7/24/2004
I am a passenger in a mid-size sedan. An autistic woman is driving.
Words from the waking world: I say that she is "autistic" but that is a word that was not used in the dream; it is a word used after waking. She has emotional problems.
We approach a busy intersection and find ourselves in the right-most lane which is for right-turns only. We want to go straight through. The woman driving gets very nervous and is unsure of how to negotiate through the intersection.
The light is red and I tell the driver to get the attention of the person driving the car next to us to see if he will let us slip in ahead of him when the light changes. She is too nervous and is fixated on the road in front of us.
I suggest that she put on her left blinker to let the people behind us know that we are not going to be moving immediately when the light changes and perhaps one of the people in the next lane will see the blinker and let us in. Again, she is too flustered to do this.
While we wait for the light there are lots of pedestrians moving in front of us. They don't stay in the crosswalk and move in with the cars on the cross street.
The light changes for us. Our sedan is now a large van. I hadn't noticed it before but there are road construction barriers blocking the lane to our left and cars must merge into our lane to go straight through the intersection (which is what we need to do).
This makes it easier but as we proceed there are still pedestrians moving through the intersection and cars are weaving around them rather than just waiting and allowing them to pass. We wait for them to clear the intersection before we proceed.
We are back in the sedan and now find ourselves in the drive-up teller lane at a bank. We don't want to be here and need to jump the curb to get out of this lane. The jostling of the car wakes me.
Words from the waking world: I say that she is "autistic" but that is a word that was not used in the dream; it is a word used after waking. She has emotional problems.
We approach a busy intersection and find ourselves in the right-most lane which is for right-turns only. We want to go straight through. The woman driving gets very nervous and is unsure of how to negotiate through the intersection.
The light is red and I tell the driver to get the attention of the person driving the car next to us to see if he will let us slip in ahead of him when the light changes. She is too nervous and is fixated on the road in front of us.
I suggest that she put on her left blinker to let the people behind us know that we are not going to be moving immediately when the light changes and perhaps one of the people in the next lane will see the blinker and let us in. Again, she is too flustered to do this.
While we wait for the light there are lots of pedestrians moving in front of us. They don't stay in the crosswalk and move in with the cars on the cross street.
The light changes for us. Our sedan is now a large van. I hadn't noticed it before but there are road construction barriers blocking the lane to our left and cars must merge into our lane to go straight through the intersection (which is what we need to do).
This makes it easier but as we proceed there are still pedestrians moving through the intersection and cars are weaving around them rather than just waiting and allowing them to pass. We wait for them to clear the intersection before we proceed.
We are back in the sedan and now find ourselves in the drive-up teller lane at a bank. We don't want to be here and need to jump the curb to get out of this lane. The jostling of the car wakes me.
posted by GFK at 6:53 AM
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