In my dream, I am standing on the sidewalk in a small town in Canada. The sun is getting low in the sky and I have a task to do:
For reasons that aren't explained in the dream, I have to get to Calgary -- which is in western Canada and a considerable distance from where I am now.
Since the population centers in Canada are mainly in a horizontal line running east to west. (That is, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, and so forth.) Since I know that I am not far into Canada from the USA border, all I have to do is travel west on the biggest road out of town and that should get me to Calgary eventually. (In real life, this is known as the "Trans-Canada Highway.")
But I am totally unfamiliar with this town, and don't know which direction is west from where I'm standing. As I look around, I realize that there are several streets that would take me out of town, but they all go in different directions. There is no easy way to determine which way is west just by looking at the streets.
I realize that, if I had a GPS, I could easily determine which way to go plus which road would be best to take plus roughly how long it will take to get to Calgary and so forth. So now my search is for a GPS device in one of the local stores. None of the stores I see is likely to have such a thing for sale, but I try them out anyway. Everyone says no, they don't carry such things, and I become more and more distressed about ever getting started on the trip to Calgary.
Finally one store clerk says, "No we don't carry them, but you can buy one at Fat Ollie's store, which is just a few blocks away." He gives me some general directions and I start off to find Fat Ollie's.
Getting back outside, I see that it is almost completely night and realize that the clothing I'm wearing is not going to keep me warm if the temperature drops -- which it's likely to do, since this is Canada.
I wake up.
Later, I realize that at no time in my dream did I ever have or even think about whether I owned a car. Or could get any other vehicle that might get me the hundreds of miles I would have to go to get from my dream location to Calgary. I also never considered the GPS function that I have on my cell phone.
Just details, but they may be important for understanding the dream.
