Friends and I are down near the Embarcadero, at the low-numbered docks under the Bay Bridge. A woman is driving us around the piers, hunting for... what?

She drives REALLY fast. Reckless. Right up to walls, and... through. Well, through windows, and little holes, and... drains?! Her car shrinks or squeezes through, like a sewer rat. Terrifying ride, really. She looks very housewifey--normal--but she's kinda crazy.

At last she drives at a wall with NO hole, confident the car'll find a drain, or a crack, or a microscopic pore! I do see one square hollow, but it's been bricked up, and the car doesn't even seek it, the nav system knows it's a dead end.

We're about to hit stone at 50 kph, when... I use my own magic. Well, tech.

See, I have this Jovian-built inertial damper in my pocket. I'm reluctant to reveal alien technology, but I have to. Her car's a tech wonder, but it can only squeeze so far.

Fire up the damper, and we stop dead, instantly--without a slam.

Damn. Exposed as a tech smuggler. But it was either broken secrets... or broken bones.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Crazy drive, down by the Bay Bridge: my sister Althea called from there--stuck in gridlock. The recent flood of techies into San Francisco plus the fixed capacity of the Bay's bridges have led to crazy traffic.
• Wild drive, weird tech, Embarcadero docks: straight out of a scene in the film Big Hero Six.
• Inertial damper built on Jupiter that I'm reluctant to reveal: What am I reluctant to reveal? The dream-advice and warnings I get. They creep people out.
• I think the dream's a warning. But not for me; for Althea. She's manic but exhausted--renovated her Portland house for sale, and needs to stop dead.
• ACTION 1: Warn Althea to slow down or she'll get sick! It's not worth it.
• ACTION 2: Post this dream! Partly for the manic scene straight out of a manic movie--but also for its message. Jung said dreams are private letters to the self; many dream researchers and therapists still agree. But Jung was wrong, and this dream's an example. Dreams can be meant for others. Your dreaming mind is just as selfish as you are--AND as altruistic.

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