Singles will debate which night of the year is the loneliest-Valentine's Day or New Year's eve. But people tell me of more dreams about lost love and loneliness on Valentine's Day than any other. After a while the dreams started to fall into themes. Dreams about missing a train, being alone in a car, seeing a plane take off, etc. These dreams had a journey theme as in, LOVE IS A JOURNEY. A journey all of us want to share with a special someone. Here's a sample dream from Joe, a guy in Chicago who, incidentally, had a secret yearning to be a biker dude, and whose GF, Pamela, just blew him off.
"I dreamed I was alone in my car but wasn't at the wheel. I couldn't see who was driving but it wasn't me. Just ahead was a mountain road and the car began to climb up the side, its wheels hanging on the edge. I was trying to be cool but inside man, I was freaked. I look up and see this green light off in the distance and suddenly the car's off the road, flying through the air towards the light. Just then I see Mick Jagger blowing by me on a hog and that bitch Pamela hanging on to him. I'm freaking, I want to kill that bitch but I'm not driving the car."
This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2009.