Funny, but now that you mention it, I can't ever remember having a dream about model railroading. This seems strange since I have dreams about my other passion, golf, all the time. The golf dreams usually have me with an impossible shot, with a ridiculous lie, and no backswing. I'm not talking about shots you normally find on the course. It's along the lines of having my ball end up under a chair on the patio and against a wall and I need to hit the ball over a fence to get it back in play. But train dreams. Never. Now that you've put the thought in my head, it will probably happen. I just hope it's a good dream and not one of my top of the line locos jumping the track, going over the edge, and crashing to the floor.
Actually you should have that one analyzed, might be interesting!
I only have occasionally had trains be part of a dream, things that are important in my life don't tend to come into play when I am asleep, though I don't know why. And when I do have a dream involving a train, it usually doesn't make sense.
Remember, however, that everyone dreams and usually a few times a night. It's just that we can't remember all of them so it doesn't seem that way. I remember very few these days, but it's all right because they are usually not worth remembering.
I do, but they are often very abstract, depressing, or involves innappropriate content...
Alex
Living next to one of only two high rail links that can handle regular intermodal traffic. I used to have dreams of being locked in a intermodal container, going over a local 300 foot tall viaduct, the train derailing on it, and plummiting down a coal mine. Wierd Huh?
I believe that dreaming is a way of trying to make sense of stuff you have experienced or anticipate experiencing during the previous few hours - kind of like a condflict resolution type of thing. Although I often send myself to sleep thinking about or planning new moves in my model building - balancing new ideas with those that have already been through the discussion process in my head - I seldom, that is, I can't ever remember actually dreaming about any model railway related activities.
The actual subjects of my dreams are probably best left unstated - well at least until I pass them by my shrink first
Bruce
Not too long ago I dreamt that I was at my club layout and a train went into a tunnel and never came out... it just freakin vanished
Hey Mr. B
If your dreams of NYC subways keep you awake just think of the smell that is distinct to those subway stations. I guarantee you will not dream of them again.
Take this advice from a former New Yorker.
Doc
Mister Beasley,Your friend's layouts sounded more like a nightmare to Me. The only dreams I have of trains (that I remember) are daydreams. Or maybe I look at something & I think ,can I use this on the layout at some point, an empty bottle becomes a silo,things like that. Sometimes I wonder if maybe I have" issues".
wjstixCharley Russell, the western painter, said that when he lived with the Indians he had dreams about big mountains of salt because the Indians he lived with didn't use salt. Once he was back home and he was eating food with salt, those dreams disappeared.
I've recently been diagnosed with high blood pressure, and told to avoid salt. So, is this my fate? To dream of mountains of salt? Yuck. Why go to sleep at all if that's all I have to look forward to?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Not to get all Freudian, but often you dream about something that you're missing or that isn't part of your life anymore. If your situation changes, and the thing your dreaming about becomes part of your life again, it's normal that it's not that much a part of your dream.
Charley Russell, the western painter, said that when he lived with the Indians he had dreams about big mountains of salt because the Indians he lived with didn't use salt. Once he was back home and he was eating food with salt, those dreams disappeared.
I found that after my parents died they turned up in dreams much more often than they had when they were alive. Of course in some cultures, it's believed dreams are a connection to the spirit world or afterlife, that the departed loved ones are actually trying to contact you from 'the great beyond'.
Taking your question literally, Mr. B., I would have to say no. I have fallen to sleep thinking about my layout and/or the trains, or thinking about a model I desire/have ordered, but I have no recollections of waking to learn that I had been dreaming of the models.
-Crandell
In my dreams I'm usually in the lead loco and I'm noticing the scenery is not real good and my buildings are obviously empty and fake looking.
In my dreams I have a huge layout - not my present 4x8. Derailments are not dreams - they are nightmares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr B, I think you're a cool dude and all, but I think it's time for you to get your head shrunk a little bit!!!
I don't dream about Trains so much, but I do dream about being back on the destroyer I was on in the navy from time to time.
I don't dream about trains, but I lay in bed thinking on what to do on the layout. It ranges from what to do next to I should move some trees around. I even think where to start or what look to go for, when I am weathering my next car. I know a few times I would lay in bed and talk to the wife about what I need to do (layout or weathering), and next thing I know.............zzzzzzzzzzz. Well she was really listening.
I rather dream of trains or layouts, rather than MONSTERS!!!!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
I used to dream about model and real trains and giant grain elevators---always assumed it had to do with the Purina mill just around the corner from where I lived as a child.
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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Before I returned to having my own train layout, I used to dream about subways. I grew up outside of New York City, and loved them ever since I was a little boy. Every month or so, I would wake up with the memory of subways in my mind, often with abandoned stations and work crews.
After I built my own subway layout, those dreams stopped. I guess my subterranean subconscious got its fix watching those P1K trains looping through the stations, and didn't need to disturb my sleep anymore. But, last night I had a different dream. I was at a layout tour, and ran into my high school friend I used to do trains with. He had 3 layouts in his basement - O, HO and N. His trackwork was lousy, and he kept having derailments.
Does anyone else dream about model trains? Real trains?