Okay, a couple nights ago, I dreamed about Ord, Nebraska. There is not much notable about Ord, except that it is roughly in the center of Nebraska, and it rhymes with "bored". I lived there when I was 8-10 years old, around 1989-1991. I found my original trio of Insecticons at a garage sale there, and remember a hardware store had a new-old-stock Scourge that I was not allowed to buy. The Ord library was particularly nice, with a well-stocked children's section. Maybe the most memorable thing to me is that it was the last place I felt safe walking or riding my bike around as a kid by myself, but I haven't had much, if any, thought about Ord in years.
So in the dream, my wife and I were traveling and somehow wound up in Ord. We stopped at a HyVee (largest local grocery chain), and my wife was unusually giddy to check it out, despite the fact that it was clearly under renovation and very chaotic and messy inside. When I finally got her out of the store, I thought I would show her some of the places I remembered as a kid, but everything had changed. There were factories and skyscrapers, something like a cross between Biff Tannen's 1985 Hill Valley and Blade Runner. I remember feeling vaguely unsettled, like things were somewhat dystopian and we were attracting too much attention as outsiders. And about there is where I woke up.
So in the dream, my wife and I were traveling and somehow wound up in Ord. We stopped at a HyVee (largest local grocery chain), and my wife was unusually giddy to check it out, despite the fact that it was clearly under renovation and very chaotic and messy inside. When I finally got her out of the store, I thought I would show her some of the places I remembered as a kid, but everything had changed. There were factories and skyscrapers, something like a cross between Biff Tannen's 1985 Hill Valley and Blade Runner. I remember feeling vaguely unsettled, like things were somewhat dystopian and we were attracting too much attention as outsiders. And about there is where I woke up.