Recurring dream aspects strike again

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.

1. 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.

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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.