From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   2020/05/29 Friday: driving in reverse / electric extension cord (bodily nerve   
   system!)   
      
   There were a number of dreams, many with very little meaning, like driving   
   through a *relatively nice* neighborhood and seeing where someone had built a   
   *small* shack, kind of like they'd tried to recreate a cabin, only you could   
   tell it was a newly    
   constructed cabin.  (We've got an *ancient* log cabin in our neighborhood in   
   real life, circa 1830 or thereabouts.  The one in this dream looked like it   
   had been built maybe in the late 20th century, or even within the past 20   
   years.  Since is was a "   
   modern" construction of an old cabin, it was clearly difficult to "date.")    
   But of more significance was the very odd dream of being in the attic of a   
   house.  This one seemed very familiar (as in personal) and seemed like a mix   
   of the Asbury Lane    
   location (where I once lived) and a physical house (rather than a mobile home)   
   with an actual attic.  I was *in* the attic, perhaps alone at first, then with   
   a larger number of people.  As I've just finished sharing a post online in   
   Facebook, I'm fairly    
   certain I know what this dream is / was about:  This morning, I did some   
   research on something called "piriformis syndrome" (where one of the butt   
   muscles needs a little stretching) also referred to as "fake sciatica."  This   
   research allowed the *rest*    
   of this dream to make far better sense:  In the attic, the dreamer (me) was   
   fascinated by this white, electrical extension cord that was extended through   
   the attic, along its length, from the left-ish (northernmost) wall toward the   
   right, where it had an    
   outlet such that anyone could plug anything into this cord if necessary at   
   that particular end of the attic.  The momentary fascination / attention was   
   *directly* on the electric cord itself, but then the dreamer began ushering   
   people OUT of the attic,    
   making sure the dreamer was the last one to leave.  (Kinda like saying, "OK,   
   now please leave me to my own world for now.  Thanks for stopping by!")  The   
   reason all this interested me, I suspect, is because of the non-stop nerve   
   issue I have running    
   along the left side of my body, as a result of the brain damage I received   
   back in 2013.  I'm hoping that perhaps I can relieve some of the pressure on   
   the nerve that's affected.  Maybe.   
      
   The other dream (what I consider to be of even more personal significance)   
   involved the dreamer (myself) behind the wheel of a vehicle (left-hand drive,   
   as I was born & raised in America) in a somewhat dark setting, *as if* it was   
   night outside, but this    
   was just "dark" rather than "nighttime."  The driver (me) was on a slope where   
   the vehicle began to roll backwards (downhill) even though the car was OFF   
   (the engine was not running) and there *seemed* to have been *some small*   
   action, such as *possibly*    
   taking the car out of park, which released the gears / transmission connection   
   which had held the car in position on the slope.  Here is where this gets   
   significantly more interesting.  A female is in the passenger (right hand)   
   front seat.  She seems *   
   very* much like Gina, as in even though this dream was only around clarity 7   
   due to the darkness, she seemed so much more distinct, like there's basically   
   no way for her to have been even remotely confused with someone else.  From my   
   perspective, she *   
   was* Gina in this dream.   
      
   So the car's rolling backwards (not too fast, but logic and experience says if   
   left unchecked, the speed WILL increase and this may *certainly* cause an   
   accident!) and the driver / dreamer (me) is trying to stop the motion of the   
   car by using my right    
   leg / foot to press down on the car's brake pedal, but remember, the car   
   engine is OFF and as such, power brakes are not empowered, and I know from   
   experience that this requires *significant* extra stopping power in order to   
   apply enough brake pressure    
   to stop a rolling vehicle.  So "I" (the dreamer) try pressing harder, I think   
   at least 2 more times, with little result, although the car *did* stop for a   
   *very* brief moment, then started rolling backwards again, as if the pressure   
   on the brake pedal    
   simply wasn't enough.  The dreamer/driver (I) began saying aloud, "Step on my   
   foot" or something like that.  If I had written this down RIGHT after waking,   
   I could have told you exactly what was said, verbatim, but that's exact phrase   
   has evaporated.     
   What I *can* record is that I repeated the comment at least two more times:    
   "STEP ON MY FOOT!  STEP ON MY FOOT!" meaning I needed Gina to add her left   
   foot's pressure on top of my right foot's pressure in order to press the brake   
   a bit harder.  For    
   whatever reason, I felt as if the pressure I (the dreamer) was exerting on the   
   brake pedal was simply *limited* in some way, but by her adding her foot to   
   the equation, just enough added pressure should stop the car, at least long   
   enough to safely shift    
   it back into park (or get the engine running, etc.) — the main thing was to   
   stop the car from rolling.   
      
   Now what happened next *was* clearly perceived within the dream, however,   
   trying to recall it in order to write this down involves a *tiny* bit of   
   evaporation, so this is the best I can recall, although it may be slightly   
   inaccurate:  "I" (the dreamer)    
   took my right hand and "lifted" her left leg's slacks (?) at around just above   
   her kneecap, which placed her left foot on top of my right, and I again said   
   "STEP ON MY FOOT!" (or PRESS MY FOOT! or something of that nature) and (here's   
   the most important    
   part) I *felt* her *press* her left foot on top of my right upon the brake   
   pedal!  This is where the dream immediately ended.  (I felt *her pressing* her   
   foot, *as well as* my foot *being pressed* as *one* combined / unified   
   feeling.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)