She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain

I've been having this reoccurring dream.

I'm up in the Sierra Mountains, and I have to get down to our friend's house in Sacramento. In my dream I'm the proud owner of a big rig. Instead of driving it down to the valley, I have it loaded onto a train. As the train is pulling it to Sacramento, I'm standing inside the truck. I can't see out the windows, and I'm nervous about being in my big rig on a train. I have anxiety about the big rig tumbling off the train and rolling down a mountain to my fiery death. In the end, I'm safe and sound.

Dream number two is this exact same scenario except my big rig detaches from the train. I can't see anything, but I feel it jerk off the tracks and begin to roll over and over. Of course I know that I'm going to die, but the truck eventually starts to slide and eases its way into some sort of embankment. And then I wake up.  

I don't know that I believe there is a meaning behind every dream. I do have a dream dictionary on my bookshelf, though, and I thought it was weird that I had two different versions of the same dream. So you know I had to look it up.



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Dream Moods states that mountains in one's dream signifies, "major obstacles and challenges," while a train wreck represents chaos and that one's goals are not going according to plan. As for what truck means, the site suggests, "Pregnant women often dream of trucks or driving trucks. This may be a metaphor of the load they are carrying or an expression of their changing bodies."

Whoa. I'm not pregnant, first of all. BUT, that is the direction I was going in with all of these interpretations. The whole trying to conceive thing feels very chaotic in a helpless kind of way, a being in limbo kind of way. And, obviously, my baby goals are not going according to plan. Because Nick and I want to have kids, this presumed infertility issue is clearly a major obstacle. And if pregnant women dream of trucks, I find it fitting that a women, who is struggling to conceive, dreams that her truck is crashing down a mountain. The only hopeful thing is that in the end of both dreams I was OK. I was relieved. Here's to hoping that real life turns out the same way.