derelict17's Dream Journal

a stolen pile of old maps

Date of dream: Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Lucid Intent? No

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I took a road trip with DT and WL and we decided to go to the Garden of the Gods in Illinois. WL is kind to me at first, but DT is angry. We arrive at night and the garden has a carnival freakshow aspect to it. There are several twisted rides and games to play. One of the rides simulated what it would be like to get eaten by a gigantic man. I got shoved in his mouth and chewed up at the beginning, and then fall down a tube and into a big pit of padding foam meant to be his stomach. This all occurs in pitch darkness and is quite exciting. One of the most bizarre sensations is sinking deeper into the foam pieces because of my density. I am now seperated from the people that I came there with and I wander around the festival-garden for awhile.

When I find my friends again they are both happy to see me. They tell me that while we were seperated that they came across a pile of old maps. Some had color and others were very old and just black and white. I read some fine writing on one of the maps and it said Churubusco. I asked them where they bought the maps from and they told me that I wouldn't have to deal with that. They said that they found them underneath a table and took them. I didn't ask any more questions. I love maps!

Additional Comments:

I teach a lab where we taught a lab on density and I graded the density essay question on their midterms. I recently recalled a trip taken to the Garden. I recently used a map called churubusco at work. The night before I studied an equation that created the name of DT.

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freak show
amusement park
festival
maps
garden of the gods

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car sinking in a river

Date of dream: Sunday, May 25, 2008

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Lucid Intent? No

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I was hanging out with Mike Beeler (a childhood friend who I've saw at college a couple times). He was driving us down a road

that ran alongside a large canyon to the left. I understood that it was the Smoky Mountains, although it looked much like the Grand Canyon. As we were driving around Mike was telling me about how he went on Spring Break down here with a bunch of guys from school, and the group got bigger each year. The road that we were driving on was very steep and narrow, with a vertical dropoff to the left. It was like the entire canyon side was terraced. On the terrace below the road there was a drainage river that filled the entire terrace. Eventually Mike drives over a rise and splashes into a big puddle. He loses visability momentarily and runs off the road, causing the car to fall into the river below. As we fell, I yelled "We're going in the river!" and he replied "Thats exactly right!". After we hit the water and our car was rapidly sinking, Mike yelled to "Jump out of the car!" and "Roll down the window!". As the water level approached my head, I woke up.

Additional Comments:

I recently went to the Grand Canyon. A few years ago I went on Spring Break to the Smokies. I recently looked at pictures of a terraced field. In Montana, I've seen irrigation ditches terraced into the hillside.

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hot-air balloon race at night

Date of dream: Sunday, February 17, 2008

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I was with a few people (CK?) and we were witnessing a hot-air balloon race. It was dark out and we were in a large field. They were launching the balloons one at a time (which didn't seem very fair to me). Some of the balloons would start to go up into the air and then fail. The balloons would then fall back down to the ground and start to bounce, like a big air-filled rubber ball. There were power lines around, and the bouncing hot-air balloons would hit some of them. The longer that the balloons had been bouncing, the drier they became, and the more of a risk that there was that they would electocute you. We had to avoid touching them once they had been bouncing for awhile. The height of the bounces remained consistant, like it was being dribbled by an unseen force instead of just bouncing due to gravity. Some of the balloons managed to successfully launch, and avoid the bouncing fate.

Additional Comments:

Dream recorded at 6:55 am. Last night I read two news stories, one about a hot air balloon around the world attempt, and one about an airplane flying into a power line.

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Flying

Keywords
hot-air balloon
ball
bouncing
flying
night

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concerned
scared
amazed
awe

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