27th August 2002

My dream starts on a train heading away from London. I think I am travelling two stops. There are a number of people on the train but all the seats are facing forward, so I wonder what chance there is for mischief.

This thought soon passes as I arrive at my intended destination, the “Hard Rock” café in Brentwood. The place I entered was just a record store, but it was called Hard Rock Café at least. I ambled about a bit in a reasonably empty store for a while before Jon Bon Jovi started performing his latest single behind the cash desk at the store. The store was pretty packed full of people at this point. I stood and listened and then he finished and most of the people left the store. I continued to amble about like before, then decided to buy the new Bon Jovi single.

I could only find one of the set of the Bon Jovi singles, there were supposed to be a few released and I wanted the whole set. On the CD single that I had picked up there were six tracks listed. However my friend told me that there were four hidden tracks. He was especially pleased with this as he got a discount calculated on how many tracks a CD had.

After giving up flicking through the four possible places that I could conceive that the rest of the Bon Jovi singles were I sat down on a bean bad and watched a black and white movie that was playing in the store.

Some time later I notice that it was 7pm. I couldn’t remember if I had come to the shop during my work lunch break or after work and had been there all afternoon. However I decided not to think about it and as it was 7pm I should leave to go home, so I headed back to the nearby station.

At the station I realised that I could control the points and the trains using my mind. This started when I parked a train in a siding that hadn’t been used as long as anyone could remember. I backed the train up to where it was supposed to be and let it continue its journey. In doing so I discovered that there were points at various intervals along the track at the station platform I was standing on, which seemed a bit silly. At this point I inadvertently released a ‘hobo’ onto the mainline tracks. He’d been living in a yellow kids train in a siding and decided to make a ‘run’ for it. However with my point s changing powers I soon had him back away from the mainline and safely back in the sidings.

The next thing I know I am looking out of the window whilst racing two trains away from London. This took me through the newly modified Harold Wood station which now had an annex of Harold Wood St Mary’s on the fast line side, this was in fact a one platform station added right next to the main Harold Wood Station.

The last thing I remember in the dream was being at Ilford station with the rail network in a bit of a mess and being accused of running Bart Simpson style havoc to the rail network.

26th August 2002

I don’t remember much of this dream. I remember wanting to catch a through train at Liverpool Street station (a terminus in real life). The platform was set quite a bit back from the main platform area. I also remember a female ticket officer berating me for picking my nose in public.