Due to the mind’s veil or security shield, dream interpretation, is necessarily symbolic and entirely personal. Only the dreamer can truly say for sure if, say, the underwear scene symbolizes a stern warning of the advent of adult diapers, you’ve moved on in consciousness from those days despite laughing guilt-goblins, or some other naked vulnerability of some sort…
Happy interpretive travels!
Paul. This is spooky! I could have written every word. I was ATC for 38 years, was four years USAF, been retired from FAA for 18 years. These dreams are sooo frequent. I’ll be back in a tower I’ve never seen, runways I’ve never seen, don’t know where they are or their alignment. Don’t know the people or the frequencies, sooo confused. Sometimes back in a radar facility, maybe a center or tracon some times as big as a factory building. I don’t know the sectors or the airspace, don’t know the frequencies or the people. I’ll have an airplane and watch it just fly off and will lose it. Or will need to handoff to another sector but don’t have a clue as to the airspace or who or frequencies. The military. Yes! For some reason reenlisted. Way older than the others. Was supposed to go back in at my last rank but that didn’t happen and can’t find how to correct it. Always asking, why did I do this. And now uniform. I’m supposed to report in one. Don’t have one. Can’t find a base clothing store. And I could go on and on. I am so relieved when I wake up and find out it was only a dream…again. But so real at the time. Wow! Glad it’s not just me.
“Am I back in Monterrey approach …? And why is that pilot still asking for lower while a pelican moonwalks across the scope in a top hat and paisley suspender?”
Dr. Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist and business professor at the Kellogg School of Management and the neuroscience program at Northwestern university.
“With the incredible strides neuroscientists are making rapidly towards decoding more and more brain functions we are beginning to uncover the underlying mechanisms that code our thinking. And with the unfolding of those we begin to improve our ability to decode not-only the realities of our awake-self, but also those of our dreaming brain. Accordingly, as we get closer and closer to understanding the essence of what dreams look like in our head, it is more likely that we will be able to understand the patterns and stories that craft them and govern them”…Dr Moran Cerf.
Paul, do a little research on Dr. Moran Cerf…you might be surprised at what your dreams really mean. Besides, now you have contributed to my dreams. I can now “see” a pelican dressed in a top hat and paisley suspenders moonwalking across my screen. My screen, my dream…maybe, sort of…now, maybe both of ours. Thinking about all this, I am wondering if we can claim anything to be exclusively ours.
Answers to the cosmos…on Avweb…what a hoot and who would’ve thunk it?
Have the statute of limitations passed? One night, probably 1977, the lone controller in Tulsa’s Riverside Tower, not incapacitated by the fish, but still approaching incapacity due to a desperate need to “use the facilities,” pleaded for help. From high above, in my trusty 182, with CTO in pocket, I took control of the airport. I must say, my sequencing of the Baron that showed up just after the real controller abandoned his post was brilliant! (He was number two; follow the 182.)
Chicago Center, retired 14 years now and I still dream that I go into work . Work however is not the same. The control room is completely different. I have no idea how to use the equipment and I can’t remember the frequencies of neighboring sectors. Even the locker room is different and I can’t find my locker, it keeps moving.
I also dream that I am back in navy boot camp; the only 60+ year old in the company.
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Donald P. Undamnbelievable. As I said in my post, exactly, exactly the same things, everything you said. Even Center stuff. I was ZLA many years ago. However, I was also AK at ORD Tracon from '82 until '90. Maybe we coordinated.
hi paul,
Lots of good memories. Usaf 1980-1990, atc aviano ab italy, sheppard afb texas, west berlin bartacc ge. faa 1990-2014. sts,mry, nct, fat (flm -supe). im at osh airventure every year for 50 yrs.
varieze, sonex waiex, building zenith 750 cruzer.
i prob worked with some folks you knew from mry.
keep up writing , love the articles!
best,
michael r.
You mean assemble here, the parts are made elsewhere hopefully in the USA
Hecho en Mexico
Nineteen passengers in there? Oh, that’s going to be “cozy” 
Pratt and Whitney of Canada. I do believe that Canada is in America. Or did you mean to say Made in the USA?
How many pax w/physical distancing? ha
The exhaust stack configuration on the Sky Courier is like the one on the Beech 1900D. I flew the D model for 4 years in rain and snow and never had an issue with the upward-turned exhaust collecting water in the air or on the ground.
The entire useful load of a Caravan is 3,270 pounds.
Just the cabin-area payload (cargo configuration) of the SkyCourier is projected to be 6,000 pounds.
MUCH bigger airplane.
Maybe, but they make it much harder for SAM7s to lock on.
You surely did not think it is designed to take little old ladies to church, did you?
Looks very much like the GAF Nomad, doesn’t it?! But not as tall!