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Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« on: February 13, 2011, 07:40:04 PM »
I do. several times, but I don't remember my dreams very well. But the most recent one, just a few nites ago was interesting.

For some reason, I had to disassemble my fork tubes. Mind you, in real life, they are fully assembled and ready to go, but in my dream, I figured something was wrong and they had to come off. So I'd somehow drained them, as they were dry, and I was pouring out other stuff. Odd bits, things that have no place in a fork tube. Things that were unrecognizable, no matter how hard I tried. And things that... wouldn't fit in a fork tube anyway, but they poured out.

Then I woke up. Whew.
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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2011, 08:14:22 PM »
Not that I can remember but I had a F'd up dream about my Venture the night before.  My dreams tend to be quite wild for some reason.  Momma's trips out on them.

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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2011, 08:19:43 PM »
 ;D  haha.. thought ` i was the only one....... i usally``` visualize--- each- project- in a dream state.........sleepin........
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2011, 09:20:24 PM »
I think about projects as im falling asleep. Its when i have my best ideas. It also helps me fall asleep.
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2011, 10:08:01 PM »
If i fall asleep thinking about a project i usually wake up with some good ideas and have solved many a problem whilst asleep, works for me.... ;D  I won't tell you about my flying dreams.... ::)  ;D

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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2011, 02:31:01 AM »
its not working. 2:30am and i cant sleep.  :'(
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2011, 04:36:22 AM »
I've done it as recently as two nights ago after watching Back to the Future.  I was working on my bikes in my garage when a lightning storm started and stuck a car that was sitting on top of the wires that connect telephone poles.  Weird stuff man...
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2011, 05:13:31 AM »
Quote from: fmctm1sw on February 14, 2011, 04:36:22 AM
I've done it as recently as two nights ago after watching Back to the Future.  I was working on my bikes in my garage when a lightning storm started and stuck a car that was sitting on top of the wires that connect telephone poles.  Weird stuff man...
yeah, weird stuff, that's what I'm talking about.
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« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2011, 05:47:22 AM »
I do too, except in my version they're not dreams, they're friggin' nightmares!! As in "why isn't the bike finished yet?"  or "When am I gonna get the time to work on it?", and "Jeez, I've been mucking about on that friggin' machine for 4 years now".

Them kinda dreams. They wake me up feeling really depressed.
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2011, 05:58:27 AM »
Quote from: rhos1355 on February 14, 2011, 05:47:22 AM
I do too, except in my version they're not dreams, they're friggin' nightmares!! As in "why isn't the bike finished yet?"  or "When am I gonna get the time to work on it?", and "Jeez, I've been mucking about on that friggin' machine for 4 years now".

Them kinda dreams. They wake me up feeling really depressed.
Yeah! The ones I have but I can't remember the details, revolve around having the project finished or nearly, and discovering or experiencing a catastrophic failure or oversight.  :(
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2011, 06:56:39 AM »
Quote from: rhos1355 on February 14, 2011, 05:47:22 AM
I do too, except in my version they're not dreams, they're friggin' nightmares!! As in "why isn't the bike finished yet?"  or "When am I gonna get the time to work on it?", and "Jeez, I've been mucking about on that friggin' machine for 4 years now".

Them kinda dreams. They wake me up feeling really depressed.

My project dreams are always kinda nightmares - it's always along the lines of "I want to do A, but in order to that, I have to do B first, but that means C will have to get done, but in order to do C, I have to buy a part off ebay and wait a week for shipping, then have to buy a specialty tool, but the tool can be either purchased as a $$$ tool, or as a cheapie Harbor Freight version, or even a homemade version, but that will require a bit of fabrication so I have to make that decision first..."

Then, since that whole project seems to be thwarting me, and since I always have more than one project going at a time, I'll decide to forgo task A, and move on to one of the other projects, and I find the process repeating all over again...


I wake up stressed and exhausted...

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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2011, 07:11:04 AM »
kirkn: uh  wow.   :o
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2011, 01:40:54 PM »
I dreamt about my project last night. it was finished and running fine. I was taking it on a shakedown ride on West Washington Street in front of Dreyer's Honda, when the front end felt funny. I got off and the front tire had gone flat. it was the mock up tire I'd had on for years, an old bald Michelin, just good enough to hold air. I couldn't figure it out because i knew I had changed it to a brand new tire not too long ago.


Is that a good sign? At least it was running.   ;D
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2011, 02:21:56 PM »
you know that dream you have when your riding your bike naked then it breaks down at a busy shopping centre?well i havent had that one.
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« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2011, 06:29:56 AM »
There was a Honda ad floating around this forum a year or two ago which was similar to your dream: Guy is riding his bike butt naked, he gets to a toll booth and pays with his credit card. The big question was, where'd he keep his credit card?
This place had fun with that  one for weeks.
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2011, 12:14:30 PM »
I'll have dreams, and even day dreams about my bike in my end goal state. Then start cursing myself when i snap to, cause it ain't done yet.
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2011, 12:21:02 PM »
ya I call em nightmares.  Like my bike takes on the persona of a fat chick and jumps on me pinning me to the ground under her helpless for hours and then days till my friends check in on me and lift her off but I've already been dead a few days
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« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2011, 12:42:37 PM »
 Yea i dream about my new Kawi 1326 cc turbo streetbike project,  racing the spiderman.   :o   But for some
     reason i always loose by the hair of my chinny chin chin !!    :o   :'(
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2011, 12:53:57 PM »
one of my worst dreams involves parts that disappear as I'm working on the bike.
I go to reach for something and it's not there, I can't find something on the shelf, then parts start disappearing off of what I'm working on and I spend hours obsessively unboxing thousands of parts only to lose those too.
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« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2011, 01:03:19 PM »
NIGHTMARE!
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« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2011, 01:13:17 PM »
Quote from: gnarlycharlie4u on May 18, 2011, 12:53:57 PM
one of my worst dreams involves parts that disappear as I'm working on the bike.
I go to reach for something and it's not there, I can't find something on the shelf, then parts start disappearing off of what I'm working on and I spend hours obsessively unboxing thousands of parts only to lose those too.
Heck that happens to me when i'm awake!
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2011, 01:24:55 PM »
Quote from: MCRider on May 18, 2011, 01:13:17 PM
Quote from: gnarlycharlie4u on May 18, 2011, 12:53:57 PM
one of my worst dreams involves parts that disappear as I'm working on the bike.
I go to reach for something and it's not there, I can't find something on the shelf, then parts start disappearing off of what I'm working on and I spend hours obsessively unboxing thousands of parts only to lose those too.
Heck that happens to me when i'm awake!

yea me too... but I forgot about the part where I somehow wind up in a blackhole/time warp thingy of parts flying all around me and I'm unable to reach any of them.
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« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2011, 01:27:33 PM »
Quote from: gnarlycharlie4u on May 18, 2011, 01:24:55 PM
Quote from: MCRider on May 18, 2011, 01:13:17 PM
Quote from: gnarlycharlie4u on May 18, 2011, 12:53:57 PM
one of my worst dreams involves parts that disappear as I'm working on the bike.
I go to reach for something and it's not there, I can't find something on the shelf, then parts start disappearing off of what I'm working on and I spend hours obsessively unboxing thousands of parts only to lose those too.
Heck that happens to me when i'm awake!
yea me too... but I forgot about the part where I somehow wind up in a blackhole/time warp thingy of parts flying all around me and I'm unable to reach any of them.
Uh, yeah, except for that. 
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Re: Does anyone else dream about their projects?
« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2011, 03:08:10 PM »
Quote from: MCRider on May 18, 2011, 01:27:33 PM
Quote from: gnarlycharlie4u on May 18, 2011, 01:24:55 PM
Quote from: MCRider on May 18, 2011, 01:13:17 PM
Quote from: gnarlycharlie4u on May 18, 2011, 12:53:57 PM
one of my worst dreams involves parts that disappear as I'm working on the bike.
I go to reach for something and it's not there, I can't find something on the shelf, then parts start disappearing off of what I'm working on and I spend hours obsessively unboxing thousands of parts only to lose those too.
Heck that happens to me when i'm awake!
yea me too... but I forgot about the part where I somehow wind up in a blackhole/time warp thingy of parts flying all around me and I'm unable to reach any of them.
Uh, yeah, except for that. 

I think that describes doing anything in my garage. Especially if the wife decided she wanted to help.
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« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2011, 12:47:55 AM »
Quote from: motocyconomad on May 18, 2011, 12:21:02 PM
ya I call em nightmares.  Like my bike takes on the persona of a fat chick and jumps on me pinning me to the ground under her helpless for hours and then days till my friends check in on me and lift her off but I've already been dead a few days

That's disgusting..............but yeah, I can sympathise with that image :D
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