I think the theme of my brakes not stopping my trucks go back to the days that I drove 80,000 lbs. trucks. In my early thirty's I just about crushed a car that pulled in front of my concrete truck that was fully loaded. A guy realized in about 50' he had to make a left turn. He pulled in front of me and stopped dead as traffic wouldn't permit him to turn. My truck an AWD stood very tall and I was on top of his car and into his back seat. It I swerved into the lane he came from I would have hit another car. Luckily, only a scratch on the driver I hit, he got the ticket.
So now, not on a regular basis, but every few months I have a dream that I am in my pickup with my foot on the brake to the floor and my truck won't stop. I had it again last night, but the pickup truck is never the actual one I own but a random one every time. Also in the dreams I try to use the trolley brake.

I've never had an incident in real life like that, but I do have dreams sometimes about stomping on the brake and not stopping, or my foot getting stuck under the brake pedal and I can't pull it out to step on the brake.

When I drove a big truck a women in front of me braked unexpectedly for some pigeons. Nearly didn't make the stop despite adequate distance as the load made a huge shift. Never forget that and don't tailgate anyone in anything including my current sports car which with huge mother brembo brakes is likely to outbrake anything. But I never worry about failed brakes. Hydralics are so simple and the failure modes so obvious and the system is duplexed. But of course last night I had a dream one of my dogs got loose from me in our woods walk and ended up chasing a bear and despite me unloading all 60 9mm ammo rounds on me with direct hits it didn't stop it from eating my dog I understand dreams. So now I've switched my woods carry gun to .45 a bit early this year. good luck in your dream braking.

Same as the gun won't go off dream. You're having it while you're starting to wake up (why you remember it), so you're probably actually moving your foot in your sleep, feeling no resistance, your brain does what it does with that lack of feedback which plays right into your dream.


I have dreams that I'm traveling, usually driving, every single night.

Mine is that the windshield is fogged up so I can't see out of it and my brakes don't work. I just know I'm going to crash into something any minute.

I've never had a reoccurring dream. What I like is in movies or TV shows, someone's having a dream, they wake up, then they go back to having the same dream. Yeah, that just doesn't happen.

Well before auto manufacturers put dual reservoirs in master cylinders, I had brake failure in two cars. Step on brake pedal - pedal goes to the floor. Front brake line failure both times.

I didn't hit anything, but it sure felt like the car suddenly went faster.

One of my reoccurring dreams is my old partner and I are chasing a car. He is driving and loses control on a curve. We go over an embankment and are skidding into a lake.
I wake up just before we hit the water.
Very vivid and detailed. Lights, siren, radio traffic, the whole works.
I wake up out of breath and with my heart pounding.
Funny, I must have nodded off during the Academy instruction block on "your dreams will become nightmares".

Well your truck in your avatar is known for faulty brakes. Dodge M37's only have a single circuit and a small reservoir, so could happen. I own a Dodge and check it often.

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Well your truck in your avatar is known for faulty brakes. Dodge M37's only have a single circuit and a small reservoir, so could happen. I own a Dodge and check it often.

The brakes on that truck are terrible, your right on that.

just as your daily life has an effect on your dreaming,
so does dreaming have an effect on your daily life ,

please be extra cautious , at least for the next few weeks

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It is a message from your Unconscious indicating something in your life is out of control and is making you anxious. Best to pay attention.

I get the one where I'm shooting but the projectile just rolls out the end and drops to the floor. I'm sure it's Freudian.....

I don't recall having the brake dream. Mine is the stepping off of the cliff and falling till I wake up dream. It's been a while since I had it so I'm due.

Jim

Anything in life moving faster than you'd like, or feel like you are not in control? A lot of times dreams are our subconscious's way of bring things to the surface. When I was a kid I used to have a recurring dream of being strapped into the drivers seat of a high performance sports car driving at a very high rate of speed at the wall. I always woke up before crashing but it scared the crap out of me. My parents were fighting at the time and ended up splitting up. I believe the car represented my parents, our lifestyle, and me being strapped in was a representation of my being a helpless victim of the situation, waking up meant it wouldn't kill me.

But to each his own.

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I get the one where I'm shooting but the projectile just rolls out the end and drops to the floor. I'm sure it's Freudian...

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Yeah that would be about sexual performance. You can fill in the details.