Burned up dreams

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Stairway to terror

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I wounder why in dreams why have fears over these seemingly normal or not scary things. That is unless you are afraid of heights

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Paris Hilton?

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ha I like what you did with the title there mate!

so close there that dream could have gone further ...lol ;)

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Top Gear goes artistic

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:boogie: woohooo top gear....nice one mate! that is such a great show!

I cant imagine them being arty lol...infact the idea of it is funny lol oh and I love your description of the show...its so true lol

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Originally Posted by mark

I wounder why in dreams why have fears over these seemingly normal or not scary things. That is unless you are afraid of heights

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I seem to be more afraid of squares, the shape of the staircase in this case. That fear has been linked to square-shapes at least twice before. And the third flight of stairs goes to the 4th floor, adding to the "4" conspiracy.

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ha I like what you did with the title there mate!

so close there that dream could have gone further ...lol ;)

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That would have been nice.

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:boogie: woohooo top gear....nice one mate! that is such a great show!

I cant imagine them being arty lol...infact the idea of it is funny lol oh and I love your description of the show...its so true lol

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I thought you'd like that one! Yes, Top Gear doing water colours. Never going to happen! :)

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Originally Posted by Burned up

Stairway to terror

I was in a hotel or it could even have been a cruise liner. I was walking up this staircase that was spiraling around a square stair well. As I was approaching the top of the third flight I could feel fear and terror. This was also the top floor and I recall looking back down the stairwell with a dull fear that I recognise from other dreams.

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Stairs are strange... I think it's interesting how often stairs represent a certain feeling. Sometimes I go up stairs and feel excitement. Going down stairs is related to fear.

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A hotel (maybe the Hilton :lol:) in Paris. It was a luxury hotel and I'd just come into some money, hence I was there. I'd just got hold of some Euros (or was about to) and go out into the street when an attractive young professional female, short, slim with dark hair, passed me coming in to the hotel. She smiled at me and I smiled back. We started chatting but unfortunately I then woke up :(

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Ahhhh, you got close!
No trains, but a tiny peek on a possible romantic dream. I see progress!

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Maybe the same hotel. Is this possible between waking? Anyway, going back inside now and upstairs.

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Yep, I've also had a dream continue with some waking in between. Too bad you couldn't influence the direction of the dream and take that lady out for dinner.

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I continues upstairs and in a room higher up a young man was showing an old-fashioned film he'd made. He was Jewish (dunno how I knew this) and had a round face and looked overweight. The film was like a silent movie, more black and sepia than black and white. It seemed to be about my life but was also very abstract.

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Hmmm, an old movie about your life... something tells me I'd better keep my mouth shut :chuckle:

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Top Gear goes artistic

The presenters of Top Gear (non-Brits: this is a regular TV show about cars aimed at men who haven't grown up, i.e. most of us) were doing a piece about boats. (PDP - last night's repeat they were doing cars converted to boats).

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AHhh, I know Top Gear! Sounds like a fun dream :D
I didn't watch it a lot (hey, it's about cars) but I've seen some fragments and like when they are so overly enthusiastic about a special car :P Plus I like the British accent, hehe (I remember they had a weird car from Holland, that steered and felt like a motorbike)

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Originally Posted by Sara

Stairs are strange... I think it's interesting how often stairs represent a certain feeling. Sometimes I go up stairs and feel excitement. Going down stairs is related to fear.

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Yeah, that's interesting. I've done these visualisation exercises which inevitably include "...you take one step down the staircase..." at which point I'm thinking "Oh no I don't" because I get scared. Supposed to go to a deeper state of consciousness or something.

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Originally Posted by Sara

Ahhhh, you got close!
No trains, but a tiny peek on a possible romantic dream. I see progress!

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I like to think so :). I used to have lots of sexual dreams but not for a while now (apart from the girl a couple of weeks ago but that doesn't count)

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Yep, I've also had a dream continue with some waking in between. Too bad you couldn't influence the direction of the dream and take that lady out for dinner.

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Knowing my luck I'd wake after paying the bill. :(

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Originally Posted by Sara

Hmmm, an old movie about your life... something tells me I'd better keep my mouth shut :chuckle:

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Grrrrrrr....

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AHhh, I know Top Gear! Sounds like a fun dream :D
I didn't watch it a lot (hey, it's about cars) but I've seen some fragments and like when they are so overly enthusiastic about a special car :P Plus I like the British accent, hehe (I remember they had a weird car from Holland, that steered and felt like a motorbike)

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Not like a British one then, that steers and feels like a bus.

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Originally Posted by Burned up

I seem to be more afraid of squares, the shape of the staircase in this case. That fear has been linked to square-shapes at least twice before. And the third flight of stairs goes to the 4th floor, adding to the "4" conspiracy.

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hmmm... do you have any idea what squares represent to you at all?

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I thought you'd like that one! Yes, Top Gear doing water colours. Never going to happen! :)

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:boogie: hell yeah....guess im predictable like that :P

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Originally Posted by mark

hmmm... do you have any idea what squares represent to you at all?

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Not really. There's a hidden meaning there somewhere, or it's just coincidence.

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:boogie: hell yeah....guess im predictable like that :P

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One reason why we love you so much :)

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Not really. There's a hidden meaning there somewhere, or it's just coincidence.

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yeah I think dreams are just strange sometimes. I had one once were a floating glowing thing attached to my wardrobe scarred the crap out of me. :uhm: guess its a mystery of the mind then :?

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One reason why we love you so much :)

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ah thanks mate :D that means alot :) :)

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Paris Hilton?

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I've always thought it was funny that she sounds like she's named after a specific hotel.

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I've always thought it was funny that she sounds like she's named after a specific hotel.

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Me too. Can anyone tell me why she's famous?

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Me too. Can anyone tell me why she's famous?

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Because she's a rich, thin, blond, high-society heiress who has starred in a live sex tape that has been freely circulated world-wide.

That qualifies her as an expert at everything and a mega-star in some important circles... circles I don't tend to travel in.

Stubborn child

The family was coming down some stairs to a large station island platform area (i.e. tracks both sides). As we walked towards the other end of the area - possibly towards a waiting room or something - we realised my son wasn't with us. After the usual "I thought he was with you" exchange, we saw he'd run across the platform with another child and he'd taken his clothes off. I shouted to him to get his clothes on and to come over at once. He ran away from me. Next he was still naked but climbing on some railings. He was much older now (guess about 13 or 14), and fatter. At this point I remembered he'd been diagnosed with a mental or behavioural illness of some kind and that I shouldn't be too harsh on him. I was also debating whether I could maintain a father-son relationship or whether to end him to boarding school (i.e. out of sight out of mind).

Ferry to France

I had some recall that may have been from ages ago or it may connect with this dream. The ferry was at the bottom of a ramp in a small port (which was Southampton!). I'd just arrived from (probably) France and was in a small building at the quayside. Not at all like Dover or Portsmouth! At the same time I was arranging the journey from my home to the port, i.e. what I must have already done. Anyway, starting from my parents' home I realised I could just make the ferry by getting the first train. But friends coming from Newcastle wouldn't be able to make it and they'd have to stay at the house overnight and we'd all go down together.

Both dreams featured trains, although indirectly in both cases. But this does indicate that I have trains on the mind again. Some PDP no doubt as I was looking at train times before bed.

The first dream seems to combine my dream-dislike for fat people with my worry about my son's antisocial behaviour. My son turning into a fat boy (and attention-grabbing at that) was probably more disturbing than him having a naked tantrum in public. This dream certainly posed a challenge for me.

The second had an air of familiarity about it. It has my logical mind doing what it does best (and worst) - putting people into boxes as it were. Why couldn't I just leave the Newcastle people to make their own way to Southampton? (OK Mark, I know it's a long way :))

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The first dream seems to combine my dream-dislike for fat people with my worry about my son's antisocial behaviour. My son turning into a fat boy (and attention-grabbing at that) was probably more disturbing than him having a naked tantrum in public. This dream certainly posed a challenge for me.

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:lol: ha ha that is funny...your dream dislike of fat people lol. Its funny I dont even have kids and I worry that if I do they will become chavs :?

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Why couldn't I just leave the Newcastle people to make their own way to Southampton? (OK Mark, I know it's a long way :))

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ha probably because we are silly and would get lost? lol

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:lol: ha ha that is funny...your dream dislike of fat people lol. Its funny I dont even have kids and I worry that if I do they will become chavs :?

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Yes, that's what it was like. Having a chav son.

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ha probably because we are silly and would get lost? lol

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Nah, you wouldn't make it past the first pub :chuckle:

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Nah, you wouldn't make it past the first pub :chuckle:

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busted! ha ha ;)

Son's school

I was taking my son to school and was running late. We caught up with a friend of his in the playground and the two boys ran in following the end of the line funneling through the door to the classroom downstairs.

I decided to follow just to make sure everything was OK. Then I noticed inside children had left their schoolbags on the floor of the reception area. (Which looked nothing like this irl). Parents, like me, were milling around. I saw my son's bag and started downstairs with it, expecting to find the door to his classroom. But downstairs was a large room with bay windows. Like a drawing room overlooking a large garden as seen in old country houses (in the UK anyway). There was no furniture - it was very minimal. There were doors off the room which seemed to be staff offices or something. Knowing I'd obviously gone the wrong way I went back upstairs.

I've dreamed of rooms like this before. My office relocated here once in another dream.

It was downstairs, suggesting I was going deeper into my unconscious. Similarly, when I went upstairs I woke up.

The room felt safe and it had a nice view out of the windows. It was large, but perhaps I'm recalling being very small when a normal sized room would have appeared large? It was also old, suggesting the same. So this room is a safe place for me.

But I didn't go there this time. I had a task to do. I wonder if that says something about me just now? Too much worry about what I'm supposed to do rather than just relaxing and feeling comforted?

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Originally Posted by mark

:lol: ha ha that is funny...your dream dislike of fat people lol. Its funny I dont even have kids and I worry that if I do they will become chavs :?

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LOL, no, they won't, not when you raise them :P

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ha probably because we are silly and would get lost? lol

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Nah, you wouldn't make it past the first pub :chuckle:

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Hahaha, thanks so much for making me laugh this morning :D

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Stubborn child

The family was coming down some stairs to a large station island platform area (i.e. tracks both sides). As we walked towards the other end of the area - possibly towards a waiting room or something - we realised my son wasn't with us. After the usual "I thought he was with you" exchange, we saw he'd run across the platform with another child and he'd taken his clothes off.

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Hahaha, a typical child thing to do :D

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I shouted to him to get his clothes on and to come over at once. He ran away from me. Next he was still naked but climbing on some railings. He was much older now (guess about 13 or 14), and fatter. At this point I remembered he'd been diagnosed with a mental or behavioural illness of some kind and that I shouldn't be too harsh on him.

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This is very interesting!
I had a dream about young kids AND an older kid with a mental disability last night! (still have to work out last night's dreams, the new ones in my DJ are yesterday's).

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I was also debating whether I could maintain a father-son relationship or whether to end him to boarding school (i.e. out of sight out of mind).

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You probably mentioned it before, but how old is your son now?

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Ferry to France

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You seem to have a lot of dreams about France lately. Any special reason for this?

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Both dreams featured trains, although indirectly in both cases. But this does indicate that I have trains on the mind again. Some PDP no doubt as I was looking at train times before bed.

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Ehm, what is PDP?
And eh, I'd suggest some other literature before going to bed, if you want to have romantic instead of train dreams ;)

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Originally Posted by Sara

Hahaha, a typical child thing to do :D

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Yeah, well, nothing's beyond this boy.

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This is very interesting!
I had a dream about young kids AND an older kid with a mental disability last night! (still have to work out last night's dreams, the new ones in my DJ are yesterday's).

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Well, it could relate to something going on here?

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You probably mentioned it before, but how old is your son now?

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He's 8.

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You seem to have a lot of dreams about France lately. Any special reason for this?

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I do, don't I. Hadn't thought of that. No particular reason comes to mind other than it being another country and the apprehension that goes with visiting one. (Or is this a Brit thing?)

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Ehm, what is PDP?

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Previous Days Processing - dreaming of the thoughts we carry to bed with us.

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And eh, I'd suggest some other literature before going to bed, if you want to have romantic instead of train dreams ;)

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You're probably right. I read my course books before bed so nothing much to get the passions working there. Not sure my wife would want me reading porno mags though. Wonder what Mark reads?

Bro

Also I remembered earlier that I dreamed I was here on DV reading a post by Bro. Can't remember anything else about it.

Maybe I'm doing too much DV.

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LOL, no, they won't, not when you raise them :P


Hahaha, thanks so much for making me laugh this morning :D

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hey thanks sara...so kind :)

lol yeah BU is right mot geordies spend their time in the pub lol

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Wonder what Mark reads?

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:lol: ha ha not at all what you would imagine :P ....I dont really think of sex a huge amount usually I think of random geeky stuff ha ha

the school dream sounded very visually nice mate, and I wonder what bro said in your dream....not heard from him in ages :(

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I wonder what bro said in your dream....not heard from him in ages :(

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It was me looking at a post of his on DV but - well - have you tried reading in dreams? The words change so much I rarely come away with a recall of what was written.

Rivers of time

I had already been waling in the country along a narrow, fast-flowing river. (We call these "burns" in Scotland). I don't recall really anything of that part of the dream but things did happen.

Anyway, now I'm standing next to a wider river on the edge of a forest. I think its a designated country park. I want to get back to where I was before and I start following the river, which I'm assuming is the same river as I was following earlier. Then I realise I'm walking downstream, so it can't be the same river (or I'm going the wrong way, which I kind of know I'm not) as it won't get narrower again (clever, huh!). Rather than follow this path into the woods (roungly in the direction of the river) I see another path across a barbed wire fence. This looks well-trodden and I see it goes over a ruin of some sort and down to a car park in the trees where it's dark. I decide to go that way.

Clever baby

I'm looking into the eyes of this baby. Then I find I'm having a conversation and this baby is telling me things - kind of telepathic like - I need to know the answers for. It was telling me about REM sleep and that's the only question I remember, probably because I was waking up and wanted to get something down on paper for my DJ.

Sometimes I have dreams and the meaning is clear. The rivers dream is one of those. The rivers represent the passage of time. I'm trying to get to the "young" river but by following the "adult" river downstream I realise I'm going the wrong way. What happens next is a state of anxious confusion. Which way do I go? What sorts of obstacles do I come across? Where do I want to go anyway?

Basically, I'm wanting to be young again and am all confused because I can't be. I'm actually progressing in life "downstream" as it were. The rest is a memory.

Don't know about the baby dream. It's unusual for me to dream of a baby and I suspect I was looking at an infant version of me. Something about clarity of thought, which I associate with infants rather than the muddled thoughts I have today. (As with the previous dream).

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Originally Posted by Burned up

It was me looking at a post of his on DV but - well - have you tried reading in dreams? The words change so much I rarely come away with a recall of what was written.

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That's a major common dream sign. Do an RC! :D

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Originally Posted by Moonbeam

That's a major common dream sign. Do an RC! :D

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I'm rarely lucid enough for that. I did have a moment of lucidity this morning - looking at some sheet music as it happens. Much the same thing as looking at words. But the usual happened: now I know I'm dreaming - I wake up.

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I see another path across a barbed wire fence. This looks well-trodden and I see it goes over a ruin of some sort and down to a car park in the trees where it's dark. I decide to go that way.

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It seems to me that leaving the river path is an attempt to stop or slow down the passage of time and delay the onset of "adultism". Or rather it seems that leaving the river is an attempt to deny the one way journey of growing up by putting it "out of sight, out of mind".

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It seems to me that leaving the river path is an attempt to stop or slow down the passage of time and delay the onset of "adultism". Or rather it seems that leaving the river is an attempt to deny the one way journey of growing up by putting it "out of sight, out of mind".

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Yes, I think more the second than the first. The route I took at the end was a complicated, nonsensical route compared with the route of the river nearby. I did not want to face the fact that I was going downstream and couldn't get back to the younger stage of the river.