Spin Cycle: Dream Lane

I grew up on 16 acres of land just west of Austin in the Texas Hill Country.

Anyone from Austin might know the area if I say it was right across the road from the County Line on the Hill barbecue restaurant.

For non-Austinites, it's kind of hard to describe the area. It's very hilly, but not mountainous. It's heavily wooded with evergreen juniper trees (Daddy always corrected anyone who foolishly called them cedar trees). It's not ranch land or farm land. But it is beautiful land. It's land with a view. Here are a couple of recent pictures of the view out the back, taken by my friend who now owns the house and land...

We were very secluded. I used to be able to go outside in my underwear to get something to wear off the clothesline, because there was no one around to see me! It was a good 10 minute walk to our closest neighbors house. We were surrounded by nothing but land and trees and wildlife.

When I was a teenager, I started having a recurring dream.

In it, I would drive out of my driveway and take a left at the main road.  I would then take a left turn onto a small street. Maybe "street" isn't the right word. "Lane" maybe? It was broad and wound it's way through the trees. It was extremely hilly. And there was a neighborhood of large houses on both sides of the lane.

The thing is, this lane and neighborhood didn't exist. In real life, there was nothing there but trees.

These dreams went on for YEARS. They weren't usually very eventful. I'd just be driving around in this fictional neighborhood. Sometimes it was nighttime, and sometimes the day. Often, there would be a creek, and the land would dip down into it. I don't remember ever going into one of the houses, or seeing any people. I would just drive and drive.

A few years ago, Jimmy and I visited Austin. After visiting the old homestead, I decided I wanted to take a drive west down the road to see what the neighborhood was looking like. I knew there had been lots of new building and subdividing.

Suddenly, there on the left was a small road.

"Turn there!" I shouted to Jimmy. He did.

The road was broad and wound it's way through the trees. It was extremely hilly. And there was a neighborhood of large houses on both sides of the lane.

I almost hyperventilated.

"Oh my God. Oh my God. It's HERE!"

Jimmy thought I'd lost my mind.

It was my dream lane! Just where it was supposed to be. I felt like I'd been there a hundred times, because...I had.

So what do y'all think? Just a coincidence or do you think I could have been having some sort of precognitive visions of something that was going to exist 20 years later?

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Thank you SO VERY much to all of you who have played along with my very first Spin Cycle! Now do the polite thing, and check out everybody else's spin on dreaminess...

Aimee at Aimee Writes

Sarah at 32 Flavors

Peg at Square Peg in a Round Hole 

Erica at Pines Lake Redhead

Jennifer at Sprite's Keeper

Kendra at Life in the slow lane

Vandy at The Testosterone Three and Me

Claire at incognitus scriptor

Keely at The Un Mom

CaJoh at Ca-Joh - new on Thursday night!

Michele Renee at Must Be a Full Moon - new on Thursday night!

Ginny Marie at Lemon Drop Pie - new on Friday!!!

Stacy at Stacy Uncorked - new on Friday!!!

Patty at Pancakes Gone Awry - new on Friday!!

Mama Badger at Out of the Boondocks - new on Friday!!

Go check  out each and every one of them!

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NEXT WEEK on The Spin Cycle...

Taking a Stand

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, we're gonna go all rabble rouser around here. Speaking out for something we believe in.

Have you ever really, seriously taken a stand on an issue? Did standing up for your beliefs get you in trouble? What issues in your life are important enough for you actually end the silence and make a statement?

Maybe this is your chance to take a stand. What do you believe strongly in and want to share with others? This is your chance to stand up on your soapbox. Make your argument.

Your issue could be global, national, local or just within your very own house. You could take a stand on global warming or...the laundry.

I once ended up making the national news back when I lived in Dallas by started a petition to bring back "real" Coke. Remember that nasty "New Coke"? One of the greatest marketing disasters in history? I worked in a popular bookstore, and put the petition on the checkout desk. I ended up with thousands of signatures. And of course, they returned "Classic Coke", so I like to think I had a hand in that.

So go for it. Give me what you've got.

I do ask (though I probably don't need to, because y'all are all a nice, thoughtful group) that if anybody chooses to take a side in an issue, particularly anything political or "hot button", just be respectful of others differing viewpoints, and refrain from mean-spiritedness.

I am also hereby unveiling my BRAND NEW SPIN BUTTON! Created for me by none other than the brilliant and talented Keely, The Un Mom!! She's my secret weapon. Isn't it just the cutest thing you ever did see? Aren't you jealous?! Please use it well...

 

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Comments

[Ginny Marie]

WOW! That's freaky! It seems to be a BIG coincidence, if that's what your dream was!

Even after New Coke disappeared, my mom ordering "Classic Coke-a-Cola" every time we went to a restaurant so she wouldn't get the New Coke. She embarrassed my brother so much...it was so funny!

[Ginny Marie]

Got so caught up in remembering and laughing at my own comment I forgot to leave my link!

http://www.lemondroppie.com/2012/01/dreams-spin-cycle/

[VandyJ]

I firmly believe I have dreams that are the cause of the occasional deja vu feelings I get. The dreams aren't really remembered but then I do something and get the strangest feeling I've done it before. Vivid dreams can be fun.

[Sprite's Keeper]

Dude! Just DUDE! That is crazy and yet, so perfect!

[Stacy Uncorked]

That gave me chills! Does that mean you're psycho...I mean psychic? ;) Too cool!

Oh yeah, here's my lame-o participation:

http://stacysrandomthoughts.com/2012/01/once-upon-a-time-i-had-a-dream/

:)

[Patty]

Oh, now that seriously gave me the tingles reading this post! Yikes!

Here's my spin cycle post:

http://pancakesgoneawry.blogspot.com/2012/01/nightmare-on-pancake-street.html

Thanks!

[The Bug]

Psycho, psychic - who knows - but it really IS pretty freaky! I'm glad that my recurring dream from childhood hasn't come true (nuclear holocaust - yikes!).

[MamaBadger]

Maybe God was trying to get you to build the new development and make millions, and you missed the message so he sent it to someone else? He, he, he.

So, I can I still get in on the first spin? http://outoftheboondocks.blogspot.com/

I'm late, I suck, I know. But I promise I'll try harder next week.

[Sarah at 32Flavors]

Crazy!! I get major deja vu from dreams sometimes. But nothing quite like that. You're special.

[Erica@Pines Lake Redhead]

The scenery is beautiful! So different than anything I've ever seen before.

I was so excited to read that you created your own place in your dreams. But then I didn't feel so special when your drea turns out to be a premonition! Oh cool!

[Jan]

I don't believe in precognition, so I guess I belong in the "coincidence" camp - but it was a darn eerie one.

Sorry I didn't get a Spin in this week - I just couldn't come up with anything about "dreams." But taking a stand? Pthththth - you'll probably be able to use all five posts next week. :P

[Peg]

Very strange. I have done that... not the recurring dream and then being there but Deja Vu where I will go somewhere I have never been and will knwo EXACTLY what it will look like when I get there because I've seen it (dreamt it?) in the past.

I think it's very cool!

[Aimee]

1. Yes, absolutely, you were probably having precognitive dreams.

2. THANK you for the next spin topic. There's been a post rumbling in my mind about SPD, and this is the perfect way to tackle it.

3. OMG, ADORABLE BUTTON!!!!! Keely is so talented.

[Elizabeth]

I don't know what I think about your uncanny dream and it seeming to come to life. I imagine there are archetypal dreams, but this seems like something different. I actually don't believe that there are "coincidences." I believe, instead, in synchronicity.

I'm looking forward to perhaps participating in the next Spin Cycle as it might pull me out of my shell and onto a soapbox. :)

[Kendra]

So strange. Very precognitive. And I was thinking the same thing that someone wanted you to do it but when you didn't someone else did!

[Heidi Saperstein]

Very cool dream. We lived in San Marcos and the hill country is where I like to be. I love the drive especially on RR 32 heading out of San Marcos toward Frederickburg. I'm glad we still get an opportunity to see it on occasion. BTW- I'm Jen's cousin (by marriage). Love the new home for the spin and can't wait to read more.

[Patty]

I know it's early, but I have my spin up for this Friday, the one about taking a stand. I was really excited about this topic! Here's the link:

http://pancakesgoneawry.blogspot.com/2012/01/power-of-friendship.html

Thanks for all that you do!