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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 4551526, member: 110226&quot;]I have always thought of dreams as windows on the subconscious, mixed with current events in one&#039;s life, perhaps even some elements of a Marx Brothers movie thrown in for good measure.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For myself, the passport dreams are almost always visiting London to see my sister.&nbsp; Why is it always London?&nbsp; I&#039;ve visited other cities in Europe and elsewhere.&nbsp; I wish&nbsp; Douglas Adams was still with us.&nbsp; Arthur Dent, who had insights into childhood might have some reasonable explanation.&nbsp; After all, he did have this to say in The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide to the Galaxy:</p><p><br /></p><p>“You know,&quot; said Arthur, &quot;it&#039;s at times like this, when I&#039;m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I&#039;d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Why, what did she tell you?&quot;</p><p>&quot;I don&#039;t know, I didn&#039;t listen.”</p><p>― Douglas Adams, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3078186" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3078186" rel="nofollow">The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide to the Galaxy</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe the dreams have some link to something to the world we live in:</p><p><br /></p><p>“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...&quot;</p><p>&quot;You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?&quot;</p><p>&quot;No,&quot; said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, &quot;nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Odd,&quot; said Arthur, &quot;I thought you said it was a democracy.&quot;</p><p>&quot;I did,&quot; said Ford. &quot;It is.&quot;</p><p>&quot;So,&quot; said Arthur, hoping he wasn&#039;t sounding ridiculously obtuse, &quot;why don&#039;t people get rid of the lizards?&quot;</p><p>&quot;It honestly doesn&#039;t occur to them,&quot; said Ford. &quot;They&#039;ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they&#039;ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.&quot;</p><p>&quot;You mean they actually vote for the lizards?&quot;</p><p>&quot;Oh yes,&quot; said Ford with a shrug, &quot;of course.&quot;</p><p>&quot;But,&quot; said Arthur, going for the big one again, &quot;why?&quot;</p><p>&quot;Because if they didn&#039;t vote for a lizard,&quot; said Ford, &quot;the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?&quot;</p><p>&quot;What?&quot;</p><p>&quot;I said,&quot; said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, &quot;have you got any gin?&quot;</p><p>&quot;I&#039;ll look. Tell me about the lizards.&quot;</p><p>Ford shrugged again.</p><p>&quot;Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them,&quot; he said. &quot;They&#039;re completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone&#039;s got to say it.&quot;</p><p>&quot;But that&#039;s terrible,&quot; said Arthur.</p><p>&quot;Listen, bud,&quot; said Ford, &quot;if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say &#039;That&#039;s terrible&#039; I wouldn&#039;t be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”</p><p>― Douglas Adams, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3078120" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3078120" rel="nofollow">So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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