Dream Journal
August 15, 2010 @ 1:30 AM
Rebecca and I had decided to go to Blue Ridge. On the way, I drove through a red light. I was afraid I’d get a ticket so I looked behind us and saw this car with a little structure on top that I thought might be a police siren. There were four people inside which I could see clearly. They weren’t police, but I made sure to stop at the next intersection at the bottom of a hill. Once the car stopped, the rationalization was no longer needed, so it disappeared and we were on foot again. We walked across the crosswalk to the right. It dawned on us that we had a long ways to go on foot. Rebecca said “Wait, so we’re going to walk to Blue Ridge tonight? That’s going to take like 18 hours.” I shook my head, wondering what we were thinking. We decided to abandon the trip.
The Waking Self’s Limits: Once the rationalized car disappeared, we found ourselves naturally continuing on our journey on foot — the same way we had no doubt set out. Our waking minds stepped in and saw the situation from the physical world perspective, and convinced us we’d never be able to make it before the night was out.
No More Car: Stopping the car at the intersection caused us to release the car rationalization, since typically the only time you would stop traveling in a dream would be when you are at your destination.
A Strange Situation: This is a great illustration of how the waking self can sidetrack an adventure.
Concern about the traffic lights shifted my focus to the waking self, who decided that to follow traffic rules, I should stop the car at the next intersection. When I did, the car rationalization disappeared, since it was no longer needed. We’re walking now. At this point, we remember the goal of going to Blue Ridge, but forget the astral method (fast travel) we were using to get there since that’s not a possibility in the physical world. Rebecca’s waking self realizes that it’ll take forever to get there on foot. So we abandon the trip.