[Pyrites]

Anyone else ever have dreams of walking trails? I jerked awake last night when the dream I was having included at least three details that are exactly how the trail is, or at last how I saw it last early summer. Trails End, or Purcell L.O. trail, near Randle. Kinda creepy.

[Brucester]

I used to get these day dreams (flashbacks) after doing the AT and sometimes I'd have these vivid dreams at night as well. I later found out it's pretty common. And I even saw a reference to this in a Lynne Weldon film "Five Million Steps."

[RichardJ]

I don't remember trail dreams, but I had fly fishing dreams lately. I got into fly fishing pretty heavily this summer and fall and it was all I could think of. Got the bug bad. The dreams were of perfect dry fly casts and it was very enjoyable.

[contour5]

I recently had an extremely vivid and perhaps somewhat lucid dream about editing mountain photos. I was working on some amaaazing shots. Then I woke up and was really bummed that I didn't have the shots after all... I can still picture a couple of them.

[wolffie]

Sleeping solo outdoors, have horrible vivid lucid nightmares of my most agonizing phobias: troops of Boy Scouts marching in to share my camp, packs of unleashed dogs carrying knives in their teeth dropping purple lavender scented* dog-poop bags, trail runners in goretex lingerie spraying grafitti vandalism on the rocks, strip mines, strip malls and high-rises being constructed close by, Dick Cheney with a leaf blower aimed right at me coming closer and CLOSER and CLOSER ... then I awake with a start, drenched in cold sweat, quivering like jelly and hugging my dog... Is it those flashbacks they said would come? I actually do have lucid climbing nightmares wherein I'm stuck in some hopeless position, can't go up, can't go down, the rock is crumbling into rotten styrofoam, a storm is coming in, a shoelace is loose and I have to pee really bad... so I say to myself, "You know it's just a dream. Wouldn't it be fun to just jump?" Never can do it. As soon as I resolve to jump, I awaken with a start, drenched in cold sweat, quivering like jelly and hugging my dog. *not maiing this up; they sell them, and the inventor is still at large.

[NacMacFeegle]

[wolffie]

I have spectacular trail dreams every day -- starting out on a long trip, perfect weather, exciting plans, comfy boots, good companions, sublime scenery, not a care in the world -- and before I get 50 paces, I wake up and I'm at work.