Strange dream
Nov. 6th, 2012 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I dreamed that I was a private investigator in London. I was on a case
investigating an organized crime ring. My office was in a reasonably old
building along a main street at the top of a hill.
My wife and I came out of the office and got in my car. It was a very
large car like a Cadillac or similar.
I pulled out of my parking space and drove up to the traffic lights by my
building. As I came to a stop at the lights, I started drifting backwards.
I hit the brakes harder, and nothing happened. I hit the gas to move up
more and nothing happened.
“They’ve cut the lines!” I told my wife. “I’ll try to keep from hitting
anyone, but I can’t stop.”
As we drifted backwards down the road we started going faster and faster.
It was very difficult steering the car while going fast down a long,
twisting road.
We seemed to go through a long park with walls on either side and nice
green hills on the other side. I dodged the cars I could and many dodged
me.
The road went through some big bends and I had trouble staying on the
correct side of the road. Several cars had to drive off the road to avoid
me.
Finally my foot hit the emergency brake on the floor and the car started to
slow down. Once I realized they hadn’t cut that cable, I pushed it much
harder.
But, now we were on a long, steep, straight section of road going down to
the water. The emergency brake could slow us down some, but not stop us.
The car rolled backwards down a dock and into the water.
The good news was the water was warm tropical water of that nice aqua color.
My wife and I swam out and watched the car sink.
Dream ends
I’ve never been to London. But, I don’t think it has any steep hills that
are a mile or more long. San Francisco maybe. But, it was clearly London
in the dream and I remember being worried that I wasn’t staying on the left
as we came down the hill.
My wife has been watching a lot of the Midsomer Murders on Netflix lately.
While not set in London, it is set in England. And, cutting someone’s
brakes so they roll into a river is very like the sort of murders they
encounter.
And, the other day I was saying to my wife I’d love to go to London some
day. Maybe this is telling me it would be a bad idea.