This morning I woke up in the middle of a bad dream -- my bike had been stolen. This is the second time I've had a bad bike dream in recent memory.

A couple of months ago I had a dream that we were staying at a hotel before a triathlon and we had stored my bike in a secure area at the hotel before I could rack it for the tri. I had entrusted my husband to make sure that he took it to the right place, and watched him go while I did something else. The morning of the event, I was seeing people go off in the pool and went to pick up my bike, and she was gone!!! OH NO! So, I went to REI to get a new bike, and it was the big REI in downtown Seattle, but somehow it was transformed... we had to walk through the boiler room, the inventory, cross little streams of water and who knows what else, and still I could not find the bikes. I woke up at this point, we never did find the bikes.

Last night, I was in college again (at the University of Washington, which I really only attended during summers), and I had locked my bike up in this locker room area next to another bike (it was like there were areas just for bikes next to the lockers). I had a messenger bag on, unlocked my bike (with a locker combination I actually used in college!), then some guy came up and asked me if I had a business card so he could give it to a friend in Bellingham who was doing research on people commuting on their bikes. I went to rifle in my bag for my business cards (for the company I currently work with, post-college ) and he stole my bike!!! I totally didn't even notice while the guy took my bike. I turned around and it was gone. Someone behind me said "that happens a lot here." I went out and tried to see where the guy went, couldn't find him or my bike. I remember thinking "how am I going to find a new one? I don't want to pay for it again and they probably don't even have my size in the same bike because it's the end of the season, so I'm going to have to get a new bike, what am I going to do!" and then I woke up.

Clearly my bike and I have a special relationship, if she can make it all the way through my subconscious and into my dreams -- I never had bad bike dreams before I got my new bike this year,

Anyone else have bike dreams? I am hoping next time we actually do something fun, these dreams are no good!