# The boat on a street dream **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [November 28, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071 "2012-11-28T11:39:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pogey-poboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@pogey-poboy](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/pogey-poboy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/1 "2012-11-28T11:39:26Z")
Does anyone else ever have that dream? For me, it’s backing down for a traffic light and twin screwing to turn a corner. Same dream every time, always the same street corner. A friend of mine says it’s always a dream about trying to parallel park. ---
**Author:** ![Fraqrat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/fraqrat/32/1961_2.png) [@Fraqrat](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Fraqrat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/2 "2012-11-28T12:16:13Z")
When I worked at turdwater my reoccurring dream was being lost in a carryall. We were either in a desert or mountains. I remember that the whole crew would just be standing around the truck arguing about where to go and what to do. I haven’t had that dream since I quit there. By the way I think a fella named klejune is using the same Buddy Christ avi as you. ---
**Author:** ![SeaSick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@SeaSick](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaSick)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/3 "2012-11-28T12:33:26Z")
I’ve had dreams about crowded anchorages in china with fishing boats going every which way, and getting the ship stuck in a spot where there is no way out… ---
**Author:** ![leprechaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@leprechaun](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/leprechaun)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/4 "2012-11-28T23:59:39Z")
Mine,s trying to get around a corner- barge always takes out the streetlight on the corner. ---
**Author:** ![jdcavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jdcavo/32/108_2.png) [@jdcavo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jdcavo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/5 "2012-11-29T04:35:30Z")
[QUOTE=pogey-poboy;89372]Does anyone else ever have that dream? For me, it’s backing down for a traffic light and twin screwing to turn a corner. Same dream every time, always the same street corner. A friend of mine says it’s always a dream about trying to parallel park.[/QUOTE] I have it occasionally, but not as often as when I was sailing. It seems to happen at times when I have a lot of stuff going on and can’t control stuff to the level I’d like to. As I’ve done a lot of wjhitewater kayaking, mine isn’t as much about being on street,. it’s on progressively smaller and smaller water until I’m on a very steep, very narrow creek. I’ve heard of others with the same, and asked about it here a few years ago: [http://gcaptain.com/forum/professional-mariner-forum/634-mariners-dream.html](http://gcaptain.com/forum/professional-mariner-forum/634-mariners-dream.html) ---
**Author:** ![lemurian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/48db29/32.png) [@lemurian](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/lemurian)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/6 "2012-11-29T07:24:47Z")
Running over the tow wire while caught in a whirlpool at the freeway’s cloverleaf onramp. Wake up in a state of panic. Wtf? ---
**Author:** ![pogey-poboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@pogey-poboy](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/pogey-poboy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/7 "2012-11-29T10:45:02Z")
For as long as I have been away from Turdwater ( as Fraqrat so lovingly puts it), the dream is not as frequent but it is still on a Turd boat. Never on the HOS boats. I still hear the old Mathers throttles dumping air. ---
**Author:** ![john](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/john/32/5_2.png) [@john](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/john)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/8 "2012-11-29T11:35:46Z")
Yes! And for me it always happens in Midtown Manhattan. What I find most interesting is that the first few times it scared the sh!t out of me and my ship would end up crashing into a skyscraper… the building falling on the crew causing death and destruction. Then for a few years the streets would narrow and my ship would just get stuck between the buildings. Now the dream happens much less often but, when it does, I can kinda control the dream and I have fun with it. I feel kinda like godzilla… knocking down building and leaving a trail of destruction in my wake but without damaging my ship. ---
**Author:** ![Topsail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@Topsail](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Topsail)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/9 "2012-11-30T06:10:10Z")
Funny … I have exactly the same dream and … too often ! I’m sailing downhill right downtown city on a ULCC. There’s a lot of traffic. The street lights dead ahead of me are green but turning to yellow. [B]FULL ASTERN & SOUND THE DANGER SIGNAL ON THE WHISTLE !!! [/B] But can’t stop. I look astern and see all these deep propeller scratches on the asphalt. Sometimes I dream that I’m sailing that same ULCC right in the middle of a countryside grassland. It’s more relaxing than downtown … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-boat-on-a-street-dream/9071/10 "2012-11-30T08:41:12Z")
I am an engineer and have had this same dream. It was far more common when I was still going to sea and then for a couple of years after I came ashore. It has been quite some time since I have had it. Lately, though, I have been having dreams about going back to sea, though. Almost aways on some POS tug. . . . or a Sat boat. Oh, wait, the latter really happened a couple of months ago.