Dream of the city…

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I dreamed my wife and I were taking our godchildren to New York City.

In the dream Park Avenue has a large cathedral that ran up the center divider of the road. The center divider is only 10’/3m wide, so that would be a pretty strange cathedral and quite a tourist attraction.

In the dream there was a subway line under Park Avenue and the stations, like the cathedral, were in the center divider. In the dream Park Avenue went all the way south to the harbor, and that is where we came out.

We came up out of the subway and began to walk north along the center divider of the Avenue. As we did, we saw the cathedral was gone.
We walked up to a person standing by the construction tape around where it had been and asked.
He told us that it was a great tourist attraction, but lousy cathedral as there was no parking and it was very hard to get to. So, they took it down.

We walked back to the subway station. As we got there, I looked back at where the cathedral had been and saw something flying towards us.
“Get behind the station,” I told everyone.
We did and a giant bug shaped things flew past very fast only just above ground level.
It continued past us out over the harbor. I could see it had an oval body about the size of a large car, two wings with jet engines on them and some sort of ropes or hoses hanging from each side of the back.
It looked very much like a giant flying beetle with jet engines in the wings.

“What was that?” I asked.
“Uncle Frank, don’t you remember?” my godson asked me. “New York now has flying bug emergency vehicles.”
As he talked, the dream faded to be replaced with a video about the bugs. They could fly, lift things like a helicopter, put out fires with their hoses and join together to make a caterpillar like thing for really big jobs.
My regular dream resumed.
“That’s cool,” I said. “But, they fly really low.”

As I said it a second one flew past only just about the height of my head.
We watched as it too flew out over the harbor. The two there began flying circles around something out in the water.

“I still think it’s time to go,” I said. We all went back into the subway.
Dream ends.

I can see where bits and pieces of this dream came from. But, I have no idea how they all came to fit together this way.
In August we did take the kids to NYC. We went to the art museum that has a lot of religious art, so maybe that explains the cathedral thing.
That same trip we took them on the subway in Boston. The subway station in the dream and its proximity to the harbor is very much like the Aquarium stop we used on the Blue line.
The other day when flipping channels on the TV I came across the start of the movie Aladdin. I saw the part where they have the magic beetle stone that animates and flies very quickly across the desert, low to the ground.
Last month there were unending documentaries about the NYC terror attacks for the 9/11 15th anniversary. So, there was a lot about emergency vehicles in NYC in that.

So, I see the pieces.
But, how they came together to that is a mystery.

And, I don’t ever recall seeing a flash back in a dream like that either. That was very strange.