The Train
In my dream last night I was trying to get home from some sort of event in New York City. I was with my buddy Eric and we were trying to drive out but the traffic was absolutely atrocious. At some point this lady was diverting traffic, but we had to get out of our car and walk. She gave us each a paper with some kind of ticket attached to it and told us it would be the only way to get out of the city.
I protested that we were going all the way back to California but she said it would be fine and pushed us toward this funny brick thing that had stairs under it. We squeezed thru and after a short tunnel found ourselves standing in a University. Not sure where to go we started asking random people and eventually were guided to a field next to the University's very grandiose library.
Next to the field were train tracks and a person there explained that the tickets were vouchers we could give to people using the tracks to take us to our destination. Something like they got the vouchers from us and then could get something else for helping out.
Eric and I stood there waiting for what we thought was going to be a train, but turned out to be various small vehicles using the train tracks. Most were only 2 seaters and we wanted to ride together so we kept waiting and letting others go ahead of us. After awhile it started to look like there would be no multi seat vehicles so Eric grabbed the next vehicle which looked kinda like a milk truck only smaller on the tracks. As he was leaving I heard someone start yelling about how we all needed to be in line. I turned and saw a line forming and got annoyed because I was in front before but now I was being pushed back. Instead of getting in line I just grabbed the next vehicle and jumped in.
However, now it wasn't train tracks but rather a water duct like in a waterslide park. The vehicle was a strange 3 seat teeter totter type thing. The two seats in front of me were taken by small children. I looked behind and realized there were actually 4 seats but the last one was very waterlogged. A small child was standing by it looking sad so I offered my seat, but the child wanted the back seat. She was just having trouble getting in so I helped her.
For the ride I mostly closed my eyes and tried to kick back since I knew it was going to be a very long ride, but I was awoken by a bump and realized that now my ride was somehow inside some kind of small play house and it was riding the water uphill somehow.
I heard children's voices and realized it was my kids voices so I bailed off the boat thing and started looking around. As it turned out, the play house was just a water fun thing that circled on itself and didn't get anywhere. I finally found me kids and got out of to look around.
I found the problem when I found the water slide. It apparently had broken and was shooting into a person's back yard right at this playhouse. I found the other end but it was dried up and had spider webs. The other side went over this person's fence but only for another 10 feet or so. I went back to grab my kids and now my dog was there, too. The kids from my boat were there and they wanted my help getting home so I cautiously opened the person's gate out of their yard, but my dog kept trying to get past me and run away so I had to shut the gate and grab his collar. Now I noticed the other children also had another 2 dogs!
At this point I looked over the gate and noticed it was some kind of cul de sac and this is where the dream fades away as I woke up.
I protested that we were going all the way back to California but she said it would be fine and pushed us toward this funny brick thing that had stairs under it. We squeezed thru and after a short tunnel found ourselves standing in a University. Not sure where to go we started asking random people and eventually were guided to a field next to the University's very grandiose library.
Next to the field were train tracks and a person there explained that the tickets were vouchers we could give to people using the tracks to take us to our destination. Something like they got the vouchers from us and then could get something else for helping out.
Eric and I stood there waiting for what we thought was going to be a train, but turned out to be various small vehicles using the train tracks. Most were only 2 seaters and we wanted to ride together so we kept waiting and letting others go ahead of us. After awhile it started to look like there would be no multi seat vehicles so Eric grabbed the next vehicle which looked kinda like a milk truck only smaller on the tracks. As he was leaving I heard someone start yelling about how we all needed to be in line. I turned and saw a line forming and got annoyed because I was in front before but now I was being pushed back. Instead of getting in line I just grabbed the next vehicle and jumped in.
However, now it wasn't train tracks but rather a water duct like in a waterslide park. The vehicle was a strange 3 seat teeter totter type thing. The two seats in front of me were taken by small children. I looked behind and realized there were actually 4 seats but the last one was very waterlogged. A small child was standing by it looking sad so I offered my seat, but the child wanted the back seat. She was just having trouble getting in so I helped her.
For the ride I mostly closed my eyes and tried to kick back since I knew it was going to be a very long ride, but I was awoken by a bump and realized that now my ride was somehow inside some kind of small play house and it was riding the water uphill somehow.
I heard children's voices and realized it was my kids voices so I bailed off the boat thing and started looking around. As it turned out, the play house was just a water fun thing that circled on itself and didn't get anywhere. I finally found me kids and got out of to look around.
I found the problem when I found the water slide. It apparently had broken and was shooting into a person's back yard right at this playhouse. I found the other end but it was dried up and had spider webs. The other side went over this person's fence but only for another 10 feet or so. I went back to grab my kids and now my dog was there, too. The kids from my boat were there and they wanted my help getting home so I cautiously opened the person's gate out of their yard, but my dog kept trying to get past me and run away so I had to shut the gate and grab his collar. Now I noticed the other children also had another 2 dogs!
At this point I looked over the gate and noticed it was some kind of cul de sac and this is where the dream fades away as I woke up.
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