Another Nightmare

Last night, after watching Supernatural and reading Servant of the Bones (Anne Rice), I tried to go to sleep.  Maybe that was a mistake?

I didn't dream about anything related to the above (shockingly), but I had a crazy, crazy dream that was so adrenaline infused that I woke up exhausted.  I really despise those types of dreams.

This one was about me driving -- and I can't drive.  I had a permit once and went to driving school and was fine, but it has been about...six years?  So any confidence I had is gone.

Which is clear by my dream.

And for some reason, I'm always driving a truck or jeep or some other off-road vehicle.

Anyway.

I was running, running faster than I've ever run in my life.  I was escaping something, and my only chance was to get into a vehicle.  I swung into a pick-up truck, turned it on, and confused the gas/brake pedal.  I lurched forward and realized my mix-up and switched pedals.  I swung out of the dirt parking lot and onto the highway, desperate to escape.

I drove through the night, onto busy lanes of traffic, swinging around because I couldn't handle the truck -- it fish-tailed often, swung around so that I was backwards, and almost went off the road.  Finally I stopped at a gas station but after I got gas, I noticed a policeman walking toward me, suspicious.  I eased into the truck and tried to cross the road but my bad driving gave me away and he tried to pull me over.

I sped up and raced by, hoping I could get out of there in time.

I finally made it to a lake -- it was day time, and my family was there.  I parked the truck near the water and jumped onto a jet ski, where I executed perfect driving skills, even parallel parking in the water -- TWICE.

But then I was racing away on the water and I don't know what has happening because I woke up gasping for breath.

In real life, I'm a great driver on a jet ski -- I know how to handle the water and the ski so that it doesn't clog up and I don't tip over.  I've never fallen off one and I am at ease astride one, skimming through the water.  It's brilliant.

Really, though, the dream is much more terrifying than I made it out to be.  I can't convey the terror that was making me drive like a maniac, and I almost went over the edge on the roads again and again, and I swerved and fish-tailed and I'm surprised I didn't dream that I crashed.  It was gut-wrenching and I woke up thinking and feeling like it had actually happened.

Not sure what to make of that dream...maybe take a peek at the dream dictionary and see what's up.