Nick Postagulous
Friday, May 21, 2004
Do I Dream About Cars?
In an email from the terribly cool (she was an animator for Celebrity Deathmatch!) Wendy Darling, after I had linked to a page where David B from Autopia tells you how to wash your car, Wendy asked me if dreamed about cars. I sometimes have dreams involving cars, yeah, but I don't dream about them per se.
General Recurring Driving Dreams
I do, however, dream about driving very often. Never the fun fast driving that I'd like, but usually roads that have been flooded, or picking along a boulder strewn dirt road in my car, which has a 4 inch clearance.
In fact, there was a baseball sized dirt clod on the road the other day (not dream, real life) that I went over and it hit smacked the back of the underbody shield. But they made that part lower than the rest of the car for a reason, it's a huge $35 disposable unit. And mine sags a little.
Not Quite Hulk Smash
Another recurring theme is where I'm able to pick my cars up for some reason. The first one of these that I can remember, I had my aquamarine metallic Saturn SC2. It was in a parking lot full of semi trailors. Mazelike. I had figured out a way out, but the car wouldn't fit. So, I picked it up, full size, it didn't shrink (as dream objects can at times). I had to hold it at the front bumper with the rear of the car facing straight up to get it between the giant boxes. Then I set it back down.
The first time I had this phenomenon happen with my Miata was when I was dream driving it along a crap road and then came to a stream that the road went under. I grabbed the sides of my car (it had shrunk) and pulled it up around my waist, and walked across the shallow stream.
Unrealistic Fast Fast Driving
As for horrifically fast driving that cannot be done in real life, I have a Playstation. As I get older, I like fewer and fewer games on the thing too. I do like games with cars in them, whether it's Grand Theft Auto (3 or Vice City) or Gran Turismo (2 is my favorite), but it must have good control on the cars. GTA is one of my favorites because you can trash the car just playing around, and then, when it catches on fire, run away from it before it explodes. Aah, good times, good times.
