Bounding Cars and Junk
Two dreams remembered upon waking. One was only a fragment, which I reviewed a bit but not with great interest. The other was much better remembered. By time I was up, the longer sequence had disappeared entirely and I could not recall it. The fragment was retained. The longer dream I remembered again just as I was about to go to sleep in the evening.
The Fragment: There were a lot of cars, mostly older American ones, being driven around rather wildly. One car was stopped on a hillside, and another came bounding down the slope to ram it. The stopped car jumped forward, causing the other to continue down to the road on which I was traveling, going too fast to stop. Crossing the road, it went over a steep embankment and rammed a stripped wreck in the side, becoming stuck in it. The two jammed together rolled end over end down this very steep slope until they crashed into the rocks by the riverside below.
Longer Sequence: I was in a trailer, van or mobile home owned by another man who was not there. He was involved in film, recording, or some such technology and the trailer was jammed with paraphenalia of the sort such a person might use. I was arranging some of his stuff for him.
There were a large number of 10-1/2 inch reels of recording tape which I
set aside to remove for my own use without his knowing. I knew he could not
use them because they were obsolete for the equipment he used, but I had
such equipment and could. I was sure he would never miss them in this pile
of junk. While I was engaged in these proceedings, he returned to the doors
at the back of the trailer. I was a bit disappointed at not having got the
tape reels out in time, but figured the way I had arranged them would
arouse no suspicion.
Fade Out.
This dream is reminiscent of many dreams where I have been loose in surplus stores after closing or otherwise involved with surplus equipment I could make off with or could buy at a very low price. I can now remember a very long one (from quite some time ago ?) where the store was laid out much like the C&H Sales surplus store in Pasadena, but the shelving and contents were much different. I spent a long time in this store and examined a lot of junk, but I do not remember it in much detail now. See also 2-22-83.