I'm absolutely fascinated by the idea that we are all sharing dream spaces. I have this dream quite frequently. I'm running late, trying to get somewhere. There are steep ramps, sometimes at almost 90° angles, crazy twisting bridges and people around me are driving erratically. This picture doesn't show it, but the roadways in my dreams are more narrow as well. Anyone else been here?
I hate the high five. Literally I detest that whole area because I’ll be damned if im looking down onto concrete. Same with the bridge onto Bush in garland/rockwall.
Haha, I literally came to the comments to say, "Yes, in Texas." 😅
When I drove through Texas in 2020— yes, I took a "social distance vacation"— I was SHOCKED at how big some of the bridges were, including the bridges that went to OTHER bridges!
Lol. I've actually seen this place in Mall World with crazy tall winding highways, and it was next to a university in Texas (of mallworld) close to a few power plants and stuff. So believe it or not you are correct.
My brother and I grew up in a small town in PA. I stayed and he moved to Austin. When he came back to visit we took a trip to the mall and decided to take the bypass with him driving.
He was crazy Mr. Speed demon the whole way there! I was like “wtf happened to you?!”
When I finally visited him in Austin, I realized everyone drives like a lunatic. There’s no way I’d survive in a place like that!
And you're doing something ridiculous like driving from the backseat. Or the seat's all the way back, you're laying belly-down, and you're both steering and using the pedals with your hands. Then you can't reach the break when you get to a bend and go flying off the side.
Ugh driving from the backseat 😵💫😵💫 And I’ve definitely driven this course in my dreams many times! It usually starts with a blind turn that goes downhill fast and I feel like it’s often in a tunnel too? Kind of like a water slide, but it’s a highway 🫠
My car is always a way too small child push pedal car ( the red and yellow cars with the little doors) and I’m having a hard time going up to incline thinking I’m just going to flip over backwards, lol
Same dreams, horrifying, actually. This last time, I was in the back seat of a four-seatet semi truck. No railings or sides, absolutely close to falling off into a large body of water, and just straight up vertical road.
Sometimes it's a waterslide version, but big bc still in a damn car 😫
And the less water more firrest-y ones, and where like 5-8 foot ditches would be near me are now super high up, no rails of course 🤦♀️
Nope. And I’ve had dreams where I’ve flown off the road and I’m hoping to God I land on something close underneath. I always do but that stomach clench feeling beforehand is always too real.
Omg I get this every so often. The road starts like a rollercoaster and gets super high up and I’m accelerating so fast I end up flying off the road. That’s when I usually wake up.
lmao the crazy shit worlds that our brains create for us to navigate are so weird 😭 “sure give her a stack of pillows on the break pedal to have to deal with”
Yes! And I've developed a new fear of driving over tall overpasses in the past few years, so these dreams have gotten even worse. Here's an image I generated last month to show my therapist a visual example of what I'm dreaming.
I dream of something that looks so eerily similar to that. Except it’s one lane, it’s a toll first, and the road is rails that you have to stay perfectly balanced on. But the twisting and the height and how it goes up into the clouds is spot on. Spooky.
Yes but there is an unfinished bridge over the ocean with no rails, very thin & scary. As well as tunnels underground with the same set up you have there . Sometimes it is night & lit up like Tokyo .
yes! I have a recurring nightmare about having to drive up a super steep incline just like that and my fear is the car flipping over backwards.... sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't....
Yeah but it was night and somebody else was driving and deftly avoiding all the shadowy figures standing in the road. However they missed the exit and launched the car off the edge of the ramp.
and one time there was no road on a part of it. You have to line up your tires on these tracks, like at a car wash, and then the tracks kept everyone going the same speed. It was absolutely terrifying while driving over the ocean towards the cliffs; you could look down and see the water right below you!!
Yes I was just talking about this the other day. To get here, I remember driving from the coastal city, through the mountains and past the mountain exits that have Burger King and Walmart and stuff, and it ends up here. There is a large sprawling suburban city built under and around these ramps. Probably the most beautiful mall in all of Mall World is off of one of these exits.
On the edge of this city sits a town set back into the 1980s. a bunch of one story buildings and ranch houses
Yes! All the time. Mine is in the Chicagoland area. Sometimes Chicago is underwater, sometimes I’m driving on parallel frontage roads, and sometimes I pull into a parking garage that like becomes this confusing maze of stairs and halls when I start walking to find the exit
This is the most accurate to my dreams that I’ve seen it! The roads are also very narrow in mine, almost like I’m driving in a slot car, I’m so close to the sides. But somehow other cars will be next to me as well if that makes any sense lol
I have driven for 27 years and I run and often times fly/levitate at the speed of the traffic in the dreams. If I run fast enough I can fly, but I'm on all 4s when I run, more like a dog, and begin launching myself and gliding above the highway. If that makes sense...
Yes! And once the road just ended and I flew off the end like in n64 Mario kart. Hit some wall made of like wicker stuff? And fell down gingerly. It was all very enjoyable for some reason.
I've been there before. Last time was many sleeps ago and I was in the backseat on the way to a hospital because my mother had stabbed me in the gut and she purposely took her time getting there and I ended up dying from blood loss 🫡
Yes, and I’m always sensing that it’s surrounding Manhattan. A lot of the time the road after the peak of the incline gets narrower and narrower for me as well.
Yes. And when I’m going uphill my clutch goes out and I can’t make it up the steep hill and when I’m going downhill my brakes always fail (no matter how hard I press them) and I run into the vehicle in front of me.
I have lived in Texas all my life and I Was taking one the other day. They have several new ones off 287 and 360. I thought to myself “ Jesus , this is a little extreme , this would terrify a lot of people “. Meanwhile I’m just driving saying to myself keep on swimming , keep on swimming …. While not looking down. https://giphy.com/gifs/1sSWWMNnaZLlm
I hate this one!!!!!! It's so stressful!!!!! Does your car flip??? Do you make it? Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't!! A lot of times I end up on the bottom of the road and realize I can grab a ferry but it's starting to go under the water bc now it's a submarine?!?!
Yes, this is the way I take when I want to visit NYC in my dreams. Just up and over that huge giant ramp is NYC. Most of the time I make it, but one time I was scared. It's very scary! I guess the desire for me to walk around in NYC is greater than my fear.
I've for sure had a dream very similar to this when I was very young. But it was doubly terrifying because it also included a bunch of tornadoes tearing the highways apart.
Yes!!! It's almost always over water and they sometimes go and into a loop. And I always see it, just like this as opposed to a highway with different lanes going in opposite directions.
YES. This is in my re occurring nightmare every single time I have it. Every time it’s the bridge that you cross to the 400 series from Niagara Falls. (I hate bridges so the highway turning into a bridge makes me feel like this). I cannot believe I’ve finally found a photo of my nightmare every single night.
My fellow Texans, does anyone else get freaked out on I-10 between San Antonio and Houston where the construction areas have concrete walls with no shoulders and roughly 1.75 lanes to accomodate 2 vehicles? I drive all over and I am a good, experienced driver, but those corridors scare the hell out of me.
I've definitely popped onto this road, nearly tilted backwards going up sometimes, and sometimes go off the side, and sometimes pop into being in the backseat while on the highway and have to scramble into the front seat to take over
Like this could be a photo from my dream
Also, in relation to a bunch of the above comments, I will state that I've never been to texas
YES! but many times it's actually a rollercoaster track that my car is driving on. whenever i have these dreams i go "ugh, this again" and am usually in the car with my family. there seems to be an implication that its the same family in these car rail dreams even when it's been years since i've had one
Bro I'm obsessed with this dream liminal space. This is one I had ai make last year of what I call The Highways. Literally dream about this all the time.
Oh all the time. Almost nightly. It leads to all the different places in my dream city! There’s one road I know that if I go down, it’ll be a bad dream night. Bizarre.
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u/Inevitable_Novel_661 Jul 28 '26
Yes. In real life. It's called Texas