17 March 2010

Dreaming on the left

Driving on the other side of the road is one of those things that causes worry for people. It doesn't take very long to get used to - especially as you're generally on the opposite side of the car as the driver. I noticed in a few driving-related dreams I've had recently that my sub-conscious is still driving on the left (although the car I'm travelling in is left-hand drive).

This morning I had another driving dream. (Sorry, I know other people's dreams are really boring.) This time, I made an effort within the dream to see which side of the road we were on. It was the left, again. I turned to the driver (Mike) and said "You're on the wrong side of the road!". At which point he crossed over to the other side of the road and started driving on the right.

Maybe my sub-conscious will drive on the right from now on. Now I've just got to worry about the fact that I always seem to be a passenger rather than the driver in my own dreams. I bet Freud would have had a field day with that...

Image from Flickr user Sergio~.

3 comments:

Eliane said...

In my dreams, I am also always on the left but that's what I'm used to. The worrying thing is that I am usually in the back seat, there's no driver and the brakes don't work, or the accelerator or something. Please no analysis....

Shirley said...

I occasionally have a dream that I go to visit my mother in a house and province she no longer lives in to find I'm still getting mail there. I've been living in Finland for 28 years now. Sigh.

At least I no longer dream that the first thing I do, when I get off the plane after arriving in Canada, is head to the nearest bookstore at the airport just to look at all of the English books.

Linda said...

Funny how these things are ingrained in our psyche.