Blue_Opossum

Morning of February 17, 1973. Saturday.

Dream #: 2,252-02. Reading time: 1 min 15 sec.



I am in Cubitis in my backyard in the late morning but watching a documentary at the same time (as if by way of a dream within a dream). The airplane overhead stays in one area of the sky longer than would be possible. At times, I seem closer to the plane as if I am watching the scene.

I watch an experimental aircraft called the “Black Robin.” It looks like a soaring bird in design, with a curving pattern on the backs of the wings reminiscent of bird feathers. There are also false associations with an increase in car crashes in the region. These crashes are a result of lovebugs getting into the engines. (These are insects that fly around in twos, attached to each other’s tails. People typically cover their car’s grill with a screen during this time.)

The Black Robin, on its first trip with many tourists, is swarmed by lovebugs as they enter crucial areas to cause a malfunction, as well as obstructing the pilots’ views. The Black Robin is of the same orange and black (in the same proportions) as the insects. The airplane begins to smoke, and it crashes somewhere northeast of my home, probably in the cow pasture. There is a tribute parade in the town center, with cannons on some of the floats. Characters from “Gilligan’s Island” are in the parade.

Over time, the Black Robin and its crash is more of a supposed urban legend. I feel puzzled over this in my dream. It is as if the experimental airplane never existed, and the histories of the tourists aboard were covered up or forgotten.

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Part of this dream may have been influenced by the “Love and the Baby Derby” episode of “Love American Style” (from the night before on the 16th), with Bob Denver (of “Gilligan’s Island”). “Derby” rhymes with “Herbie” and Herbie is the “love bug.”

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