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Do androids dream of automated transportation 2-23-2017


I just awoke , Thursday at 1am, from a dream that had my focus and attention.

When i have panic attacks, I feel as if Olivia as i know her is fading away. In my dreams however she remains real and conciously present. 
The dream is a Birdseye view of the highways, all the traffic in the rain, slowly making its way. I hear Elon musk speaking, he says soon there will be off ramps where pods are stored. Soon automation will be the main form of movement... My history and love of Jpods (an alternative transportation system) comes into my mind. I find myself parked on the side of the road in the piece of shit honda my mother owns.  Two absolute chunk ugly cars pull up next to me. The first car is filled with a family of 4, the fathers energy calls to me. A second car, same situation. 
I turn around in my backseat, to where i have somehow manifested both fathers. I look them both in their eyes and say
“We are all here for a purpose “ i squeeze my eyes tight as i feel some sense of unease, like this world isnt real.. like something wasn’t real… I could sense this dream realm.. But i pushed onward with my conviction. I couldn’t catch what that feeling was exactly, but i open back my eyes and push onward. I looked them hard in their eyes. Trying to pull their attention, their powers. I needed their help, somehow.
Next we are in a building where i push and pursued them to listen to my proposal on Jpods.
This fight for listening/attention is to no avail. I never catch them long enough, they’d rather talk about family, and how the kids are. 
The rest of the dream is me driving, and catching diseases along the way. 
Some how in relation to where i am now, Instead of catching attention for business ideas, I’m catching the hungry eye of ....
The diseases look like my skin is molding. First a white web, like mycelium, then a mucky yellow. The fear was strong and the distraction was pulling.
Any how. I appear to be awake. I can find confirmation of that. It doesn’t mean however that I am in fact awake. How strange to be so confident in a dream, to then wake so confidently into reality to wake so confidently that my confidence is vanished.

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