• Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views




    View RSS Feed

    Blue_Opossum

    Cold Funeral, Driving the Fury, and Throwing out a Toad

    by , 05-07-2014 at 11:07 AM (533 Views)
    Morning of May 7, 2014. Wednesday.

    Dream #: 17,306-02. Reading time (optimized): 2 min.



    I was at a funeral at the La Crosse Civil War Memorial (Campbell Cemetery) in winter during blasts of wind and snow. Two others in black 1940s formal apparel are near me. (They may be older versions of Zsuzsanna and me.) We are standing on the wayside, opposite the railroad tracks, not the woods where the funeral was. (I do not think of the unlikelihood of public graves between trees.)

    There are two cars parked along the road, the one that crashed in “Fear No Evil” (1969 TV movie) and my red 1922 Lincoln Phaeton (recurring dream car only).

    The old couple faces the woods as the wind blows snow across their backs. They do not move even after being covered in a light layer of snow. Another man approaches from our right. He acknowledges me but ignores the other two. He wants me to drive him somewhere, but not in either of the vehicles present.

    I become liminally aware I am dreaming without recall of what a dream is, only that my thoughts shape my world. I summon the red 1958 Plymouth Fury from “Christine” (1983 movie). The other man is happy with the car and our forthcoming road trip.

    I drive fast (not recklessly) over backroads in hilly areas. The car ends up on the carport of the Cubitis house. (I would have had to drive from Wisconsin to Florida in less than fifteen minutes). I am parked facing the orange grove, perpendicular to the driveway (which would be problematic as it would block both entrances to the front of the house).

    I am unsure where the man (preconscious simulacrum) is. I may have dropped him off somewhere. Looking down, I see a toad to the right of my right foot. It is about half the size of a cane toad. I pick it up and throw it out the window to my left. I consider that other toads may be in the car, but I do not worry about it and looking around, I see no evidence of others. At this point, my dream loses cohesion.



    Notes:

    The toad in the car may have been an association with “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” from “The Wind in the Willows” (both the book and the Disney attractions). It is similar, in some illustrations, to the car from “Fear No Evil”.

    My dream begins with the presence of sleep simulacrums (the old couple that becomes lightly covered with snow), the association with a cemetery as analogous to sleeping and being separated from waking life and my identity.

    The unknown man is this dream’s vestibular system simulacrum (a personification of the preconscious) as we ride in the car, which is an imaginary extension of my physical body while in the dream state. His original approach from my right stems from the waking process as I sleep on my left side with my right more exposed to my environment.

    A carport is a rendering of liminal space (the ambiguous awareness between dreaming and waking).


    Submit "Cold Funeral, Driving the Fury, and Throwing out a Toad" to Digg Submit "Cold Funeral, Driving the Fury, and Throwing out a Toad" to del.icio.us Submit "Cold Funeral, Driving the Fury, and Throwing out a Toad" to StumbleUpon Submit "Cold Funeral, Driving the Fury, and Throwing out a Toad" to Google

    Updated 06-06-2019 at 08:03 AM by 1390

    Categories
    non-lucid

    Comments

    1. Blue_Opossum's Avatar
      Edited for clarity