completely unfit for dream material. Where in the PLSS a person would fussing around with some little fordy or another, in Texas, a surveyor dreams of surveying 200-square-mile blocks of sections.
Kent..wake up buddy...KENT! KENT! Wake up pal, you're dreaming (again).
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Loyal, post: 437741, member: 228 wrote: Kent..wake up buddy...KENT! KENT! Wake up pal, you're dreaming (again).
No, I just had an old (Texas, of course) project out today that actually is the sort of ill-formed problem that dreams are made of, not that cookbooking with special recipes that passes for extreme complexity elsewhere. It's important to know the difference.
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Next time just lay off the mushrooms on the pizza. 😉
