Highway

[beetiger]

Everyone's got recurring dream themes, especially realated to stress or social anxiety, I'd guess. Classics like the "forgetting I had an exam" dream and the "showing up somewhere in my underwear dream" and the basic "falling" dream.

But I've got a version of it that I'm not sure is common, but that shows up for me regularly. It hasn't for a while, but it did again night before last. Details vary, but generally I'm crawling on a busy highway, often naked. Usually the weather's bad, foggy or rainy or humid. I'm never worried that I'm going to be hit -- cars go whizzing by on all sides, but they're just treating me like a slow driver, or ignoring me entirely. They don't honk, and everyone just passes me. The exit ramps are always long, and I'm always tired and frustrated, and I can't stop. Not because anything bad would happen if I stopped, but I'd just be stuck on an exit ramp in the rain, getting more miserable.

I had this dream again, night before last. Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe my mind is doing cleanup, trying to get more back to normal.

Comments

[tempralisis.livejournal.com]

My advice, if the dream is getting anoying, is to forcibly change it. I once got rid of a nightmare by putting a cliff in front of me and jumping (I'm scared of heights, more so in a dream, so it wakes me up quickly).

From my experience, the trick to changing dreams is to get yourself to believe that something else is true, and then it is (by necessity).

-Tau