Dreamlife

When my alarm clock rang this morning, I was on a Houston freeway trying to determine which exit to take.  Susanna once told me ” no one speaks of a car in a dream as a symbol of the self, but that’s because cars are recent
inventions, so you have to figure out how they’d relate,, and cars are
like a second home, which makes them analogous to the archetypal symbol
of home as self.. and there’s the transition, movement element.”  So, could the project of exiting the freeway signify looking for an end to transition?

    He wanted to walk beside it,
   
    Under the buttonwoods, beneath a moon nailed fast.
    He wanted his heart to stop beating and his mind to rest

    In a permanent realization…
       (Stevens)

But if that’s the project, why did the choice of exits seem to weigh so heavily? In waking life, cars drive me up a wall. I don’t think they’re my second home in dream life either.