Dreams – 4/18

4/18/25: I was in a car on Welch Ave. in Ames except it was a dirt road. I was late for a presentation or English class. I asked a woman (who I know in real life, I’m sure of it) where we were supposed to be and she said “The Civic Center or Stephens.” Then I was driving rather than a passenger and I rolled down my window to tell another woman (a different woman but the same face in the dream) I would be back and that I’d be presenting. I was then running and turned onto Lincoln Way which was paved and was a big expressway. I ran towards a suspension bridge (with only one post) because Friley was on the other side. I was going to start my poetry reading with “My Dog Died Today” which I would compose on the spot. [Real life–Spike died last night]

4/18/24: I was on a ladder setting up a huge VB net that was operated via giant ball bearings across its top. The net was supported by towers so that it looked like the horizontal cables of a suspension bridge. There was a blond woman at the far tower securing the net–she was the team setter. She asked why I was helping and I said I was applying to be the coach at Princeton. She said several people had applied and wondered if I knew volleyball and I mentioned coaching Laura Davis and [mumbled name/unknown name] and she was VERY impressed by this. I went back to work tugging at the net–and wondered why the ball bearings weren’t oiled properly.

4/18/23: We decided to go camping, using an open-top cargo container/pod. We put it on a truck then drove ahead to a diner. We were tracking it via a radio tag and it was way behind when it suddenly started moving across the screen and I watched it race past us on a city street. I phoned the driver and he answered on his CB, saying that he’d beat us to the destination because he was “six minutes out”. We got up (I was with someone female?? Maybe??) and went to my Taurus X and started to pursue the truck.

We were on a road being tailgated by a car when a beige/silver Buick pulled in front of me and hit its brakes instantly so it wound up 1mm in front of my car before it swerved off the road and hit a marshy ditch beside the road. At the same time, the tailgating car’s driver door opened and someone bailed out. I looked ahead again and realized the road was now a river we were driving on and then it became rapids as I heard rocks scrape the bottom of my car. The rocks and cataracts were growing bigger, so I lurched the car to the right to try and jump the banks onto land and crashed the car. I blinked and the woman was gone.

I got out and everything was frozen. I couldn’t climb up to land because it was all ice. I kept walking and eventually climbed on top of an iced-over truck and got out of the river. My pants below the knees were frozen. I started looking for wood to start a fire and came across a garage. I broke the window pains and tried to use that wood as tinder to start a fire but I couldn’t get one going. I knew if I fell asleep I’d die and never find my passenger. I closed my eyes anyways.

When I opened them, I was in a Tuscola medical clinic. I walked outside and saw big storms. I pointed to a black circle to the south and said to everyone “I love down there. That will be trouble.” Then I looked west towards the outlet mall and suddenly 10+ tornados dropped from the sky. I went back in and asked, “Is there a basement?” and the secretary shook her head no, so I started thinking about where would be safe and went to a walk-in closet in the clinic’s bedroom and hid there. While hiding, I asked out loud, “Should we open the windows to equalize pressure?” but it was dark so I didn’t know if anyone else was sheltering with me.

4/18/22: I was lost in an underground cavern complex when I came across Batman, federal agents, and a bunch of aliens. They were arresting/processing the aliens because they had red eyes–a sign of being ‘evil’. Suddenly all the aliens changed their eye color to green and one asked, “What about now?” The big/lead federal agent said, “Welcome to the city,” and got out of the way of the aliens as they walked past and headed towards the city. Batman smiled and said, “Welcome to the good guys.” Then suddenly I was on the shore of an underground lake with Batman on a sailboat made of junk. He had a piece of plastic that had the impression of a map and newspaper article on it. He told me the article was about hidden Nazi war treasure captured by the Allies and buried underground. The rows were given street names and locations mirroring the city up above.

4/18/21: There was a coup attempt. Christopher Plummer tried to inject an opponent with poison but was stopped by guards. He was taken to the opposing leader at which point, needles popped out of his gloves’ knuckles and he stabbed the other person with them killing the coup leader. I tried to escape and had to fake being a nightstand next to a fireplace until Plummer could kill the nearby guard. After that, I ran away. It turns out it was the Roman Empire–and they had trains. I hopped on a flatbed car which had a house on it with no roof. I thought I was safe except another car had a tiger and someone didn’t close the gate properly so the tiger escaped and started hunting me. I left my car, running away from the tiger until we reached a bridge. I jumped and started going from beam to beam like I knew parkour until there were no more beams and i was holding on with my hands afraid of falling. The tiger was below me intending to jump. That’s when a man and woman snuck up on the tiger, held it still, so I jumped at them and punched the tiger as I landed and that cushioned my fall even though the tiger had a really tough skull.