I would tell you the dreams I had as an Air Traffic Controller, but you would never fly again. I pray I start having boat dreams so I can put the old ones behind me.
I’m on the boat now so I guess you can call this a boat dream…I dreamed I was eating a giant marshmellow and when I woke up my damn pillow was gone.
Yup, that sounds familiar. When I’m reeeeaaalllyy tired, I’ll have the Aground Dream (like Water). I get out of bed, shift the curtains,…and there’s trees. We’re hard aground…in the trees. Sometimes takes the wife several minutes to wake me up. I’ve actually ordered her to take soundings, or plot a position before I snapped to…didn’t fly so well.
caught a mate asleep at the wheel(gom oilfield)had a ring tone of a fog whistle on my phone.dont know what he was dreaming,probaly getting run over by a ship or stars after hitting his head on the overhead comming straight up and out of the chair!
[QUOTE=skycowboy;16269]I would tell you the dreams I had as an Air Traffic Controller, but you would never fly again. I pray I start having boat dreams so I can put the old ones behind me.[/QUOTE]
I did some part time 911 dispatching a while back. the 911 line had a unique ringer, compared to the other lines. I used to heard that sound in my sleep.
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When I was a brand new captain, everytime I was approaching a port for the first time, I would have these crazy dreams of putting the ship in 4 wheel drive mode and “driving it up to the pier”. 20 years later, I still have these once in a while!
I had one recently
I am on the bridge & I see a brinks truck floating by. The door opens & the driver starts swimming for the ship. I run out to get a life ring…
S.
I was on a tanker over the winter and woke up in the middle of the night convinced that I had t-boned another ship. I dreamt that I was sending an email and all of a sudden looked out the window and we were steaming through an anchorage full of huge ships. I got on the wheel and steered the ship through while I had the AB go get the 2nd mate (why not the captain? who knows!) and by the time he got up there I had succesfully made it through the anchorage, but was aiming straight for an island! He took over and we missed the island, and then t-boned a container ship. Eek.
[QUOTE=Shellback;13371]Ya but they get to wake up with a hot flight attendant in their bed to help them through it…:)[/QUOTE]
So do a few cruise ship capt’s I know
Or dreaming that your sailing up a small creek that you fished as a child, and the wheels are clattering on the rocks with sparks flying everywhere . And one more, towing a single wide trailer on a lake and the shore does not slow you down at all, over the mountain on to an other lake.
Used to have the same dream of my dinner boat going over the dam during flood and capsizing, then righting and riding the rocky rapids down river.
[QUOTE=ds;5374]I’ve had the city streets dreams too and most often a big city that was abandoned. A few times I was nervous when I couldn’t stop for a red light. Go figure.[/QUOTE]
It is amazing to me to read of other’s having basically the same dream. I thought for years I was the only one until I read an article in Pro Mariner years ago. Dan Porter wrote of driving one of the Crowley “9’s” through the streets of Oakland or maybe it was San Francisco.
I’ve had the dream more than once myself. It seemed to occur frequently during those years I ran junk docking ships for Mac & Moran in Philly and Baltimore.
I vividly recall driving the “Cape Henlopen” or “Grace Moran” north, up Broadway in Baltimore, watching the traffic lights change and trying to anticipate clutch timing with the boat. Backing down hard on the boat, creeping into the intersection. A few times, I have even run alongside the boat as it tears up the pavement hooked up, while I try to board it on the fly! (get it, I was supposed to be IN the wheelhouse)
In one dream, I KNEW in the dream that it was in fact, a dream because the boat handled TOO well and stopped on a dime.
Strange dreams that I attributed to a LOT of single screw (or clumsy “dumb” twin screw boats) boat handling around ships, little sleep due to riding ships on my off time for pilotage, not to mention trying to get in as much drinking & partying as possible too.
What can really suck is this. You’re at work, exhausted. You finally get to rack out for 5 or 6 hours and do, only to have your dreams consist of being on watch or doing lot’s of maneuvering. Nothing like waking up more tired than when you turned in.