Monday, March 17, 2008

Helicopter Dream

had a dream last night, it's not all that interesting but I'll share it anyways since I happen to remember all of it right now (which is rare). I was flying a small black helicopter into a city as night was falling. I parked it in a small outdoor parking lot (for cars) and walked about 8 blocks down the street (it was Boylston street in Boston, even though the city itself wasn't Boston) to go to CVS to get gum. They didn't have the gum I wanted, so I grabbed something off the shelves and bought it and went back outside. When I hit the sidewalk, I realized that I had left the key in the helicopter (and probably even left it on). By this time it was completely dark outside.

In a panic, I ran across the steet - I had to run in front of cars coming at me on the close side of the street but the far side of the street and sidewalk were empty. When I got to the far side I remember thinking "that was was stupid, if there were cars coming the other way you would have been hit". I ran top speed down the sidewalk, noticing the purchase I made sticking out of my coat poket awkwardly. I took it out to see what it was - it was a long rectangular orange and red box of 3 rolls of first aid gauze.

I got to a bus stop and had to dodge some people who stood up to flag down a bus. They were holding umbrellas, but it wasn't raining. Just past them I had to push through a long line of people waiting for buses at some sort of covered bus station. I ran up a ramp and ended up on a wall, which was a dead end so I jumped off of it and landed in a pool of water made from drops coming off of the ceiling. I ran out of the bus station and up a side street towards the parking lot where I left the helicopter, but I realized that I wasn't sure where the parking lot was. I also realized that the helicopter has probably been towed rather than stolen, since I parked it illegally.

I came across a dirt road and followed it to the end, and there was the impound lot. There were 3 or 4 helicopters mixed in with the cars, several little black ones like mine (but I couldn't tell if they were mine) and a larger 4 door green one that was pretty banged up. It had a white laminated piece of paper tacked to its side with a symbol on it I couldn't make out. I started to walk back to look for the parking lots again and maybe a police substation to find out how to get it out of impound. I found one parking lot, but didn't think that was the one. I walked up a hill and then down the other side and came across another parking lot which I was pretty sure was the one, but it was empty.

And that's when I woke up.