Posted by Racer on December 16, 2004, at 20:13:17
Had this one a while ago, think I pretty much know what it means...
Background: I drive about fifty miles most weeks to take my mother to the market. Mother does not drive -- a fact for which we who know her are profoundly grateful, and you should be too -- and I have been her taxi service since I first got a license to drive.
So, in the dream, I'm driving to my mother's, on the road that really leads to her place, but Dr EyeCandy is in the passenger seat of the car I'm driving. It's not my car -- my beloved car, named Carmilla for the story by Sheridan LeFanu -- but maybe my husband's Porsche? Something with a functional, non-luxury interior, but a fair amount of power and manouverability, at any rate. Driving on this road, there's a long low hill, and driving up it the car feels as if it's struggling to keep going. Starting after a red light is hard, like it is when a manual transmission is overweighted. I continue driving, on my way to my mother's, realizing at some point I'll have to make a right turn, because Mother will be at the market already for some reason.
Through all this, Dr EyeCandy is silent, and motionless. I know he's still alive, but he seems uncomfortable for some reason, which I attribute to being uncomfortable being with me.
When I turn the corner, he falls over to his left -- his body doesn't move, just pivots so that his upper body is resting on my shoulder, and his legs are kinda bumping into the door. He doesn't move, doesn't say anything, just stays fallen over on my shoulder, while I'm trying to drive the car -- with a manual transmission and a very heavy rear mounted engine -- and also trying to shift him back to a comfortable sitting position. (Mind you, all this it taking place while driving on a busy street that fills in for a highway through the city. We're not talking two lane residential here, this is six lane highway through a city.)
I have my ideas of what it all means, but I want to hear what others have to say...
(Thanks, GG, what fun to show off my unconscious in public. Guess I'd better get going in therapy, so that I can dust the cobwebs off it, huh?)
poster:Racer
thread:430491
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