For the last 10 years or so most dreams have signaled time to wake up by catching the bus from downtown Spokane to home. This was the real-life routine during the 90s. After 2001 I’ve been working from home. Dreams always run 20 years late; in the 90s most dreams were still in Oklahoma where I lived in the 70s.
The downtown location is partly imagined. In real life I typically went home directly from my office in the Farm Credit Building. The depot was only a block from there. Occasionally I walked to the library after work to pick up a book. From the library I caught the bus at a stop on the next street, which was just a sign next to a blank wall, not a proper bench or shelter or building. In dreams this stop is ALWAYS a real bus terminal, similar to big-city Greyhound terminals. Sort of like this one. It has two covered stalls for buses and a lobby between them. This building is always the same, so predictable that I could make a digital model of it.
Why does the dream scripter pick the occasional library location, not the normal depot? Why does it replace the simple sign with a fully detailed structure? And why does the dream itself mean a workplace, while waking up means home? Unanswerable questions.
Polistra's Mill 