Its' been a while since I had dreams and I don't understand why that is. Perhaps it is a change in medication or something because I used to take a lot of sleeping pills and now I really strive for au naturale sleep patters even if that means that I have to stay up all night, as was the case earlier this week when I finally gave up on attempting to sleep at around 4am.
I used to dream all the time and would remember my dreams pretty vividly but for some reason in recent months I either didn't dream at all, or I wasn't remembering them.
But last night I had some very vivid dreams and I remembered parts of it and it occurred to me that there are some aspects of the dream that have happened to me quite frequently.
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In my dreams I am frequently driving a car even though I haven't driven an actual car in around 10 years because it isn't necessary or even beneficial in most of SE Asia. Yet cars are frequently in my dreams and 3 things always seem to happen in these dreams.
- I am always having difficulty seeing out of the car. It's as if there is something blocking my view and sometimes I am even driving the car from the back seats. My view of the road is always bad and I can normally just barely see the road in front of me. Other times it is dark and my headlights barely work and always there are a ton of other cars around that I barely avoid hitting.
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2: I am always lost. I'm not totally lost in the dreams and I do have some idea of where I am going, but not exactly. Frequently there is a massive parking lot on the side of the road and I will see the place that I am trying to go to after I already passed it. This leads back to my first point about how I can barely see out of the car most of the time. I always manage to make my turn, but normally just in the nick of time.
3: The brakes are always faulty. They work, sort of; but I always have to press really hard on the brake pedal to get any sort of slowdown out of them at all. Last night this happened yet again and as I went nearly crashing into the parking lot I pressed a different pedal on the floor (not the brake pedal or gas or clutch, another one) and then and only then did the car start to slow down.
Here's something to keep in mind about my car driving dreams: Even though the car is almost always careening out of control, I have never actually crashed the cars in my dreams. I come damn close to doing so but normally will miss whatever is in the way but just inches. This was the case last night when I pulled into the parking lot and there was a car heading towards me going in the wrong direction. I swerved and hit my newly discovered brakes just in time to avoid hitting other things.
I have never crashed a car in my dreams that I can remember. Also, I don't think I have ever interacted with another human in my dreams while I am operating the car. There is never a passenger in my car while i am driving, not even Nadi.
the entire ride would be better if she was there though
I sometimes like to look up what supposed experts say about why people dream about stuff like this and as it turns out lost of people dream about driving cars and losing control of them in their dreams. This rather absurd article entitled "30 reasons to Dream about diving a car" comes to the usual BS psychologist conclusions that you dream about losing control of your life because you are secretly feeling insecure about your life and if the car is faulty is it because you are using ineffective methods in your life.
Both of these things mean almost nothing and it is alarming to me that psychologists make a bunch of money to come up with very vague explanations that are similar to astrology and would apply to almost anyone.
In the meantime I can't really say that I enjoyed that dream and my alarm woke me up because this is one of the few days of the week that I actually have to get out of bed at a specific time. Today it is because it is cleaning day and Nadi and I have to get out of the house while the cleaners are here because Nadi hates them and will bark the entire time they are here.
Ever dream of driving a car? Let's talk about it if you have.
If trying to interpret your dream based on those "experts", yes its always about control and something in the real life is experience lost of control. However, I don't quite believe in those.
I did dreamt about driving once or twice in my life. But the only one I can remember is from this scene, the one who was screaming at me was my then girlfriend who wanted to breakup. That's about it. Other times I think may be I was driving. But, in my dream I was never reminded myself I was driving. I'm totally different, even if the setting is in the car, it's always having a conversation with someone 😂 something like this below.
I was a grease monkey when I was younger and single. I don't usually remember my dream, but if I remember one with a car, that will be me trying to lift the transmission case with an old timing belt strapping on my bear hands, whilst my buddy working on the clutch replacement at the bottom, suddenly the belt snapped... And I woke up peeling off a piece of my bed headrest board 😂
it's funny and a bit terrifying when dream world briefly joins the real world. I have attacked the person who was in the bed with me, i have jumped off the bed to attack something that isn't there, and once I shouted out in a hostel so loud that security was called. All of this was me being in the middle area between a dream and realizing I am in the real world a few moments later.
Interesting to read about your dreams. I also have some frequent dreams, but a bit different from yours. I often dream about getting lost as well, or somehow finding myself in an unknown place and I have no money, no phone either, to call for help. It's not a good thing, but if you look deeper, it's kind of the same as yours, when you say you don't see out of the car window. Both means you can't go on, you are stuck (I think).
This is probably why the psychologists try to say that you are stuck in your real life but it all sounds like hokum and hubris to me when they say that. I mean if they are correct, then why does my mind try to be so indirect about it? What's with the allegory? Is my life really so complicated that even my own mind is only going to give me hints rather than just be direct? Seems unlikely to me.
I can't say that I have ever had that dream. Though I don't really remember my dreams as clearly as some people do. I can hold onto pieces for a short amount of time and then they are gone.
I hear from most people that they think they don't dream. I bet they do but they just dont remember it, like yourself. I don't know why I go through phases where I dream every night and then for months in a row I will dream every night. I am back into having a feature presentation every night now, but for months leading up to now I feel as though I never dreamed, or like yourself, I didn't remember them.
Yes, you are probably right. I know for a fact I had dreams last night, but I am at that point this morning where they are just on the periphery of my mind and I can't quite remember or grasp what they were about. Then I have a dream I know I had a few days ago and it is still quite vivid.
I am sure psychologists could make up a different story for explaining dreams and people will pay for those stories. There is actually nothing worse not being able to see and a car braked in front of me on Sunday because the sun was setting directly in their vision and thought it best to slow down almost to a stand still which is never a great idea on a free way.
I once lived in a city in USA where the road was positioned in such a way that at certain times of day basically nobody on the road could see properly. They called them "sun delays" and they sound like BS until you are actually in that position: On a clear day the sun would be directly in your damn eyes all the time and there is nothing you can do to alleviate this. If you put on dark enough sunglasses your vision was farked as well and if you position your head so that the visor was blocking the sun you now cannot see the road properly. There were a lot of accidents on that road constantly.