A recurring dream

This might end up being a bit of a long-winded post, but bear with me.

Firstly, I'll mention the recurring dream. Every year or so at approximately the same time, I have this dream. It's been happening for many years, since I was about 8 or 9. I'm now 19. My entire family gathers and we go to an "amusement park". The amusement park consists of a average sized room with two roller coasters in it. One is incredibly tiny...its basically a large box and a single roller coaster carriage goes in a loop. The box is adorned with intricate carvings in gold, like you'd see on old 1890's furniture, etc. We all walk past that one and approach the second.

The second roller coaster enters the room through the wall on the right, and exits on the left. My entire family gets into this roller coaster (I have a very large family...around 12 or 13 aunts/uncles, plus all the cousins, etc) and it proceeds down a cylindrical, shiny, metallic tunnel. I am not sitting next to anyone and I am sitting at the front. The track is perfectly straight and on a gentle decline. After travelling through the metallic tunnel for a while, the tunnel becomes square-ish and the walls, roof and floor are all dirt. There are posters on the walls offering rewards for criminals...the types you see in all the old westerns, with cowboys on them and the phrase "WANTED". The roller coaster keeps travelling through this tunnel for a little while, but suddenly everything changes. I find myself standing completely alone in some town I have never seen before. I am standing the middle of a road that runs alongside a football oval (aussie football...so its an oval). It's nighttime, probably around 1:00 AM and I am standing in the pouring rain under a streetlight. A few metres along the road is a police car with its lights on (no siren though). The door is open and there is no one in it. In front of it is another car, also empty. I don't feel scared at this point in the dream, just confused. Then the dream ends.

This dream has begun to interest me recently due to the path my life has taken. I was going to join the military, but was unable to due to a trivial medical issue. Therefore I am now taking what has always been my plan B....joining the police force. Its a not a particularly amazing link to my dream, but it is a link nonetheless.

Anyway, if anyone picks up on anything in the dream I haven't noticed before, I'd be interested in hearing it.

Cheers
Fat Baz