Is it possible to be in three different places in one dream?
Just awoke from one where I was at the Oregon coast but also back in college in Corvallis, where I received some news that had me deciding to jump in my car to return home, telling my roommate that I'd likely only be returning the next day to move my stuff out. A heavy rain began to fall while backing out of my parking spot and unable to get from gas pedal to the brake in one fluid motion, drove over a curb and a few feet into someone's yard and then once on the road, realized I was back at the coast where I looked at my fuel gage and decided I wasn't going to make it home on less than a quarter tank, stopped at a gas station, realized that I was now in South Dakota, where there was a foot of snow on the ground and upon filling and departure they handed a debit card back to me that wasn't mine .....
And that's where I woke up. ..... Hey if it was South Dakota, wouldn't I be pumping my own gas? But I recall wondering if they would notice my Oregon plates so I must have been out-of-state. And I don't recall any homes with yards, across the street from the dorms at OSU but everything else about that place was as I remember it, so I was also in state.
Except that I wasn't. ...... Twilight Zone? The Outer Limits? Maybe a little Night Gallery?
If you don't understand those references, then you didn't grow up watching television in the 1960's and 70's.
Or just maybe, as Neil Young once sang: "Everyone knows this is nowhere."
Corvallis and the coast .... what's that? 50 or 60 miles apart? The coast and South Dakota .... 1500 miles apart? How does one's physical location instantly change within one dream? I mean, I've never had a basketball dream where I was in my old grade school gym, took a jump shot at the OSU rec center, turned to get back on defense at the opposite end of the court .... in Madison Square Garden. That would have at least made sense to me.
And something I can't help but wonder: Does all this mean that I'm in my final days? Well hopefully not literally.
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