For months now I’ve been having a recurring dream where I’m somewhere significantly south-east of where I live, on foot, and trying to find a way to get home, either by bus or walking.  Sometimes I got there by car but my car was parked in a tow away zone and towed, other times I’m just there, no idea how I got there.

The area I’m in is fictitious, if mapped into real space it would be somewhere out in the middle of Lake Washington, but in the dream Seattle exists farther east than it does in real life. The specific details vary from dream to dream, sometimes I’m only about as far South as Matthews Beach, other times I’m as far South as Rainier Valley, but the whole geography is wrong in all cases.

I frequently find myself trying to find a bus, but the buses either don’t go far enough North or if they do they’re too far East.

Whenever I have a dream like this I consider that something not conscious wants to be addressed.

I am trying to figure out what the symbolism of trying to get home is, and the symbolism of the obstacles involved, the buses don’t go to the right place.

There are other oddities to the geography that are consistent, from East to West there are huge hills / valleys that are almost impassable or require going around a great distance making walking a very difficult prospect. Other times there has been no way to get from a road I’m on to a road I need to be on except to trespass through private property.

The dreams haven’t been entirely unpleasant, the weather is usually good, often my wanderings take me to beaches I didn’t know exist (and really don’t exist).

Anyway, just tossing this out. Maybe someone out there is into dream analysis. I just have this feeling something is screaming for attention and I can’t figure out what it is.