Friday, March 13, 2009

Sweet Dreams

I have really vivid dreams.  I always have.  I often have a lot of nightmares.  Ones that wake me up in the night scared to death.  I also have a lot of repeated dreams.  There is one dream in particular that I have been having a lot lately.  It involves me, a car, and a never ending crash.

I don't love to back up.  Especially not in my new ginormous minivan.  (Why do they call it a minivan?  There is nothing mini about it.)  So I usually find parking spots that I don't have to back out of, or find ones that have no cars behind them.  Needless to say, I get a little anxious every time I back up.  I think this is the cause behind the dream I keep having.

In the dream I am backing my car up, usually out of a driveway.  I get back as far as I need to be and then I push on the brakes to stop.  Every time the brakes fail and I keep going backwards until I hit something.  It is so frustrating.  I then have a huge anxiety attack thinking about the insurance and getting the car fixed.  I am  always desperately trying to pound the brakes harder.  I put the car in drive and hit the gas and just continue to roll back.  I have had this same dream for years.  Maybe I should look it up on a dream analyzer and see what it means.

2 comments:

heath said...

Maybe you'll feel better if you have your brakes checked obsessively--like every 2 months! And that is one of the things I remember about you. I'm also known to have pretty vivid dreams, but thankfully not too many nightmares (although, recently I had a dream about the hair lady accidentally dying the ends of my hair orange instead of blonde!).

Gavin, Laura, and Sydney said...

I've never liked backing up! I just feel like I can't REALLY see what's behind me. I really hate backing the car out of our "driveway" at the place we live at. It's so tight. I swear I've hit the fence a few times (don't tell Gavin!)