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So the standard "not ready for some event/trip" dream involves a plane flight where I'm not packed, I'm not at the airport on time, I don't have my ticket (or passport) or some combination of these. In tonight's dream the trip involved me,

cryptocosm, and some German guy flying to Germany for some award/ceremony (having something to do with Apple computers, but I don't recall the details). When I arrived at the airport, I was so excited about the trip that I forgot to get my suitcase out of the trunk of the car and didn't notice till later. But we were very early for the flight so we were hanging out in a restaurant or something for a while until it was time to go to the gate.

Then two things happened, and the chronology is confused in my memory at this point. One was that I realized that I'd left my suitcase in the car and ran back to get it. But I couldn't remember which parking lot it was in and the first one I searched had this weird one-way architecture so that I kept going up levels and couldn't go back, until I ended up at the top of a hill, when I could find a path of steps descending the hill through a park-like area. At that point I think I figured I just needed to get to the flight and we back to join my brother and the German guy.

Then the second thing that happened was that I paused a moment to find my ticket and then turned towards the gate I thought we were going to (we were in my standard dream-airport where I always go to a particular gate) and then realized that I'd lost the other two travelers and they knew the right gate but I didn't. And I knew that If I looked at my ticket I could find the gate listing and someone could tell me where it was. But as usual in a dream I was having vision problems and couldn't make out what it said.

But then somehow I found the right gate, and it turned out that I was carrying my backpack which had my laptop and a bunch of other important stuff in it, so all I was missing without the suitcase was clothes. And I said I could just buy more clothes. And then I woke up.

This is an unusually "in control" ending for one of my not-ready-for something" dreams. The mapping is quite transparent.